The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-10
The Southern Democratic Address.

The address 10 the Southern
Democratic members of congress,
publ Sued yesterday, is another
shrewd attempt to mislead public
sentiment in the North. So far as
it is in reality addressed to the
South, it says substantially to the
people of that section: Don't
strike to, soon! Wait until you
can do SO safely Keep perfectly
quiet for little longer, and a
deceived and hoodwinked North
will give you unlimited power.
Then go in, and do your worst
Endure your wrongs with pa
tience," says the address. In the
name of all that is just, what wrong
has been done these people? Is ii
the amnesty that has been granted
by the North to traitors against
the country? Is it in allowing
them every right and privilege
which they enjoy before their
crime? Is it in placing them in
position where they could elect
nearly one hundred of the most
prominent leaders in the late
rebellion to the National Congress?
Are these the wrongs which a
vindictive party has heaped upon
them? We had supposed that the
wrongs" were on the other side.
We had supposed the cause for
complaint existed in those who
have been driven by these Southern.
marpIots from their homes; Nc
have had their plantations plum
dered, and their friends murdered
with a ferocity unheared of in a
civilized land We thought the
wrongs had been suffered by the
thousands of colored men and
Northern Republicans who have
been prosecuted with fiendishness
worthy of savages, and who have
hunted with the merciless cruelty
of wild beasts.
The wrongs of the South.' Let
an impartial world judge what
these wrongs are. Let the official
record of the 4 600 MANNED victims
in louisiana testify to the outrages
committed and to the men who
have suffered them! Search the,
record through You shall find
among the victims Republicans of
every hue, but not member of the
White League! Examine the list
You will find black and white by
the thousands who have been spit
upon, mobbed, deprived of their
votes; but not among the number a
single rebel! The latter do not
complain of intimidation They do
not complain of lawlessness and
assassination. They cannot point
to q single instance where one of
their number has been driven from
the polls, or shot down like d dog
because he dared to offer his vote.
What, then, are the wrongs which
they are advised to endure so hes
roically? But the address contin
ues: LET us continue to deal with
them the blacks1 honestly and
fairly, and let us continue to invite
to our midst those of any political
party who either seek to know the
truth or to find homes upon our
SOIL Was there ever more bitter
irony than this? Continue to deea
Justly with them" Pray, when did
these people comence dealing justly
with race which they have beaten,
sold, robbed since the beginning of
the Republic? Let us continue to
invite to our midst those of any
political party who seek to find
homes upon our soil!'' Aye these
invitations have been given, and
homes, long and permanent, have
been found upon their soil The
story has been too often told in
these columns, and need NOT be
repeated now. Itshould pc burned
by this time into the very heart
and BRAIN of the North.
1t IS proper That such addresses
as this should be signedb by ex rebel
officers, and especially that it
should be signed by Mr.. John
Young Brown, o. Kentucky, whose
threat against all who dared to
assist the Union armies we publish
ed n few days ago We may have
to wait, but the time is coming
when the hollowness, treachery.
and wickedness of such manifestoes
will be SO plain that he who runs
may read. 1t may not come until
every Northern man shall have
been driven from the South, and
every colored man reduced to
state worse than slavery, but it
viii come at last and bring its
own retribution Inter Ocean.