The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-29
Barbarity.

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Is the prosecution of the people of
South never to stop7 Are the politi-
cal exigenees of General Grant and
Governor Scott of such nature that the
State where Radiealism has most tri-
urhantly asserted itself, must be kept
in order by military terrorism supple
mented by down right tmurderf Ever
since United States Marshall johnson
was sup rceded in his Office by ex-
Congressman Wallace, the Federal
troops lave been kept active in scour-
ing the seven counties placed under
martial law, and have arrested largo
numbers of persons and dragged them
off to places remote from their homes
for Imprisonment and trial. These un-
happy people, principally farmers and
planters in Laurens, Newberry, Spar
tanbursSan Union counties, are daily
being seized and carried off, says the
Charleston News, son all sorts of
charges ranging over years Of time,
and their families are left to the tender
mercies ola few who are not yet ar
rested, but who live in constant fear.
No crops, nor any prospect fer any.
Starvation and misery alike to the
mother and babe, appear to be in the
near future for thousands Of the perse-
cuted citizens of the upper counties"
InSpartanbnro. fIie trf,nrs are ri,ffr,c
over the country night and day max
ing arrests everywhere. "Oid men Of
eighty and ninety years, writes mer-
chant, "some even ON crutches, are
brought in and lodged in Jail, Some
of these old men feel satisfied, have
not been away from their homes, at
night for twenty years" What Won
der is it that hundreds of the citizens
are leaving that comfy, not from con
seriousness of guilt, but becanse num-
bers of perfectly Innocent men have
already been arrested, and no man
knows whose fturn may come next ~
The very man who has driven these
people, under the pressure of intolera-
bic wrongs, into the Preparation of
acts which the law forbids, are the ac-
tive agents of the Government in a
Edragonnade, as fierce and bitter and
unsparing as the persecution of the
French PrOtestants by Louis the Four
teenth. In the latter case the anima-
ting cause was religious bigotry. In
South Carolina it is political and Sec
tional hatred. Sometimes, however,
the proceedings have grim grotesque
ness that mixes oddly and cufiously
with the more tagic elements. But
little more than weel. ago four men
from York Countrywide were indicted
at the last term of the. United States
Circuit Cont for the Charleston Dis
trict for conspiracy and murder
pleaded guilty Of ,,conspiring to pre-
vent negroes from Voting. The mnr-
der charges were then withdrawn.--
Are we to understand that the accusa-
ton of murder was trumped. up to
Brighten these men into eonfessing to o
lesser offence, or are we to infer that in
Radical estimation to keep voter from
the polls is greater crime than to take
his life ?-TExchange,
" Of all the love affairs in the
world none can surpass the true love
Of big boy for his mother. It is a
love pure, and in every respect noble,
honorable in tho highest degree to
both. do not mean merely a dutiful
affection. l mean love which makes
a boy gallant and courteous to his
mother, saying to everybody plainly
that he is fairly in love with her,
Next to the love of her husband, moth
ing crowns woman's life with honor
as this second love, this devotion of
the son to her. And Inever vet knew
a boy to "turn out" bad WHO begun BY
falling in love with his mother. Any
man may fall in love witlia fresh faced
girl, and the man who is gallant to the.
girl may cruelty neglect the worn and.
weary life. But the boy who is q loyea
to his mother in her old age, is true.
knight who viii lore his wife as muck
in the sereleafed autumn as he did ia
tho daisied spring time ~ s
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"sB:M. jacques Felix, father 70 Racl
he'll, the renowned EaencA1 actress,
died recently in Paris, aged 76.
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