New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW sRLtAH
THE SOUTHERN OUTRAGEse
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THE SOUTHERN OTTRAGEse
esuneos Pinehbsck II Cincinnatis
The Cincinnati Gazette OF the seventh il
e,an, contains = report Of meeting Q
eolored citizens OF Shat city which wa
called to express an opinion on the outrage
ut Coushatta.
Resolutions were passed expressing :h
gratitude OF those composing the meetin
TO President Grant for his action in protec
ing the lives, property aud homes of thei
Southern brethren, andsasking for him tn
mora! support OF their people. Colone
Robef: HARLAN first addressed the NEE ting
and after it was organized Hon. =. 3.
Pinchback was introduced and said:
! saw a notice IN the papers OF this morn
ing that NEE ting was to be held here ia
night for the purpose of conadeling the dis
turbances in the South and giving list O
speakers, and among whom was myself.
Believing the movement to be an i'm
portant one, and knowing that it would b.
productive OF good, ii. through its agencie
ihe attention OF the Northern public cOult
be fixed upon the actual condition Of tina
class of people who are suffering the mos
by the disorders which nov disgrace thu
Southland which 10 former years, com
nIencng with the close OF the war, have
done SO much to destroy its commerce ant
industries, deplete lis treasures and de
populate the Ststes-I felt it my duty to- BIZ
present, notwithstanding | had expressed a
dsinclinatiOn to appear before the public Of
Cincinnati as . speaker.
The actual condition of affairs in many
portions of the South is more appalling than
even the Mountaineering reports OF riot
and cold blOOded murders, daily furnished
us by the Associated kilograms indicate.
The extraordinary changes produced in
the body polite By the introduction Of the
cOlOred element into the same, has resulted
in creating bitter aDtagODism of race.
This enmlty has been tOstered and kept
alive by political demagOgues, who have
obtained leadership both among the whites
and the coloredpeople of the South.
On the one hand it has been represented
that it the resident " hite population of the
South obtained control of the State govern
nents they would Ostracise the colored peo-
pie and deprive them of their civil and po-
litical rights, deny them education and
either reduce Thorn to slavery again or 20 a
serfdom equally as distastetul and burden
some. These representations, as you per-
ceive, were well calculated to alarm the
colored voters and make them distrustful
and old residents Of the South; and SO strong
was this impression made upon them that
whenever any one of their race, who fore
saw the danger that inevitably would
result from this unhealthy aud dangerous
state Of affairs, attempted to rem0nstrate
or call attention to the evil effects likely to
ensue therefren, he was sure to be set
upon, and, if not utterly destroyed, would
find his influence, even among his own
s,aOu1a Uraaflv irpnaivod The authorizations
and short-sightedness exhibited by the
colOred people was mild IN comparison with
the intolerance, madness and folly Of the
whites; their pig headed leaders intlamed
:hem by appeals to their passions and pre-
JUDGES, which the sanction of age and the
growth Of centuries had sanctifed and
made strong and difficult to overcome bv
the cry of negro incompetency, dishonesty.
social equality, negro supremacy, this is q
white mans government, etc.
The policy of the resident Southern
whites, from the adoption Of the reconstruc.
ton measures down to this day, has been
series Of blunders. They first attempted to
ignore the c0l0red voter, and to regard his
acknowledgements as farce. Awakening
from This delusive dream, and realizing, in
AS fullest sense, that the colOrel mans
organized a system Of intimidation, terror
Ism, and persecution, through that infamous
secret organization known as the Ku.Klux
Khan. whose record Of blood has filled the
blacklist page in American history, and will
stand, perhaps for all time to come, without
= parallel. except it be 3equaled by that
oolder. blOOdier, and more Inhuman organ
ization, the White League, whose atrocities
all over the South are now claiming the
attention Of the nation
The South has reached crisis that shei
has been approaching for the past seven
years. Having labored assiduously to prove,
negro. suffrage failure. and the colored'
race incompetent TO exercise the preroga-
lives OF an American citizen: encouraged |
BY the hesitatipg policy of the Forty third |
Congress in reference to the civil rights bill, |
and the belief that many leaders in the
Republican party. who question /
our ability to exercise wisely the great |
privileges conferred upon us as apeople, have !
grown timid; and further strengthened by |
The belief that President Grant would send
no troops down there to protect the IN.
hrmed. unotfendine and . law'abiding, poor
colored people who have 60 disposition,
cven it they had the means, to fight their
" hite brethren. have resolved to take |
lOrcible possession Of the government of
every State in the South; and / do not hest.
late TO declare. my firm conviction that |
unless the strong arm Of the national gov.
ernmens interpOses in behalf of peace and
order. and the protection OF the citizen in
his political rights, they will accomplish
heir object. It is but simple justice to say, !
however, that y considerable portion of the
eepectabe and wealthy white men of the
south in their hearts and better Judgment
lisapprove of and deplore the extreme
measures resOrted to to accomplish the sue
ess St She opposition 10 the Republican
'arty. but they are overawed bv the dread
u business and social ostFacism.
To the people of the North this subject
assumes graver Importance than they, in
heir quiet and happy homes, dream Of In
he assassinatiOns SO rife to-day, and follow
ng with such 'rapidity upon each other, it |
VIII be observed that white and black share
10 same fate.
. therefore,, in every tumuit riot OF mob.
he massacre was confined to the colored
eople; and when our mournfnl wall oyerI
he bodies Of our murdered dead, who had /
cen slain because OF their Republcanism. |
cached the North, the effect of it WAS
by flaming articles in the !
with big head lines of "Necro ..
""Citizens killed and wounded
Y negroes" Negroes in arms" etc, and !
lus the truth was kept from the public. Z
ut in the present crisis the death penalty
az been visited upon white and black alike. II Z
mply because they we're Republicans. CanH
lie Northern People stand, IDLY by and wit
ess. indifferent, the outfages perpetrated
pom their brethren, many Of whom Shout
cred their musketA and offered their livesI
/ defense of the Union, and that. too, by ,
re very men who instigstal tho rebellion
nat desOlated so many rofs-their homes / 4