Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-27
THE HAMBURG AFFAIR.

THE HAMBURG AFFAIR.
The bloody riot at Hamburg has been
the occasion of much denuneistory writ
ing on the part Of Radical and Inde-
pendent organs especially. They have
made haste, cruel haste in some in
stances, to put colorIns upon it which,
upon close investigation, it viii not bear.
They set it down to the account of the
white people, of the Democratic party,
and to supposed chronic condition OF
rebellion, that singulRrly enough we
never hear Of outside the negro governed
States of Louisiana and South Carolina.
In Tennessee, when under Radical rule,
the people were In feverish state OF dis.
gust growing out of the encroaehmebts
of the party then In power and the IN
checked arrogance OF the negroes led by
desperate white adventurers. So soon IS
3 Democrat was elected governor
change for the better came, and, with
one notable exception, and that direct
result of Rsdicalism, we have enjoyed.
peace ever sin. e. In Alabama, while
Spencer and his postofice spies were
managing affairs, aud the State lay st
the feet of cormorant and uneonsclon-
able crew of Radical thieves, riot was
general and disgust prevailed in all sec.
tons. How is it to-dsy2 Shorn of
power, the Radicals are obedient
to the laws and profound peace
reigns supreme and good will exists
between sill classes Of the people. Ar
kansas-the scene Of the bloodiest feuds
and riots on record, where, in the south
western part Of the State, the Radicals
kept standing army of militia, md as
in Crittenden county, they massaered
whole families in cold blood-the State,
once ruled and well nigh ruined by
Mcclure, Clsytou, Dorsey, M'Donald &
Co., now under the benign sway OF
Democratic governor and Legislature,
enjoys peace and plenty, and sense Of
security such aswe at one time supposed
had fed the ate forever. Mississippi,
cursed by the cowarjly imbecility of
Ames, and a prey to gang the most
nefsrious the Radical congress had fos-
tered and sustained by laws, many of
them declared unconstitutional and
void by the supreme court-Mississippi,
bearing still the marks of the murderous
sssailments of the bloody crew, under a
Democratic governor, and the intelli
gent direction Of Democratic legisla-
ture, is fast recuperstIng and recovering
from the murders and robberies of ten
weary years, such as no other people
could have withstood so patiently. Tex
as-the seat of great empire, with a
people characterized by all the dash and
energy of piOneers-is, too, fast repa r
ing the waste Of the years during which
reconstruction, instead Of restoration,
was the policy Of The Req ublican party.
And so with Georgia, North Car
Olins, and Virginia. In these
States, now, We never hear Of "Ham.
burg affairs" On the contrary, we have
reports of the peaceful pursuits of indus
try by both whites and blacks, that give
us reason for hope Of more than average
crops. "Labor working better than be-
fore the war;" and Labor doing we'll"
are the statements We hear frCm plant |
ers In those States. 1t is only in South |
Carolina, where there are not three
thousand white Republicans to lead /
the blacks against the interests Of sixty |
Thousand white land owners, and in |
Louisiana, governed by Grants brother
iH-law, that We bear Of eBlltes, riots or
political murders. As in the southern |
States now under Democratic rule, so it |
will be with South Carolina and Louisi-
ana when, at the bsllot.box, the people,
left to themselves, unawed by Federal
bsyonets, shall decide for the Demo-
cratic party and good government. The
Republican party is at the south the
party Of robbery and wrong, of murder,
arson, and rscs riots. It has left its
bloody marks in all the States from the
POtomsc to the Rio Grsnde, and is to-
day IS rapscious as ia the days when it
was supported by the house Of represent.
stives, led by Thad. Stevens.