The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-23
The Terrorism AT the south.
From the Chicago Inter Editorial
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from the Chicago Inter EDITORIAL
The news of yesterday shows the condition
J of the South to be desperate beyond descrip-
/ ton Grave apprehensions have given way
/ to consuming terror. The negroes pray for
I the manacles of slavery a protection
against assassination This cry is pitiatle
! beyond expression-pitiable in the poor
wretches lately relieved from CALLING op-
preston, and humiliating to the nation which
so recently, In the majesty Of power. declared
I that henceforth all men should breathe the
air of absolute freedom under the folds of the
American flag. 1t is a burning shame that
we.are compelled to acknowledge the fact,
and proclaim it to the world. that in q dozen
great States of the Union bands of men com
NIT such atrocities as, being perpetrated by
the savages on orr borders, would call down
upon them the whole avengiDg power of the
Federal Government. When an Indian
Peace Commissioner was treaeherousiy muir
dered by the Modocs, the whole country was
convu!sed with horror, and demanded with
passionate emphasis that the assassins should
be brought to justice, cost what it might
blood and treasure. And they were brought
to Justice But scores OF innocent men fall
daily at the South, the victims of diabolism
as horribly cruel as that of the Modocs. and
yet the arm of the government is not stretch
ed forth to avenge the slain, or to save from
sudden death those over whose heads is now
suspended the bloody sword of human mon
sters.
We brush aside as idle tampering with the
sanctity of peace, of law and order and of hui
sassinations which now deluge. the South
with blood are provoked by their subjects
Northern men and negroes. The c'aims is a
paipa5le fraud an insult to tie memory oil
hundreds of murdered men, cowardly de-
Tense of malefactors whose guilt is to that of
the ordinary murderer Is black to white and
tends to bring the American name into dis |
grace as assassinS accumulate and go unpun-
i5hed The Northern newspaper which, in /
the light of recent events. has the temcritv 20
declare that the reported disturbances at the /
South are manufactured for political purpos-
IS becomes pGrtLceps crinlinLs in the abon.ina-
lions of which the Southern white people are
guilty. The Democratic or Liberal news pa
per which, at the North conceals under !:
pretense of disbelief the horrible atrocities
winch arc everyday occurrences ut the South
Ips forward The work of assassin alton, and l.
stains its record with an ine::aceable brand OF
shame. That in time of profound peace ten
men may be shot in cold blood at one voiley I
II Alabama. sixteen men massacretf in Ten
lessee. seven men amouscadcd and murdered
LOUISIANA, and score of others assassina-
ed slngy IN various parts of the Sslti. IN a
angie week, and provoke no cry for. justice
5 q shocking facti Is the Sourtn t. te per
make siru2 Is all semhlance Of civil av
o he biotted out a. the South, and the Fed
eral Government to!d It's hands in sull.4l 81
ence? Were 100000 negroes etnancipated
md raised 10 the dignity of citizenship to be
.xterminated. piecemcal, by their late mas
ers! VIII the Northern people stand iGly
" while thousands OF the race they raised Il
rom slavery to The brotherhood Of man are
laughtered like bullocas?
Abraham Lincoln invoked upon his eman-
,ipation proclamation the blessing of A /
mighty God and the considerable Judgment of
mankind. Neither the one nor the other can
est upon, nor abide with, the government or
he people that permits the shedding of lnno-
cnt blood to go unpunished The hour has
ONE when Southern white men must again
&c told that the negro is still the ward of the
lation- His liberty is sacred now a
When the Union armies fought to confer 1t:
lis life as precious when lie periled it 10
ave the Union. 1t is we'll to remember that
he men who to-day strike down the negro
re the same who, in 1861, struck at the ma
ion life. 1t is well to remember that God
i'd not smile upon efforts to save the Union
ntil the fiat OF justice had gone forth in che
orm OF a solemn declaration of freedom to the .
lacks. We cannot recall that declaration If
re would. for the act would consign the ma
Ion to intamy and shatter the government ,
n pieces. Behind the men who appear be-
ore the President to besecch his powerful
Id IN behalf of a trembling people quailing
eneath the insensate fury of prejudice pas
ion and hate, and awaiting with indescri ba- .
lie terror the apprehended stroke, stand ar
aged these facts of history to plead for JUS
ice They are stern monitors, pointing to (,
he fields where General Grant wen victories !
Or the Union, the constitution ard the laws
gain the Union is threatened-for it can
ontinue only through the practice of justice !
the constitution Is trampled under foot and
he laws are deied. A single word from the1
resident will blanch with terror the faces of :
he maleiactors WHO now inspire horror
throughout the South. He has but to say
hat he will go to the last stretch of authority ,
0 preserve order and punish crime AMI that
necessary he will cali Congress together in
session.
That ''War OF Races"
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