Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-10-08
Views of William Lloyd Garrison.
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From The Boston Journal.
If the tragedies that are daily occur
ring were simply murder or as8assina-
ton to crafty personal revenge or to
obtain coveted booty, they might be
left to the disposal of the local author
tiles, and no Governmental interference
would be deemed desirable or neces-
sary /; but they are notably for disloyal
ends, against the enjoyment of equal,
civil and political rights, and in the
interest of that rebellions spirit which
involved us in one Of the bloodiest con-
ficts recorded in the annals of history,
and which incomparably prefers to rule
in hell rather than serve in heaven.
They mean the suppression of the free
dom of speech, freedom of the press,
the right peaceahly to assemble togeth
er for redress of grievances, the indie
pendent exercise Of the elective fran
chlse inkthe hands Of freemen, and the
overthrow Of all the safeguards Of PEI
sonal security. They mean rebellion
and war--an Emporium an imperjo
whereby American citizenship may be
trampled upon with impunity.
OF course, the Rebel justification
for these horrible deeds is that the vic
TINS were conspiring for the destruc-
ton of the whites, or purposing some
other evil device; but the ao-
cusation is manifestly that Of the wolf
in the fable against the lamb. In the
end, it is always shown III such cases
that the aggressors are the disloyal and
degraded whites, whose tiger ferocity
is untamable. The colored people of
South are the least inclined to blood
shed of any considerable portion ofman-
kind they forbear and forgive, and
meekly endeavor to keep the peace in
manner that would be regarded as
lack of manhood in white men; they
know full WE'LL moreover, that in any
collision with their satanic enemies
they would be the chief sufferers, and
clrcumspection, born of prolonged
martyrdom, leads to all possible endu-
rance on their part under the most cruel
provocations If in any case, goaded
to desperation, any of their number
arm in 5elf-defense, or are nerged to
pull trigger the act magnifi Ell into a
diabolical uprising of the blacks to ex-
terminate the whites, whose passion
are most easily ''set on fire of he'll"
The real truth is that the South IS
still rebel in heart and purpose, devoid
of all patriotic feeling, charged with
deadly malignity toward all Northern
residents on her soil who will not wear
paddock upon their lips. utterly anti
American, covered with gross ignorance
and brutal decentralization like a pail,
and closely allied to barbarism. That
in Georgia alone, As militia companies
refuse to carry the United States flag,
while bearing United States arms drawn
from the arsenals of the General Gov
ernment, is symptomatic of her rotten
condition generally. In vain has her
bloody rebellion been more than mag
unanimously condoned by that Govern
ment, and not single traitor executed
for treason in vain has the North
contributed millions Of dollars to save
the Sothern people from the horrors of
starvation, and millions more to spread
the light of education among them; in
vain have Northern capital, enterprise
and industry, sought to develop the
locked-up resources of that thriftless
and inert section of our land in vain
has every effort been made to "concili-
ate our southern brethren by divers
ways and means not always commen /
able. Darkness has as much fellow
ship with light and Belial with Christ,
as the South has with the North All
her sufferings are by her own infiction,
and she is her one implacable enemy
besotted. desperate, insane and devil
ish.