Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-04
WHITE LEAGUES.

In some of the Southern States that
are still cursed with the control of the
voracious, never satisfied carpet-baggers,
organizations are being formed that
style themselves White Leagues. As
might be judged from the name, only
white men are allowed to enter these
societies. which have for their avowed
purpose the protection OF the rights and
property of the whites against the me-
groes and carpet-baggers. However
great the robbery and injustice to which
the whites of the reconstructed States
have been subjected, and Heaven knows
that their wrongs have been almost past
human endurance, still We roget. greatly
regret, that milder and cooler counsels
do not prevail. Indulging in such
demonstrations is the very course that
their malignant enemies, the carpet-bag-
gers and their allies in and out OF Con-
gress, wish their victims to adopt. They
wish it because it will afford them an
other opportunity to forge an ilimitable
amount of lies regarding Ku klux,
dangers to Northern men, and all that
sort of stuff, which is their only stock III
trade. We know from actual personal
observation how great the provocatlons
and how CALLING are the wrongs to which
the best citizens of these unhappy States
are subjected. No one would believe the
extent and frequency OF these injuries
unless they are personally witnessed,
and then only one feeling can fill the
bosom OF every honest aud impartial OBJ
server, and that is grief and indignation
that such atrocities could exist I'M
checked on the soil of the United States.
We have seen, well know and admit all
this, but for all that, the readiest and
most feasible mode of remedying these
undoubted grievances, is not by array
ing one race against the other What.
ever may be the best means of Kidding
those States of the robbers that are
running them, hostility between the races
is not the plan. There can be no doubt
about that. If proof were required, all
that need be done is to turn to the his
tory OF reconstruction up to the present
time, aud it will be found that
that was the line of policy SO success
fully adopted by the carpet-baggers aud
the supporters of the administration
to keep the Southern States (Which, in
their eyes. were only SO many placers)
within their clutches. Those States that
gradually relieved themselves from these
incubi. such as Virginia, Georgia aud
Texas, have only done so by frying
forbearance to its EXTREMIST limit. In
1871, in Texas, the carpet-bsg govern.
ment OF that State, aided by their &C
complies at Washington, left no ston,
unturned to provoke reprisals or resist
ance. Men were butchered by an arme,
negro police in open day. Martial Law
was declared. Property was confscated
The Courts were turned into so man,
instruments of legalized plumber. Blu
it was borne with patience and dignifet
resignation, and the injured and insultet
people had their reward; for that year
in spite of fraud, intimidation and VIC
lence Of every imaginable description
the people elected their own Congress
men. That was the entering wedge, and a
the next election they secured the Legisla
ture, and the carpet-bag scoundrels wer
compelled to let go their hold on the I'm
happy State that they had so long op
pressed. This is the only way to carr
on the struggle, and the ouly mode tina
will insure success. We therefore canno
but regret to see any other adopted tina
can only end in renewing in those State
the lease of power of the worst set c
proaigate scoundrels that were ever see
out Of the State Prison.