Year: 1876

any means to exclude il from the en- Joy


ment Of equal rights and privileges in


the Southern States.


DESTROYING THE CHARACTERS or THOSE WHO


JOIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
, Many Southern men who had joined


the Republican party, and whose person
J al character had heretofore been unim-
peached, were at once covered with OBJ.


loquy and shame, until it came to be un-
derstood that to join the Republican
party would cost man his character and
the peace and happiness of his family.
When the war was over, the mass of the
thinking and intelligent people of the
South were profoundly disgusted with


those leaders and politicians who had
hurried them into rebellion and over
whelmed them with the misfortunes of
war. The rebellion, in its origin, was so
utterly destitute of sense, that the best
men of the South turned away from its
authors with horror, and were satisfied
that the peace of the country hereafter
could only be secured by the administra-
ton of the Government upon the princi-
Piles of the Republican party; and be-
lieve to-day, that but for the exercise of
the influences to which | have been re.
ferring there would be a majority OF the
people in Georgia, Virginia, and, perhaps,
in every Southern State, acting with the
Republican party, and that the colored
| people in their participation in politics
would have the benefit of the intelli-
gence and experience of a large part of
the people in those States now acting
with the Democracy.


INTIMIDATION or THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY
ITS VIOLENT ELEMENTS.


And this leads me to another consider
| alton, and that is, that the intimidations
| to which | have referred, whether Of So
cial and business ostracism or personal
violence, has operated almost equally
upon the Democratic party. There is q
large part OF that party in every South
ern State, believe a majority of it, who
do not approve of the acts of violence
that have been committed; who do not
approve Of the social violence which has
been practiced; but they have in some
way been restrained from the assertion
of their opinions and have been powerless
to correct these evils. That there is an
element of violence in the Southern
States, which believe is in the minority
that has controlled them since the war
as it did before the war, have no doubt.
That a majority of the people Of Virginia,
Tennessee, North Carolina Alabama,
Louisiana, and perhaps other States were
opposed to secession and rebellion have
always understood; but the lawless, the
aggressive, and active portion of Southern
society were in favor of secession, and by
various instrumentalities drove the other
part Of the people into its support, and
that element which brought secession
upon the South believe has controlled
the politics of the Democratic party
chiefly since the end OF the war. The
term "scalawag" is one of opprobrium
and is applied almost Unfortunately to
every man of Southern birth who has
Joined the Republican party and is often
more offensive in its application than
that of "carpet-b -bagger.


THE APPLEs or THE DEAD SEA.


The colored people are fercely de-
n ouncCd for their ignorance and want OF
moral training, and their condition,
which is in many respects unhappy, is
imputed to them as a crime. 1t must be
admitted that slavery was a bad training
school, not only intellectually but NOR
ally. The cruel and inhuman laws which
made it penitentiary offense to teach a
colored child to read and write have
borne their fruits, which have, like the
apples of the Dead Sea turned to ashes
upon the lips Of those who enacted them.
1t is written that the sins of the fathers
are visited upon their children unto the
third and fourth generations, and it Is
not in the providence Of God that the
inventors of these laws should entirely
escape their consequences. would that
the cup of bitterness could entirely pass
from the white people of the South; but
that is not possible under divine econo-
my. Those who practiced African slavery
for two hundred years can not hope to
escape all the evil consequences resulting
from it.


THE MURDER or cOLORED MEN DEEMED UEIA-


PoRTANT.


1t is the merest folly longer TO deny
the atrocities that have been committed
upon the colored people in the Southern
States. The evidence is found in thou
sands of depositions taken before inyes-
tigating committees, in the continual
revelations by persons coming from the
South, and in the current statement OF
newspapers, although there is reason to
believe not half, perhaps not tithe, OF
the outrages are ever brought to the at
tention of the public.


They have been hunted like wild
beasts, and the white sportsmen went
cunning for them. If that many white
men had been murdered by the Indians,
the whole country would have demanded
vengeance, and a large portion would
have clamored for the extermina-
ton of the savage tribes. When
some twenty starving and desperate
Modocs murdered General Candy and
three Of his colleagues, the Government
never stopped until the last man had
been killed or captured, tried and hung.
When the Virginius, notoriously engaged
in an illegal and hostile expedition
against the Spanish Government, was
captured by Spanish cruiser, and some
fifty of the crew tried by court martial
and shot, the Government demanded i'm
mediate reparation, and threatened
Spain with war in case il was not made.
When some six years ago an American
boat was fired upon and two men wound
ed upon the coast of Corea, our feet de
manded reparation; and when it was not
granted, battered down the forts and
slaughtered nearly three hundred of
| their soldiers. When Mexican robbers
make a raid across the border into Texas
/ and steal five or six hundred cattle, the
depreciation is tenfold magnitied, the
| Government of the United States is
urged by many 10 90 to war with Mexico,
and at least to place the Army of the
/ United States along the Rio Grande for
/ the protection of the property Of the peo-
/ pie Of Texas but when a hundred ne
/ groes are murdered in cold blood it is
considered a small affair, unworthy Of
/ the attention of the Government; and
not even justifying an examination. One
difference is, perhaps. that the cattle can
\ be sold and the negroes can not.


THE STALE LIES ABOUT NEGRO PLOTS.


The infamous lies about negro plots to
murder the white people have become
exceedingly stale and disgusting Last