The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-07-17

n thoasahds n naifned
ard Hfsless bodls. q tbs patriotic
slain. verify The bloodof the martyr
has been the seed a The Radical
paf,y. without martyr ihe party
would die NJ Dry ret quicker thar
horse ever died of botts Although
the enaeimen, and enforcement of
The series oi 40 called reconstruction
acts, martyrion was the life-giving
principle Of The Radical Congress
and party. The campaign last fall
would have resulted in the triumtA.
ant election Of q Democratic Presi-
dent, had Il not been for the endless
number Of black and white carpet
baggers, real and imaginary, that
the Radicals caused 10 be killed In
the South. They almost reveled IN
q holocaust of blood, that victory
might be assured.
And II seems that this execrable
political shystering is to have no end
ing. A recent municipal election
was held in Washington the capital
of the country, where there must
needs be negro slaughter indeed.
Fact upon fact has been piled up
since, showing that the Radical ne
groes were fred to the highest pitch
by the white Demagogues Of Radi'
calism to prevent negroes voting thu
Democratic ticket, and where II wal
persisted in the black tools of thu
Radical fieuds bullied and shot ant
cut them down at random. Th'
proof of this is undeniable.
Scarcely had this brutal demon
stration of Radical incapacity 70
self-government cooled off, ere an
other tutchery was gotten up il
Mississippi-the killing Of Colone
Crane by Southerner named Yel
ger. This has proven real love
, feast for the Radical papers every
where, not a day passing for sewers
weeks back but their columns fairl
, run over with froth and fury owe
the horrible outrage. With a kee
"loyal" appetite only known befol
the war to writer's of yellow-covere
literature, they have daily and weel
% ly hashed and re-hashed every mo
sci about the murder that the mo
vivid imagination could conceiv
" The following dispatch of the 22t
telegraphed by the Associated Pres
however, gives a little different &C
,. oring to the highly wrought narr
tives. The dispatch reads:
D. an the case OF Yerger for shoe
ing Col. Crane, it was shown tod
p, that the piano seized was not t
Is property Of Yerger, and that Ora
knew the fact, but ordered the Of
Ger to make the seizure. Notwi,
u standing, it is further shown by CT
gl respondence that Yerger had offer
to settle a claim against it for dan
ges to property caused by neglect
: the city government. An order
restitution had been issued by Jud
n Peyton in the high court, and serv
nd on Crane previous to the difiicu
da but had not been obeyed."
However much all good N
must deprecate lawless acts, and
pecially those of terrible violence
he's the killing Of Col. Crane, it is
be: just to point to the fact that he f
gu bid defiance to the law in attem
ing to wrest property from Yer
that the courts had decided in
d, favor, and this example Of Crs
followed by Yerger, only with gr'
er violence resulted in his own de-
The succession of lawless q
North as well as South, since
reign Of Radicalism, are but the
gitimate fruits Of the reckless !
lessness of a Radical Congress
:. enacting and a Radical Admins
ton in executing a series of or
nally lawless acts. With an inn
fountain and increased impurit
the reservoir, how can its outflow
streams be purci Crime is no lol
individual, but national. An ay'
ing Nemesis sooner or later gu
turns with redoubled force upor
creator. Seward boasted to for
governments that by the mere I
ling Of q little bell he could der
unofsnding citizens Of lib
Years rolled by, when Paine pl
a dagger near his heart. The a
'sn' sin Of liberty, wrongly was
mended for his act. The assass
law, rightly, was hung by the !