Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1874-09-24
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INDrANApoLls, Sept ls-Senator Norton 3D.
dressed an immense audience 1t Masonic Hall
tonight upon the past and present condition Of
the Sonth. He spoke earnestly and calmly, and
his remarks were frequently applaudsd. He
opened by contradicting tho assertion that 70.
construction wAA . failure, claiming thAf in Ap-
parent failure was due to the conduct Of it, enc.
mics, and not because OF intrinsio dsfocta In the
system RosietAnce to reconstruction RrOwB out
OF opposition to the abolition Of slavery and the
elevation of the negroes to civil ana political
rights. He condemned the white leagues, which
he said had but single principls-that white
men should rule In the majority Of the South
ern States there has been high carnival OF
crime for the past two months, but small por-
tion Of which Ia made known TO tho Northern
public The news agents in tho South are, WITH
few exceptions, Democrats, and sympAthiaers
with these crimes, sometimes paricipa-
tors. If they have news Of even lalV-
Ia or mass.cres, they accompany l. With spo,-
loaded with reports that ths nsgrcaa AEo ooaspiF-
ing and the whites arc on tho dsIendve /; bat
when the facts are known It turns ont that only
negroes and white Republicans are killed. All
they cannot cope with the whites in any struggle
with arms. These calumnies are made pFstsxes
for associations throughout the South. II u not
war G { races, but war against the Repubu-
cans of the South, whites and blacks, not from
any apprehension Of social equality or fear Of
the Civil Rights bill, but to make this white
Government, and reduce the negroes ~ nearly
as possible TO slaves.
He reviewed the condition of Louisiana for the
past eight years, during which time hs said
house. The effort to defeat Kellogg in ls72 be-
Is gigantic fraud. He referred
to the Senate Louisians Investigating Com.
mittees report upon that matter ~ showing The
frauds perpetrated By the McEne,y party g y.
had repeatedly decided that the Kellogg Gov
ernment was the lawful government. The
President, in five different ways. has recognised
it, Tho House OF Representatives has rseog-
RSso Rsass esrc.ss ns sa~''nsr Tho sss.ss :2ssr s e
30 by refusing to pass the bill for nsw slee-
ton. He referred to the Colfax maaeaore and ths
CouAbntta MURDERS and said, for ali these inhu-
man crimes, not man has been punishsd. I
to say that he has not belonged to any Of tbs
Rings and NO robbszy or Sealing
has been brought home to him. Ths RspuhG-
caua OF Louisiana arc not free from fraud.
when compared with the system of murder By
which their ranks have been deotmatsd and the
whole State demoralixed.
He said, further, that If the people OF Louisl-
ana would NOT have their State bHEhf0Q th11
must stop the murder business. Tbs eea1uro d
the State by the McEnery faction was In The NJ
ture Of a Mexican pronunciamieneo. n II is tol-
Grated in one State it will be adopted In aaothee
There is but one salvation fog the eouth-the
OF equal evil and political rights Of
the colored people, the protection OF life for III
opinions and for all parties. Whatever may hs
said Of the Irregularities by which the Kellogg
Government was established, it is undoubtedly
true that it represented majority OF people Of the
State. But il McEnery had been placed iii ofiosit
would have been by fraud unequAled In sxtsnt
and wickedness. Two apologies arc given for the
murder Of black and white Republicans through
ont the South, first that the whites are driven
to it by the robberies of carpet baggers. Thls
he styled a self-evldent, weak and senssleas
falschood, for murders and punishment have
always fallen upon the innocent aud poor. The
thieves have always found Democratic partners.
When discovered they are kicked out d the Re.
publican party. The case Of Warmosh 10 . not
able fact The next excuse Ii that negroes have
conspired and armed themselves to extsrninAts
the whites, and that these murden are con-
mittsd by the whites In self-.lefenss. These ars
stupid lies, manufactured by knavea, 10 b.
hA1Ag,sA heSizzisspe - aatfnfHoYe >
ment and restoration in the sor5h nnst eeostas
in the cessation OF murder. While that psevsile,
it IL useless to hope for reform.