The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-12
M'slshe Getil MEIhis
ELKTON, SEPTEMBER IL, 1874.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGE.


but instead of mending, such a state of
affairs as described under that head, seems
to grow worse. The Kuklux bands were
reported to be broken up by the severe
measures which the Government resorted
to suppress that midnight Democratic
organization, but under the name of White
Leagues, lynching and the midnight muir
der of Republicans have been pursued with
the same ferocity as formerly when the
sense of the nation was so shocked by the
bloody work of these Democratic organi-
cations of some of the old slave States has
become SO wholesale and defiant of law,
that the President has thought it necessary
to address a letter to the Secretary of War,
in which he says:
Recent atrocities in the South, particu-
larly in Louisiana and Alabama, show a
disregard for law, civil rights and personal
protection that ought not to be tolerated in
any civilized government. 1t looks as if
unless speedily checked matters must be-
come worse, till life and property there
will receive no protection from the local
erless. Under such circumstances the duty
of the Government is to give all aid for
protection of life and civil rights legally
authorized. To this end l wish you would
consult with the Attorney General as to the
outrages already committed and the locali-
ties where danger lies. Troops will be
sent in case of necessity.
Among the recent atrocities committed
is the murder of female school teacher,
who was described as "bright, intell;-
gent and rather handsome girl" She had
not more than one fourth of negro blood
in her veins. Two white men rode up to
the house of Hemberly Lowe, a colored
man, where she was boarding, on the 2lst
of August last, banged at the door, and
said they wanted that teacher. Lowe
refused to open the door, and called Massa
Pink" at which the fellows became fright
ened, and one said to the other they had
better get away, at the same time raising
his gun and firing through crack in the
door. The shot took effect in the teacher
breast, killing her instantly.
A colored mail agent was recently shot
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Station, on the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad, after tagging the train down.
On or about the 2Sth day of August,
1874, a body of persons belonging to a
semi-military organization, known as the
White League of louisiana, assembled in
the town of Coushatta, Parish of Red
River, for the purpose of compelling, by
force of arms, the State officers of that
parish to resign their positions.
The Sheriff attempted to protect the Off
GERS thus summoned to resign, and was
overpowered by a strong force, after sew
eral men had been killed. There were
twelve men in all composing the officers
thus dispossessed by the mob, six whites
and six colored. The whites had all been
soldiers in the Union armies. After the
surrender, they were thrown into Jail, and
the next day, Sunday, "guard of honor ="
was to escort them to Shreveport. They
were taken by an cutoff they route and
all set upon and murdered in cold blood.
These are few examples of the idea
the Democracy of the Southern Slave
States have of free government. Nothing
but the fear of blue coat has whole
some restraining power upon them and
their actions, which break out into deeds
of bloodshed whenever the protection of
the Federal power is withdrawn from those
benighted regions, where formerly the slave
shackle and the blood hound were leading
institutions; which is melancholy COM
mentary on the blessing of free govern
ment that was fostered and grew apace
under the shadow Of slavery. Because
these outrages are committed by organiza-
tions which act in the interest of the Dem
ocratic party whenever power is placed in
their hands, that party throughout the
North is ever ready to palliate their out
RACES, murders and violations of law; and
offer excuses for their most heineus crimes.
This uncivilized spirit is the whole cause
of the difficulties which the Government
has had in reconstructing the slave States,
and which by driving out, or making the
country SO uninviting to the better class of
emigrants from the Northern States, has
given the daring, INSCRIPTIONS adventur-
ers who have preyed upon those States,
their best opportunities. While such a
spirit prevails in those regions, it is the
duty of the Federal Government to protect
the lives and property of the people when
the State Governments lack the power to
control the mob law which seems ever
ready to break out and overthrow all civil
power, till checked by the strong arm Of
the Government, the only power that saw.
age element seems to stand in awe of.
The New York Tribune and other pa.
pers which have pursued similar line in
politics, have contributed largely to foster
this element of murder and mob law in
those semi-civilized regions; and whenever
the Democratic party acquires some show Of
thirsty allies commence anew their depre.
dations, which results in turning the party
fat into the fire. These allies in the old
slave States bid fair, by their revolving
crimes, which are always committed in
the interest of Democracy, to shock again
the moral sense of the people of the North
and produce the same result on the pros
poets of the Democracy this Fall as they
have in times past The people are afraid
to trust that old slave organization, how
ever much they may condemn some of the
short comings of the Republicans. The
Carlists of Spain, the Bourbons of France
and the Democracy of the United States, are
composed of the same political elements
ever opposing themselves to the rights Of
man and the progress of the age.
NOMINATIONS FOR Con Dem
ocratic Congressional Nominating Conven.
ton for the Second District, met Thurs
day, at Towsontown, and upon the 31Otl
ballot Charles L. Roberts, of Carroll co.,
nominatad ResnlutionS ado "