The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-10


negroes to believe that you are the
HERO or FORT PILLoww
and that LieutenantG General Forrest, whose
military genius conceived and
won that brilliant victory, was only an
OBSCURE SUBORDINATE
himself. Indeed so assiduous, apparently,
have you been in encouraging this impression
that the colored people have come to regard
you rs the pcrpetratOr of the alleged slaughter
of their race incident to the storming of those
fortiflcations, and sincerely believe that you
were about
THE ONLY MAN
at Fort Pillow and wantonly made
sLAUGHrER,PEN
of that battlefield with y0Ar own unaided
sword! You are well known among them as
the "Lutcher' II Fort Pillow.
In addition to this they well understand
that you have not only treated a representa-
tive man of their race. in their opinion,
shamefuly. but lat you are the father and
the great
MASTER AND PROFESSOR
of all the EJECT on tricks and crooked metho o
known TO the art of la lnt-box manipula ion,
and that whatever G eruption, ii any, may
have obtained in Mississippi elections isahe
direct result of your teachings and your prac'
tices.
No man in the State is better known among
his race than John H. Lynch, of Natchea. He
wns at one time Speaker of tie Mississippi
House Of Representatives; has for years been
chairman of the State Il, publican executive
committee, and he says he was twice cectcd
to Congress over you from the Mississippi
River District, but that you robbed him each
time of his vote and his seat. 1t Is certain he
has never failed to let this be known to the
colOred people of the State, and il is equally
certain that they remember it against you
side by side with Fort Pillow as a CRIME
against their race. Here is wnat he said on
the floor of the House of Representatives of
the United States, of and concerning you and
your methods, in your pre- ence, and you
have never denied anything he said:
Mr.. Lynch-"In reading one of Gath's let
ters to tn Cincinnati Enquirer shortly after
the election of 1870 saw the following: Tho
Tribune interviewed Gen. Chalmers, of Mis-
sissippi yesterday. who cooly said: L think
about 500 votes for Lynch we're thrown Gut in
the District, out of 15,U0J in all. AS self
preservation is the first law of nature, am in
favor of using every means short of violence
to preserve the intelligent white people of
Mississippi in supreme control of po itical af
fairs. They are justified in using every
means that wit or money. short of open
bribery, can procure. If this is Chdne,siSm,
he concluded, lam proud Of it,
81 assert with feelings of deep modification
and profound regret that IN the official person
of the contestee James X. Cnalmers) in this
case the country is presented with
living monument of
RiHed ballot-boxes,
Stified public justice, and
A prosttuted suffrage.
although the gentleman has occupied
scat upon this TO r for the last five years, no
one knows better than he does himself that
with possibly one exception, 1873, when the
Republicans made no organized opposition,
that he has never received as many as
oNE-THIRD
of the votes polled at any elec, ion at which
ne was a candidate.
His chief aim,
His sole object
seems to have been to occupy a seat on this
floor.
Regardless of the means by which
That result might be brought about.
~ assure the House and the country of the
fact that it gives me no pleasure to feel COM
PEELED, in vindicating the cause of truth aud
justice, TO use such strong language in refer
ring to my distinguished opponent. Gladly
would acluit him of ever having
Countenanced or
Encouraged
the commission of election frauds il tie facts
would only warrant me In so doing"
GRANT AND LOGAN.
IN addition to this, no men were held in
higher esteem by the colored people of this
District than Gen. Grant and Gen. Logan.
Scarcely neighborhood can be found where
there are not cOlored men who served as sol
ders in the Union army, ana IL is certain that
Gen. Grant was regarded by all colored peo-
Pile in this District as the man above all others
to whom they owed their freedom, and an in
suit to these distinguished Union Generals
would be Eterny resented and remembered
by them. OF these and others you said, in a
public speech at Lake Side, Miss:
"why Democrats should
Support Greedy"
Gen. Chalmers in a speech at Lake Side,
Miss, gave the following reasons why Demo-
Gratis should support Horace Greedy:
at is true that he tGreely) brought about the
emancipation of the Southern blacks, but il is
equally true that he caused the disabilities to
be removed from the disfranchised whites.
lie was the first to proclaim universal am
nesty, and his nomination at Cincinnati COM
PEELED the unwilling Grant men to pass the
amnesty law, such as it Is.
This is the first reason give why Southern
Democrats should support Greely.
The second reason is: That whenever a
great majority party
Splits,
1t is always the policy to go for the
Wedge.
A third and better reason is: That Greely
represents the
Honesty.
Decency and
Capacity
of the Republican party, while Grant repre-
sents
Spoon-Thief Butler,
Dirty-work Logan,
General Order Lee.
And the irrepressible
Custom House Thief, Murphy,
And their friends, imitators and advisers"
JAMES g. BLAINE.
Neither is Mr.. Blaine unknown to the col
ored people of Missppi; nor can he be in
suited with impunity. OF him you said:
"But, Mr.. Chairman, there was another trans
action not many years since, which reminds
me somewhat of Saul on his road to Damas-
Gus. There was a committee once investi-
eating a certain charge of fraud and corrup-
ton, and there was a certain witness bearing
letters of great value to the cause of truth,
when a modern Saul, breathing, threat
ening' against the investigators. fell upon
the witness and did despoil him of his letters;
and when he went on his way considering
how he might still further suppress the truth,
and persecute the investigators thereof, he
fell suddenly by the wayside by the finger of
Godi And when lie awoke. 1t is said. he was
exceedingly penitent, and did beg the inves-
tigators to cease, and that he became so
thoroughly converted to the cause of investi-
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