The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-10-28
RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES
rFrom tf,e New York Tribune. O.tober 12.1 !


| Tomorrow the Southern Republican
Convention win assemble in ChattanOo-
ga, to wave the bloody rag of 'ku-Klux
outrage, and persuade the country, If
1t can, that nothing but the continuance
of Republican rule in the South, with
the prospect of a third term for Presi.
dent Grant in the near future, can save
the negroes from a general massacre.
| Some of the choicest representatives of
! reconstructed Republicauism are among
] the delegates. MIR. Pinchbaclx is going
| to speak for Louisiana, and Mr.. Darrall
of the same State will be there to enlarge
upon the letter he wrote to Kellogg last
/ January, about the Presidents scheme
to upset the Kellogg Government so that
Casey might come to the Senate and pro-
mote the project of third term. Mr.
Packard, as one of the signeTs of the call,
viii probably occupy prominent posi-
tion in the assemblage, and Senator
West, who is also signer, viii have a
good opportunity to explain what he did
with KeIlogg's check for 81 600. Ar
kansas contributes an astonishing amount
of honesty and craftsmanship. Mr..
Powell ClaytOn's name speaks for itself.
and whatever he says will doubtless be
substantiated by Chief-J ustice Mcclure,
commonly known as Porker Jack. From
Alabama will come Senator Spencer,
who once made a bargain to give Gen.
Grant the " control" of the State, and
several other eminent persons, the most
important of whom by all odds seems to
be the Hon. Charles Hays.
For Mr.. Hays is the living embodi-a.
ment of the present campaign. His let
ter to Gen. Hawley condensed into two
columns of type every variety of false
hood, Misrepresentation, and cruel sug-
gestion of SANDER with which the man
ayers of the Administration party have
been flooding the Northern press. He
told tale of murders and brutalities so
horrible that the whole country stood
aghast. If these deeds were done under
Republican State Administration (as
that of Alabama is), what might we not
expect in those unhappy regions of the
South where the White League holds the
reins of power and tramples upon the
lowly without let or hinderance? Last
week we published a reply from the
prosecuting officer of one of the counties
included in Mr.. Hayss black list, and it
certainly seemed to convict the Con-
gresham of gross and ineXcusable blum
dering in that part of the State for which
the writer claimed the right to speak.
Our special correspondent in Alabama
exposed the falsity of what
Mr.. Hays said about the condition of
things in Montgomery. To-day we have
from the same trusty, clcar-headed and
unpTejudiced investigator general re-
view of all the stories in the Hawley let
ter which it had been possible to test at
the time he wrote, and we have also had
q brief notice by telegraph of his subse-
quent inquiries. The result is soon
stated. Except in Sumner county, where
the murders of JOY and Billings are uni
versally execrated by all parties, the out
RACES reported by Mr. Hays are purely
fictitious. In not one single instance so
far has the honorable gentleman told the
truth! Most of the alleged OutTages
were never committed mt all, and the
others seem to have had no sort of con-
nection either with antipathies of race
or animOsities of politics.
As in Alabama, so in other parts Of
the South. The War of Races in Car
olina turns out to be a negro scrimmage.
In Kentucky it is a ritfianlY fcud be-
tween white outlaws In Tennessee it
is a case of lynching, of the familiar pat
tern which has always been SO lamenta-
bly, common in certain parts of the Uni
ted States. In New Orleans the White
League takes possession OF the govern
ment and Immediately orders that one
third of the appointments on the police
force shall be given to the negroes. II
we can believe the bulletins issued from
the office of the AttOmey-General, who
seems to have added the duties of court
newsman to his other functions as gen.
eraI superintendent of elections and
of the troops, rampant reb-
els are harrying the whole South with
sword, pistol, rifle, raw-hide, shooting
and sceurging Republicans, and making
the country hell upon earth. But these
armed bands invariably disappear upon
close inquiry. We search the scene OF
bloodshed and desolation and find every
thing serene and prosperous. Dead men
come to life and make affidavits. Mar
tyrs put away the crown and tell us they
have not earned it. But Republican pol
iticians go on chattering all the same
about reign of terror, tossing their
arms in wild excitement, and clamoring
for E" more troops" 1t viii not do.
The people of the North are not fools.