Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-31
Democratic and Conservative Parry.
wHAr rHE NoRTH SAYS.

From the Phlladelpnia ffess hepuDucanl'
We have seen the Irish prosecuted
hut IL was through and by means of tn,
law. which merely denied them ceI tain
privileges. The Jews 10 Roumania an6
The Catholics in China have felt th'
.effects of religious hate, but its NANTES
tation was open, bold and immediate
The spirit of mob violence in both case!
soon spent itself. But it was reserved
for the highest civilization of the West
ern Continent and the best governments
the world ever saw, to tolerate the exist
ence of crusade against 9 whole race
as secret and cruel as the Thugs, which
only acts in the dark, and executes its
internal DEGREES in midnight scourglngs
and murders and wholesale massaeres.
The South to-day is as it was four
wears aro. The Ku.Klux law modified
the evil without curing it, giving the ne
gro a temporary lease oflife, liberty and
prosperity, and for a period cowing his
nersecutors. The crime of the white
man is now. as it was then, a malignant
hostility TO the black-the fault OF the
latter his docility. Congress clearly has
Int one duty. Reconstruction has
proved failure. The Southern negroes
were untitled for self-goyernment, and
the whites are incapable Of it. Ken
lucky and Tennessee, which are the
darkest and bloodiest of all the States,
belong to them and the Democracy.
Their Governments have shown that they
oannot protect the weak nor restrain the
strong. The Democrats have appealed
to the law.making power to undo its
work. Let it undo it, and reconstruct
Thoroughly and radically, as Thaddeus
Stevens asked it to do nine years ago.
From indianapolis Journal, Repl
The simultaneous outbreaks in so
many parts of the South OF trouble be
tween the whites and blacks undoubtedly
has some hidden meaning 1t is prob
ably designed to hasten the formation OF
the new white mans party.
From Chicago Inter-0cean, Rep.l
A little different tone is manifested in
the South regarding the outrages there,
for which let us be thankful. When the
persecutions of colcred men become so
cruel, however, as to call for the protest
of the white men Of the South, they
must be brutal indeed.
From the st. Louis Republican, Democrat
We are told that the riotous behavior
and threats of the negroes produce
these effect; but even if this be true in
every instance, it does not warrant the
butchery of negroes in which they al
most invariably end, nor will it avert the
violent reaction Of Northern opinion
and feeling which the massacres will
inevitably produce. We can tell the
Southern people that these conflicts, if
not suppressed, will reradicalizs the
North, give the Republican party a new
lease Of power, defeat the Democracy in
every Northern State, insure the enact
ment Of the civil rights bill, aud provoke
from Congress a halsher supplement Of
reconstruction than has yet been wit
messed. TIE people OF the South have
exhibited much patience and forbear'
anee under the suHerings of the last
nine years; it would be an incalculable
misfortune il they should now lose all
the moral power which this patience has
given them by an upjusti6able war upon
the blacks
From the New York Herald. independent
II the white men ia the South imagine
that acts like these will be tolerated by
the nation they are sadly mistaken. The
spirit which led the masked band at
Trenton to invade the sanctuary OF the
law and commit cowardly aud brutal
crime may yet bring on the South count
less miseries. The men who hate most
, bitterly the negro race can scarcely hope
that they will be allowed 70 massacre the
eolored people Northumberland; aud
acts like the present point to the neces-
sity OF making the law respected at all
hazards. A revival Of Ku-Klux outrages
Willineyitably lead to the adoption Of
such. repressive measures as may be ne
eessaty 10 the security OF the peaceful
inhabitants in the disturbed district. In
the present case the duty of the govern
ment is clear. Unless the local authori-
ties Immediately arrest and bring to JUS
tice the Perpetrators Of this cowardlv
massacre the general government should
take the matter in hand and see that TT
ting punishment be melted out to the
murderers. Such crimes are blot on
our civilization.
From the SeW York Tribune, Independent I
It will certainly not be surprising IL
IN the light OF frequent succession Of
incidents like these, and the declare
tions Of the Southern Conservative con-
ventions, the unlettered freedmen get
the idea fixed in their heads that black
mans party will De a very handy thing
for them to have.
With a few conspicuous exceptions
here and there, the whites show verv
little comprehension Of the dangers they
are inviting. We al trusted that time
would soften asperities aud allay suspi.
ciOns, 80 that black and white might
work together on equal terms, recogniz-
IN their common interest in just laws
and an honest administration, and their