Year: 1879

and to make the contest hinge on fnan'
cial issues. For a while 1t did look as L
the bloody chasm had closed over, and
the contest had narrowed down to one
of finance, but just when everything
SCENE to be going along quietly aud
peacefully on III, financial issue with
the advar Ia yes in favor of the Repub-
Icans, the Mississippi bull .dozers broke
loose from the restraint under which
they had been placed, and comme need
another bloody shirt campaign; this time
not against the Republicans who are
away in the hack ground, but against
Independent Democrats, who up to the
present time had been part and parcel
0f themselves. This has always gener.
ally been the result of that conciliation
8, much recommended by the mobocra-
cy of the South, and the Democracy OF
the North. So much success has attend
ed this exhortation that the North has
conceded almost everything that was
in dispute, and yet there comes up at
every election campaign afresh demand
for II ore conciliation. So often has the
North been deceived with this cry, that
it has become very grave question
whether the price it has been paying
thi, wished for but never seen era of
gooi feeling, is not costing too much.
The South i. solid for its own extreme
and exclusive demands. II rewards
punctiliously all Southsrners who rem
derel active service to the confederate
cause, and it Furnishes with social, po-
litical and business ostracism all who
differ with her. or these terrible per


secutions there are none who are more
familiar with them in the South than
those who were friendly to the Union
cause during the war. In thus making
the South solid for the confederate
cause the Democratic party has obvious.
ly put at heavy discount all feelings
of loyalty to the Union, that might
have been stimulated into existence
during the dominance of the Republi


can reconstruction policy. It's evident
that the South is as much opposed to
the Union of thu States now as it was
in 1860, and that the election of a
Republican President in 1880 will
be as fercely resisted as it
was in 1860. The Cancellation OF
the South is myth Of the imagina
tion that has no solid foundation in fact.
In all the speeches made by Southern
leaders they boast they occupy the same
position on the questions which led to
the war, as they did before the war.
There is no denying that very grave
question now faces the people of the
United States. 1t is whether an Amer


ican citizen can enjoy the rights and
privileges guaranteed to him by the
Constitution wishout risking his life in
times of peace. The Intolerance, the
Injustice and the hatred of the South as
long as it was only directed against the
colored Republicans of the South and
their Northern leaders that had emigra.
ted to that section has been endured,


because allowances we're always claim


ed for political feelings. Understand
ing the irritable feelings that must be
engendered in the b som of the Southern
leaders all the loss of their slaves
who had tscone very suddenly
these allowances were always made, un-
til these same leaders taking advan-
tage of the indulgence thus granted,
have converted the whole South into
a solid political machine to the exclu-
sion, not only of the colored voters
from having any voice in the making of
the laws, but the same prescription is
exercised against white Democrats
whenever they attempt to act indepen-
,ft Ln nj nf thnir aid y>nliti-
cal task masters. As now shown by
the late Yazoo outrage no mans life is
safe in Mississippi who attempts to
vote any other way than with and for
the solit Bourbon Democracy. While
this prescription is allowed to dominate
the boast OF Republic of free citizens
becomes the veriest farce. Mr.. Dixon
was at the time of his threatened as
sassination a Democrat of the straitest
sect, and had never been anything else.
There was no Republican party any
more in Yazoo county, though ma
jority of the people would have
gladly voted that ticket had tley
dared to do so and b. safe with their
lives, and Mr.. Dixon thought that
there cou d lie no great harm in having
a little Democrat side show with him
self as the leading sctor. He did not
propose to be Republican, or to run
on Republican ticket, but on the con


trary he hated that party, and simply
wanted two Democrtic tickets. For
this desire on his part the southern
Bourbops laid wait for him several
times to assassinate him, AVID under a
threat of assassination he had to yield