New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-10-15
The New York Tribune.


The late slave States are models of good
order, intelligence and respect for the free
dom Of speech. In these States no murders
occur. Little black children as they toddle
to school are kindly assisted along by the
kind hearted andpurely peaceable white peo-
pie. Insurance companies can exhibit no
business tact and sagacity more sl,rewd than
in taking risks on school-houses set apart for
the use Of colOred children, or in insuring the
lives of the teachers of those schools. So
peaceful, calm and quiet is the disposition Of
the white natives of the South, and so tender
is their regard for the rights Of the negro, and
SO fervent is their love for the Union, that to
maltreat negro or to denouncc the Union
calls down upon the head of the miscreant
who would dare make the attempt, the COL
tempt and ostracism of the refined and
thoroughly humane masses Of native whites.
This is the view the Ne,c York Tribune would
have the North take of the South, and to
that end it from day to day publishes edi-
torials. letters from paid emissaries, aud false
hoods of every description to blind the eyes
of the country and of the world to the terri
BILE outrages perpetrated in the South against
the life, liberty and property of black and
white Union men.
This is done for the purpose Of defeating
the Republican party and of turning back the
tide of progress towards Freedom. The 7ri-
Gune cares not how many negroes are killed,
school-houses burned, and teachers assassin.
ated. 1t aims to keep the facts from the pub
lie and to deny them when made known. Its
malignity is apparent. 1t has never forgiven
colored voters for not supporting Horace
Greeley for the Presidency in 1872. The Sc
81 ell has proven the negro correct in his dis
nment, and justifies his support Of the Re-
,.blican party. The Liberal Republicans OF
,,,o are with the Ku klux democracy OF 1874.
The Liberal organs Of 1872 virtually defend
the White League outrages OF this year.
The negro. in 1872, dared not trust the
Liberals; and nothing has been done. no
word has been spoken or written by the Gin
cinnati party in Congress, or its newspapers,
that can be tortured in any way into respect
for the rights of the negro as against the
White Leagues. The Nep York Tribune is in
nerfect accord with the sentiment that would
deprive the negro of the rights conferred by
reconstruction, hence it spares neither labor
nor money in holding the negro and the Re
publican party up as the guilty ones respon-
s,ble for the condition Of the South. That
paper has to-day paid emissary in the South
whose work is to confer with the rebels and
members of the Ku-klux Khan and accept their
denial of ouirages, and publish such denials
to the world as conclusive proof that no out
rares are committed in the South. Still, the
tratb is that intimidation of negroes is the
u,e in Georgia, in Louisiana, in Alabama
and in portions of other Southern States.
Drive from power the Republican party and
the liberty Of the negro would be but
name. All the weight Of influence of such
journals as the Tribune would be directed
AGAINST the rights conferred by the amend
ments to the Constitution. The lesson taught
nv the Tribune at this time can but lead into
the utter reputation of every good thing Sc
cured BY the results of the war.
The Tribune, in denying the late outrages
in Alabama, says: "We search the scene Of
b,oodshed and find every thing serene and
nrosnerous." This may be true, but if it is
true i, is only so because the General Gov
erement has shown disposition to arrest and
nunish the murderous friends Of the Tribune.
The assassins are quiet because they are I'M
der the eve of the United States Marshal who
is backed by the strong arm of the Govern
ment. The T,iJune's emissary comes on the
ground after the rioters have dispersed and
their victims have been buried. He finds
everything serene and prosperous; he finds
too much. 1t has been the cry Of White
League sympathizers that the negro and the
carpet-b Dagger have ruined the South. But the
TriLune's White Lacquer finds Everything
serene and prosperous" However, he had
to write something, and SO he writes Of Sc
renity and prosperity where his master con-
tends there is general corruption, neglect and
Incidence. The Tribune asserts that the peo-
ple of the North are not fools. So We think,
and the miserable attempt Of that paper to
deceive the North into the belief that every
thing in the South is serene and prosperous
will.fail, and the zeal of that paper in at
tempting to palliate the White League out
RACES will be fully understood by the North.