New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-21

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NEW OnAW6kGNE
The ehstsas Policy il the ssssh.
Louisiana seems resolved to destroy the
Democratic party. Two years ago, when
the country was ON the point of accepting
the Heralds idea of national convention
of peace and reconstruction, the White
knights, or some such gang, overturned
tho regular government, compelled Cen
eral Grant to issue . warlike proclams-
ton, and revived in an hour the spirit of
Sumter. In an hour all hope Of any such
convention faded away. Now, on the eve
of . most important election for the
Presidency election that will determine
the control of the nation for four and per-
haps forty years-we have news Of another
outbreak in Louisiana. The results of this
We sum up q follows: Eight colored men
shot; four hanged; twenty wounded; no
whites killed." Another source reports:
Sixty blacks killed." Another says:
"Three whites killed." The sheriff reports:
Seventeen colored men killed and many
wounded"
In noting this occurrence we may say, in
the first place, that all news from the South,
from the Associated Press reporters and
the newspaper correspondents, may be &C.
cepted 81 friendly toward the Democrats
and the whites 1t has been 80 at least
since the war closed. Therefore, if these
accounts have been exaggerated, it is in
favor of the whites and not the negrOee.
The whites write and talk and use the
wires; they have the ear OF the country,
and it is their story upon which we now
comment. 1t is certainly painful story.
We talk of reconstruction, of pure govern
ment, of bringing the old sections together.
The majority of citizens in the North have
no purpose 90 dear to them as the political,
personal, social and commercial restoration
of the Union. To Dfing about these results,
to forever extinguish the painful memories
of the war, to enable the South to resume
her once proud position, there is nothing
we would not do, nothing except to cancel
the results of the war. And yet there
seems to be party in the South which will
have peace ON NO other terms. This party
recognizes that the negro has been freed
from personal slavery, but it proposes to
reduce him to political slavery. 1t was
conquered by the rife; it proposes to con-
quer by the shotgun.
It is time for rs to speak with the utmost
plainness to our friends in the South. There
can only be one end to this shotgun policy.
These constant stories OF assassination on
the Red river, of conventions dissolved by
force, of riots, with twenty n.eroes killed
and one white man wounded" of revOlu-
tions like that against Ames in Mississippi;
this prescription of Northern men as "car
pet.baggers" and of Southern Republicans
as "scallawage," this assumption that be-
cause q citizen of New York removes to
North Carolina and dares to 60 into politics
as q Republican he must necessarily be .
scamp and only be treated as an outlaw,
this ostracism and proscri otioD, and above
all, these cruel, brutal, inhuman murders
of negroes that we have seen in New Or
;nLa hnpn md Hn1fov onH
which we now witness at Bayou Sara, only
defer true reconciliation between the Sec
tions. Il is no answer to say that these
outbreaks result from the Improvement
of men like Moses, Whipper and the rest
We admit their errors. We have censured
the general government for permitting them
to hold power. But this is no excuse for
the scenes that take place in Louisiana. See
how New York was misgOverned five years
ago. See the misgovernment in Chicago to-
day. There 10 nothing in the history of the
South to compare with it. Bot neither New
York nor Illinois would stand excused for .
moment if the reign Of thieves had given
place to the reign Of assassins.
We can only attribute riots like those we
have seen 90 often in the South, and which
we now see in Louisiana, to the reign Of
assassination. The law-abiding men Of
that State must deplore it as much - we
do in New York, and we trust they will
take up arms and suppress it. We can not
men who followed Beauregsrd over go
many bloody f lds-going with shotguns
into the swamps to murder negroes. We
appeal to these men to put an end to this
reign OF assassination; for, if they do not,
the general government will. Even if there
were Democratic majority in the House
as large again as the present the people Of
this reputlic-whO fought the war for the
Union-would never submit in silence to Q
union which permits the repeated assassin
alton of citizens for their principles. Upon
this point there must be no misunderstand-
ing. We differ about q hundred things,
but on this point we do not differ.
Unless there is an end to this negro
killing; unless this reign Of az
sassins-who, whether they call them
selves KuKlux or White Camelias, are
assassine, cOwardly and cruel |, because they
select their victims from an inferior, help
less, amisble and inoffensive race-is ter
minated; unless the best sentiment IN the
South at once Furnishes these men, and pre-
vents q recurrence OF their crimes, the
strong arm of the general government will
fall upon them. Once compel Grant to
draw the sword "for the protection of
Union men" and there will be no need of a
campaign for the presidency. Once revive
the Sumter spirit and the delegates to St.
Louis may as we'll remain at home. Bayou
Sara riots" will determine the canvass.
We all remember how the country thrilled
with horror when Lieutenant General Sher-
idan denounced the leaders of the Camelia
lodges and Ku,Klux bands as 'banditti'
We all remember how the citizens of New
York arose in indignation at the "insult'
thus thrown upon people by military
commander. But as we read this revolving
dispatch from Bayou Sara, the question
arises, MAY not the brilliant and illus
trious Sheridan have been perfectly right
even in the extravaganza OF his denuncia
ton, and may not the honor and peace Of
| the nation demand that he 60 at once to the
Southwest to put an end to this reign o.
| terror and death!'-New York Herald.
The Barbados Rebellion.
The story of the rise of the rebellion
which created so much CONSERVATION and
| destruction in the Borbadoes in the latter
part of last month is one of thrilling inter
est. The brief telegraphic accounts which
were published from day to day during thu
disturbances gave but a faint idea OF tn