Year: 1876

Not very encouraging TO thrifty Eng
lisbman or Scotchman who prefers to form
his own opinion as 10 parties.


Again.


"If the negroes of Pike county desire to
continue the amicable relations now exist
ing between them and the whites, to have
their rights respected, and 10 prosper, lei
them prove it by organizing Democratic
clubs and by voting for Tilden and Hen
bricks"


A Western farmer would be apt to infer
that as a white vote against Democracy
would do as much harm as black vote, he
would do wisely 10 keep out of that neigh
borhood if lie did not happen TO be Dem
ocrat.


Another newspaper, noting the report OF
United States grand jury, says


1.-THE lesson we draw for our benefit from
this report and action of this packed jury
is that there is quite margin for 'intimi-
dation' between US and the boundaries OF
the law, and we can govern ourselves ac-
cordingly."


What decent man with the least pride OF
character would accept a farm as a gin in
a community which would tolerate such
an invitation, TO mobs and election bullies ?


Another newspaper gives hint as TO the
proper disposition of men who come from
other States and think for themselves


"'Sitting Bull the chief of the Sioux
Indians, has a summary way of dealing
with carpet baggers aud military satraps.
He recently put to death two hundred odd
of them."


or Il murderous affair where seven un-
armed prisoners were turned loose and
then shot down in cool blood, the official
organ of Mississippi says


mo impartial person can read the re-
ports of the affair without approving the
conduct of the whites, and at the same time
sympathizng with them in the misfortune
of having been forced TO such an extremi-
ty of action in self-defence."


Columns might be filled with similar
paragraphs, all inspired with the same in
tolerant, anti-American spirit. 1t would
be low estimate TO put the number of these
incendiary newspapers at one hundred in
the whole South. Supposing that they
have an average circulation of eight hun
dred copies each, we have $4,000 of these
miserable incendiaIy publications scatter
ed broadcast every week to teach violence
and murder, and to apologize for every out
rage where the victim is an immigrant or
negro. Is it any wonder that the South does
not prosper more under these blighting in
fluencesH Is it not rather a proof OF the
wonderful vitality, patience, and hopeful
spirit of the American people that the
South is as prosperous as it is7


II is no explanation TO say that the war
and its expressions engendered this intoler-
ance, for it existed notoriously before the
fact that for many years previous neither
tne climate and soil nor cheap lands drew
immigration to the South.


II concerns the North that this great evil
shall be radically reformed. 1t concerns
the South more deeply and directly. She
can change the whole aspect OF the heav-
ems by the simple breath of suffrage, at one
puff dlssipating The malarious vapors and
damps which now overriding her sky, and
letting in the sunshine of universal tolera-
tion and free speech 10 gladden. and cheer
the dwellers OF every hamlet and city. LIE:
it shine in flood of glory, so that the citi-
zen, unmoested and secure, can fill his
pipe of peace with the staple of Kentucky
and Virginia, and roam at his own sweet
will from the oyster hays of the Eastern
shore 10 the orange groves of Florida. He
can do il in Maine or Massachusetts or Illi-
nois, and why not few miles farther south
in his own country and under his own
flag?


The world moves, and the South must
move with il. The first step 10 build up
the South is to destroy the dangerous fac
ton which thrives by violence and up
holds the organs of mub-law. A Repubi-
can administration will teach them that
malicious persecution for opinions sake
must stop at once; that the American peo-
pie are determined that Germans, British,
French, Irish, Scandinavians, and North
ern men shall trade, work and vote, and
talk as freely as they please in every cohn-
ty of the South, as freely as they do in New
York and Ohio.