New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-14
SOUTHERN. 0UTRAaES.

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hard headed ridicule and exposure OF all
it deems Objectionable succeeded in secur-
ing the representation of public senti-
ment. This is because partisan journals
are required to exaggeIate the errors OF
their opponents and palliate those Of their
| friends. When, therefore, the Herald
writes as follows it represents the eonvic-
ton of great many people at the North
and West
We advise the decent white people in Mis-
sissippi to keep an eye on the blackguards
| of their own color, and try to restrain the
| law essness OF these creatures somewhat.
There is no doubt at all that the great mass
Of the Mississippi whites are honest, law
| abHing citizens; but there is. no doubt
either that they have amang them a consia-
| cradle number of staggering, whisky drink
| ing, pistol shooting DULLES, and that they
| give TO this rufian class great deal too
much license. Take as case in point the
Clinton affair last Saturday.
| Unfortunately for Mississippi this is nc
an isolated case of unprovoked outrage
| upon colored people within few months.
| On the fourth of July, when the blacks of
| Nicksburg met quietly in the courthouse to
celebrate the day, few white ruffians in
| truded on the meeting, and after insulting
| and noisy demeanor, began to shoot right
and left and broke up the assemblage.
| There was not the least excuse for this; but
we do not remember that any one was pun
ished for it. though the men were very well
known. Within the last month there have
been several little 'scrimmages" between
whites and blacks in the State. showing
good deal of bad blood, and a readiness on
the part of the superior race to shoot the
inferior II very slight plovocation, or none
at all.
The people of the United States can
not but regard these acts as a wanton ag-
erosion on the colored people. These
people have just ''laid by the best
crop since the war. They can not have
been therefore the arrogant disturbers
who violate the peace Of society. For
getting the noble services Of the colored
people during the war in all field and
mental labor, there has been no commenda-
ton, for the planter has everywhere the
credit of having sat on his portiqo and
conducted the crop with the aid of the
genial rain. 1t is singular, however,
that just as corn and cotton have been
worked over for the last time, the negro
game law seems to have lost its protective
force, and it will be now proper to kill
them until the picking season fairly
commences. The negro may turn, like
the deer or partridge, to be in season
during the whole of an election year, and
for the months of August, September,
December and January every year. Within
these months they may be shot and their
certificates of suffrage will be deducted by
Democratic registers from the Republican
poll.
The negroes of Mississippi seem to I'M
derstand very well that when two or three
shall be gathered together in the game
season lot of those reckless and idle per-
sons to whom the Herald refers will be in
their midst with bowie and revolyers.
The journals report that so general has
this corrective become among the ne
groes of Mississippi they have taken to
the woods in far greater numbers than
when they were slaves. Such, then, is
the benefcent result of freedom granted
without an accompanying guarantee. The
whites have risen, and the negroes have
fled to the swamps! We learn, upon the
same authority, that the white people be-
ing still in some need of colored men to put
up fences, catch, saddle and harness
horses, and to pick the " first BALE" have
captured anegro named Kelly, represented
to have been perfectly wild with terror,
mounted him on mule and sent him to
recall the negroes from the woods, with
promise that if they will work they shall
not be shot How much this looks like
the first landing of some discoverer upon
the savage shores of timid and terrified
tribe. They capture NATIVE, bestow
upon him beads and fishhooks, they vaunt
their own irresistible honor, and promise
protection and profit.
The Democratic party at the North have
been long aware of this indefensible spirit |
at the South, and have, therefore, re-
Trained from committing themselves to
the violent and illegal remedies of the OPP
pressed in Louisiana Let the Herald but |
show that the cruel, lawless and intolerant
class controls the State of Mississippi,
and the Democratic party will denounce
and throw them off, just as it has done
the unpopular Tweed, not because he was
dishonest but because he has been dis
covered and convicted.