New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-05
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NURSING VIOLENCE.
Do men of reasonable intelligence cul
tivate sores or deny the patent existenc'
of these stimuli? What is sore? Al
eruption or Inflammation that betokenl
an unhealthy condition of the body
Society is afflicted with sores when VIC
lence prevails. Some men may like thest
evils, Just as it is fashionable in certain
quarters to nurse the govt because of it
supposed connection with high living
and if there are such stupids, the public
might be excused if it accepted of the
Bulletin as one of the most radical per.
suasion. There is no doubt but that the
Bulletin has delicate case of the govt,
and that it rather hugs the annoyance
and parades it before the people as an
evidence of its superiority over the lower
orders of society. The Ku-Klux is the
special disease that aflicts the Bulletin in
an intense shape and the Picayune in a
more modified degree. Both of these
Democratic organs blush and hide their
faces when this aristocratic evil is men
toned, and though they deny that
the disease has affected them, they
declare that it is not such q
terrible thing as it is represented to be.
And they at once proceed to disavow all
medicines calculated to cure or ameliorate
the distemper. As, for instance, we refer
the reader to the indignant columns Of
both these organs when the rowdies were
being arrested in North Carolina, and to
the absolute silence which has reigned in
the same quarters since it was demon
strated that the resonant appeal in favor
Of the Ku-Klux was only so much SYM
pathy wasted on parties that were really
in the hands of the laws they had out
ragged. As newspapers, since the Bulletin
and Picayane had pronounced the arrest
of the rowdies in North Carolina to be an
act Of despotism, was it not an obligation
upon them that they should rebuff the as
sertion by publishing the conviction of
the rowdies and the admission of their
friends that the conviction was right! We
submit the question right here, if the
Bulletin and Picayetne did not commit two
very grave offenses against public morality
and individual truth when they asserted
that the officers of the law had outraged
private rights and public liberty in North
Carolina, when the facts justify the OIL
GERS in everything they did? and when
they persistently abstain from retracting
or correcting the SANDER which they ut
tered against faithful officers in the inter-
est of convicted rascals?
And since these two organs demon
strated their utter recklessness and I'M
truthfulness in regard to the solemn trans
actions which resulted in the triumph of
law and justice in North Carolina, what
degree of reliability is to be attached to
their latter manifestations of sentiment
concerning the transactions that are now
transporting in South Carolina? What
censure should attach to them if their
misrepresentation of facts, being spread
among infammable communities, should
induce badly instructed people to commit
actions or organize disorderly assemblages
in order to resent upon unofending citi-
zens the assumed depotism that is now
being enacted in South Carolina?
The better portion of the Democratic
party resents the insinuation that it is in
favor Of or is willing to lend the slightest
to ku-kluxism in any
shape; and We give it credit for honesty
in this avowal of aversion, for it must be
apparent to any unprejudiced mind that
of every character is disgraceful
and injurious to the community in which
it is committed.
The present proceedings in South Caro-
lima are conducted by the law officers of
the government, assisted by the military
authorities. Every act, SO far, has been
done by the civil arm of the government,
supported by afidavits; and the process
has been executed by the sworn officers of
the United States District Court. The
military, about which so much indigna-
ton is wasted, are only in attendance to
assist the civil officers in serving and en-
forcing the writs of arrests. What is
there in all these proceedings to warrant
the flaming and almost incendiary state
ments that are circulated among the peo-
pie, that the law is suspended in South
Carolina, and that military despotism is
established in portion of the United
States?
Heaven knows that we are as much 3D.
posed to the abuse of legitimate author
lty as we are to private wrong, for they
are alike dangerous to public liberty and
The general welfare. But We are in favor
IF the stringent enforcement of every
legal remedy against these acts of in
lividual violence which disgrace their
authors and bring discredit upon the
that tolerates their commits
ZION. In fact, we object to sores upon the