Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

Board was the lawful board, and that thcti
decision that Kellogg was elected was con
| elusive The Senator described the interfer.
ence Of United States Judge Durell and its
effect He did not Justify the interference OF
| him nor the irregularities of the Lynch Board,
but that interference did not change the ques,
| tor Of right or invalidate what had been
donG
The Supreme Court has repeatedly decided
that the Kellogg G0vetttit Mt is the lawful
Government. The President, in five different
ways, has recognized It; the House OF Rep,
resentatives recognized II by admitting a
ttiember on Kelloggs certificate; the Senate
did SO by repeatedly refusing to pass the bill
for a new election.
The Senator reviewed the Colfax massacre,
where 100 colored men were killed under cir
cumstances Of peculiar atrocity, and only ofiC
white man was hurt. He then sketched the
Coushatta murders. For all these inhuman
crimes not a man has been punished | am
no advocate of Kellogg, but 1t is only Justice
to say that he has not belonged to any of the
plundering rings, and no robbery or stealing
has been brought home to him. The Repub.
licans OF Louisiana are not free from fraud.
have no apology for. them. But they are
trivial when compared with the system of
murder by which their ranks have been
decimated and the whole State demoralized.
a reign of terror destroys the integrity of
men as well rs their courage. Their enemies
In Louisiana claim that charges of corrup-
against Republicans shall obscure and hide the
fact that Louisiana has been one vast scene of
murders during the last eight years. If the
people Of Louisiana would not trgve their
State TO be blighted they must stop the fuur-
der business. They cannot expect the Gov
ernment to. We have got past the point
where it was necessary to inquire who was
elected. Government cannot exist in any
State without there be some tribunal to
determine who has been elected; with
out something can be considered set
tled, e,. The The, Kellogg GTyernment &E I has hS
State by the McEnery faction was in the ma
ture Of Mexican pronunciamento. If it
is tolerated In one State II will be adopted in
others. 1t would be the introduction Of Mex
lean politics
There is one salvation for .tb1rur political
recognition oG.UIeu people, the protection Of
{iC,, liberty, and property. There must be
federation for all opinions and for oil parties;
it must be as safe for Republicans as for Dem
ocrats Whatever may be aid of the irreg
uarities by which the Kellogg Government
was established it is undoubtedly true that
it represented a majority Of the people of the
State But il McEnery had been placed in
office it would have been by fraud un-
equaled in extent and wickedness. To eX-
pect the negroes of Louisiana TO observe the
laws sensibly and maintain order upon all oc-
casions while they were being murdered on
every hand was absurd.
Two apologies are offered for the murder
of black and white Republicans through
out the South generally; that whites
of the carpet-baggers. This is II selfevident,
weak and senseless falsehood, for the muir
dersa and punishments have never fallen upon
the Thieves, but upon the innocent and the
poor. The thieves have always found DEM
ocratic partners; when discovered and kicked
out OF the Republican party they have been
warmly received by the Democratic party.
The case of Warmoth is a notable fact. Gov.
Moses, of South Carolina, is not carpet
bagger, but native, and is said to have some
of the best blood in the State in his veins. He
has been kicked overheard by the Republi-
cans. If he offers TO join the Democratic
party he will probably be received, and
thenceforth they will be silent as to his crimes.
The next excuse is that the negroes have con-
spired and armed themselves to eXterminate
the whites, and these murders are committed
by whites in self-defense, These are stupid
lies, manufactured by knaves to be believed
by idiots.
Gov Hendricks, in his speech the other
night complained that the Government was
sending troops into the South, but made no
mention of the causes for which they were
sent, no illusions to murders and massacres
which have taken place; he left his audience
to infer that it was simply an outrage on the
part Of the Government and without cause,
and then went on to tell how the white people
were outraged and eXasperated by the forma-
ton of oath bound, armed leagues Of negroes.
That was an old story thathad done service in
1868, 1870 and 1872. 1t was impossible for the
Governor to pick it out of the gutter, put it
on its legs again, and make it serve
as an apology for these murders.
The beginning of all improvement and
all restoration in the South must con-
sist in the cessation of murder. While that
prevails it is idle to hope for reform. 1t is the
greatest of all crimes, and where it prevails it
demoralizes and destroys the integrity and
character of the people. Nothing is so de-
structive to all characteristics of a nation as
a reign of terror, and until the stream of muir
der is dried up people will not go to the South
to live, and many who are there will get away
as fast as they can. There can be no improve
ment, education, agriculture, manufactures,
nor in any department of business until there
is security for life and property.