New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-12
MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENTS.

| No sooner was it intimated that su-
perior power might be used to check the
victorious career of the White Line bat
talions in the field than tremor of in
dignation seized the chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee.
The constit utional right of the people to
ascend to fat offices over the bodies of
dead negroes was about to be iafringed
upon. The right of each State to regu-
late her own domestic concerns and tran
quilize the Republican party was haz-
arded. Notwithstanding the Associated
Press had preceded him for a period of
weeks in chro nicling some eight or ten
riots and the death of over sixty Missis-
sippians of both races, he telegmphed the
| Attorney General of the United States,
"There are no disturbances and no OBJ
structions to the execution of the laws"
Failing to perceive the inconsistency, he
continued: ''There has been an unex-
pected conflict at q political meeting. and
some subsequent disturbances, but every
thing is quiet now" Yes, it was all serene
at the telegraph Office at the time of the
dispatch. He continued: ''Peace prevails
throughout the State, and the employment
of United States troops would but increase
the distrust of the people in the good
faith Of the present State government
And J. H. George, chairman of the State
committee, over his own signature, had
made himself famous and clever repre-
sentative of the White Liners.
To remove all doubt from the minds of
the good people-about to vote. for VIII
liam Allen-of the peaceful intentions of
the organization, the White Liners offer
their services to Governor Ames to sscheer-
fully go and preserve the peace and pro-
tect the right in any part of the State
whenever called upon" and remark, with
an innocence quite peculiar, they were
not informed of any instruction until
they read the Governors dispatches to
Washington. We have no intelligence of
the action of the Governor, or his reply to
these generous patriots, but no doubt it
causes an unexpected conflict" in his
breast to witness the promptness of the
peacemakers of Vicksburg, Yazoo City,
Clinton and Satartia to volunteer in the
cause of the right, on their first intima-
ton that it was endangered.
The differences in Mississippi arise from
opposite definitions of the "cause of the
right" There is one party in the cam
paign which, with unarmed mass meet
ings, in the open air, gives its definition
in lawful manner, believing that "error
of opinion may be tolerated where reason
is left free to combat it," and cheerfully
abiding the, decision of the majority at
the polls. There is another party, bound
together by oaths and passwords, which
meets and drills in secret by night, ap-
pears armed with 1nurderous weapons on
the outskirts of Republican meetings by day
and seizes the earliest pretext to accom-
plish its purpose. The story Of one riot
gives, the general featuress Of all. The
widows and orphans belongs to the Re-
publican party. And the first intelligence
of lawlessnes reaches the Democracy from
the dispatch of Governor Ames to WASH
ington; the old cry of federal Intervention
is raised by the White Line press; and for
some time we shall listen to narrowing
tales of the outraged and oppressed White |
Liners; while every agency of the law to |
restore order will be ignored and Gov
ernor Ames and President Grant be ex-
ecrated for the performance of their con-
stitutional duties!