Year: 1875

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We have been permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from private letter 10 .
gentleman Of high standing in this city
from . white Republican in Mississippi
which we publish as an inside view Of the
condition in the Cotton States little real
lied and less appreciated in the North.
The letter was not written for publication,
and for obvious reasons the name Of the
writer and the place where it vas written
are withheld, but its authenticity is youched
for, and the State where written and the
date of the letter. The writer is native
Southerner, an old Union man, and since
the war Republican, formerly citizen
of Alabama, and now and for some time
past q resident of Mississippi. It will be
observed that the letter was written before
the recent disturbances in Mississippi:


MISSISSIPPI, Sept. q 1876.


DEAR SIR: = As soon as was NOM
mated by the Republican party my sons en-
ployers "kick ed" up row with them, dis
missed them from their service without cent
Of payment, aud used all their influence to
prevent others from employing them. With
out means of support they have leh for parts
unknown to me. lam here socially ostracized,
With my helpless family sick, and my life in
hourly danger Of being taken II dare avoW
nv adhsrancs to the Republican party openly.
It need not b said that peace and quiet exist
In the South. It Ii not 80. Never has there
existed suGh q time In the South as now. The
plan is not altogether open outragss, but an
oath to give neither work nor bread to any
who would dare vote the Republican ticket,
and to plan out ways to GET Republicans into
difficulties to have plea to shoot them down.
The poor Republican has no protection in Mis-
sissippi at this time, and am satisfied that u
protection Is not given In every county In the
State where there is large or even 9 bare
majority of Republicans, every hill and valley
will be drenched In negro blood. Ny daily
prayer is that we may have Government
strong enough to give every citizen, however
humble in life, full and complete protection.
/ tell you Of truth, there is no protection in
Mississippi for any man who differs from the
Ku-Kiux Democracy. Gentlemen may cry
peace, peace, !" but there Is no peace here. No,
nor ever will be as long IS voice is raised in
defense of the Stars and Stripes, the glorious
old flag of our Revolutionary fathers, and
sealed to US by their precious blood. It is
taught and stamped upon the hearts and minds
Of every Southern man, and particularly the
young, that the old Union was rotten TO the
very core, and now only bastardized into an
Imperial power to crush out every white man
in the South, and give supremacy to the negro.
Sir, you do not comprehend the extent of
ignorance which prevails in the South even
among the whites. But have now said too
much, but my heart bleeds at every pore at
the thought Of my deplorable condition-can
you relieve mel


Does this writer tell the truthi The re-
cital is in conformity with what we hear
from numerous sources and made public,
but these it is said are exaggerated or got
ten up for political effect; but here is man
writing private letter to his friend. 1t is
guaranteed b y the sanctity of personal con-
fidence and verified by the assurances Of
private correspondence. 1t is written, not
by o carpet bagger or negro. but by .
native Southern white man, who is in no
way distinguished from other white men
around him except that he is a Republican,
and stands by 1.-The glorious old flag Of our
Revolutionary fathers" For this he is os-
tracized, persecuted, hunted down, not per-
mitted the privilege of making 9 living for
himself and his family by honest labor.
There is peace where that man isl He dare
not proclaim himself an advocate of Re-
publican principles or he would be killed,
and he keeps his mouth closed. his groans
and his tears are heard and seen not beyond
the walls Of his own home. Persecution
has provoked and persecution imprisens
and hides them from the outside world in
his as il does in million OF homes in the
South, and then sudsciously proclsims that
all is quiet and peaceful.


This Is the boasted quiet and order
which prevails In Georgia and Alabama since
the wealth and intelli igence (as the compla-
cent, weak kneed Northern Republican, press
are pleased to style it) have gotten control
The Ku-Klux have in these States accom-
pllshed their work as in Warsaw when the
last struggling elements Of resistance to
tyranny were suppressed. When the last
spark Of Poland's liberty was extinguished
in the blood of her sons and her daughters,
and the silence Of desth pervaded her
streets and its gloom mantled every dwell
ing, it was proclaimed by the brutal con-
queror and executioner that order reigned
in Warsaw. So in the South those who
embrace the political faith Of the party
who saved the nation in war and governed
it under the auspices Of universal freedom
in peace, have gone to political death and
individual debasemeni. after q struggle
scarcely less heroic than that which has
rendered the story Of Polish achievement
and suffering immortal Now when
shut up with surroundings which are i'm
penetrable either from within or from with
out bent and broken by cruelty and op
preston, their complaints unhesrd and
their wrongs unheeded, they have ceased
to struggle, and order reigns in the South.
But il is the order which plants its. feet in
oppression and whose food is despair.


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