The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-09-09

THE President has again been
compelled to extend protection to the
South. A perfect reign of terror has
been inaugurated in certain localities,
and the most villainous outrages per-
petrsted upon the people. The Cou-
shatta massacre brief history of
which will be found in Gov. Kellog's
proclamation in another columns
but one of a score of horrible crimes
lately committed in that unhappy
section of our country. That these
murderous outrages are perpetrated
from political motives, With q view
of intimidating the negroes from at
tending the polls at the fall elections,
there can, unhappily, be no doubt
They are but a continuation of the
folly and crime that has distinguish
ed the Democratic party since the
war; designed at first to delay and
prevent reconstruction, and now to
intimidate the negro from exercising
the right of citizenship. The color
ed men Of the South have absolutely
been driven from all sympathy or
| connection with the Democratic par-
ty by the ~fereeness with which they
have been fought, and all civil rights
denied them, and nov, when COM
PEELED, if the inclination had not ex-
listed, to join their political fortunes
with the Republican party that has
labored for their interests and their
protection, they are slaughtered with
out mercy and in cold blood for the
purpose of imtimidating them and
preventing the exercise of their po-
%litical rights. The undoubted object
of this Democratic white mans"
party was to secure a majority in the
next National House of Representa-
%tives, and that thorough paced Dem
o%cratic journal, the louisville Cour-
ier-Journal admits the fact, and dis
psiringly deplores the follies of its
! Southern partisans as follows:
eve give it up. There was a
chance that the next House of Rep
resentatives would not be Radical !;
that chance is gone. The outbreaks
in Kentucky and the massacre in
Tennessee settle that much. No
people, no party, could stand under
such a load as the people Of the South
and the Democratic party ofthe North
are forced to carry. 1t is well to be
plain. AS surely as the South begins
to get on its feet do its madmen pro-
coed to kick the fat 10 the fire. The
Radicals only want p~retexts; the
South supplies them. A war, or the
appearance of a war, of races seems
inevitable; and that is itself a third
term under proseriptive auspices.
That is the overthrow Of Republican
government, but chiefly at the ex-
pense Of the South"
Here is an open admission that.
these horrible crimes arc perpetrated
solely in the political interests of the
Democratic party, and it viii be OBJ
served that this leading Democratic
journal has no regrets to express for
the violation Of law, the commission
Of sickening and most cowardly
crimes, the future prosperity of the
south, or the outraged power Of the
nation, but simply deplores the i'll
effects Of these revolving outrages
upon the political prospects of the
Democratic party.
Good citizens of ali parties through
out the country viii bail with gratif-
cation the determination of the Pres
ident to put stop, if possible, to this
violence and bloodshed, and those
who have the welfare of the govern
ment at heart. who detest murder
and lawlessness, and who believe
that the humblest citizen is entitled
to protection in all his rights, will see
to 1t that no act, or word, or vote of
theirs shall inure to the benefit or
towards the advancement to power,
oil q political party whose dllies hes
ltate not to perPetrate the most dia-
bollcai crimes, solely for partizau