Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-04
A Plea for Assassination.

The shreveport Times OF the 10Th has a
leading editorial which coolly advises the
forcblc overthrow Of the negro vote In
Louisiana. 1t is piece of satanic writing
as bold as any we have seen IN many a
dav. II is sedtious, brutal, disgraceful,
and illustrates the extent to which liberty
Of speech can he abused. Here are pro-
visions Of the United States Constitution
assuring the political equality OF every
citizen Of the land. Those provisions are
theoretically accepted by all parties and
by all classes including that for which
the Shreveport editor speaks. There are
none more ready than he to proclaim
their submission to and acquiescence in
the constitutional amendments; and vet
in newspaper pretending TO represent
the public sentiment of the Southern PEG
pie, this man boldly proclaims the doctrine
OF determination against "A mgjorsty Of the
people of Louisiana.
The sum and substance OF our side of the ar.
gument IL, he says. that the white people Of
Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina have
one of two things 20 do. They must either assert
and eSfd6ttSh their supremacy in their respective
States or abandon them to the negroes.
Now in each of the States named the
colored race are in large majority How
does tho editor of the Shreveport Times
propose 10 establish white supremacy"
He answers this himself, frankly, shame
lcSsly, thus
must meet II honestly. squarcly and coursgeourly
We must fight The devil with fire Ii we would whip
him. We must appeal to the higher law, az
the Felicanns have done
How the Fclicianas" appealed to the
higher law has been told in our dis
patches. They have brutality shot down
innocent colorcd men, driven the Judge
OF the Circuit Court from his home, mur.
dered the Sheriff and even imbucd their
hands in the blood of innocent women to
carry out their designs This is the
higher law which the cowardlv and
contemplate poltroon who edits the
Shreveport Itmes proposes to invoke. even
while procaiming loudly that the South.
ern people accept the constitutional
amendments as final settlement of the
status of the colored man. We tell this
man and the whole gang of cut-throas he
represents hat they cannot begin their
work any too soon If it is 10 be begun at
all II this issue is TO be forced upon the
country, 1t cannot come in better time
than the present We want next year to
decide whether the Government of the
country is To be one that protects all It's
citizens, without regard 10 color or
condition, or whether it is to be one
that stands 10y and indirectly assists in
crushing out onc.half OF the population of
the South. We have been told time and
again that the Shreveport Times is not Il
fair representative Of Southern sentiment;
that II is controlled by characterless gang
OF men, without influence or standing
We have at times been disposed To accept
this explanation; but month after
month and year after year we have
seen IFS advice adopted by the white
people, while the pacific utterances
OF newspapers Of more pretensions have
been disrcgalded. Its prompting to muir.
der have been followed, and they will be
followed again. In the light of such
demonstration it Is idle TO tell the people
OF The North that such papers do not
speak the sentiments OF those who control
Southern affairs If it Is otherwise. why
are not these shameful utteranccs publicly
denounced and such bush whackcls driven
from the cover of their sanCtums into an
open and fair fight with the people they
lear but pretend "a dc>piscg Why are The
pledges OF peace and good will so rliblv
pronounced by Lamar and others violated
again ana again under The advice of such
paper rs The Times without n protest
from their authors? We challenge the
world to produce country SO ripe in
ircarhery 50 fun of assassinS, so biz with
hypocrisy and broken promises as the
southern half of this Union. And the
editor OF scrHggy newspaper whose
Clirt cad IN life seems 10 be- the dcgyada.
ton OF an humble people whom he fear,
Will oulsfrp him IN the race of life talks
about the intelligence and culture ol
iou.s.aniun~. Heaven save the mark
And he Is afraid The State viii he ICON
quprcd 10 barbarism" We submit that il
cam De- conqgcrc1 to nothing that will not
lee 'h improvement IN lis present stand
lnr. 10 pagoIy the famous sentence of
Nine. Roland, we may cNchim; 40 Civ.
ittinH! NhatcrmcS nave been commit.
i.a lathy name! thcggo iete. -Oe,aa.