The Grenada gazette., 1889-01-17

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other oaiccrs and men of FORESTS command.
and participated with them IN that battr,
have So dcmeancd yours If as 10 cause the
negroes to believe that you are the
HERO OF FORT Pillow
| and that Lieutenant General Forrest. whose
unparalleled military genius conceived aud
won that brilliant victory, was only an
OBSCURE sUBoRpISATR
| himself. Indeed 50 assiduDus, apparently.
| have you been in encouraging this IMPRESSION
! that the cr!Orrd peOpa have come to regard
yoG AS the pcrpetratOr of the alleged slaughter
| Of their race iIcidcnt TO the stormng OF those
forthcatiOns, and sincerely believe that you
! were about
THE ONLY Ma.
at Fort Pillow, and wanionly made
sLAUGHrFR PES
of that battlefield with your own unaided
sword! You are well known among them as
! tho "uutchcr' f Fort Pillow.
In ndditiou TO this they wei understand
that you have not only treated representa-
tive man of their race in til jr opinion,
shamctuy, but 4 at you are the father and
the great
MASTER AND PROFESSOR
OF all the election tricks and crooked metho Q
| known to the art of La tDt-bON manipUIa ion.
ana that whatever Eruption, il any, may
| nave obtained in Mississippi elections is the
direct result Of your teachings and your prac.
tees
No man IN the State is etter known among
Ms race than John r. Lynch. Of Natrhe& He
| was at one time Speaker OF tie Mlsss IS ppl
House IT Rel e.cn'atlvcS; has for years been
chairman Of the state Il. publican ACtnt.vg
| conmltec, and he says he was tWisc u.e ted
| to Congress over you from the Mississippi
| River District, but that you robbed bi'n each
| time of his vote and his seat. 1t + certain he
has never failed to let this be known to the
| cOlorCd people of the State and iris equally
| tain that tHcy remember It against you
| side by side with Fort lIIOw' rs Il rr,me
| against their race. Here is wnat he said on
| the floor of the House OF Representatives OF
| the United States. Of and conc, rnins you md
| your methods. in your pre- encC, and you
| have never denied anything he said:
| Mr. Lynch-"ln reading one of Gaths lot
! tiers to tn Cincinnati En- .u4rer shorty after
| the election of Is saw the TO lowing The
| Tribune interviewed Cen. hNIucr., Of MIS-
| sissippi, yesterday. who cOoly sad: i think
Il! out 10 u votes for Lynch were throw" Out in
the District out Of l5,u0 in al. IS self
| HTteeTN Nt!nIl - inc Hfst law OF NHluftr HI IN
favor OF using every means short Of v.oI'ncn
to preserve the intelligent w.H.c people 0.
| Mississippi in supreme control OC po ijlclI a..
fairs They are justified in us!ug every
means that wit or money. short OF olcH
| bribery, tan procure If this is thtmsrsS SIH,
he conc udcd, Lam prou Of It,
81 assert with feelings of 'ep modification
and protounl regret that IN the OH, a person
| n M. n
case the coun ry is presented with
| A living monument OF
| kted bulIUt-bUxes
St!tel pubic justice, and
A prOstitutel suffrage.
| "Altnough the gentleman has occupied L
| scat upon this TO Tor the last five years, no
| one knows better than he does himself that
| with possibly one exception, -. v hen tie
Republicans made no organized opposition.
| that he has never received us many rs
| ONE-rUIRn
of the votes poIIcd at any election At which
he was can4itiatc.
| His chef aim,
seems to have been to oc 'upy scat on this
floor.
| Regardless of the means hy which
Il
| "a assure the House and the country Of tho
fact that it g.vcs IN 10 p.ca>u.c to fee com
PEELED, in vindcLting thu cause CT ruth and
| justice. to use such strong language IN refer
ring TO my distinguished opponrnt Clad y
| would ac iuit him Of ever having
| CountenanCed or
| Encouraged
the commission of election frauds if the facts
| would only warrant IN I0iDr "
GRANT AND LoItN.
| IN addition to this, n II" Il were held IN
higher esteem by the cooret Fcoplc OF this
| District than Gen Grant and Gen ogan.
| Scarcely uc.ghborhood can lie found where
| there are not coIorcd men VIII served rs sol
dicrs in the Union army ana ii Is esta.n that
| Gen. Grant was regarded by all cojurcd Yr-
| pie in this District as the man nbo, all Others
to whom they owed their Freedom ard an in
| suit to these distinguished Union Cen, ruts
would be sterniy resented and remembered
by them. or these m / others You said, IN
! public speech al Lake Side NJ M.ss.
"Why Democrats should
support Greedy"
| Gen. Chalmers in speech AT lake side
Miss, gave the following reasons why emo
Gratis should support Horace Grcciy;
| at is true that he lircUlyl brought about the
| emancipation of the Southern backs, but It is
| equally true that he Cuusel the disabilities to
| be removed from the IiSfranClIsVd WHITES.
| He was the first 10 proclaim universal am
| nesty and his nomination at cincinnati ON.
peeled the unwilling Grant men TO pass the
amnesty law, such as 1t l..
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