The weekly Louisianian., 1874-09-12

recopasHl aetlion measures. down to
this asJy has beer a seris Of blum
ders; they first attempte toignore
the colored voter and tofegdtd his
acknowledgement as a fdsse awaks
ening from this delusivesffdream,
and realizing in its fullest sense that
the colored mans. right tovote was
irrevocably fixed, they organizeda
Observation-Disclosures ;terrofism aud
persecution, through that infamous
secret organization know as the Ku-
Klux Khan, whose.record>of blood
has 6lled the blackest pagei4Ameri-
can history, and will stand perhaps
for all time to come without q par
allel, except it be equaled by that
bolder, bloodier and more inhuman
organization, the White League,
whose atrocities all over thes South
are now claiming the attention of
the Nation. ~
The South hts reached a. cribs
that she has been gradually ap-
preaching for the lass'seven: years.
Having.labored assiduously oprove
negro suffrage a failure, and the
colored race Incompetent to exer-
else the prerosatives of IN Ameri-
can citizen; encouraged by the hest
tating policy Of the Forty-third Con-
gress in reference to the Civil Rights
Bill, and the belief that many lead
ers in the National Republican par
ty, who question our ability to exer-
else wisely the great privileges con
ferred upon US as a people, have
grown Hmid; and further strength
ened by the belief that President
Grant would send no troops down
there to protect the unarmed, und-:
feading and Aw-albqidingg poor, a.edl,
ored people, who have.no rzdispoh?
ton; EVENT. hey:harthe means; 70
fight their white bretRten,, Have rp-
Solved to take tofcible possession OF
the governments. of every State. in
the South; and I 10 not hesitate TO
declare as my firm conviction that
unless the strong arm of the Ma
tional Government ipterposes N
behalf OF peace and order, and the
protection of the citizen in his p6-
litical rights, they will accomplish
their object; 1t is but simple justice
to say however, that a considerable
portion Of the respectable and veal
thy white men in the South in their
hearts and better Judgment disap-
prove of and deploro the extreme
measures. applet to accomplish
the success ofihe opposition to the
Republican party, but they aro over
awel by the dread Of business end
social ostracisln.
| To tho people Of the North this
subject assumes " graver Importance
than they in their quiet and happy
homes cream Of. Ii these assassin
atoms so rife to-day, and following
with such rapidity upon each other,
it will be observed that white and
black share the same fate.
Heretofore, in.eyeryi 4umult,, riot
or mob, the massacre was confined
to the colored people; and when our
mournfql vail over the bodies Of
our murdered dead, who had been
slain because OF their Republican,
ism, reached the North, the effect Of
it was counntteracted BY f. flaming I'M g
articles in the newspapers, with big
head lines, OF. "Negro insurrection,"
"Citizens killed and wounded by
negroes" Negroes IN arms 3D.,
ans, thus. the truth was kept from
the public; but in the present crisis
the death penalty has been visited
upon white and black:alike, simply
because they were Republicans. CAN
the Northern people stand idly BY
and witness, indifferent to the out
RACES perpetrated upon their breth-
ron, many OF whom shouldered their
muskets and offered their lives in
defence Of the Union, and that, tob;
by the very men who instisated the
rebellion that desolated 50 many bf
their honest God. forbid, ,.,s j