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Show BLACK BULLD0Z1HU. j Bulldozing in the south is by no means conemed to one party or one race, Recant facts have corae to linht which show that the negroes are A3 much given to the practice as the whites, and they are equally violent und effective in tho means employed A blaci ho votes tho democratic-t;,r democratic-t;,r mnn as serious risk ol per sonal violence, and soeial and religinus ostracism at the hands of his own rare, as t:io whit? does who votes the radical radi-cal tic'.;et. At tho recout election several negroes of Murtreeibaro. N. C, voted the et.-.iisht domucratic ticket, because, as thty alleg. and bslievo-l, tho candidate! were belter men than these put up by the republicans. repub-licans. Sincj then eume of these blacks have been outrageously beaten by others of their own ce,Ur, nud all have b:en turned out ol the church. In South, Carolina the republican bulldozing was even more severe than it was across the lino. A colored preacher named E;jps, residing at Sumter, refused re-fused to vote the republican ticket, ; and being threaied wit.i violence ifi he voted lor the demoorits, he declined de-clined to gi to the polls. The r-sult of his action U now seeu in a peremptory per-emptory order that he leave bis pulpit and a demand that he publicly 1 ., Un r,,liltfll a acknowledge ma uo sin in bis refusal to vote tho repub lican ticket, and that he ak the for givenciscf the congregation, the penalty pen-alty cf refusing be eg his prohibition from preaching any more. Granville Gran-ville Pool, a deacon of the colored B.p'.Ut church of Society Hill, 3 C, hwaliol C:'i: t lined out of the chur. -ii. and ostracized socially. d.riu; to disobey instruction', an 1 v it- undemocratic un-democratic ticket, ice same vv 1 ::.t prejudices prevailed r throughciit t ie siste, and it is . nm t.iat thoismdsof negroes r-from r-from vo'in; with the d-.-i. . through toliiy fe.ir, or the dread cf Booial or religions action as in tie above in-tivir!?.. S'-.onld Mr. Blaine's resolution p.-c-Jl'i ii :" un invests -tion of the charg-j :-l fru) u intimidation in the south, be adopted by the senate, it is to 1 e h: ped the co-cmiileo ariniinted to gnher the facta will net be averse to inquiring into hot i -1 ! of the bulldozing quea-tlon. quea-tlon. A lull expo ure may put a slip to BOine ol Use ra'.ical howling about democra' .e inlim'iiatioa of blacks. |