The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-25
SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN OGTRAGEs

| Of the whole American people. teaal e
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SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN OUTRAGEa
The best and most peaceful of com
munities have bad and lswless men, and
in the very worst of c0mmunities good
men may be found. For these inCon-
gruoua adnixtures nature h9rself seems
to be responsible. Her barren and
| fruitful trees grow In the same forests.
her tares and wheat In the same fields.
her Neros and Aureliuses Ia the same
! localities. Though some States and
cities boast OF their high morality and
the superabundance OF their Christian
virtues, yot when they look closely NJ
| the skeletons in their closets and the
sins they hide in secret places or mask
| in the pretentious garbs OF piety. they
are compelled To admit that they are
not much better than their peighbors.
The Phnrisee's boastful utterance,
Stand Off. nm holier than thou ~
| will not be received AZ an acceptable as-
suranee Of purity. either In the high
chapcery of heaven or the lower forum
of the common conscience. l49 re
That the demoralizntidns consequent
upon the war. and the humtliations
forced upon the South through tho Rad
ical machinery of reconstruet.on, were
productive of disturbances. cannot be
denied. These distu, Dances were pecu-
liar In their type. but they were neither
more pronounced nor immoral than
those which occurred In other sections
Of the country. Radical party maiig
nifty. however. found It convenient to
magnify them into bloody o,itrages, and
In this manner they were moulded Into
excuses for bayonet interventions In
Southern elections and tho overturning
Of popular verdicts.
Left to themselves. the white and col.
ored people Of tho South. notwithstand-
ing their changed Industrial and poIiti.
cal relations, would have settled down
into conditions Of amity but for the
seeds Of dissengion which tho apostles
OF n sntanic Kadicalism sowed between
them. Conflicts were thus directly and
indirectly encouragedS aud when no sat
isfactory respo so came in the way Of
trouble. imaginary outrages were In.
vented and bloody-shirt literature WIS
scattered broadcast throughout the
land.
That there have been election dis.
turbancos In the South we freely admit, |
but they were for the most part the
direct result Of Radical provocation.
Stimulated by bad whisky and bad nd.
vice, tho negro dupes Of Radical incen-
dinries would precipitate a conflict and |
blood was sometimes shed. Then, az we
have on previous occasions shown, any
negro voter who undertook 10 assert his
political Independence by voting the
Democratic ticket, would subject him
self to the most bitter intolerance and
persecution that his Radical
could invent.
Compared with the real and premedi
tated outrages Of other sections, those
which have been charged by political
Of the Morton type against
the Southern whites are dwarfed into
insignillcance. Daily we receive ac.
counts Of brutal acts committed in the
very centres Of Northern civilization,
lar more fiendish than any Of the red.
handed conflicts which have 80 Grim
,oned the traditional neither garment
Those boastful communities, which con.
lemn the South MS brutal and barbar-
rus, are themselves not unfrequently
he theatres Of outrages 80 repellant.
md murders so foul, as TO shock the
OF even the most degraded
classes OF our Southern people. Then,
90, they resort on numerous occasions
o that ficrcely vindictive Justice which
Lynch, the imaginary jurist, Is supposed
@ administer, and not a border-ruf1ian
hat was ever condemned for lawless-
less had keener relish for the "flne |
lgony" which marks the fclon on his
Dad TO death.
But II we seek instances In which out
age, intimidation and murder arc prac.
iced MS fine arts, we must go to the once
peaceful land OF Penn. the birth place
# American Independence and the ,
Gene OF our first grand centennial
In that old keystone
state, SO frequently the interpreter OF =
POLITICAL destiny to aspiring Presi-
lential candidates, the Molly Ma
,uires "-most murderous Of all the :
lass organizations that ever existed in
|. civilized community-no only live,
novo and have their being, but control, p
through terrorism, the Industrial and
,olitical interests of their section II
appens, however, that In politics they
re MS Radical us in their class manage
lent they are murderous. For years
hey have maintained demoniacal
scendancy and thus managed to evade
he consequences OF their crimes.
Recently one Of the Molly Maguires
-as up for trial IN Schuylkill county on S