The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-02
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Inc obstinate 0DtruslYe policy of
some Of the southern leaders, miss
ing its aim, has wounded it's invent
0rs. Ignorant men, weak men, ve-
nal men, have seized the opportun-
ity to make their way into places of
trust and power. Bad legislation,
excessive taxation, unwise and prof
ligate administration, with their
trains of evils, have ensued. And |
now what do we see? Do the au-
thors of the mischief relent? Is il |
by lawful, peaceful means |
TO right these wrongs? Not at all ; |
but violence, bloodshed and revolu- |
ton is the attempted remedy. |
"White leagues, "kuklux klans."
ga war OF races"-these are the rem
edies-a sort of despotism temper
ed by assassination.
Look at Louisiana, and the I'M
counted murders which have stain
ed her soil since last July. What is
the special complaint there? Why
that Kellogg was counted in as
Governor, when in truth McEnery
was elected. Suppose he was. We,
in New York, have known equal
wrongs. 1t is an open secret now
that John L. Hoffman was counted
in as governor when John A. Girls
void was elected. We did not know
then that in two cities 10000 was
falsely added to the count, but we
had far more conclusive evidence
that Mr.. Hoffman was not elected
than has yet been discovered in the
case of Mr.. Kellogg.
But we did not organize armed,
masked bands TO murder and TO
burn. We did not compel federal,
state and county officers to resign
on promise of spsring their lives,
and then murder them in cold blood.
We did not STAY wemen and chill
dren by the light of their blazing
homes. Finally, we did not sieZe
by force the capitol of the state,
shoot down the police, barricade the
streets, and inaugurate reign of
terror on the ruins of the law.
Yet all this has just happened in
Louisiana. The tidings flashed
through the land, and, as on the
ship, all turn to the captain in a
storm; so the nation turned to the
President and asked. Waterman,
what of the night?" Promptly came
answer from the firm old soldier
and quiet magistrate, who never yet
fiinched in the presence of danger,
and never shirked a responsibility
| which duty cast upon him. In few
words, he gave the insurgents five
days TO undo their work as far as
their deeds could be undone, and, at
the same time, he made such orders
for the disposition of troops as gave
grim warning that at the end of five
! DAYS the beak and claw. of national
power would tear in pieces the fab
rio of lawlessness and riot. The
warning was enough; rebels knew
Grant; they didn't wait for even q
regiment; they were willing to take
his word for it, and to stop if he
would.
Thirteen years before. a demo
cratic president, inspired by a
like spirit, might have staid the ris-
ing tide of revolution which del
uged q continent in blood. Had
buchanan been Grant in 1860, and
had Grant been Buchanan in 1874,
the fate of both occasions might
have been reversed.
Had instruction triumpbed last
week in Louisiana, there is not a
southern state in which "white
mems leagues" "a war of races,
and bloody grappie for the ballot
box and the state government,
would not have been the order OF
the day.
What would Il democratic presi.
dent and the democratic party have
done with the outbreak at New
Orleans. We have no democratic
] president-that blessing in disguise
/ has for some time been aYerted
and we are not likely soon to be
stricken by it. But n democratic
party we have, with all the moderu
improvements, and we know what
that party has done about the fla
grant overthrow of law in Louisi.
ana, and the massacres in Kentucky
Alabama, Tennessee, and elsewhere
in the south.
The democratic party met in state
convention at Syracuse the day af-
ter the world knew what had oc-
CURED in New Orleans, and what
the president had done. There was
no hurry or want of time at SYRIA
cuse-two days were leisurely
| spent IN efforts to accommodate the
matter in difference between those
who described each other as mem
bers of the ''canal ring" or the
''Tammany of Tweed ring" or
some o. The other "rings" which
seems 10 mOttle or dapple that uni
! que organization. A platform
carefully conned and reciting any
thing deemed worthy of notice
was adopted. 1t treats by number
of fourteen different subjects.
Nothing was too trifiing to be re-
membered. Seven lines were de-
voted TO the ''Iiherals." But in ali
this long catalogue of resolves is
not one word OF censure or even OF
! regret for fresh done murders and
treason not a syllable to strength
en- the hands o. law full authority,
| or to stay Result 10 the torch, the
bullet and the blade. So far from
this the president was denounced
as a ''tyrant," and the convention
| applauded. This is what the dem
Ocratic party did. A curious coin
| cidence may be found in the fact
that ever since the war, as often as
events at the north seem to promise
reaction" or, in other words, as
often rs there are signs of Demo-
cratic activity, or symptoms of pos
sible success, the Pickering lamp of
treason and murder in the south
flares up in the socket.
Standing in the presence of what
now proceeds in the southern
states, will any thoughtful man say
that "the mission of the republican
party is ended ?" Will any man
say that republican administration
could now be spared?
Next door to the matter of good
order in the south is another ques-
ton even yet more direct in its re-
lation to the interests of every tax
payer in the land. I allude to
claims on the treasury for damages
done in war. Claimants and claim
agents, multitude which no man
can number, are swarming at the
south and at Washington, with de-
mands for the destruction of cottof,
and other crops, of timber, buildings
and other property, and for the &C.
cupation of lands by the army dur
ing the war. 1t is proposed to get
through congress an act refunding
the war tax laid on cotton in the
early years of the rebellion. An
organized attempt is to be made to
have the state debts of the states
lately in rebellion assumed by the
United States.
These and other raids on the
treasury are afoot. Who is to re-
sist them? Would the democratic
party do it? Look at the demo-
cratic record in congress and out
Southern representatives of ali
parties as rule support bill for
southern war claims; northern |