Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-10-17
The "sOuthern outrage" nusI.

The "southern Outrage, Bust
ness.
The business Of "hring the Northern
heart" by systematically recurring tales
Of murder aud outrage by the late rebels !
upon white and black union men In the
South, has been carried on for q good
while SIMPLY with a view 10 Political
effect, and In fact a secret circular from
Senator Morton's State Central Commit
tee was sent to all the Republican news
papers in Indiana, specially requesting
them to give as much prominence as pos.
sible 10 reports of Southern outrages tl
after the elections. The people had begun
to read such tales, however, with good
deal of skeptlcism, when there came for
ward one Charles Hays, Congressman
from Alabama, with tuch a horrible and
such eircumstantlal account Of out
RACES alleged to have been committed in
his own congressional district, that the
Northern people could but believe there
must be some truth in them. We hap
pened to meta gentleman Just from Ala
bama shortly after this letter was pub
iIshed, whose report OF the disorders there
convinced us that Hays had been guilty |
of Misrepresentation and falsehoodi and !
that his character for veracliy was none
of the best, and hence we are not at all
surprised at the complete refulation Of
his stories by the gentleman the New
York Tribune has sent to that State to IN
yesiigate, an abstract of whose letters we
print elsewhere.
Following in the same line marked out
by Hays, comes this recent congregation
Of Carpet'baggers at Chattanooga,
which has appointed committee TO sit
permanently and dish up tales of outrage
with a view to securing still further
armed interference TO sustain their grasp
on States they neither have the right nor
the ability to rule. The character Of this
convention Of dirty birds who foul the
nest they have seizsd upon and cal tnelF-
own, is 10 admirably indicated by the
extracts from the New York Times We
elsewhere print, that we need not
describe It We only refer to It for the
sake Of showing how systematic and
desperate an effort is being made to pro-
duce false impression concerning the
condition OF affairs at the South,
That there is considerable lawlessuess
there is entirely probable, for unhappily
there always has been. Duelling, shoot
ing ARRAYS and lynch law have always
been more common there than in tho
North, but not more so than in the West
where there is no pre.ence that military
government is necessary. That now and
then this disorder arises out of political
quarrels we think also probable, since
there Is no more frequent cause of distur-
bance anywhere than political differences,
but that there Is any widespread and
organized terrorism at the South with
a view 10 securing political results is
sufficiently refuted by the fact lha. these
seoundrels at Chattanooga still live
to gather there. If political assassination
were thsATule how have these fellows,
the most Obnoxious and virulsnt of their
whole tribe, managed to keep alive for
SO many years2
It is time that p deaf ear was being
turned to this cry of thieves seeking the
strength Of honest men 10 project them
against the wrath OF those they
have plundere1. Il is time the people of
the whole country were recognizing the
cruel and wicked injustice these men
have already done to the South by their
rule, and the equally cruel injustice they
are still doing ii, by attempting 10 create
, the impression that the vast body of the
white people Of the South either belong
to or sympathlzs with an organized band
of assassins. Emigration, whi,h above
all other things will cement the South
still more firmly 10 the Union, is retarded
! By this. The blessed forgetfulness oil
q past defeat and humiliation, which is sc
a needful TO that more perpect union foi
=, which the brave "Boys in Blue" saeri
4 iced their lives, is forbidden by It. Tat
return Of material prosperity whicl
is the only way out Of ou
present business depression IS neld'uacl
by Il, and all that a set of mon who wer,
bar room loafcrs, legal shysLers and ware
:, politicians, in their native States
g and who trausplanted to tn
- South, have blossomed forth into Gov
errors, Senators and Congressman ma,
!, be io,cibly sustained in positions whiel
= they belittlel an disgraced, and mad
- The means OF shameless tbisgery. Deon
- and sensible Republican paper, Ike th
New York Times see this, and they di
u not need to hear from Ohi1 Il
know that the people also see Il
= The courage" business is played cut
and the "Northein heart" is too sick OF
:. corruption, ineompeteney, and all lG
- evils which low fiom mlsgogernment &
''lre" worth q cent any more. In fac
y, this is now the dilemma before lL
National administration. Cease attempt
y ing to sustain a party by military powe
, in the South, Or forfeit the coulliene
and support Of the North.