Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-18
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1874.
The Blacksning Cloud.

the earnest solicitation OF Att-Oen.
Williams and hundreds of prominent
Southerners that President Grant an
nounced that the United States mar
shals in the south should be protected
In the performance Of their duties and
the law of the United States enforced
If need be, by the aid of the army.
The repeated outrages in the South
called loudly for some decisive course,
and it has been taken. But now we
see in Louisiana cmiDous signs Of ciy-
il war. From a telesraphic dispatch
we learn that three hundred Prusian
rifles at one time were received and
distributed among the members of the
weite League in New Orleans; also that
other invoice are now lying under
the surveillance of the police or board
a river steamer, and threats are made
that the White Leaguers will forci-
bly, obtain possession of the arms that
are withheld from them. These are
instances that have come to light, and
show the determined preparations
which are being made to defeat the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
and to virtually place the state under
the white and secession rule. In Or
der to satisfy ourselves of the purposes
of the outlaws who are thus organized
for mischief, we. have only to glance
ever the files of such sheets as the
Shreveport Lag Times. That jour
nal in speaking Of thesupport VIII CHI the
United States government proposes to
give to its officials, says: 1.-The fight
ing strength of 100000 white peo--
pie inspired by the love of liberty
and justice, aroused to anger By bitter
wrongs, and gcaded to desperation by
ruin and despatism, cannot be intimid-
ated by few regiments of federal
troops, nor whipped into submission by
the armed police and cutthroats of a
loathsome usurper. Trumpets are
sounding in the gloom" This has the
regular ante-bellum twang aboutit but
if we want to satisfy ourselves more
fullyof the amicus of the party the same
sheet represents, we can refer to the
following from its midc olumns: owe
are moved at the fate which has be-
fallen the carpet-baggers of Red River
parish abo as we would had they
been nest of rattlesnakes." This
certainly looks like old times, when
Yankees were tarred and feathered
and the circulation of Northern news
papers was suppressed by mob law in
the state: when William Lloyd Gar
fiBon was dragged half naked through
the streets of Boston by rope tied
round his waist for being an Abolition
list, and when Lovejoy was shot down
in Illinois for the same grave crime.
And now, coupling the fact that the
White League and kindred organiza-
tions are being increased and armed,
and that they are encouraged openly
in their course bysuch utterances from
the press as we have quoted above,
what conclusion are we forced to ar
rive at? We find the federal authori-
ty denied, the blacks denied their vest
ed rights of suffrage, aud are assur-
ed that this position is to be maintained
by force of arms. The numbering and
plundering of both white and black
Republicans are endorsed, and reign
of terror inaugurated. If this condition
OF affairs does not mean revolution, it
means nothing. 1t means that the con
stitution of the United States is defied-
1t matters not, right here, who is re-
sponsible. That carpet-baggers and
emagogues have practiced much polit-
deal corruption: that there has been
ballot-box stutflng by both parties,
and that there has been some official
stealing, all must acknowledge, but
when the national authority is repudia-
ted, we come right face to face with
question that is as plain as black and
white.
What are we going to doaabout it d?
we believe that the subject is one that
san not be dodgde. 1t must be met
fairly and squarely. We attribute
much of this increasing insubordina-
ton in the South to the partial Demo-
cratic successes in the North last year.
The Republican defeats in Wisconsin,
Ohio, Indiana, and Connecticut We're
taken as evidence that the strength of
the administration was slipping away
from it,and the old cause Of state rights
gaining ground. The election of such
men as Gov. Allen and Senator Eaton
might we'll give rise TO such an opinion
in minds only too ready to re ceive it.
This fall that opinion will be either
strengthened or weakened by the re-
suits OF the elections If the admins
tration receives the firm support of the
people, more will have been done in
the way of restoring order than can be
effected in long time by force of arms.
1t will show the l2H-breakers that their
hopes Of successful revolution have
been groundless. The policy of the
government has not, at any time, been
a rash one. 1t has been to move care
fully, but firmly, and no one doubts
the strength OF purpose of the executive
to carry out whatever he determines to
do, provided he has the legal power to
do it. The situation is certainly grave
one, and the people should be brought
to full realization Of it. By tenn
porizing policy, such as a Democratic
Congress would adopt, the troubles
would be increased and prolonged, I'M
III We found ourselves standing on the
brink of another civil war with the ne
gros still the cause of contention. An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
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