The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-30
The "Outrage" Business.


From the ". Y. World.
About this time look out for "outrages." A
nice, fat "outrage" can be made to 60 a great
ways, since experience has shown that If a
white man in the South treads, or is said to
Bread, upon negro's heel, there are many
excellent persons in the North, nowse other
ways inclined to radicalsm, who forthwith
2bloom Ito the fercest ''loilty." The argument
&is, you see, that if there is an outrage
South, l must go on submitting to outrage
ANorth. Another curious thing in this business
is the remarkable adaptation of these fearsOme
riots to party purposes. Thus, when con-
servative sentiment manifested itself before
the Congressional elections of 1866, we had
the Memphis and New Orleans riots, and upon
this tide there foated iuto the House as choice
two-thirds majority of ''trooly loil'' men as
one would care to see. After this floating
in, the riots died out, and were not
otherwise alluded to than by cross
road orators anxious to point moral or
adorn tale. They had subserved their pur-
pose, they had kept radcalism in power, and
were not worth further talking about. Next
to this stroke, to skip some lesser "outrages,"
all happily timed and largely conducting to
moral ideas, there came an attempted riot in
New Orleans on the 18th of this present month.
But why in New Orleans, and why on the
18th? Evidently because New Orleans, by
reason of the 1866 business, had a bad repute
with it memories of other "outrages,' and
thereby intensity the present with the past.
But why upon the 18th ? Would not any
other date have done as well Most evidently
not. On the 2lst of September the Congress
was to meet, if it met at all prior to next De-
cember as things stood. otherwise Il was ne
cessary to have something in the "outrage'
way to bear out Representative Schenck and
Senator Morgan in reassembling the clans and
fn h.
a neat case of "Rebel barbarty" in New
Orleans. AS the reader knows, this little
game, by dint Of the white folks locking
themselves up in their houses, came very
near being failure, but still one negro was
killed-poor Cutfee ! he always gets the heavy
end Of his friends pole-and ON this dead
'ngger," the Congress got the word to meet.
To meet Secandum Grtem, it was requisite to
meet with a sort of aureole of lOil blood about
its visage, and this aureole was thus obtained.
Word goes out from Washington to some
dirty carpet-bagging rogues in South Georgia
TO get US up a frst-class row instanter.
These rogues send out their runners and
gather in the blacks-some with clubs, some
guns, some pistols. Forthwith the army
marches on little village. Alarmed at the
apparition, the citizens send the Sheriff out
to demonstrate with these negro troops, to tell
them that armed assemblies are prohibited
by the proclamation of his Illegality the
bogus Governor, and that he (the Sheriff.
cannot permit that proclamation to be broken.
But what care we? "Our orders is come"
as one OF the negro rioters phrased it, Con.
it to them. And they did. They marched in
four hundred strong on horseback and on
foot, band playing, weapons out, and carpet
baggers in the van, with ga double-barrel
shotgun, a Spencer rifle, and two pistols with
extra ammunition" (See Sherihrs affidavit
Shots were fired, blood shed, life taken, and
there was the 'outrage," as per order-a nice,
credit side of Congress when the session
began. Congress met on the 2lst of Septem-
ber; the Outrage" bears date the 10Th prior.
Is there not something in this close connection
which shows that this Camilla business was
deliberately instigated for party purposes
The "Rebels" of the South have everything
to lose and nothing to gain by an "outrage"
the radical leaders everything to gain and
nothing to lose. Who, then, is the more
likely to act the aggressor Let the reader
carefully revolve this subject; let him consider
that every outrage heretofore has been
profitable to that party and Improbable to the
South, and he cannot but see where the guilt of
these things lies. Who is to profit by the
crime is one of the surest indtcia whereby the
law discovers ill.doers; and ii you apply this
rule to these "oub ages" does it not teach
you that these radical leaders instigate the
'outrages" they profit byS
The Muddle About the Finances-Mr. Del.
mars Statement.
From the NJ y Herald
! Some people have an idea that figures do
not deceive; but they will find themselves
mistaken If they look at those of the financial
doctors who pretend to represent the condition
of the Treasury and national finances. We
have had the statements of Mr.. Wells, of the
Treasury Department, and of Mr.. Atkinson, OF
Massachusetts,, volunteer exponent of our
financial condition in behalf of the radicals,
and now we have the statement of Mr.. Del
] niractnr of the Rnraan of Statistins-