The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-26
The Party Of BiOOdshed.
From The ". Y. WorLa

IRON he ". 7. RoTtd.
Run over the catalogue of Southern "out-
RACES" and find one that did not rebound to
the benefit OF the radical party. Put your
finger on one that did not occur just in that
particular place and just at that particular
time when and where it was most for the ad-
vantage of that party that it should. Then
apply the rule OF the criminal law that the
party benefited by the ofense is presumptively
the actual or instigating offender, and see if
the guilt of all this bloOdshed In the South is
not upon the radical leaders
Take the New Orleans riot of 1866. 1t oc-
CURED in August, ana IN october, by means
of it, the Congressional elections were trium-
phantly carried for the Radicals. 1t has been
proved that dispatches announcing its immi-
nence were wiliully withheld from the Execu-
tive Department until it was twenty-four
hours too late for it to interpose preventive
measures; but it does not need this to fix the
guilt of the blood then shed upon the radical
leaders. Without this riot they could not
have obtained their objective point, Con-
gressional two-thirds; with it, they did obtain
it, The crime was committed; they benefited
by its commission, and, by every rule of law,
are justly chargeable with its guilt. 80 with
the Mobile riot. Kelley went to that city on
mission which revealed itself when he cursed
the crowd in the vilest language, and deepsned
the instigation by the taunt that he would
curse them because he had not only the 9Th
at his back. Blood was shed. He and his
party profted by it. Are they not directly
responsible for that "outrage" before God and
man?
Come down to later day. They entered
on the work of reconstruction on the plea that
life and property were not safe in the South,
and it was necessary for them to resort to
extra constitutional measures to make them
so. The President interposed, and they at
once overrode him. The Supreme Court
began to move, and they clapped a muzzle
upon it. The whole power of this country was
absolutely in their hands. They were alto
gether without let or hindrance, and their
schemes failed, utterly, shamefully, disgrace
fully failed 1t was seen that this plan of
theirs, which was to give adequate protection
to life and property" by means of illegal State
Governments, twas in reality but a bringing in
OF seven devils worse to the house they had as
sumed to sweep and garnish 1t was evident
that nothing but brute force could uphold the
unnatural fabric, based as it was for its
cornerstone on lately emanoipated negro
slaves. 1t was failure, but The knowledge
of that failure must be cloaked from the
public eye. How was it donel Obviously by
more ''outrages." Word went forth to get
them up. All through July and August
there came up from the South the most fear
ful assortment OF aw-head- and bloody bones
tales. The bogus Governors began to bawl
for troops, these very Governors, mind you,
who incarnated the new system which wa
to have been peace. The pretended
Convention of Texas cooked up
hideous report of 'outrages," draw
ing on their imagination for the warp,
and filling up the woof with the stray crimes
that always happen in border regions; and
this though General Grant had himself said,
in an official communication OF October l3,
! 1866, as to this very Texas, that occasional
murdsrs will take place ON our frontiers, and
would if our people were all soldiers" In
| September came further "outrages" to feed
the dame. Tennessee had had its Memphis.
1t was, therefore, a good place to play the
game. Forthwith the Ku.Klux danced its
| phantasmagoric pow-wow in the columns of
| every radical sheet. BrOwnow lent color to
the move by assembling his trenchermen in
| special session. Forrest was beset by hired
spies who dogged his steps and perverted his
statements in "our special correspondence"
Then came Camilla. Congress was to reassem-
BILE ON the 2lst of September. On the 18th
prior, hired assassin marched at the head OF
three or four hundred armed negroes, Infantry
and cavalry, on a little village, resisted the
Sheriff, defied even the reconstructed Gov
ernOr's proclamation, and led to blood, so that