The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-04
Outrages to Order.

The extraordinary and persistent ef.
fort to manufacture resentment in the
North against this State. on the ground
OF it's alleged barbarous outrages per-
petrated against tho blacks. we are
gratified to bolieve is properly under
stood. We have had served up to US
for weeks daily dish Of horrors OF
this sort. Tho sober sentiment of the
intelligent Northern press is of quite Il
different cast. as specimens Of Just
judgment in this matter, of stern re-
bnke Of fuise intermeddling fellows
who live hy defamation. We give Il few
extracts below Those who have ma.
ligned US SO extensively and sought to
stir up bad blood where al is peace,
quiet and harmony, can here see thom-
selves rs others see them:
Evidence comes to us from all parts
of the South that the hostility between
the whites aud blacks, which breaks
out in opeu war and bioodshed at
times. is the result of preconcerted
arrangement on the part of sundry Re-
publican managers, who have oou-
tracted to supply the party newspa-
pers North with political capital for
the cumpligu. ln South Carolina. for
instance, the oarpet-bag orators on the
stump use the most exciting language
to iDfiame the passions Of the negroes.
Exposure of their muchina-
tions is the antidotc. Nobody at the
North is going wild over alleged rebel
outragcs in the South when it is known
that job to help the decnying Re-
publican party is ut tho bottom oi the
trouble. -Ncw York World.
The great misiuItune Of the present
condition of things in many OF the
Southern States is due to the fact that
there is vast body of negro voters
whom no honest and Intelligent negro
leader can guide to useful and safe po-
lilical action any more than they can
be guided to such action by M honest
and intelligent white man. They arc
mere tools in tho hands of political
knaves. ibid.
Now that the congressional elections
are approaching in the North, the pe-
riodioal supply of campaigning capital
begins to come up from the South, in
reports Of harsh treatment of the
blacks, which are usually fabricated to
order and remarkable for the regularity
OF their appearance when political
purpose is to be served. The head
quarters Of this sort OF news is the At.
torney Generals Office at Washington,
where it is manipulated, dressed up in
the strongest colors and sent ont to the
country. 1t was proved before the
recent investigation OF the District of
Oolum bia, that men wero sent South
by Whitley, ostensibly to hunt up Ku
klux, who themselves organized klans,
inveigled wild young men into thom,
and then appeared az witnesses in
conrt, to convict their own victims
and others entirely innocent. This
game succeeded for several years; but
the musk is now lifted, and the ras.
cality OF the whole thing is at last
visible. Itmay we'll be- doubted if oil
the marahnls and deputies in the EN-.
ploy OF the Attorney General should
combine, whether their united story
would be accepted as probable. when
directed in this way. It is we'll to re.
member that at this particular season.
outrages upon the negro are in order.
New York Sun.
There will be nice party ut Lone
Branch on this business. Morey and
Sypher. of Louisiana; Borse, of Mis-
sissippi; John j. Patterson, of South