Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — Southern Testimony. [ARTICLE]

Southern Testimony.

The Birmingham (Ala.) Age does not hesitate to tell the truth. It says, regarding the recent munjcipal election in Jackson, Miss,, in defenseof ii former statement that the votes of the colored people were surpressed: - “ When die press and people of Mississippi admit this fact, and admit it openly, and give their reasons for so doing, can it be expected that the Age is going to stultify itself by denying that the negro vote was suppressed? The Age believes that the good people of Jackson, although they acted in such a way as to antagonize the law and spirit of our government, -did the only thing they believed could be done to save themselves from ruin and destruction. We say the same thing has been done elsewhere in the south, and we are ixot ashafned to admit it, because it is simply the truth * * *. It never hurts to tell the truth, and the truth is simply this, the Southern white people ‘are fixed in their -de to rminafton to- preserve their js upremaey, be the cost what it may to the negro or themselves.’ ” We certainly admire the frankness of this. It is here distinctly avowed that the votes of the colored people will be suppressed whenever and wherever the white people conclude.it may be necessary to preserve their domination. It is just as lawful or honorable as if the Coy gang were to z have given notice to the Republicans of Marion county that, if necessary, the tally sheets would be forged to preserve the “domination” of the Democratic party. One crime is precisely the same as the other; yot otherwise good men "who are rejoicing over the conviction of the tally sheet forgers in Indianapolis shriek “bloody-shirt” if an effort is made to punish like criminals in the Southern states, or if even anybody in the North ventures to deprecate or denounce the outrage.—lndianapolis Journal.