Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-09-14
The Mississippi Troubles.

Our remarks in Fridays HERALr
based upon the traw head and bloody
bones" dispatches concerning the
state of affairs in Mississippi are in
accordance with subsequent develop.
ments. The plot has again miscarri-
ed, and the press dispatches from
Washington now laud the conduct OF
GRANT and PIERREPoNT. At the
critical moment AMEs could not go
through with his part. The scenery
was all arranged. The public had
been wrought up to the highest pitch
of interest. The curtain rises, the
prologue is recited, the chief actor ap-
pears upon the stage, or rather is sup
posed to be hidden in the cloud of to-
bacco smoke that moves toward the
foot lights. The Attorney General
rushes forward with an armful Of law
books, holding in his right hand a
proclamation ready to be launched.
The blue lights throw glamor over
the actors and the audience, and the
side door opens to admit the "First
Murderer" The silence is. profound.
With bated breath and glaring eyes
the audience watch the stage. Every
minute seems an age. The clanking
of chains, the rattling of bones and the
clangor of arms can be heard in the
distance. Even the prompter is un-
easy, and whispers so loudly that it is
heard all over the house. The actors
can bear the delay no longer. The
announcement is made that the per-
son who was to play "First Murderer"
cannot be found, and the play must be
postponed. "Only this, and nothing
MORE" Whether said "First murder
er' was sick, or drunk; whether he
had struck for higher wages, or for
gotten his part, may perhaps never
be known. 1t is enough to know that
he has spoiled heart rending trag-
edy, and become the hero in a miser.
able farce. We should think that as
our telegram states. "The situation
in Mississippi grows more perplexing
each hour" 1t is more perplexing to
the authors of the plot thar to outside
observers. The man who fills the
Gubernatorial chair of the common
wealth of Mississippi; who has shown
himself capable of betraying every
trust confided to him; who has a rec
ord even blacker than that of KEEL
LOGG of Louisiana; who is decidedly
the worst of all the band of hyenas,
the carpet-bag politicians-that have
so long preyed upon the Southern
States; who has been not only charg-
ed but proven guilty by his own hand
writing of instigating the troubles at
Vicksburg two years ago, and there
fore an accessory of the murders COM
mitted by the negroes on that occa-
sion; who represents the villainy of
his father-in-law B. +. BUTLER of
Massachusetts, combined with the
hatred of a base and cowardly heart.
Can it be that ADELBERT AMEs
sickened at the plot which he was to
carry out? Can it be that he surren-
dered at the final step, and shrunk be-
fore the vision of the hecatom bs of
victiems Of war between the whites
and blacks which he was to precipi-
tate? Perchance the Essex statesman
did not give full instructions, and the
thick headed Governor did not know
how to carry on the part he had un-
dertaken.
But we may rest assured the desper-
ate men who now control the rem
nant of the Radical party represented
by the Administration will not stop
here. The bloody work is to go on,
and strong case made out for mill
tary interference in all the Southern
States. The negroes have been insti-
gated to rise in Louisiana, Georgia
aud Mississippi. The same will be
done in other States, and if these eff.
forts have failed the others may not.
Our only consolation is that such des-
perate remedies to rally the Northern
people to the banners of Republican
ism indicate the speedy dissolution of
the party. 1t is the death throe, the
prompting by diseased brain.