Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-09-07
.and that 70 DISGRACE the Administration

"and that to disgrace the Administration
''to which he belongs and to lower the
.credit of the nation throughout the
"civilized world
Turning to the columns OF the Argus
and Standard we shall find in them the
charge conveyed in the above from the
World, viz that the outrages reported from
the South are all manufactured to order
at Washington and sent over the country
for electioneering purposes.
Since the issuing Of the instructions OF
Attorney General Williams to United
States officers in the South TO take meas
ures to ferret out and punish the
authors of the outrages which have
occurred in that section; also
since the letter of instruction from
President Grant to the Secretary
of War upon the same matter; and
the proclamations of Governor Brown of
Tennessee and Governor Kellogg of Lou
isiana there would appear to be no
ground for believing that the reports Of
outrages were manufactured at Washing
ton or anywhere else, but the best of rea-
son to believe that they are yeritable
relations of facts, and serious facts at that.
If these things are not sufficient to con-
vince the public that the outrages reported
actually took place and were not ''made
to order" then we might refer to the
mass meeting held in Memphis on ac-
count of them, at which JEFF Davis and
| General Forrest made speeches. and en-
deavored to throw the responsibility for
the murder committed in Gibson county
upon white republicans. This ought to
convince the mustiest Bourbon alive.
Governor Brown of Tennessee in his
proclamation spoke of the recent afro
cities in the State" Governor Kellogg of
Louisiana in his proclamation says that
the victims of the Coushatta massacre
'were bound together two and two, con-
"ducted by an armed guard to Mcfarland
plantation, just over the parish line of
RED River, within the boundaries of
"Bossier parish, about 40 miles east of the
Texas line. There they were set upon
land deliberately murdered in cold blood.
"On the night preceding the murder.
members of the White League of Caddo
parish, mounted and armed, left Shreve-
"port and were seen riding in the drec-
"tion of the place where the murders were
committed. Their bodies were buried
"where they fell, without inquest or any
'formality whatever"
Against facts like these the assertion of
democrats that the outrages are man.
ufactured at Washington is inhuman and
astounding. The accompanying assertion
that if outrages have been committed they
are due to the negroes is still more in
human and astonishing than the other.
The World OF Friday, after acknowledging
that there is one genuine case of outrage,
in Tennessee, makes the following re-
mark: 1.-THE Southern WhiteS are bearing
wiM great patience The troublesome attitude
Of The negroes toacards them, because they
knoeo that ii is incited BY Radical aclite
emissaries for the purpose Of Influencing
the Northern elections"
The great patience of the whites is
manifested in their just having murdered
sixteen negroes in Tennessee, and seven
negroes and six yankee radicals" in Lou
isana. besides scores of other negroes
and radicals in other States.
These murders and hangings of terri
fed and prosecuted negroes and white
men whose only crime was that they
were republicans is considered by north
ern democrats evidence of "great pa
tience." To what depths will not north
ern democratic dough-faces 60 to screen
the wickedness of their southern allies
They bowed down to the slave holders
before the war, and they crouch now at
the feet of the Ku-Klux. The course of
the democratic organs at the North in re-
gard to these outrages is enough to con-
denim their party Before the public. Their
candidates for Congress in Maine would
be if elected the servants of that power
which has spread terror throughout the
South and covered with disgrace the
country's name abroad.