New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-23

that the interference of the federal govern
ment with troops in those States 10 unwise,
and it believes that the people in each Of
those States, of different races, ought to be
their own affairs. We believe 90 still. and
We shall continue to believe 90, even if the
negroes in South Carolina, goaded to des-
perstiOn by injustice and outrage, shall be-
gin to assert their manhood and shoot back.
That is what they ought to do, and what
inevitably they will do. The Southern
whites generally despise the negroes, be-
cause they are in the main q quiet, docile,
harmless race. Twenty of US can drive
off 200 niggers any time" is q common say
ing among Southern rOughs, and it is q
lamentable fact And 80 the decent white
men of the South are but too apt to leave
the negro to the white roughs, just as Cen
eral Butler, who we suppose calls himself
gentleman" is reported to have lett his
prisoners in the hands of the mob he had
headed and went home.
We warn the Southern whites that such
an occurrence as that at Hamburg is dan
because they, the decent part of the p0pu-
latiOn, have not public spirit. humanity and
Christian feeling enough to stand up for
the outraged law and tO>demand and insist
on the prompt and relentless punishment
of the murderers and of the bulliee, mis-.
called gentlemen" who we're concerned in
bringing on the trouble. What do we see
in South Carolina? cruel and brutal out.
rage perpetrated, worthy of the Sioux; one
of the foremost and ablest Southern Demo
cratic journals, the Charleston News and
Courier, speaking out manfully about it,
and yet the white community of the neigh
bOrhOOd sitting tamely by, unmOved by
sense of Justice or feeling of humanity to
hunt down or arrest the white brutes who
were guilty of these crimes.
We do not wonder that Mr.. Rainey thinks
federal troops should be sent down there.
We are not surprised at the report that
Governor Chamberlain means to ask for
troops. Yet we trust he will not. What
he ought to do, as Governor of the State, is
to occupy Hamburg and its neighborhood
with the militia of the State, and employ
them-if the public sentiment of the neigh
borhOod is inert-tO hunt down and cap
ture those who were concerned in these
murders, and all who aided and encouraged
them. He wo lid do the State great ser
vice if he had the nerve to do this. He
would show the roughs and the gentle
men," too, that justice is sure and swift,
and that it is not safe to "kill niggers."
There is one State in the South 90 quiet
and peaceable now that we never hear Of it.
Yet only two or three years ago it was
'hell on EARTH" in which violence and law
lessness ruled everywhere. and the mig
ger' was shot for amusement. We mean Ar
kansas. But enc day Governor Powell
Clayton armed and drilled some regiments
of militia and sent them into the lawless
districts to shoot down the roughs. They
did it, according to all accounts, with
stern, untiinching purpose and good aim;
and they created peace and desire for
peace 80 strong that it lasts yet. We COM
mend the example to Governor Chamber
lain. 1t is his duty to see that justice is
done to the Hamburg murderers. It does
not belong to the federal power. Let him
do his duty, sternly and relentlessly, and
he will save South Carolina and arouse q
public spirit which, to the disgrace of the
State. seems to have gone to sleep.-Ne'o
York Herald