Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-01-16
LOUISIANA AGAIN.

week. VIC TelIulucu liOiu cApiSSSihS any /
lecided opinion, lest fuller intelligence |
night show it to be based upon false
premises, and consequently wrong. The
Democratic version Of the matter, that
he civil had been made subordinate to
The military power, and that Federal
bayonets had helped organize State
was something so utterly un
known in the history of this government,
that we might we'll be permitted to ques-
ton its truth and await further informa-
ton, Not 50, however, with the Demo-
cratic and guerilla papers. Here, at last,
was the long-sought opportunity of pro-
claiming that the administration had
made fatal blunder. And jumping at
the desired conclusion, every bushwhack-
ing journal from the Sacramento Union
down, sweled the chorus of denuncia-
ton of Grant and Sheridan. This, it is
true, is no more than was to be expected
of journal which had aimed TO create
sympathy for the White League assass-
ins, by publishing parts Of the constitu-
tion of that organization as a proof Of
its loyal objects, knowing, at the same
time, that its power for evil lay in the
secret work known only to the initiated.
In another dispatch Sheridan states
that more than thousand murders have
been committed in Louisiana. How ma
ny of the victims of this appalling record
of crime, we ask, are taken from the
ranks of the poor, suffering, down-trod-
den Conservatives Not one in ten
and we may safely add, not one in a hun
dred. In all the reports which have come
to US from that hot-bed of assassination
in the years since reconstruction was be-
gan, the gist Is always the same-the ne
g7oes being the aggressors, and negroes
the only ones killed. Even the most
stolid Dem Ocratic brain should feel that
this one-sided statement could not be a
correct one. The whole matter can be
summed up in very few words. The
old rebel element of the South refuses to
accept the legitimate consequences of its
own acts. They see their former slaves
placed upon political and civil equality
with themselves and cannot become rec
onciled to the changed state of affairs
So long as they, acting as Democrats, or
Conservatives, or whatever else they
choose to call themselves, can control
abe State and local governments it does
not matter so much but wherever the
colored vote is strong enough to give the
Republicans the ascendeney, there is the
spot where the war of races" breaks
out on every fancied occasion. And the
summing up is invariably the same-a
large number of negroes killed and two
or three Conservatives wounded. This
system of wholesale murder is winked at
and CLOSED oveI b. the Independent
press" for their condemnation of that
innocent little White League recreation
might make point in favor of the Re-
publican party, against which all their
shafts are now leveled. We say now, il
is high time the thing should be stopped
and if State law is powerless to check it,
the strong arm of the General Govern
ment should interpose to protect the lives
of its people, however lowly their sta
tion. We have more patience with the
White Leaguers than we have with their
Northern doughface sympathizers. The
Northern guerilla press foated with the
popular tide when it was forcing recon
struction upon the basis of negro suffrage
upon the South. No journals howled
louder than the Sacramento Union and
the New York Tribune for the passage
of the Constitutional amendments, and
now their selfish spite leads them to pal
the White Leaguers on the back as they
come with red hands from their work Of
| slaughter. Take their course upon thi.
very question of Federal interference al
New Orleans as an example. The fact
that the troops were first called upon by
the Conseryaties is treated so gingerly
that it is not deemed worthy Of comment
and we learned nothing Of it until it was
brought TO light by Sheridan's dispatch
but when the case is reversed, and it is
the Democratic OK that is gored, they
roar like very bulls of Bashan. 1t il
just such trucking to prejudice-suct
fear of being tainted with sympathy fol
the wrcngs Of despised and prosecuted
race, that gave encouragement to the re.
bellion fifteen years ago, and is fostering
the same spirit in another form to-day.
Within a day or two President Grants
message upon the matter will be laid be-
fore Congress, and from the official in.
formation which will accompany that
document we can form clearer judg-
ment as to the truth. We aim to deal
jnstly with this as with all other matters
of public moment, for the day Of blind
partisanship and local prejudice is past
But with our present light we say, that
the action of the Federal troops in main
tanning order when called upon by the
State authorities TO do so, was justifabC
from every point of view. Meanwhile
the farce of double government is being
enacted there, each party having organ
lied legislature of its own, and it is
probable that Congressional interference
alone. will restore order.
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REV. Mr.. GLENDENNING has announ-
ced to his church and congregation that
he will not again enter the pulpit until he