The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-08
Pictorial and Political Fraud.


Iu Harpers' Weekly of prospective date
May 10th is picture styled NEGROES HI
DING IN THE SwAMrs OF LOUISIANA" by SHEP.
PARD. This is put forth as companion OF an
other styled "THE LOUISIANA MURDERS
GATHERING THE DEAD AND WoCSDED." The
southern reader will be astoniShed to see such
picture as that of the Mders' attributed
to Mr. SHEPPARD, Of this city, who has never
prosttuted his talents to slbserve the pur-
poses of "scurvy politicians" but what
will the same reader think when he learns
that The picture in question appeared about
two years ago in Ece'y Saturday, pictorial
paper which bias since becn discontinued!
1t was drawn by Mr.. SHEPPARD, as we hap
pen TO know, for that paper. and was styled
"TIMBER- 6 ETrERs IN THE DISMAL SWAMP :"
A more conlented let of Africans are seldom
met With. They are cooking and lolihca'
ting, and the pile of timber stands near the
cook and the tents, and the recrcatlonlstS'
countenances are indicative OF negro bliss.
1t is one of the happiest designs to show ne
GRO lite in the Dismal swamp, but could by
no possibility answer for "Hiders in the
Swamps of Louisiana" from the wrath OF
the whites.
This fraud is one of the meanest ever
pract;ced By publishers. The HAHrEEs, 10
crafty their vindictive disposition by H.
flaming the northern mind against the South,
seize upon Nlr. SHEPPARD's drawing, and
make it represent scene altogether lnmSln-
ary. They show diabolical spirit towards
their white fcllow-citizens in Louisiana, and
foist upon the public work of art Intended
for an entirely different purpose, to the
gross wrong Of gifted artist who couId not
he induced by money to make drawing
for any such object rs to libel his own
people.
The other picture. Of "The Louisiana
Murdcrs-G Gathering the Dead and Wound
cd,'' we suppose, is Just as far from truth
fuluess as a picture of the scenes in Loui-
siaua rs is that of the "Hiders," which was
real picture of i" TimherGetters here in
virginia. Could there he a more detc>tablc
object than that with which these pictures
were printed in wilcly-circulatcd pa
pcr the stirring up strife i'll the bosom
of nation Just OUT Of bloody civil war,
and endeayoring now to resume lis former
condition of peace and harmony.
Such III act should be sufficient tn damn
the uAKrErs amongst all honest people. 1t
shows clearly how the system of inliaming
the northern public MUD by false pictures
and false statements Of southern UutragCS
has hccn pursued with The tcnacity of the
bloodhound and the malice Of the Thug.
How such feelings can be 81 long fostercd
and so pcrtinaciously and devilishly carried
ONT by acts, we cannot understand. 1t would
seem 10 lie against human nature. AS Mr..
TONES, of Georgia, said, the southern in
dirnation at the wrongs done in this war of
malice 50 di>aslrousIy waged against the
Sonth since the war Of blood, had been Wei
ried and worn out. 1t had been exhausted,
and men turned away from It unable to keep
il alive, and sought relief in their daily ayo-
cations. Then. how is it that our pcrSccu-
tors can still continue their netariouS war:
There is only one way to account for it: 1t
puys. 1t Is fostered and cherished by AVA
RICE. The offices, the jobs, the plumber of
the Government ire continued in the hands
that now have them by the war Of fraud,
falsehood. and hate. That keeps alive this
war, which, without this reward to the sor-
did hearts of those who wage it, would be
ended in day.