National Republican., 1875-09-09
MISSISSIPPI MASSACRE.
fcoasiaued from First PsQe.)

~. ~ upcn the negroes are invariably bslittled
dent" journals In the Northern states, and, as
there is no restraining public sentiment In their
own communities to prevent them IRON d1Sna. MAUI
with the blacks, the latter are. made 20 suner.
The sneers about the "bloody shirt business are
producing their legitimate effect upon the south
ern mind, and serve to instigate the perpetration
of cruel wrongs, through the belief that no
amount Of villaiDy, Of which only negroes are the
North, or in any way affect the status Of the
superior race"
(From the Albany Evening journal, Sept. III
The unfortunate colored race will, as usual, be
held responsible for the recent terrible murders
In Clinton, Miss. But the facts do not justify the
charge. The disturbance which eliminated in
the slaughter of forty or fty negroes and several
whites was caused by the refusal OF a young
white rowdy 70 be arrested by colored consts-
ble He made violent resistance, when some
colOred men came to the aid Of the constable and
some white men interposed. This conflict ini-
tiated the slaughter, and the evidence is con-
elusive that the whites were the sggressors and
the colored men the sufferers.
lFrom the y. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Sept. IL
Tue true story Of the riot at Clinton, Missis-
sippi, now reaches us from Southern sources. 1t
appears that the negroes had q large political
meeting from which all liquor was excluded. A
party Of white men attended and brought liquor,
refusing TO leave the grounds when ordered on
by the colored marshal. Hence the disturbance.
Three white men were killed and forty wounded.
This disparity OF the dead tells It's own story.
Black men are now less secure In their lives, In
the prospect Of Democratic victories.
tFrom the Rochester Express, Sept. III
1t is far from our intention to hold the political
leaders Of Mississippi responsible for this mas
sscre. 1t appears that the sole Democratic
speaker Of the occasion requested for his contest
ant the same courtesy from the crowd that he had
received. The quarrel doubtless grew out Of the
passions and prejudices Of the mob. 1t proves
however, that there is a quenchless IRE Of hatred
burning in the breast OF certain classes In the
South, which is ready to break out with terrible
destructiveness upon the slightest pretext. 1t is
the action Of the Government, which postpones
peace and drives away prosperity in the South.
ORe riot Of that nature year In any section ADDS
II is capital that is wanted, we are told. Well,
capital will not venture where murder and vto-
lence prevail, and the deferred recuPerstion Of
the South proves the proposition.
The shooting business down South has recon-
menced. The "outrage mill is once more dis
charging from its bloody spout the mangied vic;
bigotry. After q respite Of some months the
country once more is to be agitsted and exsspe-
rated by accounts Of political assassinstions riots
and msssacres In the Southern States. That
crimson signal Of the boasted harmony said to
prevail everywhere in that section, the "bio'dy
shirt A." which has not been waved before the g
of the public in q number Of weeks, is now n ~
at Clinton, Mississippi, not spotted only, out
fairly rseking and dripping with the blood ,,o Of
Il
tiOns. To speak, indeed, of the "bloody shirt
In the sing gular number does not convey an ade-
quate idea Of the brisk business that has really
been done at Clinton. The Associated Press dis
patch, which is supposed to be an unbiased source
Of information, hangs out on the telegraph line
somewhere between fifteen or twenty bloody
shirts for the contemplation OF civilized and
Ohristianized country, and one report declares
that q hundred negroes have been killed, as well
as several white men.
After reading the rose-colored and really charm
ing letters of the Tribune correspondent In
Georgia, who went to LOOK for q community torn
by insurrectionary violence, and found an Arcadia
OF peace and harmony, in which the love Of the
whites for the blacks was only exceeded by the
love Of the blacks for the whites, and where an
insurrection would be as perplexing to the moral
philosopher as the alleged rebellion in Heaven,
one experiences Q sad shock at this news from
Clinton, Mississippi. If the newspaper corre-
spondents have been lying to US about the South,
whom shall we believer or course, the official
reports Of the Government concerning former dis
turbances the afidavits of colored men and white
men whose yeracity, as we'll as their lives. was
no account, simply because they were Republi
cans, the exhibition Of cold corpses in bloody
shirts all this testimony was Of little consequence
but the veracious newspaper man with his little
hatchet, the emblem OF truthfulness who wrote
for the Independent papers, has had our implicit
confidence. But If We must give him up, We shall
say as David, after finishing psalm on his Tyre
said, "Al II men are liars"