Year: 1877

/ to the world that by outrages the mos
| inhuman, by the practice of revolving
cruelties. by the preparation Of atrocl
/ ties without name, by systematic fraud
| by murder, violence, and bloodshed. th'
/ Republican majorities Of all the Cotton
States have been overcome, and perhap
/ forever placed under the control OF
/ desperate, a lawless minority. And ever


while the guns are booming and the bell
! ringing TO commemorate this triumph o


might over right, men, women and Chris


tan clergyman are giving thanks to the


Supreme Being for having overthrow


what they are pleased to call the thiev


ing Radicals. the cowardly aTpet-baggers


the corrupt negroes, the low politicians


who have robbed them aud disgraced


their country. And are these charges an


true2 Were these Radicals all thieves


Were the carpet baggers' all towards,


the negroes all corrupt No man who


knows anything about the matter, and


who has a spark OF honor IN his compost


tion will dare answer these questions in


the affirmative. 1t is true that there


have been dishonest Republicans in the


South, but for every one Radical thiei


there was a score OF White League assas-


sins The Republicans were not all





of mems, today, without proper means
Of support Daniel II. Chamberlain.


nobler and better than any in the South


pure and spotless, though surrounded by
crime and corruption, by Republican
traitors and fair spoken Democrats, who
stabbed him in the back. leaves the State
house at Columbia poor, almost to ahject
poverty. They were not all corrupt. Tor.
in more than one instance. they refused
to sell themselves to the Democratic ras
calls who tried to bribe them There
was no Gonin, there was no Grover in
the South, Beverly Nash, the slave. the
ignorant black man Of South Carolina.
cast her Electoral vote for Rutherford B.
Hayes, and spurned the $4,000 which
was guaranteed to him if he would be
tray his party. Wells and Anderson,
hunted for their lives through the forests
and over the prairies OF Louisiana, were
still true to themselves and to the right
samuel j. Tilden was not rich enough to
buy them. Did he try TO do so2 Ask
the white banker OF New Orleans, who is
the uncle of their mulatto associate.
Louis Kinner. Deep in the wilds ol
Florida, too, there was a man who Ie-
mained firm against great temptation
Stearns, the one armed Governor. could
not be bought. Were the carpet baggers
Ask the men who dared to
make Republican speeches IN Edgeteld
unreconstructed Edgefield; ask the men
who dared to canvass for Hayes and
Wheeler the most remote districts OF
bloody Ration Rouge and lawless Felici
ana; ask the men who spoke for human
liberty in the parishes OF the Red RIVER;
ask the spirits OF the bntchered Twitch
ell, OF Dinkgrave. OF Cocker. and Of Iyey.


DO NOT BELLE the DEAD"


The Republican party Of the South is
dead. 1t can never again be brought to
life under the old name: it can never
again stand upon the old platform. There
are those who believe that its destruc
ton was a political necessity. / am con
vinced that its overthrow was only
question Of time. and il is probable that
he present success OF the Democracy
will tend to improve the material inter.
1sts Of the country But the fact that
the party in question is dead that two
legal State Governments have just been
Dverthrown by a minority of the people
Of those States; that Southern Republi-
cans are now PROSTATE and helpless does
not argue that Democratic orators have
" u
What the Republicans of the South have
Tor their party | will never at
tempt to describe, and the people Of the
country would never believe But there
IS nobody to elect now. there is nobody
TO be decided, the election is over, and
hat is here written can have no eff-ct
upon politics. For these reasons il is
possible that the public will now give
~ e. H.. s-l.
would not have believed five or six
months ago. 1t is possible that they will
be more ready to do credit to Southern
than they have been during
the past two or three years. As have
stated. there have been many
corrupt men in the party named; many
who joined it for the sole purpose OF
gaining office and faTtune. But this
class has been made up Tor the most part.
not OF carpet baggers," but of men who
we're native and to the manor born. On
the other hand, the masses Of the Re
publican party of the Southern States
were from first to last actuated. iuhu
-nced and controlled solely by principle,
by the purest motives and a sincere de
sire that all men of all colors in this free
country should enjoy equal political and
civil rights There were MANY leading
white men from the North, carpet bag
gers they need not be ashamed OF the
term, for they have done much to civ
Ilize the South-who acted with the Re
publican party but for the purpose OF
improving the condition Of the negro
The weak, but honest and high-minded
Adelbert Amss, for instance, went
through all the terrOrs that came to "A
Republican Office holder i'm Mississippi
TO that end, and to that end only What
he and his delicately nurtured wife sui-
fered during the years that they lived in
Jackson, most desolate OF settlements,
will never be known TO the outside world
She for months at a time was confined to
her own house. never daring to go upon
the streets, because she did not feel her
self strong enough to endure the insults
which she kuew would be heaDed upon
her by the chivalric sons Of proud old
Mississippi" Every house was closed
against her, she was not welcome any
where; even in Gods temple there was
no room for the wife of a Radical who
had been fairly elected TO the highest
office in the State. And in her own
home what had she2 Nothing but the
society of few faithful negroes and the
occasional visits Of the rough but well
meaning men who were her husbands
chief followers. Her case was not an
isolated one The beautiful and accom-
plished wife of Daniel II. Chamberlain
has had even n m ore terrible experience
Never, as long as | live, shall | forget
night just after the election in Columbia


when the Democrats. believing they bad
elected their national tick {, went wildly
through the streets. drunk with JOY and
mad with whisky. The Governor sat in
the Executive Chamber of the desolate
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