The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-05-11
The Outrage Business"

The Radicals are still engaged in work
ing mp the outrage business in order to
give some color of excuse for placing the
Southern States again under military rule
They have passed a bayonet election law,
now they want a standing army to enforce
IT, Ii has been the policy of the Republic
not to have Il standing army-the people
have been educated TO believe that such
an institution was the resort of tyrants
But the Radicals are copying after the
despotisms of the old world in more ways
than one.
The other day, Butler made a speech in
Congress, occupying about one bour, to
show up the outrages said to have been
committed in the Southern States He
dwelt with peculiar JUNCTION upon the aw-
iul kll-KluX, which murders legislators
and Judges, burn school-houses and
churches, murders mail agents, overawes
courts and assaults the judges, breaks
tails and kills or releases the prisoners as
they are foes or friends; hinders the col
lection of the revenue, and outrages its
officers, and levies q stealthy war upon
the United States" ETC., etc.
But all his charges are general. He
does not detail in specifications but tries
to work up a picture for the imagination
to dwell upon, as y flaming basis for the
maintenance of standing army But if
murders, and robberies, and acts of in
ccndialism are frequent at the South, so,
too, are they frequent at the North. Can
NOT Butler and his followers see how the
North and West, rs well rs the South,
may be tramplcd under the iron heels Of
military despotism by the infamous Ku-
klux legislation which he and his Cocoon
spirators are now endeavoring to force
through Congress?
The very day that Butler made his
speech with references to crime at the
South, the New York Express calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Northern newspa-
pcrs were recording, as everyday matters
OF fact, crime and Outrages which no
''rebel' Ku-klux could surpass in number
or enormity, if it was to try never so
hard. We quote the headings of a few of
these, mainly
From Republican Sources.
Desperate Robbery in Iowa-a Serious Riot on
the Pacific Railroad.
Murder and Suicide in Iinois-A Man Dis
patches His Entire Family Including Himself.
Homicide in Wisconsin.
Cards.
Deadly Assault on a Catholic Priest at Ottawa,
/ Corpse-W atcher Plumbers Mourncrs in New
York.
Daring Outrage-Noon-Day Attempt to Rob a
Third avenue Savings Bank-The Thieves
Interrupted-Their Flight and Escape.
Another Jack Reynolds-In a Cell with the
Murderer of Thomas Brown.
A Sailor Drives a Knife through Comrades
Heart.
A Terrible Tragedy-The Story of Forged
Will and Double MUrner in Milwaukee.
Burglary in Broadway.
How Gentleman was Robbed and Pickpocket
Arrested.
The Murder at the Palisades.
Desperate River Thieves-Burglary and Threat
ened Murder.
The First Ward Wife Murder Case-Bowe, the
Brute, committed to the tombs.
Rogues Roughly Handled.
Outrage on Shipboard-a Sailor Kidnapped.
Fatal Stabbing ARRAY near indianapolis,
Shooting ARRAY in Peoria Bagnio.
Stabbing and Shooting ARRAYS in Indiana
Lynch Law in Nevada-Execution by Visi.
lance Committee.
Row in Chicago House of Il-Fame.
Shooting ARRAY at Peoria.
From the N. Standard Grants organ.]
Lawlessness in Williamsburgh The Forty
seventh Regiment Torn by Internecine Strife
Excitement and Tumult-Cries of ''Trea-
son.
A Thief Inquiries after Mans wife-Robs the
House and threatens a pistol,
Drunken Wretch tries to Murder his Wife,
Upon his. conviction the Despairing Woman
throws herself into the Kills.
An Audacious Rascal in the Clutches of the
Police.
This catalogue could be extended, but
it is enough to show the amount of crime
and misery endured by the most orderly
and best educated citizens OF the Union.
IT crimes at the South are to be made the
pretext for a standing army and military
despotism, then crimes at the North, or in
any and all sections of the country may
be made the prctext for the infliction of a
similar curse. Albany Argus.