The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-10
PEACE.
WHY is it that while there

Why is it that while there is
abroad in our country the desire of
Let us have peace some Northern
radicals do and say SO much that
tends to widen every breach? Twenty
years ago the lost cause was given
up by the South and Southernlers
have tried to forget not it but the
enmity against the North, and hate
whatever there was, has been kept
up only by Northerners. We do not
mean a IL Northerners because we be-
lieve that the great majority of them
know we are friends, feel that we are
connected by business ties and by
one common constitution and it is
only the vile mean, and unpardona-
BILE republican politician who wave
the battered and worn out old garment
known as the bloody shirt. These
few as they may be, have, seeing the
South has laid aside all her unklnd
feelings to the North, by lies kept
Southern editors denouncing them
and thus vainly imagine that by
them we mean the North and that
when we denounce them, a misera~
BILE, mean, and loud minority, that
we are denouncing the great North
Their lies must not go uncontradict-
ed. The South does no more than
abide by history and facts. When
his falshoods are out, they are
soon nailed. We give below an ex-
trrct from speech last week by j.
B. Foraker the republican nominee for
Governor of Ohio, This is given only
as sample of Northern Republi>
can politicians untruthfulness and
"The increased representation in
the last electoral college by reason
of the colorcd Republicans OF the
South being part of the voting popu.
!ation amounted to forty electoral
votes. If the colored Republicans
South had been allowed to vote as
they desired, and had their ballots
been counted as cast, there would
have been only 113 votes for Mr..
Cleveland, and there would have been
from these forty votes for James
G.. Blaine, more than enough to have
elected him, with the state of New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
Indiana against him. But these color.
ed Republicans were not allowed so
to vote. On the contrary, by fraud,
by violence, by murder, by assassina-
ton, by bull-whips and shot.guns.
the white leaguers and kuklux clans,
by agencies of the most INSCRIPTIONS
and diabolical character, by horrible
barbarities. such as were practiced
at Coushatta and Hamburg, in the
murder of the Chisholms, in the mas
sacre at Danville, and in the assassi.
nation of Print Matthews in Copiah
county, Miss, a system of terror was
inaugurated and practiced for the
last ten years preceding the election,
by reason Of which at the last election
the colored Republicans of the South
were wholly deprived of all practi cal
benefit of their right of suffrage, and
the forty votes which ought to have
represented them and been cast in
the electoral college as Republican
votes were wrested from them not
only in violation Of their right, but
in violation of the right of every vot-
err in the United States, and cast as
Democratic votes, whereby to elect
a Democratic President and install
a Democratic Administration.
have no disposition or desire what.
ever to keep alive any sectional ha>
tired, or prejudice, or bitterness. 1t
IS not, therefore, for any such pur.
pose that allude to this matter, l am
sure but speak the sentiments OF
the Republicans everywhere when ]
say that the Republican party cares
nothing whatever how the people
may vote In the South or any 9th.
er place 80 long as they vote as
American citizens ought everywhere
to vote, according to their own free
will and choice. 1 might, if it Were
necessary, cite unquestlonable stats,
tics to show that for the purpose ot
making the solid South in the interes .,
of the Democratic party more men
have been killed and wounded in the
last ten years throughout the sece.
ding States than were kill
ed and wounded at Get.
tysburg. But have no desire what
ever to array such matters when it is
not necessary for my purpose to dc
So" .~......- -..-.
There were about sixty thousand
men killed. If that number had beer
killed in the South then North Caro-
lina's part on an average would bt
!, we say four thousand, and Halifax
county's part would be over one
hundred, now reader do you remem,
Der that there have been onehundred
men killed in this county during
elections? No. It is the same cas-,
all over the South. There have bee,