New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-21
EIsSIsSIPPrS SHAME.

MIsSIssIPPTs SHAME.
| I. is reported that the testimony taken
| by the special Senate committee in Mis-.
! sissippi will make seventeen hundred
pages of closely printed matter. Deduced
from this testimony the majority report of
Senators Boutwell,, Mcmillan and Cameron
will show the gross outrages which have
continually been perpetrated upon the
colored citizens Of the State by the White
| Line Democrats in their shotgun cam
paigns for securing Office. The minority
| report to be submitted by Bogy and Nc
| Donald will attempt to show that the
crimes and outrages against the colorei
people of Mississippi are attributable to
the maladministration of the State govern
| ment under Governor Ames. It will ba
seen that the outrages as charged are not
denied. there is unity OF opinion &C.
cording to the facts found in evidence
The apologize minority only attempts to
shift the responsibility in the old way.
The shotgun murderers committed the
outrages, that is not disputed, but what
the queer Bogy wants his friends to be-
lieve is that the Republican Governor,
whose own life was constantly in danger,
should in some way have prevented the
constantly recurring crimes committed by
Democrats. Governor Ames did attempt
to organize loyal militia, but the only
men who could be found willing to uphold
the laws of the State were Republicans,
white and black, and such State
Guard was as red flag in the face
of Democratic bulls, Arms sent to Mis-
sissippi, the property of the State, for the
militia, were forcibly taken from the
freight agent at Vicksburg and distributed
to the mob. Perhaps Mr.. Bogy will ex-
plain how Governor should have main
tanned order and protected life and prop
erty under such circumstances. A Gov
errors proclamation has not power to
make good citizens of murderers, and
numbering became popular By approval of
the Democratic party. To be sure, the
Governor had right to call for United
States troops, but the Confederate briga-
diers in Congress say ''Send no rufianly
United States soldiers South; let Missis-
sippians run the State" They have run
the State, and wellnigh into the ground.
MIR. Redpath, the shrewd observer
and the. intelligent secretary for
the committee, has said that not
one of the Senators of the Senate commit
tee, neither Bogy nor Mcdonald,
could be induced to live in Mississippi,
even if the best part of the State could be
given to them as an inducement. Men
Of mind and means in other States look
ing for homes for their families read of
the condition of Mississippi, of its law
lessness and barbarisms, and decide not
to 60 there. A dozen JEFF Davises, and as
many Mississippi valley associations, So
Letting immigration to the State, could
not wipe out the terrors of massacres
which have gone abroad. It would be
better for man to put his
son in the penitentiary at once
than to put him in the ranks of the
Democratic party in Mississippi If prop
erly handled, the lands Of Mississippi
would yield good crops; but no crop is
good enough to pay for mans life and
liberty, and loss of capital invested. In
a party sense, it is something to boast
that State having thirty thousand Re-
publican majority has been carried by
Democrats. Shotguns against honest
voters won the day, and the assassins
scrambled into Office. Men who care for
the good name of the State, and who are
interested in its material prosperity, be-
gin to think that Mississippi has paid too
dear for the Democratic whistle. Mr..
Lamar, in Congress, with the shotgun
beam in his own eye, has been call
ing attention to t'the Hamburg affair
as terrible and disgraceful." What is
the shooting of few colored men in
South Carolina who aggravated the people
by parading on the fourth of July, and
who impeded the passage Of white mans
dray and deserved instant death, COM
pared with the persistent bounding, shoot
ing and numbering Of colored men in Mis-
sissippi, which has been carried on for
years, to say nothing Of the massacres at
Clinton, at Vicksburg and other places?
Mr.. Lamar, who blows hot and cold, who
weeps over the tomb of Sumner in Boston
and lifts up his clarion voice on the stump
in his adopted State in behalf of the
White Line soldiers of the campaign has
an Office in peril. The shotgun party
formed an illegal Legislature, impeached
the true Governor, gobbled the Offices,
and elected Mr.. Lamar to the Senate of