Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-07-21
The Bloody Shirt.


The Republican press is reeking red every
morning with bloody descriptions of frighlful
murders perpetrated by the barbarans Of the
South upon poor, innocent unollending ne
groes. The Nationai Republican has so com
plelely devoted itself to these blood and murder
fabr.cations that 1t is almost as interesting as
Dime Novel" And youths with cultiva-
ted literary tastes pore over its columns daily
with an intensity of interest which holds them
in breathless suspense until they reach the end
of the horror-painted description of the fright
fnl tragedy and then folding The paper up with
Geep-drawn sigh as they say "another mig
ger killed" We have often wondered if
sometime in its past life the Republican has
not plunged the dagger Dissatisfaction into the
bosom of some poor innocent victim for it is
said that the peaceless slumbers of murder
arc ever haunted by dreams of blood. You
who have watched by beds Of sickness where
delirium has usurped the throne Of reason are
the only ones who can appreciate the dread
horror which fills the hearts of those who
watch the wild rawlings Of the Republican as
lis imagination clnspcd in the arms of lunacy
roams over those sickening fields of carnage
where wel:ering in their murder-spilled blood
lie the untombed bodies of heaps upon heaps of
dead ringers"
The Hamburg riot in South Carolina has
given the Republican papers another opporlu-
nifty TO dip their shirts in blood and form in
dfess-parade before the Northern people-ad-
vsing them that rebellion is again upon the
war path, and that United States troops must
be dispatched Souih to protect the newborn
citizen in the exercise Of his constitutional
rights.
There is not fight or a murder or a fatal
accident which occurs South, but it is instant-
ly magniiied by these willful exagerations
into an offspring of nm organized effort TO cx-
terminate the negro or to deter him from the
ht 20 vote. Not only this.
ce division is filled with
y iom peniteniaries who are
ssodps under governing ni-1rsy to excite
Fsiiese riots and murder the negroes for thtB-
purpose Of giving the color of truth to the
base pretext for sending troops into Southern
States. Not only this, but the papers arc filled
every day with manufactured statements of
riots and ontragos which have no foundation
in fact, and are totally devoid of truth. Yet
Governor Hayes in his letter of acceptance
promises peace TO the South while his cleo
tioneering agents are casting around these
fre-brands of dscord, seeking to keep alive
those prcjudices and enmites which excite
strife and conflict Yes, he promises such
peace MS Grant gave; peace which places the
white man in subjectionto the negro; which
places his State under the The control of car
pet-baGgers, plunderers and thieves; which
surrounds his polls with federal bayonels to
deprive him Of his right to vote which stufls
his ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots
which drives his oflice-hoders from their offices
with bayonets; and which creates a rule of
terror called "pcace"
Now when they find that there is danger Of
the Southern States giving free expression to
their true sentiments in the presidential cleo
ton they wave the bloody shirt with high
head and call for more troops; and we mny
look for their papers TO be CORY until
alter November. "And they took Joseph's
coat and killed kid Of the goats and
dipped the coat in the blood and they sent
the coat Of many colors and brought it 10
their father and said this have we found :;
know now whether it be thy sons coat or no
And-he knew il aud said, ii is my sons coat ;
an evil beast hath devoured him Joseph is
without doubt rent in pieces'
The Cincinnati Commercial says: Gov