Richland beacon., 1874-06-20
Letter From Grow Foot.
Editors Richldnd Beacon

In concluding my communication o
the 3Oth ult., | will say: go, mighty
Caesar! Dost thou lie so low ?" as to
skulk into a thicket of moonshine tC
hide thy shame; the Fusion Repre-
sentatives taking their seats in the
bayonet Legislature last winter, was
as good biding place, as Rad, oil
Northern Democrat, needs to dodge
into to make a point, and to excuse
themselves of the many outrages tha,
they thrust upon the citizens of the
South. If that thickct had not put in
an appearance at the present session
of Congress, a mushroom would have
sprang up, as it did in the Spring OF
1873; and assumed proportions suf
ficient for Congress. the President and
his Cabinet to have taken shelter un-
der. 1t would be more manly for
them to say that might makes right,
offer no excuse for their malfeasance,
and as DIR. Sangrador, deplete the
South to their hearts satisfaction
As to how the Louisiana case went
off, it is nothing more than was ex-
pected, but let it pass off as it might
it is but in keeping with the admins
trat.on of the Federal Government.
The decisions of the Supreme Courts
of the States of Texas and Arkansas
did not have inr savory odor that the
timely mock oec;sion of the Supreme
( Court of th' S'ate Of Louisiana had
at Washington; wherefore as there
was too much rotten fish in the decis-
ion of the Supreme Court of Louisiana
to stomach a double dose from Texas
and Arkansas, and three cut and dried
decisions, was more than President
Grant could digest without imminent
danger of an attack of the cholera
morbus on the Radical party.
The decision of the Supreme Court
of the State of Louisiana was a con-
vcnient thicket of moJnshine for Pres
ident Grant to hide in to bolster up
measures that followed the election in
this State in 1872. Measures that it
was known, long before the election
would be resorted to in the event tha,
the Fusion candidates were elected
The course that Congress has pursued
towards the South for the last thirty
years, has given every evidence thai
that it has been possible for it TO give
it is proof positive Of the deep seated
inveteratc hatred that large MAORI
ty of the Northern people entertain
toward Southern citizens; say
Southern citizens, l do not mean th,
negroes while at the same time the,
do not entertain that kind feeling ant
sense of justice towards the negro tha
the Southern citizens do. The North
ern people provoked and brought on
long, bloody and destructive war ol
the Southern people, not from sens
of humanity to set the negro free, bu
to swim, riot and gloat in Southern
blood, ravish their wives, daughter
I and sisters, raise their cities, village
and hearth stones to the earth. /
, there was any species of savage bru
tai warfare that they did not wag
against the Southern people, say wba
it was; they poisoned provisions an
l medicines and placed them so as t
fall into the possession of the South
ern people, they poisoned enfield ball
, and shot them at the Southern citizens
they placed Southern men on the racl
9 beneath the wheel of the Temple @
Juggernaut and forced them to dis
close where their silver ware, gol
chains, finger rings, watches, clothin:
e:c., were concealed; they even rol
bed the Capitol of this State of th
Statue of u ashington-in few word
I. they robbed the Southern citizens I
II everything to which was attached an
c pecuniary value.
The luxurious life of the Souther
= planter excited their envy and arouse
e their hatred; they kindled fire {
!. Harper's Ferry and in Kansas twcnt
e years ago, and the godly saints
= Boston added fuel 10 the flame in IL
Is way of iucendiares, emissaries ar
: sharp's rifles, until every family
to the South was draped in mournin
Is Is cities, villages and hamlets were b
r smouldering ruins; not satisfied wi
that, although the Southern peop
laid down their arms nine years ag
the war still goes on kuaves still ri
into power on the negro's shoulder
(poor dumb creatures, hewers Of wo'
and drawers of WATER in some
n, stances YOU have a change of master
=, but the tax gatherers never sleep,
,r But for the administration at Was
es ington, the affair at Colfax would nc
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