The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-27

feet clouds through which tho drsmntis per-
sonw. gods and human. moved.
- i9gaid q seSpral ohio sctors oom plaincd
thdse tstsu clobdsAS being by no means
tlsasant O1b old kql lem.n Ii oited - having
rsmskked hSS had Nd enough Of heaven. ands
that in wereAs hos. misty and wet - wagnsr's
adaptation OF Il Ne prefer red the cther world
We only hope that Waxner will not obtain to-
much credit for these clouds Of his nwaA Sid.
France Who startsA M tfsa. va fSmsmbsw
that In one Of his pieces hero he had oats xnatas
raj rain storm ut the Academy Of Music, anti the
water rsn oyst . St.pbt dxa As3notixhfA Aftsr
this the natural rain atorm was not auits -
Violent "
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The New York Hsyald calls sttention " Nry
earious mattsr that may rsfhsts explain 70 .
great extent how II n the Radicals msnase 70 get
items enough for thstr bloody shirt spssshss. II
the South of " -dav. ssys the Herald. b. con-
pared with the North or With tho South Of 1861.
the investigator will bo surprised To soc that
there II not only no more crime. no more muir
dsfs. fobbories. thefs. stc.. cofnmitted In the
Southern Btites now than ID the North !. bat
that In fact In : criminal poiht 'of visN. the
South shows better average thas II dialin old
yeMrs. and decidedly better average than the
North II doing to-day But. says ths Herald. the,
peculiarly In TO be observed that ali tho crimee
take . political colorlng: the murders are ID
litica1 musdsrs. aud even the tobbsries, tbse
and Msons have something of q political II
about thsBi. ffI4ft g M H
Such Is the Herald theory: theory nttsA
false. ana which has been the means of briA
ing great deai of troubIe and injury on u
South. Instead Of its being the South whiA
gives this political colorin4 to those crime
committed here. it Ia the prsjudiees and die
ordered vision of tbs Herald and It's conferred
that soc in every murder something polticals
Id every iyhehng of u negro for rape evidence
Of . war 6f races. II negro be- Killed by q white
man 0r d white man by negro and this very
law of chances shows us that where the two
races ere equal IN numbers half tho murders
must bs OF this Kind lit is. Of course. Judged by
this rule political assassination: or II
even whom tbero was no difference of oolor.
aud one white mau is killed by another. the
politics Of the two are hunted uD. and II II bs
found that they belonged then. or at any other
time. to different political parties. tho proof IL
overwhelming TO ths Herald, ut least that this
IL u political murder. - -, ~
This theory 10 rnonstrous and absurd. All
statfsticians insist that crime has an nyerage:
Il 10 not IN epidemic that breaks out one lyesr
and disappears tho nsxt. Tho sa:os number of
crimes are committed every year, whtther there
be causes or not. The pumber ef persons ip .
country that will commit suicide. the number
that viii be murdered. can be calculated from
Year to year. with perfect exactness. except
when there IL some tsrrible revolution going
ona panic or q war. and when the Herald
admits our good criminal record. when II com
pliments Us. perhaps too hattsringiy. By saying
OF the South. There are few horse-thieves, no
higbwaymen: tfcre is no arson. and scarceiy
l. 80 a a e. - - "A .-L.fs =
all those few murders. arsons. ETC.. that do
occur aud must occur In every country, 70
politics: Just 40 II would bs this height Of folly 70
charge in one paragraph all our suicides Of this
year on the panic and hard times. and In the
neat confess that there were fewer suicides In
these hard times than in our tnors prosDerous
ysars II politics be the cause of the crimes IN &
orenses committed In ebouth. then. ACCORDING
to the Uerads confession. 1t dminishes theld