The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
q rue NortI)erncr.
SPIRIT OF THE /" WHITE
LEAGUE" PRESS" DEMO-
GRATIS TO THE FRONT-RE-
PUBLICANS TO TAKE BACK
SEATS.n

PUBLlCANS TO TAKE BACK
SEATS"
AS the President OF the United States
has given instructions to have troops
concentrated in the disaffected districts
in the South the people elsewhere in the
Union should be well informed us tC
the causes which have led to this order
In the september number of the Re-
public the rebelious and lawless spirit
of certain portions of the white citizens
of Louisiana and other Gulf States was
shown in a number of brief articles, sup
ported by extracts from the Southern
press. The following additional quota
tions afford further light into the SEN
timents of the Democratic leaders in
those States, and the atrocities commit
ted by those who are guided by their
Instructions
q Let it be known now aud forever"
says the Natchitoches, La, indicator,
August 29th, that the white people
are going to take charge of this State.
Let it be known that we are after two
sets of men the corrupt and ignorant,
to keep them out of Office the honest
and competent, 70 put them in. This
is the aim, The sole purpose, of the
White League
The " honest and competent are the
instigators and ndorsers of the recent
murder of six office holders N Consulate
and that is the way the rotation III Office
is 10 be effected The " honest aud
competent consider i; more expeditions
than the ballot box and formal elections.
The same paper in another editorial
makes the following declaration:
We do rot Intend to be interiered
with by auy one residing here or else.
where as 10 the manner Of conducting a
political crmpaiga und Of riddiag our
State # He miScrcont ScoundrelS Uho
h0ce becn tattening already too long on
the peoples Ire diood'
And again
The white mans party is deter
mined to rescue Louisiana from the pol
luting embraces of such hybred pack
of lecherous pimps as Kellogg, Packard,
Durell, Pinchback, Dibble, Casey, Du.
buclet and their followers, who were
conceived 10 sin, brought forth in pol
luton, nursed by filthy harpies, and
dropped in Louisiana, to show to the
world to what depth of corruption, dis
grace and iulamy human nature can
stoop."
On Saturday, the 29th of August,
Thomas L, Ivey, colored mail agent
of the Government on the Alabama and
Chattanooga train, was shot in the car,
for no other reason than that he had
said the assassins of Billings should be
brought to Justice" In its report Of
the shooting of Ivcy, the Meridian Mer.
curry of Sunday, August 80, says:
{" Yesterday afternoon, as the Ala
bama and Chattanooga train was coming
this way, about three miles beyond
York and six this way from Livingston,
man stood upon the track and tagged
the train down with his hat. Charlie
Briggs was the engineer, and stopped
his train. Immediately as the train
stopped, some three or six shots, va.
riously stated by eye-witnesses, were
fired at Thomas L. Ivey, the colored
mail agent. He is said to have uttered
u single exclamation of pain, and, from
the terrible character of the wounds,
was. doubtless, killed instantly after.
The train brought the body on to this
city. 1t is supposed that Ivey came to
the door of the car to observe what the
train was stopping for, and so gave his
slayers the fair opportunity they wanted.
1t is said there were assistants on both
sides of the train Their work was
quick and decisive, and they disappeared
il the brush, and no one of all the
people about the train recognized any
one"
Bv these acts of murder the colored
people become terror-stricken, and as q
matter of precaution to save their lives
they sacrifice their political convictions
and join the Democratic ranks.
The Selma, Ala, Republican, Sep
TENDER |, says;
The programme of the Democracy
ia too patent now to be denied. That
poor Ivey was shot by the Kuklux no
one seems to deny, and the Selma Times
adds, in speaking of this murder, that
Immediately after the facts became
known at York Station, where his re-
mains we're afterwards carried, and
while it awaited the coroner's jury,
some ffiy or more negroes organized a
Democratic club, ach,ch as daily increds.
ing an number
Your vote or your life" has be-
come the Democratic White League ul-
timatum to the Southern Republicans,
white and black
Since the murder of Iyey, the mail
route agent on the Alabama and Chat
tanooga railroad several mail-route
agents in the South have shown con-
siderable alar,, 81 o.o o.1,;r,, 1oox,o &c