Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-07-03
CRIME NORTH AND SOUTH.

from time to time made by Radical
journals and speakers over occasion
al instances ofcrime committed in the
South and each instance is seized upon
and held up to the country asproof
that the community in which it oc-
ours is not fit for self-government,
thereby justifying the harsh and OPP
pressive course pursued towards the
Southern people as mass. The in
Justice of this, to any man not fitted
by the alteration of his wits for a
mapiac's cell, is patent on its face
Yet violence Of any sort can occur in
q Southern State--or whatever those
corporate bodies may be called
which were once in a condition of re-
bellion, and which are understood to
be in process Of being, as it is called,
admitted into the Union-no matter
what the circumstances may be, but
the cry of "rebel outrage" is raised,
all the charges on rebellion are
rung afresh, and Northern blood Is
made to boil at the recital of tout
RACES " committed OH "Upion men,"
who. are said to live, no one knows
where or how, in daily danger of
their lives. A violent and incendiary
Radical is killed by another equally
violent and incendiary Radical in a
black brothel, and this goes out to the
country, on blast of manufactured
passion, as a rebel outrage" or some
thing Of that sort; and in all such
cases a"Union man." as he is called
by which is signified, in nine cases
out of ten, a Northern adventurer,
who has found his way down South
to prey upon the Southern people in
the midst of their distraction-never
fails to be the victim. Then louder
calls are made by the Radical con-
spirators against nations unity and
peace, for q heavier hand upon what
they choose to speak of as the Ere
bellious South" and fresh DEGREES of
vengeance Illuminated and launched
against her people.
Everybody remembers the New
Orleans riots in 1867, and everybody
knows, that knows anything about
1t, that they were chargeable to the
inflammatory appeals and precon-
certed outrages of Northern Radicals,
bent upon mischief under the lead
ership of such flnatical and hair
Drained fools as Dostie, who lost his
life In melting mob to take the lives
of others. That he got his deserts is
altogether probable. He, with Others
of the same stripe, got up a riot, apd,
lin the fortunes of rioting, he got the
worst of it. Better for him had he
stuck to his barber's pole--we believe
he was barber, and afterwards q
dentist-instead of going, with bad
motives and in bad company, to
Louisiana to create disturbance in
that State. Aspeople remember this
riot, they will also remember the i'm.
passioned Radical cry that was raised
throughout the North against the
Southern people, charging every.
thing that occurred upon them as
rebels" and how upon New Orleans
and the State of Louisiana was visi
ted the full measure of Radical retail.
iation and revenge. Mobs and dis
turbances Of every sort occurring
anywhere in the South are always
according to these political fanatic,
and firebrands, occassioned by rebels
How is it about the negro mob that
disgraced this city on Monday las
and left its footprints i'm blood p
Wonder if that, too, was "rebe
outrage" How about the negro riots
and bloodshed that have occurred
here on previous occasions of cleo
ton, under the tuition and training
of white demagogues, and which in
deed have become inseparable from
all Radical gatherings of whateve
kind9 Were they "rebel outrages
Had the people of the District of Col
umbia not better be declared rebels
DISTINGUISHED, under military author
ity, or sent into some sort of politica
exile, and all because the Radica
party can get up riot in their midst
and signalize it by the taking of on,
or more lives and the breaking o
any number Of skulls? This disturb
ance, with its deplorable consequen
ces, 1t will be borne in mind, was be
tween negro Radical police, brough
about by n Conservative negro at
tempting to vote the Conservativ,
ticket, the mob Of negroes endeavor
Ing by violence to prevent him, ant
the police, in the performance of thei
duty, defending him in so doing.
Now, not forgetting the New Or
leans trouble and everything of thi
sort that has occurred, we venture b
say that If statistical comparison
were made-if that were possible
, between the crimes of n violent char
acter committed South and thos
committed North, 1t would be foun'
that the latter exceed the former b.
many fold. Not day passes but tn
leading Northern newspapers ar
called upon to chronicle numerous
and sometimes u long array Of tn
most dastardly and revolving crimes
which, If occurring in Southern soci
city, would put that entire section
under martial law, or some other sor