New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-25


sented by any one of the opposition jour.
nails.
TIE NEW REBELLION IN THE SOUTH,
This is what the Washington National
Republican fifty terms the present political
situation in the interior Of Louisiana. The
following, from that journal Of Thursday
last, is fair index of the effect the open
avowals the White League newspapers Of
our State are having upon public senti-
ment at the North:
We have no desire whatever to help stir
up animosities between the different Sec
tons of the country; 20 revive the passion
and hatred of the late war; to deal unfairly
or unkindly with any class or political
division of our people.1 For years and years
we have been endeavoring to forget the war
and all about the war, except the duties
and responsibilities it's issue imposed-that
before the law all men are free and equal,
each and every one entitled to lite, liberty
and the pursuit Of happ mess. Much as we
have endeavOred to adhere to this course,
to look rather to the present and the future
than to the past, the South, Southern poll
ticians and journals, will persist in returning
to the old issues, and dragging the North
and the Northern people back to the
old -bellum ideas and controver-
sizes. The condition OF Southern society to-
day, if we may believe all the reports that
come to us, is infinitely worse than it was
at the close of the rebellion. Then, there
was some disposition toward reconciliation;
some inclination to accept the issue of the
bloody arbitrament in good faith The Or
ganization of the Ku.Klux clubs, whose
atrocities and outrages form one Of the
darkest and bloodiest chapters in the his
tory of the country, was the first symptom
of Gisafection and Ill-will. The treason
crushed and beaten in the field, in open,
armed rebellion, reasserted itself in mid
night assassination and the most lawless
violence. Finally, it was STAMPED out by
the strong arm of the government, and for
time we had peace. Unfortunately that
peace has been of short duration.
To-day every breeze from the South tells
US of the revival of the old spirit. A reign
of terror exists at the present time in nearly
every Southern State. The spirit which
has cost the country SO many precious lives,
SO much woe and sorrow and suffering, SO
many millions of treasure, has reasserted
itself in the formation of clubs ana political
parties whose doctrines and platforms are
an outrage upon the century. Take for in
stance, Louisiana. All over the State the
White League has been extended and a
war of races proclaimed, not only against
the blacks, but against every man who
dares to vote or act with them. To give
some idea of the diabolical designs and
purposes Of this party we shall quote-not
the opinion of the Southern Republican
papers or politicians-but of the White
League organs and organizations them
selves. The Natchitoches Tindicator, in its
issue of July IS, says:
The white people intend to carry the
State election this fall. This intention is
deliberate and unalterable, from the fact
that their very existence depends upon it,
and you may enjoy the blessings which
will naturally follow such an event.
We tell you now and let it be distinctly
that you have fair warning
hat we intend to carry the State of Louisi-
ma in November next, or she will be a
military territory.
The meaning of this unmistakable. 1t
9 plain notification to the negroes
hat if they attempt to 60 to the polls
hey will be so treated that federal in.
erterence will again be absolutely neces-
airy to prevent outrage and murder. The
shreveport Times, the principal champion
f the White Leagues, refers as follows to
he recent murder of poor old negro:
There has been some red-kanded work
one in this parish that was necessary, but
! was evidently done by cool, determined !
nd just men, who knew just how far to 90,
nd we doubt not if the same kind of work |
necessary it will be done again.
Speaking of the Grant parish massacre
says:
We say again that we fully, cordially an. |
rove what the white men of Grant and |
apides did at Colfax. The white man who |
oes not is creature so base that he shames |
le worst of his species.
The st. Mary White League Club, on the
fifteenth Of July, adopted platform from
hich the following is an extract:
We regard it the sacred and political dutv
every member of this club to discounte-
ance and socially prescribe all white men
no unite themselves with the Radical
arty; and to supplant every political on
,nent in all vacations by the employment
I'd support OF those who ally themselves
it'll the white mans party; and we pledge
lrselves to exert our energies and use our
cans to the csnsummating Of this end.
Extracts expressing sentiments of this
laracter we might multiply almost indefi-
tely; we could fill our entire issue with
EN-, all made and promulgated within
9 last fourteen days. We have given only
ough to show that to all intents and Dur.
ses war has practically broken out in this
fortunate State. The spirit which ami.
ated it before the rebellion and all
rough the war, and which Butler for a
ne succeeded in stamping out with an
N hand at New Orleans, has again broken |
t in all its FORMER fury and intolerance.
lat spirit belongs to what may be called
. barbaric period of history. No crime
which the carpet-baggers could be guilty &
sufficiently enormous to justify this fiend-
outburst Of intolerance and hatred.
e plain meaning of the platform of the I
hite Leagues Of Louisiana is that no 8
ok man shall vote in that State unless ?
votes with them; and no white man I
IL live there who dares hold an opinion