The weekly Louisianian., 1874-09-05

A n s. w EE h II /
BLACK WRONGS.
Under the above caption the
Cincinnati Commercial, an indie
pendent and influential Journal
with probably the largest circula-
tion oi any paper in the great North
S7estt, in gil article Of O columns
length denouqces the cruel, inln'
man and outrageous persecution ct
our people by the lawiess bands,
White League Ku-Klux organization
in the South, that are perpetratingg
the most brutal and cowardly muir
ders, such as occurred at Picketts-
vile, Tenn. last week and more re-
Gently in our own State in Red
River parish.
The sabjoined, is the article re-
ferred to, in full. We recommend
a careful perusal of the same by
our contemporaries of the press
and especially do we urge the sober
minded and honest white masses Of
Louisiana to read this article and
reflect upon it; as we know it rep
resents the sentiments of two thirds
OF the Northern and Western voters,
who have become alarmed at this
fearful record OF crime and are de-
termined that the life and property
Of IN American citizen black though
he be shall be as safe and as sacred
in every portion Of the South as it is
elsewhere amid the intelligent and
law abiding people Of the North.
The. closing paragraph we itali-
else because We desire to call espe-
cial attention to the suggestions
contained therein:
''Thero never was a more miserable
pretense than has recently been put
forward in some parts Of the South TIC
justify outrages upon the blacks. It
is pretended, ena there may be posi-
bly, some fools who believe it, that the
rights OF the whites arc in danger, and
that e war of races is inevitable. In
meliately following the" Vicksbure
election there was a yell that this is 80
white mans government" and that
tho day has arrived when the: blacks
ere to be, put under foot .aad taught
their placss in society aud the. State as
an inferior raee OF beings. IN L,uisi-
Z organizations Of whites have been
formed With the avowea purpose OF
carrying :rto operation this theory OF
the white .maaa's exclusive property IL
the Government.
"Ana this is the meaning Of the re-
cent. bloody raids upon the blacks. It
is thought necessary to intimiaate
them. They are to be cowed into abb
iectt submission, and shot if they show
a disposition to maintain their roliti-
cal independence. There is not an in
telligent white man in Kentucky.
Tennessee or any other State outside
Of South Carolina, Mississippi aud
Louisiana, perhaps, who has tho least
apprehension as to his rights, civil,
religious or social. He knows he has
both the ability and p3wer to main
tain them. His real apprehension is
lest lie be unable to practically deprive
the blacks Of theirs. He wants the
government, the officers, the. places,
RESPONSIBILITIES to himself; and his
purpose is to remand the darky to the
cotton and rice fields as q wage laborer,
entitled to no voice in political affairs,
and bound to submit to the dictation
Of those who have q divine right to
rulo or to ruin.
1.-THE c1aaf which we find in souae Of
our Southern exchanges atont the ne
groes-their desperate end 1ark de-
their secret organizations, their
their arms, their sinister
activity. and all that,-can hardly i'm
pose on any one. The negroes know
too well the disadvantages under which
they labor to mediate any violence to
the whites. Here and there one driven
to desperation, or acting under a keen
sense of wrong, may do violence but,