The evening Argus., 1865-08-25

lenoo and atr0city. many VI snom VIII %
cut after the following pattern, which 10 fur |
nished by q real or pretended Mobile CORES |
nondent of the Chicago Tribune:
A meeting was held here last night, before which |
.tsternents weremade A. to the treatment of coli
ored by white people, in the interior of the state,
which would make you sick OF lite- One hundred
and thriy-three dead bodies were counted in the
woods five bodies were floating in the river.
Two white men to pull negro down
across log and cut his head off with an axe Wo-
men and children were killed, and then boxed up
and thrown into the rlver. woman was killed
by white man, and burial refused by him to her
relatives. For black man TO be seen with green
backs in his possession, is desth. Colored people
are hiding in the woods, living on berries, huit'
&c., to escape the fury OF their former masters;
In Mobile through the connivance OF somebody, |
churches and negro houses are burned, women set
TO work cleaning the streets, men and women al,
rested in bed and taken TO the guard mouse, nned
or sent to the work house, etc., Last night there
was heavy fire, in which three or four squares,
mostly of negro quarters, were burned. Men
were heard to say that before they were done they
would burn every negro quarter and school house
in Mobile These things might be remedied.'
Such stories as these about the south were
rife while the compromise negotiations, which
might have saved the country from the disas-
ters of our civil war, were pending. Then
similar horrors were oonjured up. Frank
Leslie's Illustrated published a cartoon, show
ing the hanging, at ST. Charles, Missouri, OF
Rev. Mr.. White, by pro slavery mob. No
such hanging took place there-and no Rev.
Mr.. White lived there at the time, nor, so tar
as we could learn, ever lived there. At the
same time the New York Tribune published
| a story of horrible enormity committed at
Friar's Point, Mississippi; the enormity con
| sisted of the seizure OF a northern man
and heading him up in barrel, which
was then trundled into the river
No such outrage occurred there, was
| satisfactorily shown upon the statements Of
the best citizens of that place. who published
a card utterly denying the truth of the story.
! Shortly after this publication another outrage
precisely like it was, upon the authority OF
statement in the Tribune, perpetrated on a
| creek bank in Alabama. There was as much
truth in this story as In its fellow. The
wonder is, that genius inventive enough
| for the production Of the first lie could not
| have varied his second one. but chose rather
| to repeat himself. Did he suppose that his
readers were ready to believe any thirg, and
| would swallow the self-same tale of outrage
when multiplied by the easy trick of shifting
the venue to fifty different localities? The
design and object of such stories were appar-
ent They were like that legion which the
fertile brain of the Redpath mentioned above
| coined, when he played the part of Kansas
correspondent tor New York aud other east
ern prints. They were intended to perform
| for the northern mind what Yancey proposed
| for the southern mind to wit Fire it,
The object at that time was TO rouse against
the southern people hatred, which would
make the northern people refuse to listen to
any terms OF compromise with the south.
Another d political purpose" in the Ian
| guage of the Springfield Republican, is to be
answered now. The south Is to be covered
with obioquy; her people are to be maiigned
| ~ H,k Lid
| them up TO continued infamy as disunionis-
is to-day as only seeking an opportunity to
| break from the Union; rs people who are
so savage and uncomfortable that they won t
be quiet, and can be kept under only by mill
itary force. Every species of misrepresenta-
tion and talsehood is pressed into this villain
Gus service; and the object OF all of it is to
keep the people of the southern states out Of
their rights under the Union and it's eonstitu-
tion, until they bow to the behests of certain
northern politicians until they swallow ne
gro suffrage. and what else beyond that God
only knows. The object is, first, if possible,
| to prevent all attempts at state reorganiza-
tion at the south I; aud then If that is impos-
sIDle. to keep their representatives out of con
| gress the pretence that these representa-
tive are disloyal and represent only disloyal
constituencies. That is the programme. and
we see how its getters up are executing it,
The Chicago Republican, fearing it may not
be possible to prevent state organization, bars
in advance all approval of them by such out
giVings as this:
Under the circumstances, doubt very much
whether the conventions be elected in the rebel
states will do much that will be satisfactory in the
| way of organizing state gov srnments. The conse-
quence will be that those states must still contin-
ue to be governed by military power.
| "These states" must understand what
| nj g. +ba. &c
people do not toe the mark these would he
arbiters of their destiny have chalked out.
To any man out of the 'ring"-to any man
who is not bent on forcing on the south negro
suffrage and negro equality, social as we'll as
| polltical-it is evident that the southern peo-
Pile are doing all that could be expected and
all that could he asked of them. They have
submitted-they have relinquished all
| thought of restoring slavery. They desire
only to live under those state OF ganizations.
which in accord with the constitution of
the United States. They are willing to oboy
and support every law of the Union and in
that respect are as loyal as any people in our
broad land. Can we ask more? No. 1t is
foul injustice aud outrage 20 ask more no
body is asking more. except these plotters
against the peace and best Interests of the
country which we have stIgmatized with
much less force of reprobatiou than they de-
| serve.
! So far concerns these reports of wrong
and outrage aud all sorts of violence and hos
| tility to the Union and government, as are
| being busily circulated in certain of the
| northern papers, it becomes the southern ed
! ifors and all her people to be ON the alert,
and to trace mp every one of these disparag-
ing stories. Where they are. as in SO many