The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-30

I HOW II with the colOrcd people now All they
ask is 10 be let alone; be suffered to live. They
9sy can t not e.Tsd s
very e lew arms. very few Of them have military
training. All they ask and al they pray for. is
South dare not resent any insult oTerel his falni-
ly. his wife. his daughter or himself. II he does
is him self assaulted and fights in se-defense It
1 $ made an excuse for his murder. II half a
suit about their own safety. that is
made an excuse for the slaughter Of whole
day, and these infamous lies are coined and sent
forth as excuses ana apologies to blind the eyes
horrible crimes. They pretend that the negroes
are going to exterminate them. but when you get
or white Republicans who are killed. The ne
g~oes are forming dreadful eonsp Iaeies all the
the wolf and the lamb. The leader o. the gang Of
and md the ilamS ron, the aoek .Iso
oan to f fRs ~ to PG lamb
/ he was making the water so Lnuidy that ne could
l am further down the stream than you are?' Said
the WOLF. am sure that sheep Is IN nsptracy
7 That Is the way it is with these down South
/ who raise the cry of conspiracy among the ne
I are convicted in the courts almost without evi-
dence; they killed on suspicion; they are
now worse than it Was before the war. and viii
continue to be unless the government is able to
yindieate its powers and Is pledges: There is a
heavy task imposed upon Demo ratio newspapers
and Democratic orators IN the North You w.li
remember that before the war. the Democratic
pressin the North was required = deny
murdef of abo onss through 6e South and
when the war came on they labored to prove that
! it was brought on by Northern aboiitionists and
that they alone were responsible for it You re
N ember that during the war. when our prisoners
were murdered at L boy and Salisbury, at Ander-
son vile and other prison pens in the South. how
the Democratic press in the North, and their ora
tors laoored to deny those things or 70 sh9w that
how they said finally. many of them. that We
ours. And after the war was over. and even while
~ was going on. IN TINS state ana
When the STATE was honey eomeed With secret so
eieties: the Sons of Liberty. when they were meet
hers. but IN every county in Indiana. conspiring
assassnata to release rebel prisoners. to seize
Indiana a out Of the union line You viii remem-
Der how constantly and persistently the existence
m ent. and denied most strongly hy those who
were the members of it. When at last we seized
their constitatons and when the tinted STATE:
: Government had arrested many of the rins-lead-
should first be allowed to turn, States evidence.
Alter the war was over, when the kuklux
ongh tas souS ana and bs biood
TIE nation WIS boiling. the existence Of
/ We wer. told that it mere invention of the
snd the When for th the k%p9 aa
was passed and hundreds and even thousands of
su 6heTs ere
and " hen the truth could no longe be concealed
they then said it was not such a very bad thing
exasperated by the carpet-saggers; that they had
tod was done in that nth the
were forain into secret armed leagues, and that
ors org for the projection Of the wht9s
Governor Hendricks, the other night at the Cir
dent of the United States now n ling troops
INTO the South. He did not tell his audience what
the occasion was of his. sending them there; He
made no reference to the murders, the wholesale
slaaghters Of the last two weeks. he left that
down there without cause, mere exasper ton
TO the people of the South. think that the Gov
nr b When be toi h berr aG s
the President wac sendns armed men into
BUT to sy the least It was unf6rtanats Pro
tell how The people Of tie south were exasperatei
by the formation in their midst Of armed secret
against the white people. That was old cal
umny that hal done 20 vice in ISIS. 1870. and 1872
was not possible FOR Governor Hendricks to pix
L up. put II on its legs and make II an excuse for
The system Of Southern politics a this time is
faisehood nj perjury. This stream of shame
tas paF 1p Of exsu.ins and coneesl ling n
dey TO and su the he tnf kb BY
you to believe that ali the Republicans in the
~outn corrupt and dishonest, u would have
you forget the stream of blood that IS percoating
I'll throesh Southern society. .S ard that
country {oT' there is nothing 50 demeraiizins
rs blood. There can DO no integrity. there can
whsre murder is Continuous AMI where there IS 4.
rcign OF te There is now reign OF terror in
the Souta. such as never existed before this
But there is missovernment in the South. Sew
Success They have had every obstacle thrown in
their way. Evsrythins has been done TO iishonor
first started tie Southern people refused to accept
the system, and tried p i s!eat it: They voted
raiyze the movement right IN the beginning. They
threw those State governments by their own act
There wero many waite Republicans in the South
both carpet bagsers from the army and natives
called scalawags. ostracsed. driven from society
their own friends would not speak to them or
Very fact that they were Repu6iicansNi
that they sustained the government Of
they were dishonorsd among their nsishbors and
in their own honss- If the Soushee
hoy SH'' of the work Of rec recon they
Eosd have hal But al . th1 threw own ~ all
own oct INTO the hands of negroes and white Re
ment was not vel carried on Many As 81 shose
into whose hands the government was thus
to me ana complain about the Ignorance of the I
negroes, tell them, cannot sympathise with .
In every STATE in the south it was crime to
teach a negro to read write, they brought them
up in profound ignorance because they thought IL /
noald make them better slaves. But the time /
came when there was great revolution of the L
M , ade free by war brousRs on By shefr
own masters. and if the masters now suffer be-
cause of the ignorance of the negroes. let them /
rememb Der that the negroes are Just what shey
n ade them. l said there had been misgovern-
ment in the South. Il has been represented as
being thousand times worse than it The I
Democracy point you TO the State debts that have
been piled up in the South. Now Whist is the his
tory OF those State debts in most eases?
When the war was over tns southern States
we're without capital The great want of the
South was railroads. they had not the means to :.
build them. Under, these circumstances
hey undertook TO do just what Indiana
cd +, do in Ss--fo bonds AVID With