New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-16

We clip the following from the Northumber-
land county Democrat, which is one statement
among thousand Of similar character now
circulating among the Democratic papers
throughout the country:
"The party that few years ago got up a
war to free the niggers, that cost the lives OF
millions of our very best and bravest men, and
enslaved the country with debt and taxes, now
offers the white people of the South liberty to
live in swamps or in jails and prisons that a
black mob forces them into"
Truth is mighty and should prevail. The
great Napoleon discovered that an untruth was
equal in might, and pronounced lie great
power if aptly placed-a power which he could
WELD with certainty in the accomplishment
of any selfish design. The preceding extract
the selfish purpose of promoting party inter
ests. The violation of oath by officials, the sa-
credness of which is the very foundation OF
society, and political lying, We regard as the
two greatest evils that threaten the stability OF
the Republic to day. The one breaks down
the only barrier existing against violence and
fraud-for instance, such rs was perpetrated
by the municipal government of the city OF
New York-the stupendousness of which
shocked the moral sense of the public and as
tonished the world-the other misleads the
suffrage.
After a struggle of four long and wearisome
years of bloody war, in which both sections of
our country commended for and against the
Government with wonderful determination,
involving the lives of 100000 of the bravest
men that ever met face to face in mortal COM
bat, and 81 090, 000, 900 of the country's treas
ure, 100000 of slaves were set free-they
were granted their inalienable rights" Left
to the mercy of their former masters, who
through their misfortunes in war were exas-
perated to the savageness of brutes-their prac-
tices upon this helpless class exceeding the
ferocity of the tiger, shocking the civilized world
with the brutality of their crimes-the govern
ment, after collecting the indisputable facts, has
merclfully interposed lis power, and these un-
hung villains are flying in every direction to
escape the punishment they so richly deserve.
And what is the resut7 Why, the Napoleonic
lever is brought into requisition, and the in
sidious lie goes forth that the Government
which "got up war to free the niggers, now
offers TO the people of the South liberty to live
in swamps or in jails and PRISONS" &c. Out
upon such stuff There is no kind Of reason
ing that will excuse the fraud No one knows
better the falsity of the assertion than does it's
promulgator, who with criminal reeklessness
will say anything to further party ends. De
cided evidence has been elected in the case to
render the Government culpable if it did not
act, and act most vigorously. Why, scarcely
had the reverberations of the last gun fred died
away into stiffness amidst the blood stained
hills OF Virginia, ere the persecution of this
defenceless class commenced, and that too by
those who had asked for and received mercy
from the hands of most merciful though
greatly offended Government-and that too by
those whom they had nursed in their infancy,
and nurtured by the sweat and toll of their lash
lacerated bodies.
The people of the South are to blame If to-
day their domestic affairs are in anywise dis.
turbed by the action of the Government
Their apologfsts know that if the laws in the
South were not regarded as q mere farce, there
would have been no need of this action on the
part of the Government. Ku-Kluxism has
been connived at by all classes, and even parti
cipated in, much to the disgrace of the whole
South. If the guilty parties are hung up, they
| will get what the Iaw a1otos thens-and If hall
the population starve in consequence of the
confusion Ia the disturbed districts through
| the efforts Of the Government to get at the
wretshes, they should nevertheless have what
| the law gratis them--a rope, with a beam q
one end and red handed culprit at the other
| Let Justice be swift in its operations in thii
| case, and let the world see that human life can
be protected under our laws, whether it exist,
under black or q sohite skin. The vicious
state of society in the South has been the tor
ment of our Government, and the indulgenc,