The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-08-15
The Boston Advertiser on the
Situation.
NORTHERN SENTIMENT ALARMED AND
ANGRY.

JusC P'oVocatlon In view OF the way
things have been managed in their
State, have rushed madly into the worst
scheme to rem .dy the difficulty. Some
thing they call the White League has
suddenly become popular, andkchapters
or councils of it are being established
everywhere. Know Nothing lodges did
not multiply faster in the time when
sensible people got wild about the perils
of trusting the ballot to men not born
in the country. The object of this
White. League is, Of course, to combine
and osganize the white citizens in an
effort to keep the citizens who arc not
white out of Office. They attribute all
their woes to the ec!o.ea rote, and .he
scheme is, SO far as it is inteligblr, to
diminish the strength of that vote Pre-
ciscly how this is to be legitimatcly
done docs not appear. The colored
men arc there, and the right to vote is
so secured tina: it canuoL safely be de
MED. The only way in which tn,
colored vote can be palpably diminished
is by killing the voters or nstituting
ing such panic Of fright that they will
not dare exercise their right. Things
have occurred in Louisiana within the
past ten years that tend to discourage
any confidence that the worst outragcs
would not be resort~d to if they were
thought to be cApcdicnt But it would
seem {hat the State had already had
sufHcif>a 3criencc Of the policy of
n air: aliasaiSs sympathy of people most
competent TO assist them in the effort TO
establish justice.
Wo have made no secret Of the opin
ion hat Louisiana has been since 1872
the victim of violent and uniustitiable
rnsurpatinn 1t is II great misfortune
both as fact and precedent Con
sress has been negligent OF its duty in
treating the subject with Indifference,
There is throughout the Northern
States strong feeling o: sympathy
with the people subject to government
not Of their cho;c.. No person in any
degree responsible for the success ofthc
coup dctat has won additional honor on
account OF it in the estimation of his
own party i'll this section. Bu. it is
also true the Republicans of the North
could have no great respect for party
which for the chance Of success made an
alliance with Warmo,h ana his set.
For four years the white people Of
Louisiana, or at least a4 many OF them
rs we're Democrats, had denounced
Warnoth rs the incarnation of every
thing in politics which was dishonest.
fraudulent and ignoblc When, there
fore, they consented to an alliance with
him for mutual advantage, he rcsiyninc
the Govcrnorship to their nomination,
they to elevate him to the United
States Senate, the sincerity Of their pro
tcsslons of rcpugnancc to corruption
was clouicd II appeared Mut tie cuusc
YMc" complnini"y ros not Mm corrupt
"cn mcre in pomcr, bm Mm Mcy dH not
s'n'e {" tic Ircffs IF corruption. Not
withstandlns this exposure of gross
Inconsistency by which the Louis anians
lost more respect than they can recover
in long term Of deccncy, there was
among the Republicans Of the North no
disposition to connivc in a scheme Of
cheating them Of their choice. Con
sIdcrcd solely as question of party
policy, there is no question in any
sasacious mans mind that the Rcpubli
can party would stand stronger and
fnrer before the nation to-day with
Warmoth in the Senate by Democratic
votes, and a Democrat in the Governor
seat at New Orleans, than it is with the
Louisiana load on its shoulders
he pcaeeablo submission to the situa
ton, alter the firm but Intellectual pro
test, did something to restore more
favorable opinion toward the Louisiana
people. But its force will be quickly
dissipated if they persist in this folly Of
White League, the meaning of which
is u rerretuaton of the autagonism of
races, out Of which their woes have