New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-01
scr;ntion of the reluctant and recalcltlan1
Horatio. We are not yet done Win try"s
the Democracy by their own standard.
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The Democratic papers Of this city 'de
mand" again and again that Governor
| Antoine shall remit the discharge OF bis
| official duties, and engage himself as
| special correspondent, without pay, to re-
| mort those cases of brutality and outrage
against the colored people which thel1
present inefficient employees fail to get
OF course, the Governor has more I'M
| nortant business in hand than the en-
liohtenment of Democratic organs who
have the happy faculty of being blind
when the party interests require obhqultJ
or obtuseness, and compensate this detect
by seeing double, or even treble, when il
is likely to pay to do so.
But as the Governor is at present under
pay by the people and can not conve'
niently accept any situation on the stat
of either Of our contemporaries, we will
give them few useful hints, by observing
which they can greatly improve their
journals as faithful chroniclers OF passing
events, however much they may impair
their value as party organs:
l, Publish a faithful and correct &C.
count of every act of outrage that occurs
When it is not convenient to keep abreast
with the news of the day, they can copy
from the REPUBLICAN the next morning.
9. We file the testimony in the East
Feliciana cases, taken before the Senate
committee last winter. A part OF this
has been published in the REPUBLICAN
and copied in the Northern papers (And
by the way, several Northern editors
have written us private letters, begging
US to give them more of it. They declare
it is first rate-just the thing needed
Bv the time our contemporaries have
caught up with the REPUBLICAN in this
work we will give them more.
3. Not to 60 back too far, nor to inter-
fere with all the cases which have been
whitewashed by Democratic congress
sional committee, let our news-seeklng
confreres take up the cases OF John Car
and Babe Matthe VS., both OF whom,
though limo cent Of any crime whatever,
were cruelty AM brutally murdered; the
one by being shot full of bullets and the
other, an inn ocent female, whose sex
would have protected her from harm If
there had been any manhood in her pur-
suers, by hanging. In the same neigh
borh God there were five negroes hung to
their own gateposts by mob OF bull
dozers Under instructions, the same
papers that are now clamoring for Gov
ernor Antoine to conduct their news de-
partment, stoutly denied this appalling
fact, but we are assured the names Of all
the murdered men can be furnished to
any body that wants them. Let our con-
temporaries send reporter up to inter-
view justice of the peace at Port Hud-
son, then publish what he says, but con-
ceal his name, and, our word for it, there
will be no more crying for Antoine to
come and help to edit Democratic papers.
Let these enterprising journalists make
use of the facts which come to their no.
tice nearly every day of their lives, be-
fore crying for more. In all reason there
is enough of them, and they are bad
enough to suit the most greedy devourer
of horrid tales.