The New York herald., 1874-08-18

dozen or more negroes were arrested. and one OF
! them, IN attempting TO escape rom the court
| house. was shot dead. The same day Captain
Hudson. with a company OF men from Coldwater,
came To the relief OF the town, and being joined by
two or three small squads OF armed citizens, held
the Deeaguerng negroes AT bay during the next
| day and nlgnf charging once dining Monday on
/ the colored mass OF negroes who swarmed upon
the wee from all quarters. killing perhaps half
| dozen Of the latter.
JOHNNIE GOES MARCHING HOME.
| Yesterday, the negroes having all dispersed ana
! quiet being restored, the Memphis volunteers,
] having achieved Dloodless victory, returned
/ home by the night boat. bearing with them the
thanSs and blessings OF the good people OF Austin
for their prompt and timely Intervention by winch
the threatened danger was averted.
FOR HOW LoNG'
! And so ends as we are permitted TO nope the
history Of this almost tragcai result in thus region
OF tampering with race prejudices and with social
questions outside the province OF legislation IL
Is proper to mention that the call for help at this
place came from the republican officials OF the
town and county, and that the majority Of the
colored people o. this county remained quietly
at their homes, refusing to quit work or ia
any way countenance the lawless proceedings
above narrated. The men OF substance
and sober sense OF both races recognize the grav-
ity OF the occasion, and are determined TO main
I
untediy to resist all attempts TO nci;e rlotous or
disorderiy conduct. whereby the safety OF society
may be menaced or lives and property endangered.
RED TAPE TO BLAME.
This Austin AFFAIR occurred within less than fifty
ppa nepartment s Of the soaih where General Emory
has regiment Oi men, the mere presence of whom
within striking distance OF any threatened point
wonid efecrualy prevent an outbreak and save
precious hives and property II 1t were only under
stood that tney might be used as conservAtors OF
the peace. There Is prejudice on account o. states
rights notions or sectional against the presence or
regular troops anywhere in our midst; on the con-
trary. we hail Their arrival as pledge OF safety
and security to lie and property; but red tapeism
or indirerentism keeps these troops as useless as
they are idle in the very midst OF these alarms,
4 when word of permission from the proper
authorities woula render TINS whole region secure.
| Not n Mere Race Issue.
| Taking for Its text recent editorial in the
! HERALD upon the strife and warfare in MIS-
! s!ssipp,, watch counselled the whites to accept
OF the results OF reconstruction brought about by
| the war, the Columbus Cdlss.) Lader expresses
despair at the way in which northern journals
/ treat lne subject, and asks:-
Is 1t some far distant and Inaccessible "Mambi
! Land" ol which the HERALD Is writing? Abyssinia
itself seems better known to that journal than the
aud Japan more iamiiiar than those o: any
Southern state In any ordinary political contest
to Us the Hns.Ln nxs or does
not think concerning our local or State issues.
eTs tnsss s Of and rda sse
tokens OF deeper trouble than any which sends
the pare Tney not peca to
any single southern state. They occur rom vir-
gnia to iexas Nay let but the Just ocs occasion n
sudden energy into 'strifes' which have the same
meaning as our OWL what does the HERALD
mean by attacking Havemeyef Is ne not Dutch
man. and were NOT the Dutch conceded equal rights
when Holland Yielded New Amsterdam TO the Brit.
' Er0as Hsass ' D'saYa ago oe'ss
Txya n,A oh q
fierce ..4trlie oeore he was overt6rown Would
we mad seized our opportunity and mad admon.
eiectedf t;H Did not New York herself give him his
Irajesty and assert their rtgnts., 1t was hke
read the HERALD OF those days. Nor were
tAe threats Of violence wanting Correspond.
@ Popular wrath and assassination as he quickest
way o! curing the municipal disease. Would tnat
+ ana had threatened New York with ''swiit'' ma.
0 iIonai "interlerence," had she dared to turn in
foresee mat the HERALD would have thought "out-
breaks and striie vrtuous in New York but criml-
New York wodli have esteemed it manly to ngnt
against thieylng oppression at nome but cow
ardy to do SO II the South.
The Inder draws picture OF what we would
have had Eere in New York had Tweed renamed
in power, anu says:-
Suppose that Tweed then deied you, and all his
, satellites put on a braggadocio air. Suppose these
classes, whom the HERALD calls euphuisticslly
'the lower classes" began to swagger and Insult
your upper classes" and TO make IL unsafe for
your women to walk your streets in all your Cit
les, or your roads and lanes in the country. Sup
pose they began to arm and drill, to Jostle you
( openly rom your SIDEWALKS and to 1eer when you
| dared to remonstrate Suppose their women were
al as those VINO rslw dwell n the places you cal cal!
too grew bold and made lie msera-
BILE for your mothers and daughters, tell.
be kicked ont OF doors, and all property belong TO
tae ,oilers y, And And suppose that those who were
guishabe from your law.aoiding and Respectable
citizens, aud by so PLAIN mark as color.
Is there any manliness in New York 7? Would
there any spirit or pride or courage in any ofyour
h 20 S anF sqGn & br ood me zen
q cry nave arisen from New York as the south,
with all It's courage, mas MOI yet dared TO utter.
think il wise and Just and brotnery' TO call upon
, US to endure. You are amazed that we have not not
: have forgotten that there ever was war! What
we lor the struggle M OF Yesterday when we we
! you we viii battle. Race issue or any issue that
VIII rid OF the carpet t-bagger and Tree us from
the domination OF the vie and vicious. Neither do
' we fear your threats. send your 'interference
as quickly as you please. the reguiar army is
a regiment in every county than submit TO what
we now endure. Understand that we vii
: neIp fel ourselves We have been patient ane
, patient ana patient. and patience has done ne
good. We tell You that life Is not worth having
Unless we can feel secure for families and carr
the means to support them. .
You are mistaken If you think we hate tn
negro a negro There Is less race preju
dice here than with you. what we hate
T tDe evil and ruin that negro government
! brings upon us, and that government W. W.
= overturn IL peaceapy Vlcksburg has shown, ant
z the terror Of the carpet-oaggeTs was maniieste
in General Ames' panic.stricsen call upon TN
Presidenr for help Let the President help us o
: leave us TO fight out our battle in our own wa
and he shall receive from us whatever he cali
US for
G "An Unreasonable Panic"
t The Columbia Is. ca Uttton Herdtd views tn
" stuaton in a very different light, az will be see'
c by the foOwng:-