Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-01-11
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MONDAY MORNING. January IL, 1878.
LOUISIANA CONSERVATISM.


The party which calls itself conservative
in Louisiana, but is known in the North by
the name of democracy, is making loud
appeals to the country against the military
proceeding at the legislature in New Or
leans the other day. Tammany Hall will
lead on is meeting this evening in sup
port Of the Louisiana conservatives. They
will be represented as a much injured, out
ragged. peaceable and law abiding people ;
and General Sheridan, President Grant,
and the republicans in Congress will be
denounced as dcspots crushing under their
feet an innocent and lamb-like class We
shall be told that the White League r SIM
ply police organization. very orderly
we'll behaved body, drilling evenings for
amusement and wearing arms only as or
naments. Nothing will be said about the
riot last September, or the assassinations
charged upon the White League, unless
1t be to denounce them as vile calumnes
of the republican press. The assault up
on Warmoth. the killing of Byerly, the
challenge of Jewell, if referred to at all
will only be mentioned in connexion with
the certificate of Archbishop Perche and
others as evidence of the high character
of New Orleans.
We have before us an article from the
Shreveport Times, in relation to matters
connected with the late election, in which
is the following language:
IF George D. Smith is counted in over
w. NJ. Levy, or if Twitchel is counted in
over Elan, let Smith and 1WitcheH BE
KILLED; if johnson and Tyler, in De Soto.
are counted in over Scales and Shuler. as
the New Orleans Republican thinks. or il
K.eting. Levisee and johnson. in Caddo,
are counted in over Vaughn, Koran an d
Lerisee and johnson BE KILLED; AND so
LET EVERY OFFICER, FROM CONGRESSMAN
DOWN TO CONSTABLE, IN EVERY DISTRICT
AND PARISH OF THE STATE"
Now the Shreveport Times is not an
obscure, uninAuential paper, but is n lead
ing journal in the South in politics. This
paper does not hesitate to advise assass-
ination of republicans. Its mandate is
LET THEM BE KILLED! And so in many in
stances they have been killed. What can
be the condition of community or par,
ty in which such language as this is toler-
ated ? No newspaper would give utter
ance to such shocking sentiments unless
they were upheld by the party which it
represents. And thus when the conserva-
tives of Louisiana are presented to-
night in the meeting at New York as in
nocent and prosecuted, and the speeches
are sent over the country to arouse indig-
nation against Sheridan and Grant. it
would be well to wait until the other side
of the story is heard, and seme explana-
ton is made of the above language from a
leading southern paper, aud many other
things equally as atrocious. This indica-
ties what Louisiana "IIome Rule" is. If
an humble republican stands in the way
the decree is, LET HIM BE KILLED If a
republican senator in Congress uses plain
ness of speech. club him Or threaten him
with the duelling code. Before the conser-
vatives can hope to excite much sympathy
in the North by their appeals they must
disband the White League, abolish sucl,
journals as the Shreveport Times, and
submit their grievances civil and political
to peaceful modes of settlement rather
than to clubs and pistols.