The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-25
Senator Morton on POlit-
ical Troubles.
Terrible Arrangement of South
ern Thugs and Assassins.
Eight Years of a Political st. Bar
tholomew---Peace Only With
Equal Rights to ALI Men.

dianapolis,. Sept Isl d.
There has been a recent outburst OF muir
der in the South-within the last two months.
l might stop to inquire what is the cause OF
this new deyelopment-this outpouring OF
blood. 1t is largely caused by misappre-
hension. They have deluded themselves
into the belief that the President WAS on their
side They have talked about the third
term; they have said that the President had
interfered on their side in Texas and in
Arkansas and had deluaed themselves into
the belief that the President had changed his
ground, and went forward believing that the
power OF the government would not be again
evoked to protect life, liberty and property In
the South. In that they were mistaken. The
President has declared his purpose to use the
whole power of the government to protect
life, liberty ana property in the South, and
to suppress these disorders.
This outburst OF murder extends through
nearly the entire South. Every day the mails
give to you and the dispatches give to you
accounts of new murders crimes and out
RACES without name.
After recting a series of outrages and I'M
provoked murders in Alabama, Kentucky, and
other Southern States, Senator Morton con-
tinped:l
There are two excuses assigned throughout
the South for these murders. The first is
given North as we'll as South it is the robber-
les and plunderings by what they call "carpet-
baggers." Who are the carpet-baggers in the
south Nineteen out of twenty OF them are
Union soldiers, who remained there after the
war was over. They were pleased with the
climate, thought it was good place to begin.
They thought there were openings there. The
Southern States are sparse III population, and
wanted labor and capital, and they remained
there to live. They have been treated as
enemies, hunted by blood-hound,, no matter
how good their intentions. Everything was
1nna n hraak than down Some Of than
turned out to be bad men, not many. Most
of them were good men, ana would have made
the best citizens in the South If they had
been left alone They have been hunted like
wild beasts; many have been killed. and the
characters of all have been covered with
calumny and shame.
But they say these men have committed
crimes that they have robbed, plundered
and cheated. 1t is a self-evldent lie as far az
the excuse for murder is concerned, for the
punishment in the South has never fallen
upon tho thieves. The thieves have always
had Democratic partners to protect them.
When men of that sort are kicked out by the
Republican party, they are almost always
taken into the embrace of the Democratic
party 1 refer you to Gov Warmoth as no
table case. The murders and killings, as a
general thing, fall upon the poor and helpless
and lowly. Men OF high character are often
killed, not because they are thieves, but be-
cause they are men of influence and power,
and 1t il necessary to get them out OF the way.
But 80 far as the thieves have been concerned
those who have plundered the State govern
ments, the punishment never falls upon them.
Thenext excuse they give is that the negroes
are conspiring to eXtermlnate the white
race that they are forming themselves into
armed bands and trying to exterminate the
whites, and that the negroes are killed in self
defense. This is u very stupid lie, manufact-
ursd by knaves to be believed by idiots.
4 Al. Ill. Al.
when they knew that their masters were
in the field fighting to perpetuate slavery?
Did they take advantage of the absence of
their masters to murder and destroy the
whites! No, they displayed a moral heroism
that was worthy OF ali praise. They remained
at home, took care OF the families OF their
masters, and never took advantage of their
defenseless condition to raise in instruction.
How is 1t with the colored people now? All
they ask is TO be let alone to be suffered to
live. tThey know they cannot cope with the
white people in arms, even II they desired to
do 30. They have very few arms; very few
Of them have military training. All they ask
and all they pray for is peace and to be let
alone. The negro in the South dare not re-
sent any insult offered his family, his wife, his
daughter or himself. IL he does it will al
most inevitably cost him his life. II he
isihimself assaulted and fights in self-defense,
it is made an excuse for his murder. II half
suit about their own safety, that ia
made an excuse for the slaughter of a whole
neighborhood Thus murder goes on from
day to day, and these Infamous lies are coined
and sent forth as excuses and apologies to
blind the eyes Of the people of the North, and
cover up these horrible crimes. They pre-
tend that the negroes are going to exterminate
them, but when you get the news you find
that il is only negroes or white Republicans
who are killed The negroes are forming
dreadful conspiracies all the time, but they
alone are killed. That is an answer to all these
lies. You have read the fable Of the wolf
and the lamb. The leader OF the gang OF
wolves went to the spring to drink, and the
lamb from the flock also went to the stream to
drink at point lower down. The wolf COM
planned of the lamb that he was making the
water SO muddy that he could not drink. Said
the lamb how can that be when l am further
down the stream than you are Said
the wolf l am sure that sheep is in con-
spiracy to destroy the wolves, 30 he destroyed
the sheep. That is the way it is with these
men down South who raise the cry of con-
spiracy among the negroes as pretext for
their destruction. They are convicted in the
courts almost without evidence; they are
killed on suspicion they are hunted for amuse-
ment, and their condition is now worse than
it was before the war, and will continue to be
unless the government Is able to vindicate its
powers and its pledges. There is heavy task
imposed upon Democratic newspapers and De-
mocratic orators in the North. You will re-
member before war, the Democratic press in
North was required to deny or to excuse, or
| to justify the murder of abolitonists through
the South, and when the war came on they
labored to prove that it was brought on by
Northern abolitionists and that they alone
we're responsible for it. You remember that
during the war, when our prisoners were MUIR
dered at Libby and Salisbury at Andersonville
and other prison-pens in the South, how the
Democratic press in the North, and their ora
tors, labored to deny those things -or to show
that they were not 80 bad "a they seemed to
be. and how they said finally, many Of them,
that we treated rebel prisoners as badly as
they treated ours. And after the war was
over, and even while IL was going on, in this
State and in this town, many of you will re-
member, when the State was honey-combed
with secret societies, the Sons OF Liberty.
when they were meeting in this city night az
ter night, and not only here but in every
county in Indiana, conspiring to assassinate,
TO release rebel prisoners, to seize all the arms
in the State, and take the State of Indiana out
Of the Union line-you will remember how
constantly and persstently the existence OF
that society was denied up to the very last
moment, and denied most strongly by those
who were the members of il. When at last
we seized the arms here, seized their papers
their ritual, their constitutions, and when the
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