New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-01
A CONTRAST.

Some Of the Seymour organs herea-
bouts have been drawing contrast be-
tween Kentucky and Tennessee. 1t is a
business two can look at, and the Gallattn
(Tenn,) Republican has tried its hand at it
as follows:
For example, when the war closed, Ken.
lucky, in a fit of magnanimity, repealed all
laws which Disseminated against the rebels,
and cordially welcomed them back. What
has been the result! Every Union man
has been kicked out of office and kept out,
the Union black men are not permitted to
| testify in court when white man is d par.
ty, Union soldier may be murdered in the
presence of his late comrades in arms and
his murderers go clear, because they are not
competent witnesses, black mans wife
and daughter may be most grossly insulted
before his eyes, and no conviction can be
had because neither he nor they can testify
against the white villain.
Besides, this, the whole colored popula-
ton are taxed without representation. They
are oppressed and maltreated, and have no
redress. The Republican gives a table of
outrages committed against colored people
in eight months ending July /, 1867, for
which no redress could be obtained, COM
prising sixty-iye murders, twenty:seven
rapes, seventy four shot and wounded, and
eight hundred and thirty-six persons other
wise maltreated!
And here is something more pertinent to
the subject from Colonel William e. Fitch,
Jr., of Memphis, real conservative gentle
man Of the utmost reliability:
To the Editor of the Memphis Bulletin:
In the Republican Banner (Nashvlllel OF
the thirteenth instant, find the following
item
"0UTRAGED HONOR AvENGgD.-A negro
was hung by an armed body of men near
having committed rape on white lady.
Some radical sensatiOnalist who reached
this city by the train which passed through
Athens an hour or two afterward, attempted
| to spread the report that tine Ku-Klnx had
searched the train for Governor Brownlow,
| but no one gave 1t credence.i
was passenger on the TUESDAY evening
/ train, eleventh instant from Decatur. Ala
b9ma, to Nashville. The train, on
letnpptng at Athens, Alabama, at 1880
=. d., WAS boarded by an armed band
Of men masked and otherwise uniformed.
Five Ct them We're In the car in which was
seated. One remained at the rear door,
/ where they entered; fonr q them passe6
through and Que of them returned through
| the car, leaving IL by the same door thev
| came ii, thus passing twice through the
same car. They asked but one QUESTION.
and that WAS, = Is Br0H1teW In this car ~
/ This they repeated frequently
/ mentioned the matter In Nashville 70 4
| few personal friends, who, with myself, az.
plored tie occurrence. Insteadef assuming
| Tic role OF q sensationasist ] kept rather
quiet finn otherwise. believing that the es
cltement Of the people was already too In
1 tense npon The subject, and wenid have
/ remained 50 but for this miserable attempt
1 d Are AessHfy to hide the TRUTH have
satSa that five were III The car iwRs in.
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