The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-01-21
now TO TNAU0URATE THE VIII.
LENNIUI.

It is curious to observe in those Northern
newspapers. in which one would least ex-
pect It, an illustration Of the philosophy Of
Him who spake as never man spake They
can sec the beam in another's, but never the
casaracts in their own eyes. The Philadel-
phia Press tells in one column of cnormities
done by the White League in New Orleans,
as asserted by stranger there named Phil
Sheridan, and pronounced false by the
priests and preachers of every church and
by every Federal soldier not anoficeholder,
in the city. But admitting all that is said
BY those interested IN disappearing the
facts, and discrediting those who are en-
titled to limitless confidence, in what IS the
condition OF New Orleans worse than that
Of Pennsylvania and New York CitYg Even
in broad daylight highwaymen boldly enter
the street cars, and, defying resistance by
their numbers, they rob men and women.
People dare not walk the streets at night
unguarded, and lawlessness endangers the
very existence Of society. Philadelphia,
whence Charlie Roses arc spirited away,
or where fifty or more brutal men fight like
Wild beasts GA fashionable thoroughfare,
for possession of painted courtesan,
where men are robbed and houses pillaged
each night, and where Morgue would never
be tenantless--in such a city New Orleans
finds It's chiefest asaailant. Not far away
from Philadelphia coal diggers to the num-
Der OF twenty thousand are armed and in
open revolt against the constituted authori
ties. The very foundations of society are
shaken aud knavery is uppermost, and the
rabble in Eastern cities rampant. In Louisi
ana, on the contrary, strangers appeared,
They came tho special, peculiar friends Of
the simple, untutored Africans. BY nc
groes, eompacted in Legal Leagues, these
unknown people arc invested with Offices,
and the whole purpose Of government.
shaped and conducted by those having not
the slightest sympathy or interest in common
with the class whose money and property
enrich the reigning adventurers-the whole
purpose Of such governments is wrong and
robbery, and no people, born free, should
tamely submit, as those Of New Orleans
have done, to its expressions and insults.
White Leagues, organized to maintain order
and peace, should have been organized
to prevent the collection Of taxes tC
be stolen by Office clad rogues.
White Leagues should have antago.
nized black Loyal Leagues; but the
latter, in the Dyes Of the Philadelphia paper,
as in those Of Wendell Phillips, and white a.
lambs' wool, and the former organization,
because composed Of Intelligent white
men, is capable Of every crime, aud eveI
plots treason and naneless infamies. For
the lifo Of US We cannot understand these
things We cannot see how the North Is
50 blind 10 patent evils there, and to the
facts that beget calamities here. When the
mystery is subjected to its last analysis, we
find that the domination Of towns and cities
and States by Adventures and unknown
knaves constitutes the intolerable calamity
Of the South. Change all this, and give
che South self-gOvernmcut everywhere, as
IN Texas, and towns and cities Will never.
more Dc robbed by the rabble, nor States by
Kellogg or Bullock or Reed or Moses,
The negro will be protected, since he most
needs protection sgainst himself, and The
North viii be enriched, since the South vii
prosper as never before.