Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-08-22
rHE MILL.

THE OUTRAGE MILL.
As will have been noticed by our
dispatches of the last lew days, tie
outrage mill in the South has again
been set to work, and this time on q
grander scale than usual. The case
must be considered desperate 10 call
for an {" Outrage" OF the magnitude OF
that just unearthed in Georgia. Hith-
erto an occasional " bloody shirt or
the hanging of q few negroes by the
disguised Kuklux have been sufficient,
but now we have q plot which contem-
plated the indiscriminate massacre of
the white inhabitants of whole coun-
ties. In q half dozen counties in Geor-
gia negro military companies had been
organized, fully equipped and ordered
to commence on a given day the mer.
CHESS slaughter Of the white popula-
ton, sparing neither aye, sex nor con-
dition. The conspiracy was fortunately
detected and to daywe have advices that
tranquility again reigns in the lately
disturbed section. 1t does not ap-
pear that any previous trouble existed
between the two races in that quarter,
and no cause whatever is assigned for
the proposed action of the degrees. In
the light of the past, however, it is no.
difficult to discern the true meaning
and intent of the threatened insurrec-
ton. No man who has given atten-
ton to current events since the close of
the war will attempt to deny that sim
liar plots at the South, though posi-
bly, of less magnitude, have been the
distinguishing order Of the day, just
as regularly and as often as important
State elections were to be held at the
North. This is q fact too we'll anthem
ticated to need proof in support Of it.
It Is also well understood in whose in
forest these diabolical outrages have
been consummated. There is but one
political party that could benefit by
them. Peace and tranquility at the
South are favorable to Democracy in
all parts of the Republic, while
anarchy and bloodshed there
are seized upon by unprincipled
carpet. baggers and desperate scala
wags as a pretext for the continuance
in power of the Republican party both
North and South. And it is in this way
that sectional strife and hatred is per-
petuated and the true work of national
unity and reconciliation retarded
II not, indeed, Indefinitely deferred
That the foul plot just brought to light
in Georgia vas designed in some way
to exert an influence on the elections
90 soon to take place, we have not the
slightest doubt. Evidently it was the
intention to so exasperate the whites a.
to insure the slaughter of a score OF
two Of negroes, because We have the
highest authority for asserting that in
the eyes OF q particular breed of de
signing demagogues, the letting of D
little negro blood is just the thing tc
pr omote the success Of a certain kind
of partisan faith. Pertinent to this
subject IL tho following dispatch from
fernando, Mississippi, to the Mem
phis Appeal under date of the 9TH inst
1t tells the whole story about the out
rage business at the South:
Colonel G.. Wiley Wells, United
States District Attorney and q candi
date for the Republican nomination fol
Congress in this district, made a speecl
here to-day. He denounced Governor
Ames in the bitterest terms, and de-
clared that in the interview between
Governor Ames, Sheriff Crosby anC
Attorney General Harris, al the TIM,
OF the vicksburg riot, the Governor in
structed Crosby to arm the blacks ant
march against Vicksburg. Attorney
General Harris protested against thi'
advice and urged q resort to the courts
j Crosby left with these instructions
from the Governor, who, after his de-
parture, turned to Attorney Genera
Harris and said: "That the blood u
twenty five or thirty negroes wouit
benefit the Republican party in thu
State" Colonel Wells says that h'
made this statement upon the writer
authority Of one of the most reliable
and truthful Republicans in the State
Attorney General Harris was presen
here to-day as . supporter OF Wells
and heard these remarks without de
NAL and with approval.
TIE San Francisco Alta says tina
Joe Goodman has returned from