Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1868-05-09

The ISLANDERS OF THE SOUTH.-It may
be taken for granted that at least the in
telligent leaders Of the Radical party
have no faith in the stories which. for
purely partisan purposes. are promulgat-
ed by their organs about the perils to lite
aud limb of Union men and colored men
from the so-called rebels of the south
Not a few of the Radical leaders have
travelled through the South since the war.
some of them, whether d~esignedIy or not
stirring up evil passions among the freed
men towards their former masters. and
hey know that, even under these aggra.
waiting circumstances, they were free not
only from outrag , but from insult. If it
is replied to this that the rebels knew
better than to provoke a collision with
men who had the power Of the Govern
ment at their back, then they also know
better than. by waDton Outrages against
Unionists and colored men, backed by
the military, to come into collision with
the whole moral and physical force of the
country. We dare say there is not an intel.
ligent mar in either house of Congress
who is not aware that, from the nature
Of things. a people who are lying with
their heads in the lions mouth are not
likely to make any very lively agrees.
i've demonstrations.
The truth is. that the Southern people,
instead Of being the perpetrators, are the
victims Of continued crimes and outrages,
not q few of which they have quietly
submitted to, fearing that by demanding
justice they would provoke additional
wrongs and vengeance, Since the sur.
render Of Lees and Johnson's armies, the
South has been lying like an oyster on
the beach with both shells torn off. and
at the mercy Of all the birds and beasts
Of prey. 1t has been incapable even of
defence, much less Of aggression Such
Republican journals as the New York
Times have the grace to admit that while
the staying Of q Radical in the South, no
matter by whom committed, calls forth a
violent howl from the Radical press and
renewed activity by the military authori
les, little is said of the moro frequent
murders Of white men by semi-barbarons
negroes, and scarcely any notice taken OF
them by the military authorities.
Thus no sensation is caused by the mur-
der Of the one-armed ex-Confederate sol
der lately shot dead on his horse, near
Selma, Alabama /; the killing Of four other
white men in the same locality ; the muir
ders OF white men on the roads leading
to Richmond. Virginia, and similar atroc
tiles which have introduced a reign Of
terror in many portions of the Southern
States. Clearly cogniz.nt as the Radical
leaders are Of the real state of the case,
the Efforts of their organs TO represent
the Southern people always as wrong
loers. instead Of the w~ronged, thereby
not only encouraging new acts of crime,
but mixing the foul Islander a pretcxt for
subj citing the South to additional des.
po'ism aud oppression. have all the GRIM
inali'y aud wickedness which attach to
deliberate instigation to murder, and on
their skirts, in the eyes of God and man,
will rest innocent blood shed in the South,
quite as much rs upon the skirts Of til.
actual murderers. - Baltimore Sun.