South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-01-18

FRIDAY. JANUARY Is, 1899
MR.. GRADY's SPEECH.
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Let US see. Was there pis' oil shot
through the south on election day |?
Was there riot Was there any
thing to equal the disturbance and
arrests in President Har, isou's own
city If so. diligent search has not
found Ii. Where then was The vote
suppressed thr; ugh violence ? In
the 10000 election precincts of the
south, where was q ballot boz rifled,
OK registry list altered Thirteen
republic All congressman were elected,
many ef ,oem tv maj"rlties so s!ens
Ger Ia the vote Of single precinct
would have changed Tie result. IE
West Virginia, With it's wild and law
less dis,ric s, the eovernorsbip hangs
on less than three hundred votes, aud
this very day the governor of Ten
nessee and his cabinet are passing on
legal question in the casting of TWEEN.
ty.ttree votes that elects or defeats
congressman. In West Virginia and
in Tennessee the law will be applied
as impartislIy and tie official vote
held as sacred as in New York or
Ohio. Wbeie, then, 10 the Wholesale
fraud OF which complaint is maize
In the face of This showing, let me
quote from an editorial in the Chica.
go Tribune, ole of the most powerful
anc usually Conservative journal
charging that the negro vote Is cup,
pr,sstd AID niscounied It seys:
AN INFAMOUS SUGGESTION.
SHE trouble is, the blscks will not
fight for themselves. White men, or
lndiaus. situated ns be negroes, would
have made tue rivers Of the south run
red with blood before they would sub i.
NIT to the usurpalions and wrongs
which The blacks passively en-,
durc. Oppressed by generations OF
slavery, the neg rocs are bon-comba-
larts. They will not shoot d burn
fer their rights
Max tho unsrcokable infamy of
his suggestion. The trouble" is
that the nae! Oes will not rise and
shoot AID Turn. Not the "merc, = is
that they 90 not but the ";rc uble''
is hat they vii not massacre and be-
gin the stIiIe that would repeat the
burrt rs OF H,yti in the varions states
Of this republic. Burn aud shoot for
Whit! That they may vote in Geor.
: gia, where in front Of ne in the line
stocd negro, whose place was as
sacred as mine, and whose vote rs
safely counted ? That they may vote
In tue thirteen distress in hich they
have elected their c.ngressmen In
the $50 counties in which they have
elected their representative, and ia
old Virgins. where they came within
400 votes of carrying the state e?
AS the 10000 Virginia negroes who
did vote, did so in United peace
2 and safety, where was the violence
that prevented the needed 400
from leaving their fields, coming to
: the ballot box, and giving tie state 70
q tie republicans And yet slavery
q itself, In which the selling OF a child
from its mothers arms and O wife
= from her busba..d was permitted. ne
yer brought into reputable print so
vllIsinous suggestion as this, lev
eled by knave ut political condi-
ton wh cb he views from aCar and
q which 1t Ia proved does not exist
To pass by the man who wrote
these words, how shall we Judge tie
n temper OF community in which the
are ppp'auded Are these men
blood OF our blood that they permit
such tLiEgs to 90 unchallenged a.?
Better That they had refused US parole
q al Appamattox and Lad cOnfscated
the ruins of our homes, than twenty
years later TO bring us under the do
mihion of such passion as this. Herl
another witness, General Sherman
not in hot speech. but in cold print:
snERMAN's VENOM.
The negro must be allowed to vote
and bis vote must be counted, other.
wise, 80 sure as there is a God In
= heaven, you will have another war
D more cruel than the last, when ths
0 torch and dagger will take the place
! OF the muskets of well ordered bat
| taioDs. Should the negro strike that
blow, IN iesming justice, there will
8 be millions TO assist them.
y And this is the greatest living sol
:. der of the union army. He covered
Il the desolation be so0ed in city and
b country through these states with u {
s maxim that ''cruelty IN war, is mer.
cy"-and no one lifted the cloak.
But wien he insnlls the men he con-
quered, and cndangers the renewing
growth Of thu country nc wasted, with
this unmaDly threat, he puts a stain
en- bis name, the msxims OF pbiloso-
ply nnd fable from Socrates oil the
"ay can not cover, and tho glory OF
Marlboro we're IL added TO his own,
. could not efTacc.
No answer can be made in passion
q 10 these men. II tho temper OF the
= nth Is expressed, in their words,
the souih con do nothing but rally
her sons for their inst defense and
await IN silence what the lu, ore NAV
bring. This much should be said
The negro can never be established in
dominion over the white race OF The
south. The sword OF G ran; and tie
bsyoDois Of his army could not main
tain them in The supremacy they had
won from the Lelplcssuess o cur D. o.
pie. No sword drawn Ly mortal
man, no army marliaied by mortal
band, can rep ace them IN the sn.
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