New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-24

PUBLICAN, .WEDNESDA
killed" Tho sheriff reports: Seventeen
c0lored men killed and many wounded"
Can such intelligence a. this be sup
pressed? Why, if it should be, the Herald
would send correspondents to see what
was really the fact. Does the reader sup
pose that Louisiana would be DETAINED all
over the world-in every intelligent coun-
try, from Constantinople around to Can
ton-unless it was satisfied the charge
WAS authentic? We could not conceal the
facts were there disguised stranger be-
hind every tree, and hired assassin in
every dark alley in Louisiana.
The White Leaguers have had valuable
aid in suppressing these rumors, says the
Herald:
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 accepted
as 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 negroes. 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.
The Herald has formed these opinions
from facts as reported by the White
Leaguers.
It is upon this state Of information that
the Herald thus admonishes the White
Lacquer. It thus addresses the White
Leaguers to effect the restoration of
fraternal unieo. The Herald says there
is nothing it would not ''do, nothing
except to cancel the results of the war.
That is emancipation, and yet, says the
Herald:
There seems to be a party in the South
which will have peace on no other terms.
This party recognizes that the negro has
proposes to reduce him to political slav-
cry. It was conquered by the rifle; it pro-
poses to conquer by the shotgun.
And then it is time ''to speak with the
utmost plainness" to this party in the
South.
There can only be one end to this shot
gun policy. These constant stories of assas-
sination on the Red river, of conventions
dissolved by force, of riots with twenty
ed" of revolutions like that against Ames
in Mississippi; this prescription Of Northern
men a. arpetbaggers" and Republicans
as "scallAwage;" this assumption that be-
c ause . citizen of New York removes to
North Carolina and dares to 60 into politics
a. Republican he must necessarily be .
scamp. and only to be treated - IN outlaw;
this Ostracism and prescription, and, above
all. these cruel, brutal, inhumsn murders of
Vicksburg and Colfax, and which
We now witness ct Bayou Sara. only defer
true reconciliation between the sections.
1t is not from the Republican press this
has been derived. It has
come from the facts themselves, which,
whether softened, suppressed or doctored
by the Associated Press, have made this
upon the leading Newspaper in
the world.
And now mark the consequences init
mated:
Even if there were Q Democratic major. |
ity in the House as large again as the |
present, the people of this republic, who |
Fought the war for the Union, would never |
submit in silence to q union which permits |
The repeated assassination OF citizens for |
their principles. Upon this point there |
must be no Misunderstanding We differ |
.bout hundred things, but on this point
We do not differ. Unless there is an end |
70 this negro killing; unless this reign of |
whether they call them |
selves Ku-Klux or White Camelias, are
cowardly and cruel, because they |
,elect their victims from IN inferior, help |
ess, amiable and inoffensive race-is termi
hated; unless the best sentiment of the |
south at once Furnishes these men and pre-
vents q recurrence of their crimes, the
'treng arm of the general government will
all upon them. Once compel Grant to
iraw the sword "fOr the protection of
Union men," and there will be no need of q
for the Presidency. Once revive
he Sumter spirit and the delegates to St.
louis may as well remain at home. Bayou
sara :'riots" will determine the canvass.
These things we need not have said.
They would have come with no weight
rom US. Had the Republicans dared de-
lounce the White Leaguers as ''assassins,
owardly and cruel" they would have
zen openly or covertly exterminated.
lad Republicans threatened that the
trong arm of the government should fall
pom the enemies Of the Union and of
unan rights, it might have been SEN
snce of death or arson upon themselves
We are satisfied, however, that the issue
J made up. If the White Leaguers pur-
ne their purpose to carry the State by
lurder and intimidation, they may find
le State under such protection as the
lerald and the Democratic party North
emand. Congress has occupied more
ian two months to provide for the dan
ers of duplicate returns from States in
lsurrection against the laws. Perhaps
'e best solution may .be found by both
arties in demanding that such States
lall be put under such restrictions be-
re the election as to insure at least a
saceful election.
1t is only our present purpose to excul-
tie the Republicans of Louisiana from
e charge Of having provoked the facts
oon which the Herald comments. Had I
e Republicans presented their threats to
Q knife and their backs to the bullet; had !