The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-05

fact is SO hardened as ''to deny the perpe-
tration of the outrages." ''These outrages,"
so far as mentioned by the correspondent
consist of the murder of one colored man
and the throwing of his body into a we'll
'for no other crime than attending Repub-
lican Convention" aud the refusal of another
colored man ''to run for the Legislature,
fearful of assassination" Now we venture
to assert that there is not q single Congress
sional district in the United States in which
q Republican man has not been recently
murdered and in which another may not be
found who is afraid of being murdered.
Whether the Alabama colored man owed his
death to his having attended a convention,
we suppose is piece of conjecture suited to
the season. Whether the other does not run
for the Legislature because he is afraid of
being murdered, is matter about which
there can be no evidence but his own word.
We think we may ask, too, without seeming
impertinent, whether some Republicans at
the South do not conclude little too hastily
that the Ku-klux will canvass the district
better for the party by 'riding night and
day, "whipping and numbering" than the
party speakers and whether there is not an
undue tendency among them to transfer all
the crimes of the year to the political
schedule, and connect every violation of the
law with the discomfort of Southerners with
the results of the war?
The fact is, we believe, that, outrageous as
the conduct of Southern malcontents has
been in various districts, there has not been
one case in which the matter has been in
quired into, in which the reports of the news
papers and politicians have not been found
grossly exaggerated, and in which even the
actual result, in the way of 'outrages, have
not been made up by attributing all crimes,
of which the origin was unknown, to one
cause. 1t was impossible to expect that
long and bitter civil war, which has ended in
the emancipation of q vast number of slaves,
should not be followed by period of great
lawlessness and crime. Our war was SO fol-
lowed but that period is rapidly passing
away, though large numbers of people are
interested in having q belief in its cod
tinuance still kept up. Their stories un-
doubtedly do help to keep it up. Crime and
outrage and intolerance at the South will
never reach the Northern level without a
strong infusion of Northern people, and
Northern habits and ideas, into Southern
society. Just in proportion as this takes
place does the civilization of the South pro-
gress But nothing does more to retard it
than stories that the Kuklux are ''riding day
and night" and whipping and numbering"
| They keep Northern emigration and North
ern capital from entering the South.
Without Northern emigration and Northern
capital, the South will not be regenerated,
or only very slowly. People are not
frightened from going to places by stories
of crimes, but they are by stories of
organized crime, and crime committed in aid
of political or religious opinions list of
the murders committed in this State and city
during the past six months is tolerably ap-
palling, but it frightens very few people
whose business or taste does not lead them
into bad company. If, however, it was given
out that all the New York murders and rob-
berries were committed on Protestants by
agents of the Tammany Ring, as a punish
ment for voting the Republican ticket or at
tending prayer-meetng, there would GER
tainly be a rapid flight from the neighbor-
hood of many of our best citizens, and there
would be sensible diminution in the num-
ber of people coming to settle here, in spite
of the strong commercial attractions of the
| place.