Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-28
The south at the Mercy of Carpet.
Raggers.

Baggers.
A more unhappy condition could not
well be imagined than that Of apeople
conquered, subject, and submissive, and
yet belied to their injury, by miscreants
in human form, whom neither the thun-
derbolt nor the wrath of man is permitted
to crush. As to the Camilla affair which
paid liars are here to represent we copy
the following from the Nashville Union
and American. "Patience is exhausted" +"
Forbearance also will soon be SO:
The mob at Camilla, Georgia, is an
other of those deplorabe occurrences so
frequent of late, which, though the direct
and inevitable result of Radical misrule,
are made to inure to the benefit of its ac-
cursed contrivers. Bad they are, but
they are worse because the bloody in
structions do not return to plague the
inventors" but, by false representations,
are turned to their advantage.
The published account of the mob was
doubtless, in the main, true. A carpet
bag candidate for Congress organized an
armed mob of his deluded negro retain
ers, numbering between four and FIVE
hundred, and visits county of his dis
trict for the purpose of overawing the
people. The Sheriff, under the recent
proclamation of the Radical Governor
forbidding armed organizations at public
meetings, meets the leader, and reads
the riot act requiring their dispersion or
disarming. They refuse, and proceed to
FIRE on the lawful posse assembled by the
Sh eriff to aid him in the discharge of his
duty. The FIRE is returned, and forty or
fifty cf the mob fall killed or wounded,
and are driven from the field. The seal
lawag who led them is among the
wounded.
The Radical account, already given to
the public, represents the mob as peace
full concourse of lamb-like innocents, fol-
lowing q faithful shepherd and ex-
FOUNDER of the "great moral idea creed,
who was literally going about doing good,
which was ruthlessly set upon and shot
down BY the Ku-Klux Democracy. And
this foul falsehood, with twenty Others
like it, in ten days, will be strown as
thickly over the North as autumn leaves,
abusing the minds of that people with
the impression that the rebellion is ready
TO break out afresh, and that Northern
whites and loyal" blacks at the South
are wantonly murdered for their political
opinions.
Radical emissaries, like this fellow
Pierce, who is now to be exhibited as
martyr to rebel ferocity, are travelling
over the South melting by their damna-
BILE teachings, war Of races; aud when
white men, in obedience to the instincts
of self-preservaiion. refuse to be put in
peril BY their armed audacity, and after
invoking the law for protection, protect
themselves by counter force, they are
stigmaiized as organized cut throats, and
their natural conduct under the circum-
stances, made pretext for further op.
preston. This is q fearful state Of
things, and will grow worse. If elections
are to be carried in this WY, there will
be but few more of them. Heaven fore
fend the consequences, but if the nation
in its blindness gives the Southern people
over 10 the devilish isfy Of negro hate,
the book Of events will soon open on the
darkest chapter yet recorded.