The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-28
senator SrhurZ ON the southern Dif-
fIcuiticS.

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Senator Schurz delivered lengthy
speech at st. Louis Thursday evening, on
national and state questions. lie dwet
largely on the troubles at the south, and
particularly those Of Louisiana. He reit-
Grated his opinions, expressed in the SEN
ate, that the Kellogg government is an usur-
patton; but it had been recognized by the
President, and when last week the McEn-
erytes overthrow it, the President con-
stitutionally reinstated it, and that was the
end of the Louisiana revolution. But it
sisted that it was the duty Of the President
to remove Marshal Packard, who was I'M
fit for his office, and to so order the NIL
itary forces there as to insure Il fair can
vass at the coming election. lie contend
ed that it was the duty of congress, on re.
assembling, to undo the wrong it had done
in allowing an usurping and fraudulent gov
ernment to fastcn itself upon the state by
the help of federal authority.
Concerning the duty of the south he
spoke as follows:
On the other hand, the citizens of the
south must not be permitted to forget that
they too have a duty to perform. The PEG.
pie of the north sincerely desire that they
Should have honest and constitutional gov
eminent. Even large majority of Re-
publicans in the north have long been hear
tly disguised with the government of
thicving adventures which plundered the
south. But when that public opinion was
on the point of becoming so strong that no
partisan spirit in power could long have re-
sisted it, what happened? The bloody riot
in New Orleans in 1866 the organization
of the kukluX all over the south the BUTCH
cry of Grant parish in 1873; the murders
| of Coushatta tie slaughter of helpless
negro prisoners in Trenton, Tennessee, not
TO speak of minor atrocities. What was
| the effect? Growing sympathy with the vic
| tins Of murder. 1t is TO be hoped by this
time the people of the south have learned
that those who disgrace them by deeds OF
bloody violence are their worst enemies.
Let them act upon that lesson. Let them
dissolve their white mems leagues; for ev-
cry organization based upon distinction of
color is not only wrong in itself, hut harm
| full to both races. Let them make the poor
negro feel that he has not only willing
| but an active protector in every good clti-
zen. Let them understand that the most
| efficient method to fight thieves who rob
them, is by relentlessly suppressng muir
derous ruflians among themselves, who
strip them of the sympathy of the country.
Silent disapproval is nothing, good inten-
| films n nnthinO pI,hlip rpsOlutinpl
are nothing; only vigorous action will avail,
only practical punishment of Indicators
will serve. They justly demand that no
thief shall find grace because he is n Re
publican or because he is "A Democrat Let
party spirit cease to be shelter to Grim
| inals. No white mans league will do
| them any good. An active member Is the
| thing the south wants. say tins as true
friend of the southern people, who has
more than once raised his voice against
the wrongs they have suffered, and hail
with gladness the spirit animating the gov
| ernor of Tennessee, who did not rest until
the murderers of Trenton were in the
clutches of the law, and the charge of that
kentucky judge who tells his grand jury
that if they fail to indict not only the man
who committed the murder, but the sheriff
who wilfully neglected to arrest that muir
derer, he will find grand iurymen in an
other county who will do their duty. In
that spirit which will relentessly pursue
the lawless elements of society, the COM
mon enemy, there is salvation for the south
ern people. Let that spirit prevail in the
south and no partisan spirit in the north
will be strong enough to battle the sympa-
thy which their mistortunes deserve. The
south will again enjoy the largest consiitn-
tional measure of self government, and
one of the greatest of those dangers Will
disappear which at present threaten the
most vital part of our Republican institu-
| tians