New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-15
WHICH Is THE SLANDERER ?

WHICH Is THE SLANDERER?
III Mr.. Sumner would visit the Southern
States. the loyal whites and the col0ret
people would be glad to see him. The,
would turn out by thousands to welcome
him. The Kuklux would not hurt him
Members of Congress are i'll no danger iron
these assassins. If they could whip or muir
der the gentleman from Massachusetts. and
have it understood and known, bey'nd al
question. that they had no hand IN IT, ano
were not responsible for it. they would take
great pleasure in doing SO. - Washington
| Chronicle.
| 1t is well to know the estimation in which
we are held, helping us as it does to a bet
ter appreciation of the people who stand
forward as the opponents of Union and fra
ternal love. If anything is calculated to
heal the unhappy dissensions that have dis
tracted this unfortunate country, it is the
emnently complimentary sentiments as the
one quot d above.--Nec Orleans Times.
Nothing but the placing of these two
paragraphs together is needed to establish
what We have often declared, that the
Times is Ku-klux organ in spirit and
utterance. 1t will be observed that the
Chronicle separates the Southern COM
munlty into two societies, one the people,
which would be pleased to make friends
with Senator Sumner, and tine other a
miserable band of assassins, who would
pretend to respect the Senator until they
could obtain an opportunity to kill him
without being known as the murderers.
The Times resents. this division, and not
only assimilates the entire people of the
South as ku-Klux, but it proceeds to
poison its credulous readers with the sug-
gestion that the North must be held re-
sponsible for the detestable opinion which
it puts in the mouth of Washington
paper. The Cronicle took great pains to
declare the truth, that the people of the
South would be pleased to see Mr.. Sumner
and offer him better opportunities of learn
ing their wants and grievances than he
has ever had heretofore, which is an
assertion that no respectable citizen will
gainsay, and it took especial pains to de-
clare still further that even the Ku-Klux
would be decent enough to pretend to
civility which they did not feel. Instead
Of accepting these assertions in the spirit
and according to the language in which
they We're made, the Times slanderously
insists that the Chronicle accuses the entire
Southern community as assassins. That is,
the Times rejects the division, and |
assumes that the Chronicle hates |
the entire South because it hates the MUIR |
derous ku-klux. And not content with |
doing contemporary injustice. it seeks to
hold the Republican party of the North
for the SANDER which it per-
petrates against the South in the name of
newspaper published at Washington.
Our indictment against the Times in
his connection contains four counts, to
Wit: First, it accuses the South of being
hu-klux by confounding all the people
Is assassins in that it enters into a de-
ense Of the whole when only a fraction
vas implicated; secondly, it fradulently
avs its own wicked AID offensive asser.
ion at the door of an innocent party.
accusing the Washington Chronicle Of
lttering what had not entered into its
lead to conceive or print: thirdly, ad-
hitting that the Chronicle did say what
he Times accuses it of, the people of
y Washington are in no wise responsible
or the SANDER, since it was uttered with
mt their consent, approval or ratifca-
ion, SO far as the evidence goes in that
Erection; fourthly, its intention was ma
gnant, since the tenor of the publica-
ion could have had no other design than
0 create ill-feeling between two neigh
lg communities whose interests REQUIRE {
hem to exist together in fraternity and I
God fellowship. And the evidence being s
ffered, the Times is convicted and con- g
emned as a scandalizer and mischief
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