Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-12

IN England they nave Tree TRADE, Dut IN
America we 'protect" the manufacturer.
Who pays for that protection?
LAW AND ORDER IN THE NORTH.
The organs of the 'party Of great moral
ideas" are continually trying to fire the
Northern heart by the recital of alleged
outrages in the South. A local neighbor-
hood feud is magnifed into a great out
break of lawlessness, and a personal diff
Guilty between two men is made to appear a
great violation of law and to endanger a
whole community. Nothing Of the kind
happens in the South but it has portentious
significance, according to Northern Radical
journals. These journals know only too
well how to play upon the prejudices of the
masses of the North, and they make the
most of the opportunity. A large portion
of the people of the North are so prejudiced
against those of the South, that they are
ready to believe anything and do anything,
even to the sanctioning of the most
dangerous usurpations of powers on
the part of Congress and the President
and his satraps, to have this people
punished. In their zeal to repre-
resent the Southern people as little better
than bands ofmarauders and outlaws, these
Radical journals ignore to a very great ex-
tent the existence of crime in their own
section. The Radical party of the civilized
State of New York held State convention
a few days ago, and it exhibited the quality
ofits morality, according to the reporter for
a New York paper, after this fashion:
''Chairs and table legs were freely used
by the defenders of the citadel, and fists
and canes by the attacking party. AT last
one of the latter drew pistol, but before
he could use it he was felled to the floor by
a blow from the back of one of the iron
seats, laying his cheek open and putting him
hOrS du combat. There were cries of Put
down those PISTOLS Don't Shoot Don't
shoot" xiii the son of "a Kill him.
BLOW his brains out '6pen the door,
Not a damned one of you will get in
you'll all get in etc. CALCULATIONS more
expressive than elegant were INDUCED in
until the place seemed worse than Bed
lam
The Pittsburg Gazette Radical) gave a
few days ago, the following account of the
condition of things in Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, near the home of United
States Senator Scott, of the Congressional
Ku-Kmx Committee, whose "better ma
ture" has been narrowed up by reports of
lawlessness in South Carolina, the existence
Of which his own political friends deny:
"For several months gang of rowdies
about Sewickley and Rochester have been
committing a series of outrages upon all the
defenceless women that they met. Recent
" a mulatto girl was so abused in this man.
ner in the woods that she died from the
effects Still the people have not been
stirred up by such dastardly and fiendish
work. The last case is that of a peddler's
wife, who was abused in a street Of Roches-
ter while her husband was in a house. This
excited the people. An indignation meet
ing was held, but the magistrates and the
citizens were afraid to institute proceedings
for fear that the town would be fired. A
justice from that burrough, however, called
upon Alderman Strain and charged Robert
Boyd, - Ryan and another young man
with the crime. The alderman, with his
officers, on Monday repaired to Rochester,
where Boyd and the last mentioned party
were, and after some resistance, arrested.
Ryan has escaped to the woods"
The New York Times prints the very ex-
traOrdinary story that there are fifteen
Thousand men in New York and Brooklyn
banded together and bound by oath to serve
as election ''repeaters," according to the
direction of their chiefs. Other sensational
details are given. The Baltimore Sun says
this organization, if it exist, comes within
the direct terms of the charge delivered by
Judge Bond, Of the United States Circuit
Court, to the jury in the cases of the I'M
fOrtunates who have fallen under govern
ment prosecution in North Carolina. The
Judge charged, in terms, that any organiza-
ton of this nature was a conspiracy under
the Ku-Klux act of Congress, every member
of which was responsible for any act of
political outrage committed by any other
member. According to this ruling and the
Times story, fifteen Thousand men in New
York are subject to fine varying from five
hundred to five thousand dollars and i'm
prisOnment from two to five years at the
hands Of the United States Marshal aud
Judges. In order to understand what has
been done in North Carolina it is necessary
to suppose these New Workers arrested
upon irresponsible accusations, carried
wholesale to Schoharie county, tried before
a jury picked by the Marshal in counties
where political feeling is bitterest. and in
such way that the whole of them shall be
partisan Rupublicans. 1t is not easy even
to fancy such proceedings in New York:
but such, and far worse, are those which
have been conducted in North Carolina.
1t is thus that the laws are enforced. ANY
act of lawlessness tina tmay be perpetrated
in the South, however trivial, is seized upon
as a pretext for the arrest and Imprisonment
of as many as can conveniently be accused
of participating in such act. Here the New
York Times, Radical organ, asserts that
large number of men have banded together
in New York and Brooklyn to violate the
laws, and notwithstanding these men clearly
come under what is known as the Ku-Klux
law, nothing is done by the Federal authori-
ties 10 arrest and punish them. 1t is clear
that the assertion of Grant that this law is
to be enforced in the North as well as the
South, is sham.