New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-10

o rd tool. ont and carried of into the woods dozen
or more OF negro prisoners and there promptly disposed
OF them by shooting them. On Tuesday last at Meridian
Miss black desperate shoots the Judge in open court
whereupon there s naturally enough, terrible row.
which eliminates I'm the shooting OF half dozen negroes
and ends only I'm tho expulsion OF the Mayor from tho
TOWN. and with the understanding that he Is never to re-
turn But uhy His erpuisiOn and this utderstandfngf
For the objectionable crime to the party expelled as IL
oppears of being "a Northern white man. elected by
negro voters Mayor OF a Southern town. We have re-
ports Of such Southern Of violence aud bloodshed
almost every day."
Comments by The Tribune.
We presume no intelligent person-certainly,
no one accustomed to sift and weigh evidence
-imagines that the whole truth is told in the
kilograms from Meridian, Miss. 1t is a. plain
that the ARRAY there did not commence with
"a Black desperate shooting judge in open
"court,n az that the American Revolution did
not begin with the battle of Monmouth. Such
shooting may possibly have occurred, but
nearer the end than the beginning of the fray.
And the expulsion of the Mayor-who is not
even accused of any other ofiense than his
Northern birth-clearly indicates the nature OF
the feud and the party which first resorted to
shooting. Had the Blacks been the agSressors
and law-breakers, the Mayors expulsion would
not have been desired
The Herald proceeds to ask
"What does all this sgnfyi After such four years
war as that OF late Southern Rebellion can 1t be
expected that the people subducd can quietly adapt
themselves five years ten years. or twenty years. TO
revolution which has torn up their political and social
system by the rOOtsi Can 1t be expected that the
Southern Whites accustomed rule under the Constt
tuition as masters and to look upon their Blacks as an
inferior and slaves by divine authorty-oah IL he
supposed that these Whites have been subdued
I'm war they will surrender their convictions, preudlces'
and principles, conditions Of peacei No. In spite OF
your emancipation and civil rights bills, and
constitutional amendments establishing negro civil and
political equality the Southern Whites do not believe IN
this equality and they submit to 1t az the french submit
to the loss their Rhine territorefrom necessity ana
with the hope Of satisfaction hereafter. How Ii TINS
difficulty be reached by acts OF Congress, especially
when all Southern States have been restored as
completely their local rights in the Union as New
York and New-Jerscyi What more can Congress do
with the Ku.Klux cutthroats OF North Carolina IMAM
with the roughs of NewYork City, nov that Southern
reconstruction is Hnishedi"
Answer by The Tribune.
A colored man Of God, explaining to his
hearers the duty Of implicit obedience to the
Divine requirements, drew distinction which
seems to us in point, namely: "f de LORD
command me to jump through q stone wall,
"rll jump at it, any how. Getting through 1t
"belongs to Cod going at it belongs to me-"
That it will be very difficult to suppress
Ku-Klux Outrages in heavily wooded and
thinly peopled regions where nearly every man
who either has arms or knows how to use
them is in sympathy with the banded perpe-
traitors, we readily admit. But the Federal
Constitution, including the XIlIth, XlVth,
and XVIII Amendments, is " the supreme
claw of the land" which every
citizen is bOund to obey, which Congress Is
expressly authorized to fOrtify and uphold,
and which the President is sOlemnly sworn to
enforce. We do not need the cOmmon-sense
decision of the Supreme Court, through the
mouth of John Marshall, that where power
is granted, all that is requisite to its due main
tenance and efficiency is included III the grant.
No doubt, the Democrats in Congress will
oppose any legislation intended to suppress
the outrages which Gas The Herald virtually
admits are simply q new outbreak of the
Shareholders Rebellion but they viii commit
fragrant perjury in so doing. They have no
more right so to vote than they have to refuse
all appropriations for the Army aud Navy
/ with intent to have the Rebellion renewed
and the Union thereby destroyed.
Southern Reconstruction VIII DC nnlsneu
when all resistance thereto shall have been
defnitively abandoned or finally crushed out.
Until then, it is not "fnished;h and the fault
is in no degree that of loyal men, but solely
! that of the persistent Rebels. Congress and
the Executive must keep trying until the Con-
stitution and laws are fully and cOnclu-
sively obeyed; and they who complain that
Reconstruction is never ended have themselves
alone to blame.
And now let US call attention to a crimi-
nal suppression of intelligence on the part of The
World. Judge Pryor's charge to the Grand Jury
at Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky, has been
for some days public, with the corroborating
structures of The Louisville Courier-Journal.
These unexceptionable Democratic authorities
establish the existence in the heart of Ken
lucky of q state of things which The World has
persistently denied and scoffed at. Does that
journal correct its Misrepresentation Does it
allow its readers to see the evidence which re-
flutes them No! it simply SURPRISES the facts
and goes on as if they had no existence This
may be shrewd partisanship, but it is thorough
ly discreditable, because dishonest, journal
ism.