The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
Are We Frccmcn, or Are We Slavcs'

This inquiry suggested itself to us as
an appropriate comment upon the fol-
lowing article taken from President
Gle, the columns of which are now daily
prostituted to the base purpose Of intlu-
cncing Congress, by such stuff as is here
presented, to lcgislatc for the dcstruc-
ton and ruin of the Southern States.
Few of our readers ever sec the leading
Radical Journals, and they may be in
crcdulous that any journal would put
before the public an article like that
taken from the Chronicle, but the
warp and filling Of these papers arc
made from such contcnptiblc, cowardly
appeals to passion as this:
The real situation ut the South is best
indicated by its leading newspapers.
Let us takc Mississippi, for instance.
The first paper at hand is the Clarion,
published at Jackson, the State capital,
and edited by L. Barllsdalc, J. l.. Pow
err, and II. Barks(lalc. Wcarc told and
believe that this paper represents the
great body of cX-Confcderates in that
State. Looking upon the first column
of the editorial page the following para
graph first strikes the eye:
sIn view of the advantage taken OF
tho lcnicncy extended to them by Stur-
ges and Higgins, as evidenced by their
slanderous publications, and tho harm
that is likely to result in poisoning the
Northern mind, we would advise our
people who are provoked to meet out
rage with violence not to Sendany more
oh rf # ,ff h1S f1f 1S6ff0t
let 'ern stay.'
This suggests nothing else but ass:rs-
sination.
Another article in the same column
! charges n Senator of the United States
with having paid 1928, 900 for votes.
In another, the bill to carry into effect
Il provision of the State constitution
permitting Il change of venue in certain
| cases is called an ssiniquitOus scheme
of the Legislature.
The members of the Legislature are
called, in another article, "Carpct-bas
and African vandals."
In the next column General Amcs is
called a 1tsurrcptitiousS Senator, occupy.
ing position which he obtained in
derogation of the right of a free choice
by the people of the State" &C., forget
ing that there is n Republican majority
| in Mississippi OF at least thirty thou
sand. And again, "The bogus Senator
has ut cred falsely" is in the same arti-
Gle :; AID a foul epithct is also coupled
with the name of General Butler.
Under the head of "Notcworthy
| Facts,'' it is said that ssGovcrnor Hol
den and his troops in North Carolina
We're busy in killing Ku-Klux fol
years"
On the same page is copied APPROX
ingly tho following:
"The Memphis Appeal, referring to
the TRADE of Ames in tho Senate, won
ders sif there is any hell hot enough to
hold such a treacherous scOundrel.' ,"
AS fact, the whole paper is filled
with apologies for assassination of Union
men, slang extracts from the most dc
graded of the Northern Democratic pa
pers engaged in doing the dirty work
for the Southern I<u-KluN, and sound
ing the praises of such individuals as
jeff. Davis.
The Clarion is no exception to tho
general rule; it is a sample of nearly
all the so-callcd Democratic papers in
the Southern States. Is it to be won
dcrcd at that IL Union mans life is not
worth 4 rush in such communities? Is
not the duty of Congress plain?