The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-09-16
Outrages to Order.

NO " tuHt IL congressman cicc-
tons are approaching in the North, the
periodical supply Of campaigning capt.
tai begins to come up from the South,
in reports of harsh treatment of the
blacks, which are usually fabricated to
order, and remarkable for the regular
ity of their appearance when a politi-
cal purpose is to be served. The head
quarters of this sort of news is the At
torney Generals Office at Washington,
where it is manipulated, dressed up in
the strongest colors, and sent out to the
country.
The large army of marshals and de-
puties employed by the Department of
Justice have little else to do but to
serve as electioneering Instruments
They help to get up conventions, to
organize the primaries, aud to manu-
factuae testimony whenever it may be
needed for one or another section
And in this disreputable business they
have been materially aided by the Sc
cret service of the Treasury Depart
ment. who, besides the large sums re-
ceived from their regular employment,
have drawn about one hundred thou
sand dollars year from the Attorney
General under various pretexts.-
These marshals and secret service men
combine together for plnnder, and are
always ready to swear each other
through on any emergency. 1t was
PROCEED before the recent investigation
of the District of Columbia that men
were sent South by Whitley ostensibly
to hunt up Ku-Klux, who themselves
organized Klans, inveisled wild Young
men into them, and then appeared as
witnesses in court TO convict their own
victims and others entirely innocent.
There are poor creatures still lapguisb-
ing,i the penitentiary and condemned
to years of misery, who never had the
remotest connection with or knowledge
of this order.
In order to establish their efficiency
and to gain favor at Washington, these
infamous wretches, acting in the same
spirit as those who put up the burglary
for Shepherds Ring, deliberately swore
away the liberty of harmless citizens in
South Carolina and Alabama, and con-
signed them to a living death as crimi-
mails. And the convictions of these I'M
fortunate victims were paraded by the
Attorney General as proofs of a con-
spiracy and of the bloody hostility of
the whites of the South toward the
colored race,
While every incident which would
pass without comment in any ordinary
community is exaggerated to the pre-
JUDGE of the Southern whites and
spread broadcast for effect, not word
is said in regard to the atrocities to
which their wives, sisters and young
children have been subjected by black
demons in human form. The revolt
ing record of these crimes in the last
six months exceehs all former expert
ence, and only part of the terrible
truth is known, from the unwillingGess
of families to make public the shame
and suffering caused by brutal VIC
lence. a %
Only . few weeks ago Governor
Ames Of Mississippi called upon the
President for troops, alleging that ;
grave collision between the two races
was imminent at Vicksburg, which
could only be prevented by the pres
ence of Federal bayonets. For won
der they were not sent. The seque
proved that the election was the mos
quiet held for years, and the onl.
trouble was, that being fair by non-in
reference, Grantism was smash e d
That this is fresh illustration of how
in telligence at the South is mannfac
tured by carpet baggers and their con
|federates when a point is to be made
| There are of course bad men of bot
races at the South, but these exception
are not to he held up in condemnatio
of either in the aggregate, any NOR
than the Five Points should be cited a
an example of the morals and refine
ment of New York. If there was moth
ing else to unite them in friendly fee
ing, the bond of a common interes
would almost necessarily bring thel
harmoniously together. They ar
planted deep in the same soil, and tn
prosperity OF each is dependent on til
other. - RS
But for the meddling of outsider
} who have nothing at stake in the Sout
and who have gone there as the Var
9 dals did to Rome for the spoils onl.
, the problem which followed emaDcips
ton would long ago have been pract
!. cally solved. The Adventures VIII
have boon enriched by divisions an
strife have tomented discord as
trade, and sougbtto band the blacl
together in secret leagues, by whic
they might be used as a compact fore
. While this course was pursued at tt
a South the same scamps fabricated ST.