New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-20
OUTLAWS AND THOSE WHO PALLIATE
THEIR DEEDS.

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affairs because we condemn the gin burn
ers and the jayhawkers who retaliate by
burning stores. We are also censured for
that we condemn the murder of citizens
on the suspicion of having attempted the
life of man who is living, and also for
not having known that the man to have
been murdered is still sin danger of his
life, he having two physicians in daily
attendance. We have denounced the vio-
lations Of the law. We have taught that
when men in high position teach that there
is no obligation on citizen to obey law
which he chooses to say was unconstitu-
tional, or contrary to the higher law of
his own discretion, such doctrine was
| pernicious. We have said that the same
doctrine which would overthrow State
| government BY force or refuse payment
of taxes would by the simplest process of
application run tax collector out of a
parish, expel officers formally appointed,
or capture prisoners on their way to trial,
shoot them "full of bullets" and leave
their mangled bodies 'by the roadside +"
1t would also justify that highest insult to
| the law, to wrest an untried prisoner from
the custody and confinement of the law,
and inflict capital punishment by hang
ing at the very doors of the court of JUS
tice Has the Pic even condemned this
violation of law? Has it censured this
misapplication, it may be, of the higher law
doctrine taught openly by the Democratic
press and by the White League orators?
1t would really seem that the REPUBLICAN,
in its ignorance that DIR. Saunders was
still sin danger of his life" under the at
tendance of two doctors, has committed
greater wrong than the masked and
armed" Ku-Klux who put prisoners of
the law to death.
terest of the white people Of the State.
1t is proper they should know what is the
sentiment of all law-abiding citizens
everywhere. We have told them this be-
cause we do not wish them to be victims in
property, business and reputation of law
less men or suppliant hatterers. The
Democratic press thinks to conceal these
outrages by suppressing and endeavoring
to palliate them. Does that press think
there is no other means of development?
Murder will out. 1t will exude through
thousand pores of disclosure. Statements
from the unfortunate sufferers ,cM reach
distant public, which ,oN believe their
statements. The hearts of a million of
mothers will throb, and their eyes suffuse
at the simple and uncontradicted story of
mother sitting by the dead and unburied
child of her just murdered husband, with
out single sympathizing neighbor. Now
the Democratic press may ridicule this
or may deny it altogether. 1t may say
that woman wrote that letter fer political
effect, but it soiN be believed. 1t has
been believed and such accredited state
ments from newspaper and private cor
respondence, have had their effect. Those
newspapers which publish these facts in
Louisiana, may be silenced by proscrip-
ton or Intimidation; by throwing the
type into the road or river, or otherwise.
The deeds of illegal violence will be
known; they will be exaggerated. The
very silence which broods over the State
will excite the suspicious of those who
are accustomed to the liberty of speech
and publication. This horror and disgust
has prevented even Northern Democrats
from taking up the Ku-Klux cause. The
Democrats nowhere stand as very patient
obeyers of the law. They do not care to
take upon themselves the vindication of
those whose avowed contempt for the
laws is indefensible either at TIE North
or West.
The REPUBLICAN is blamed for its dis
closures. To have made known an Of |
tense is worse than the offense itself. The |
witness is worse than the criminal. 1t
has been the wish of many merchants
that the papers shall forbear to publish |
the reported cases of yellow fever. Has
this suppression produced confidence in
our health elsewhere? Has not the ex-
istence Of the disease been proclaimed,
and even magnifed, by correspondence, by
in other papers? The public
knows that hundreds of persons have
been kept away from our city by false for
eign reports Of q pestilence. As the repu-
tation of this epidemic undoubtedly keeps
many people away from our city until
after frost, SO the refusal to acknowledge
an obligation to pay the taxed interest on
the public debt would keep capital away,
while the imagination of party of
masked and armed marauders, coming
like the agents of the inquisition, to
seize, and carry off q man charged with
some offense not named in the law, will
check the immigration of people from
other communities where such things are
unknown. Blame the REPUBLICAN for
telling the effects of such doctrine and
such deeds upon the prosperity of the
State and city; praise the lawless, pal
late the evil Of their deeds, and deride
the fears and suferings of their victims.
This may bring certain approval from
those who teach such doctrine, but there
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