The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-29
coMMENT UPON RECONSTRUCTION.

The ssneck-tie sociable" is the favor {
lite festive gathering in Wyoming. One {
is always held when q horse-thief is
caught. The tie is made Of hemp rope
and lasts the thief his lifctime.-Er.
no lawlessness anywhere but in the
late tinsurrectionary" States. If a
man, who murdered his wife, is taken
from a Jail in Kentucky, and hanged,
as he ought to be, forthwith the North !
ern press startles the ssloyar' people Of
that virtuous section with an account of
another Ku-Klux outrage. If a negro
commits a rape, or burns town in
Mississippi, and is dealt with after the
manner horse thieves are treated in
Wyoming, or express robbers in Indi-
ana, the vengeance Of the t'loyal" all
over the North is called down upon
Kentucky, or Mississippi, rs the case
may be, while tho whining, conscience
stricken plunderers at the South hurry
ON to Washington and demand imme-
date protection against the rebellious
Ku-Klux of the South who are murder
ing their friends and allies at the South!
For stealing horse in Wyoming, a
man is hanged without trial, and the
occurrence becomes Il matter Of jest.
Let a carpet-bagger or scalawag steal
the value Of one thousand horses in the
Soutf-aye, steal millions upon mil
lions of doIlars-and then let him be
even abused for his villainy, there is a
demand forthwith upon the President
for military protection and the suspen-
sion Of the writ of habeas corpus. Here
the robbers have the neck-tie upon their
victims. And this is why the Repub-
lican organ of this State is enabled to
inquire:
Have not the Republicans at all
times commended and commanded that
the South should live in peace, and is
this not the highest character of concil-
iation?
Has not the strong at all times
commanded the weak to live in peace?
With Republicans in nearly ffSSe eye
important aambents growing rich at the
expense ola people already impover-
ished, undoubtedly the people haze
been "commandetl'' to live in peace.
So the burglar commands the resisting
victim of his lust to live i'll peace. So
the highwayman commands the I'M
offending traveller to live in peace. But
tho peace is all on ono side. The people :
are peaceable-abhor the very ideA of {
disorder and war-but their rulers adj
vance the more swiftly and industri- 4.
ously upon the substance and vitality
of the State. We arc the helpless vic |
Tins Of organized bands Of marauders, | !
who have grown rich and pompous,
who blazon their shame in fine resi- !
denccs, splendid equipagcs and large {
property lists to the world, and still we
olive in peace"' .
The Northern mind is not ignorant ,
Of our condition, but the Northern
heart takes pleasure in it. Their public
men and ablcst Journals have exposed
the corruptions of Radical rule at the
South; but what has been the effect
Lot Outrage committees and Ku-kluX
bills furnish the answer. Let the de-
NAL OF our rights and Of our equality
the contempt with which onr memo
rails and our suferings are treated, by
Congress, stand in tho place of liypo-
thesis. The South is not in the Union,
only to bear it's burthens and to feel its
expressions, and, hence, under such
treatment, there arc doubtless more ,
disunionists in the South to-day than at ,
any period before or since the war. ,
!