New Orleans Republican., 1875-09-09
TRIBUNE TEACHINGS,

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subjugation and determination of their
Southern State rights brethern. We have
a warmer indignation for such Northern
Republicans as had preached abolition
and son to Richmond, until their princi-
pies had been carried into practice, and
then turn to denounce emancipation as a
failure, and repudiate those Republicans
who went or remained South, with the
purpose to make it a success.
| 1t is not probable we could make this
indignation stronger by expressions OF
abuse employed against the most promi-
nent of these political renegades who hav-
ing first preached doctrine up to sue
cess, have then gone square back and de-
nounced their own disciples.
1t would seem we were premature in
welcoming the New York Tribune back to
the Jealous support of Republican in
tegrity. 1t still persists in agitating to
repeal the right of suffrage extended to
the colored people by bearing false wit
ness as to their incapacity to exercise
that franchise. We have contrahted the
true principles of Andrew jackson with
the fragrant abandonment and opposition
OF William Allen: Justice demands that
we should impale upon the same point the
recreant who turns the journal built up
by Horace Greeley upon the party and
the doctrines which he devoted his life to
establish.
The telegraph has just informed us that
| no proof Of 'insurrection" was adduced
against the negroes arrested in Georgia
upon charge of having committed that
offense.
At the same time it appears that the
New York Tribune had dispatched "a
staff correspondent" to Georgia for the
purpose of reporting the nature of the
alleged outbreak. This correspondent
characterizes the negroes as irresponsible
witnesses, and upon the answer of one
interviewed, deduces evidences of an ip-
tended massacre of the whites, partition
of property, and the acceptance of Cesar
ism under king Grant with a bounty of
the fortuitous forty acres and the mythical
mule, for which, to be paid for "on long
credit, it is supposed the negroes would
cheerfully murder every person in the
county. The contradiction of this story,
and of the inferenceu which the staff cor
respondent imparts to the editor. and the
latter lends the emphasis of the leads,
leaves the impotence and bad faith OF the
Tribune the more conspicuous. We, how
ever, charge that journal with asserting
two propositions alike unjust and in
furious to the Republican party; l. That
those negroes were instigated to commit
crime, of which they have been found
innocent, by ''the wild and mischievous
notions" which ''carpet-bag politicians
have been teaching them for ten years"
g. That the negro has been imprudently
liberated and absurdly endowed with the
rights of an American citizen.
The Tribune editorially indorses its staff
correspondent, and the latter states that,
''as many of the Tribune readers know, the
testimony of Southern negro is not
always entitled to credit, even when he is
confessing his own crimes" 1T is no un-
common thing in the cities of the South
for an ignorant negro to be found innocent
of offenses which he has confessed" A
witness of this description testifes that
she saw letter purporting to have been
written by Corday Harris, which ordered
the attack upon the whites to begin last
Friday, in the hands of another person.
'"He did not hear the letter read, but this
other person ''told' him the contents" 1t
subsequently appears that the letter itself
was attributed to man who could not
write his own name, The alleged writer,
the witness interviewed, says:
He saw it delivered to Walters, and that
he heard that it was lost before it reached
Harrison Tucker. Jerry Walters denies
that he ever saw it or had it; Harrison Tucker
never heard of it until after it WAS found by
the white people, and Corday Harris denies
ever having written or sent it.
But the nuts which the staff correspond
ent seems sent South to gather consist in
this: This witness, whose incompetency
was admitted in advance, "confesses" that
he had heard the negroes "were all to
vote for General Grant next year, and
make him king" and this authorizes the
Tribune to promote this report in small
caps-"GRANT TO BE KING" And then
the staff correspondent sharpens his PEN
Gil, and asks this "Jake Moorman,
negro of rather dull intellect even for
man of his race"-would Horace Greeley
have published such an intimation of race
inferior.ty7-who testiHes to the regal pro-
clivities of General Grant as follows: -.
"GRANT TO be KING"
'Now, jake" said l, did Merkerson tell
you that he heard about the election of
Grant to be king at Waynesboro 7"
"Yes, sir" was his reply, "that is what he
reported"
Moorman and his friends seem to have
thought more about the forty acres of land
and the mule than anything else, and asked
MerkersOn about it every time they saw
him. He told them that when General
Grant was made king the land would all
belong to HMM short, would be govern
ment land, and they would be allowed to
take it at government prices and on long
credit.
They were told that the lands would
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