Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-16

| Republican GlilIStlneS shall not escape
! the genera! calamity.
| RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES
POLITICS..
To morrow the Southern Republi
can Convention will assemble in Chat
tanooga, says the n. y. Tribune of
| Monday, TO wave the bloody rag OF
'ku-KIu outrage" and persuade the
| country, II it can, that nothing but the
continuance of Republican rule il the
South, with the prospect Of Il third
term for President GRAFT II the near
future. can save tie negroes from q
general massacre. Some OF the cholc-
est YepreseEtat.v cs OF reconstructed
Repubiicaniau are among TIE dele
gates. Pinch5aci1 is going to speak
for Louisiana, and Mr.. Darrall, of the
some State, will be there to enlarge
upon the letter he wrote to kellogg
last January, about the Presidents
scheme to upset the Kellogg Govern
mant so that Casey might come to the
Senate and promote the project of a
| third term Mr. Packard, as one of the
| signers of the call. will probably occu-
py prominent position in the assem-
blage, and Senator West, who is also
a signer. will have q good opportunity
to explain what he did with kel!ogg's
check for 900. Arkansas contrib
utes an astonishing amount of honesty
and craftsmanship. Mr.. Powell Clay
| toms name speaks for itself, aud what
ever he says will doubtless be substan-
! tiated by Chief-Justice Mcclure. COM
monty known as Poker Jack. From
Alabama viii come Senator Spencer.
VINO once made a bargain to give Gen.
/ Grant the control" OF the State, and
several other eminent persons, the
most important of whom, by ali odds.
seems to be the Hon. Charles Hays.
For Mr.. Hays is the living embo,ji-
iaent OF the present campaign. Ills
letter to Gen. Hawlpy condensed into
two columns Of type every variety of
falsehood, Misrepresentation. and
cruel suggestion OF SANDER with which
! the managers of the Administration
! party have been flooding the Northern
press. he told tale OF nnr,.ers and
! brntalities SO horrible that the whole
country stood aghast. l. these
| deeds were done under Reuub.ican
! State Admin 81 ration (as that Of Ala
; banla is). what might We not expect in
/ those unhappy regions OF the South
! where the White League holds the
reins of power ana tramp!es upon the
Lowry without let or hindranc Last
week We published reply from the
! prosecuting officer Of one Of the coun-
/ ties included in Mr.. Hays black list.
/ and Il certainly seemed to convict the
! Congressman of gross aud iuexcusable
| laundering in that part of the State
| for which the writer claimed the right
to speak. Our special correspondent
III Alabama afterwards exposed the
falsity Of what Mr.. Hays said about
the condition Of things in RIontgom-
cry. To-day We have from the same
trusty, c!ear-headed and unprecedented
investigator general review of all the
stories in the Hawley letter which it
had been possible to test at the time
be wrote, and we nave also had D brief
notice by telegraph of his subsequent
inquiries. The result is 500. stated.
Except in Sumter county, where the
murders of Joy and Billings are uni
versally execrated by all parties, the
ontrages reported By Mr.. Hays are
purely fictitious. La not one single in
stance SO far has the honorable gentle
man told the truth, Most of the alleged
Ou-ra9es were never COZ nittcd at all.
and the otil3rs seem 10 have no sort of
correction either with antipathies of
racc OF animosities OF politics.
As III Alabama, SO i'll other parts of
tie South. The war of races in South
Carolina turns out to be negro scrim-
mage. In Kentucky it is a ruffianly
feud between white outlaws: In Ten
nessee it IS & case of lyGching, of the
familiar pattern which has always been
SO lamentably common in certain parts
of the United States. In New Orleans
the White League takes possession Of
the government and Immediately Or
ders that one-third of the appoint
ments on the police force shall be
given to the negroes. If we can be-
ieve the bulletins issued from the Office