The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-22

He disin;t state what the occasion was. He made
no reference TO the murders. the whole aye |
and taken ~" niace in the last few |
weeks He left that audience to be-
without cause, as a simple outrage, as mere
exasDerarion TO the people Of he soutn thlnk
NOT to do that. He omitted 10 tell the audi |
ence why those troops were sent mere ne lel'
them 10 Sssve Il Tas mlsn01 was
cidental. Applause and laughterl. But ne Went
to tell that the people Of the sonIn Were s1
leagues upon the part of the negroes 10 onen- |
| slve operations against the white people.
to say, was double headed ssstem OF murder
and perjury The lying was Se Kept @p 20 ihe
slaughters by charges OF fraud They wanted
| you believe all the stories that were told OF
| robbery and peculation ana lrget ne sireaLh
OF blood that is oozing through every part OF the
South, demoralizng all men and All the rela-
| as blood nothing so demoraIfzfng terror. lt
degrades all within Its influence IL makes men
idiots through their fears. There Is now exist
| ing in the South such
| REIGN OF TERROR
as was never before seen or heard OF. In tracing
| the sources of Southern misery the speaker &C
knowledged that there was plenty of misnan-
agement. The primary blame for
this should be laid laid to, to the the doc, docT
ton first began, they Gid everything in her
power TO paralyZe the movement. They stood
aloof and threw hns2 the r6s 1s,er
were composed Of Northern men, and OF South
ern whites, carpet-baggers and sea wegs.
SOutherIIers had taken hold themselves, ali
would have gone well; but those upon whom
rant ram I'd Gnexperieneed. He repeated What ne
had said in Terre Haute in regard TO the respOn.
slaves s' and dscisred that Inc negroes Were
what the shareholders made them
l For this seasOn there had been,
without doubt, plenty of misgovernm mt,
ferred to the $ ate debts. which were often al
luded TO. After the war the states were with
out capital and wilton railroads. To build
roads the State governments did what Indiana,
illinois, Missouri and Pennsylvanla did years
ago amber the same circumsi ances. They issued
bonds to help the various Necessary enterprises.
| Ii was unfortunate speCu alton, disaster fol-
lowed. He instanced the result in this state to
show that the of the south was by nc
means singular. For GAO 600 of debt We had
six miles of canal. 10 miles OF turnpike and
about twenty five miles of railroad and the
State had barely escaped bankruptcy. Out OF
s30,tsO,uOo debt Illinois got only a few miles
souri, faxed even worse; Virginia had State
debt of S5i 10000, the largest debt N the Union
State would have been hanged-with precious
little to show for il. These Southern States fol
lowed the example set long ago bur though
and some squandered In
Il WALL STREET SPECULATION
by dishone=t agents, yet we never thought of
4 killing anybody on that account. The debts
spring from the circumstances They wanted
railroads, and had no other way to get them.
One thing was truly Temaflabls, moreover,
all tn sc cases, IL there were republican thieves
they always had democratic partners, no man.
WAS 80 30 In Louisiana and Georgia, and Other
states. But he had no excuse for plunder, by
| Whomsoever il was committed. IL WAS not "A
crime Partisan political in its nature, but
simply depended ON individual character.
On last Monday there was an uprising OF the
| flannOhnnf They
rose in one day and took possession of the state
} months by Northern democrats, but can be de-
MED no longer. 1t was indisputabiy In e ist-
snce in Lo1i. lana, probably in all The Southern
detailed by way of illustration the demand made
short time ago upon the repub lean officials OF
Sen ine are familiar, which he denounced
very truthfully as cold blooded murder.
r ae sayine WITH, sneer thai in the srst
place the murder was declared TO be the work
| in heir own state. Then followed the resou-
ton on Monday. He held that movement to be
| simply
| WHAT'S called the kellogg gov
eminent has been recognized by the
president i've different times. The House OF
Representatives had recognized tt by the adj
mission of member from the st.,de, bearing
KeIloggs certificate. IL had been reco. <nized by
1.-THE senate On two different occasions b. a re-
fusal TO provide for a new eleeuon
Ii was as completely recognized as the star OF
| Indiana The courts of Louisiana had reco,,-
niZed H.. These courts he described, eulogfZ ug
the Supreme Court as especially above suspi-
cion Il has in divers cases recognized kellogg
and legislature az the lawful government. That
laws now m operation. Every official in the
state held his som mission from the governor
Yet, undeF pretense of the ilegality OF the CIV
eminent, the so called revolution has taken
place.
To understand the condition of things In Lou
has been one continued Sc ne of murder These
repeated sIaughters had been forgotten. The
press AGENTS kept memory alive In regard to The
Gals, but they concealed The pools of blood lying
in every secluded wood or field in the State. The
senator pr, ceedtd 10 name the more horrid rec
ords. In 1855, in August massacre took place
in New Orleans. The republicans were holding
convention in the present state house. The
then state governmt mt, appointed by Andrew
Johnson gave notice that the con vention should
not assemble. However, confident in their ght
to peacefully assemble, they me-, coming To-
gether IN open day at noon. They were sur
rounded by mob and by the police. They were
BUTcHERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS
in the streets. They fought their way along the
stairways leaped from the windows, and were
shot down on the pavements. He read from the
report of the investigating committee OF the
House of Representatives, giving details of the
massacre, declaring that over two hundred dele
gates were killed.
That he said. on resuming, was a very brief
description Oh the 1naSStcre. IN 1905 LOUISIANA
was reconstructed. In May of that year. under
under the supervision of general
of the United States army, tho first
election held. 1t was acknowledged to have
been a fair one, and the republican State ticket
was elected By a majority Of 5000. There was
then a majority of colored people over the
whites In the state of Louisiana. Many of The
whites were republicans as well as the negroes.
During that summer the Ku-klux were organ
lied slowly, and by the first OF September they
were ready for operation; From tina! dat until
the first Tuesday in November they killed
throughout the State more than two thousand
white aud black republicans IN proof o. this
fact he read extracts from the co..
gresSionsl report in the Ku-
7 KluX outTages, and then continued.
over 200 men were killed and wounded in LOU
isiana before the election of 1885, What was the
oal...r ~ bath lI,