The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
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There is pressing need that the
Republicans of the various Con-
gressional districts of the country
should wake up to the duty be-
fore them. The breaking out of
the troubles in the South has once
more made it of the utmost i'm
portance that none but knoara and
trusty men should be put on guard.
The next Congress ought to set
tie this Southern business Tor
good. The country has been an
noyed and disgraced, and the
whole world shocked by these in
humanities until it would be a
crime to neglect their effectual
suppression by the employment of
any and every means necessary to
put q stop to them forever. We
know from experience just whom
to trust for such legislation. Men
who are wholly or partially in
sympathy with these offenders
will not do. Men who are fright
ened at the skeleton of "nigger
equality" will not do. 1t may
just as we'll be settled first as last
that there is not q political right
which white men enjoy in this
country that the colored man is
not also entitled to, and, being en-
titled to it, the men who propose
to overturn the will of the people,
and defeat sacred provision of
the Constitution must be put
down. Those who belong to white
leagues, and indulge in secret as
sassinations, may better know
now than at any later period that
the whole power of the nation, if
necessary, will be employed to de
feat their purposes, and to punish
severely and surely-the perpe-
traitors Of these wrongs.
1t is the duty of the people of
the North, who have been Mortified
by the murders and outrages, &C
counts of which have appeared In
the public prints for the last few
to look to it that such
men are returned to Congress this
fall as will promptly provide re-
lief against such atrocities. The
present apathy regarding the COM
ing elections shO uld be thrown oil,
and an earnest and sincere effort
made to return Republicans
known, tried, true-and only such
as will indicate Enthusiastically their
determination to put a stop to this
business. The civil rights bill
was defeated last winter because
of the ill-adyised tenderness, not
to say unfaithfulness, of some Re
publican members of the House.
To that defeat we believe these
troubles in the South to-
day can be partially traced. 1t
encouraged these silly men to be-
lieve that the North had forgotten
justice, had turned its back upon
1.-The wards of the nation" and
would look calmly on while the
colored people were stripped of
every right and once more remand
ed to virtual slavery. They are
just now discovering their mistake,
and arc, of course, much surprised
thereat. We do not know but
these crimes have been necessary
to recall the people of the North
to their senses. They have shown
us the absolute impossibility of
permitting these late rebels or
their sympathizers to succeed to
power in the government without
greater danger to liberty and free
speech than existed before the
war. It is perfectly apparent that
with the political friends of these
men controlling the government,
no white man not in sympathy
with the purposes of the White
League would he permitted to live
in the South, while the colored
men there would h.: remanded to
servitude or exterminated. Itmay
be providential that the spirit and
designs of the people there have
been thus exposed, and the coun-
try saved from such suicidal con-
fidence. Unless we are mad, we
shall see that until there is a COM
plete and radical change of senti-
ment in the Southern States, the
political power of the nation must
remain in the hands of the Repub-
lican party. This change we can
not hope for until the majority of
those who went into the rebellion
have passed from the stage of &C
ton.