Year: 1876

one for every 6l5 inhabitants, which is the
highest percentage out of the forty-seven
States and Territories of this broad land.


man named Humphreys recently killed
man in the province OF Ontario for attempting
to steal his box of hLckleberries. In Caroline
county, Va, the penalty of death is admin
istered with impunity to any negro that steals
a chicken. The value of the human life,
therefore, between Virginia and Canada ranges
from "huckleberry to chicken"


Mr.. Tilden says: sPublic interest in an
honest, skillful performance of an official trust
must not be sacrificed to the usufruct of the
incumbent" We even go further. We claim
that nothing should ever be sacrificed to the
usufruct of the incumbent. sacrifice to the
usufruct of the incumbent is just the article to
rap the vitality and undermine the fabric of
our glorious Union. The truth is the incum-
bents usufruct is dangerous, both inits incipiens
and mature stages. It will not only eat out
all of his moral sensbiities, but will in time
consume those of others with whom he may
perchance associate. No Give us an incumbent
without usufruct or give us death. For this
reason we do not want Mr.. Tilden, for he has
had the usufruct. He has had it go bad that
several railroad corporations have spent mil
lions of dollars to cure him, and yet he has re-
curing attacks. He caught this disease from
William Tweed, poor fellow, who had it so
bad that he took six millions of the peoples
money and went abroad for his health. No


We repeat it, give us an incumbent without
usufruct or give us death.


Senator Bayard, In his minority report on
the Mississippi investigation, says that Mr..
Chase, who was sent into the State by the
Department of Justice, stated in his testimony
that he "found the State of Mississippi clothed
in profound and dangerous excitement, the
two races armed, ready and liable to collision
at any moment, and the State administration
totally without influence or power to restrain
the passions of either side." If we remember
right the testimony OF Mr.. Chase was that the
Ames administration was powerless to restrain
the aggressive White Line element. The COL
ored people needed no restraint. The bullets
and bayonets of the Ku-Klux Democracy were
sufficient to subdue and COW them. They re-
quired no force or influence from the Executive
to drive them into passive submission. Deep
mouthed threats and innuendos of the Bourbon
assassins had their weight in effecting that
submission. Midnight assassinations and day.
light massacres coerced them from the polls
and retired them to sleep of submission in
the grave which knows no waking. No, the
negroes needed no restraint from Governor
Ames. The Democracy furnished all that was
necessary. The history of Mississippi for the
past six years, with its recorded thousands of
political murders, confirms the statement.


Those fellows who are cunning for negroes,
and who send their ex- Confederate generals to
represent them in the council chambers of the
nation, are boasting of a splendid prospect for
game in the coming political contest. One
hundred thousand White Liners are now in
secret conclaYe in Dixie's sunny land, and each
man is armed and well provided with NUM-
tions of war. This is no bloody-shirt lie. 1t
is Gods eternal truth; and we have facts in our
possession to prove it. 1t is the new conspiracy
formed for the avowed purpose of wrestling the
Government from the control of loyalty. Their
organization ramifes through all the States
lately in rebellion, and is composed alone of
Mr.. Lamar's unconquered and unconquerable
Anglo-Saxons. They are determined men.
They are the boys who stubbornly contested
every inch of ground in the Wilderness and on
the CORY hillsides at Gettysburg. They are the
men who watched the dead line at Anderson
Vile and Belle Isle, but they are not the best
of these men. They are the worst. They are
the unconquerable ones - those who swore
and now swear by the graves of their fathers
that the principles for which they fought still
live, and must be forced into positive ac-
ton. They are the men on whose hearts
the heat and passion and fury of fratricidal
strife stamped indellible lines which nothing
but death can destroy. These are component
parts of that disturbing and dangerous ele-
ment which robs society of peace and wells the
South in cloud of unrest. These are the men
the North are watching with a keen, sharp
eye to-day. They must not attempt to seize
the reins of Government by force. They tried
it once. Floyd seized the Navy and War mate
rial. Thompson crippled the Interior De-
partment. Other thieves and scoundrels of
the Buchanan administration stripped the ma
tion nude of its quickly available and prepared
defensive material, and then springing from
Moultrie at the nations throat struggled
four years to destroy it. Now, ten years after
a terrible defeat, they arise and try again to
seize the Government by force. 1t is not to be
through open rebellion. 1t is to be by mur-
der, intimidation and fraud. Their plans are
laid, their organization is perfected, and un-
less the law is made supreme by the strong
arm of national authority they will win all
for which they are now scheming.