The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09

Dy hanging. he was murdered by TN
gang of desperadoes who whipped Wash
burn, and drove Gesner from the STATE
for the crime (:) of teaching negroes
Mr. Webster has suffered death becaus
be interposed in favor of Washburn ant
Gesner.'
The meanest part of this barbarsm
in professedly Christian communities il
the attempt to make the people else
where believe that the colored people
are the murderers. The colored race
are by nature timid and submissive
and they are now using every means in
their power to preserve the peace of the
communities in which their lot has beer
cast.
The Friar's Point, Miss, Delta Of
August 2Sth, says:
" We observe that the colored people
are, in various sections, holding public
meetings and protesting against an or.
ganization upon the color line. They
do not desire such an issue Indeed
they shun it as one calculated to en-
broil the two races in an unnecessary
and possibly bloody conflict"
The origin of the Consoattc massacre
of six white men, prominent officers OF
the United States Government, or OF
the State Government, was first charged
to the colored people. But that ruse
failed, and the atrocious deed is proved
to have been planned and carried to its
terrible end by the Democratic White
Leaguers in the community. The
statement that the actual murderers
were from Texas, is also false, and the
Galveston Texas, Mercu,y, September
2, says:
The attempt to throw the odum of
their murder upon citizens of Texas is
far from honorable or manly, and will
never stand the test of an investigat ion
before any impartial tribunal"
The Baton Rouge, La, Republican,
August %, expresses the feelings and
desires of the colored race in the follow
ing paragraph ;
That nothing is further from the
intention of the colored men, and all
they pray for is to live on terms of peace
and quietness with their brethren of a
lighter complexion. Is this too much
to ask ? Let the Democratic press re.
spond."
If similar sentiment was manifested
and acted upon by the white population
Louisiana would soon become one of the
most prosperous States in the Union.
The paper last quoted says:
With the exception of political
troubles in the shape of the White
League, White Camelia. or White Jack.
asses, there is nothing wanting to make
Louisiana the garden spot of the world.
Our climate is unsurpassed Those
plants and shrubs called exotic are
here native; epidemics are almost un
known, and all that is required for the
prosperity of the State is cessation Of
the doubly miserable subterfuges and
other proceedings of these unsatisfed
rebels"
The hypocrisy of the members of the
Democratic White Leaugues is as brazen.
faced as the attempt to fix their muir.
derous acts upon the colored race. The
Baton Rouge, La, Daily Aduocate,
(Democratic,) August "a, says:
The Lcag uers most emphatically
deny that they wish to interfere with
the political privileges of the black
man, and every act of theirs in this
parish shows this to be an indisputable
fact, and stamps all contrary assertion
to be indisputably false, no matter from
what source such assertions come,
Any assertion that white merchants
wish to Cypress the negro or In.
tsrtere ruth his privi'eges of tran.
elise is too transparent falsehood for
the real object thereof not to be seen by
men of sense"
This declaration loses It's force when
read in connection with the following
from the same paper, under the head of
a" Preamble aud Resolutions Adopted
by White League No |, of the Second
Ward of Livingstone Parish
Resolved, That we will have no
man on our farms or in our workshops
who votes the Radical ticket.
Be IL further resolced, That we
consider it the duty of land cordially
invite) all white men opposed to Rad
icalism to co operate with us.
Further resolved, That we consider
it beneath our moral dignity to associate
%ith any white man who votes the
Radical ticket or affiliates with that
party in any manper whatever.
Further resolced, That we pledge
our support to the Democratic party.
The audacity of the White League
press is suggestive of DELHI crate de.
termination to follow up the policy Of
murder until their base purposes of
driving every Republican from the polls
has been accomplished. Mark the fol.
lowing from the Shreveport, La, Times,