The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-08-19
THE SOUTHERN OUTRAGE MILL.

1t is not true that the cruel ana cOlu. DloOQ-
ed murder of i've unarmed negros by white
ruffians at Hamburg, in South Carolina, is
justified, pallated or excused in any degree
by the democrats north or south. The dem.
ocrats from both sections in congress voted
promptly for resolution condemning that
outrage and demanding the punishment OF
the murderers The Charleston Is. Co. Nens
and Courier, the organ of the Democrats in
South Carolina, is equally outspoken in It's
condemnation of the crime. 1t says:
There is no earthly doubt that the whites,
without authority, undertook to disarm a
body of colored men, and that, when the fight
that ensued was over, five of the captive ne
groes unarmed and defenceless, were killed
In cold blood. These facts stand uncontra.
dicted to this hour, and upon these facts, and
none other, we base our Remuneration of the
crime
The Hamburg crime, instead of being
chargeable upon the democratic party north
or south, was the result of a system for which
the republican party is alone responsible.
The system referred to is that which the re-
publican party attempted to inaugurate all
over the south, of excluding the men of intel
lgence the property holders and taxpayers,
from any part in the local governments, and
turning them over to the control and tender
mercies of ignorant negroes, led by few
corrupt northern carpetbaggers and south
ern scalawags. The justification OF the re-
publican party for this system was, that the
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the only republicans in those states, and all
who were not republicans were disloyal to
the government. The intelligent, property
owning and only tax paying people of the
cepted the restoration OF the authority of the
national government and the emancipation
and enfranchisement of the negro as a finahty
In good faith, knew that this assumption was
false, and protested against the system for
which 1t was made the apology as an outrage.
Yet while the better class Of the southern
whites submitted in patience, there are many
whites in the south as ignorant as the negroes,
and even more degraded and brutal. These
ruffians, instead of being able to see that the
negroes themselves as well as the whites was
the innocent victims of mistaken and cruel
system, regarded the negroes as responsible
for 1t, and in many most unjustiiable cases
proceeded to wreak on them an uudeserved
and cruel vengeance. The republican local
governments, instead of taking wise precau.
tons to prevent these outrages, rather encour.
FL, 1, ,rt, Int IN
had ever proved so effective to make repub-
lican votes as the southern outrage mill"
But patience, moderation and forbearance
on the part of the better class of whites IN
the south was not without its happy fruits.
1t was not long until, by the silent, peaceable,
but affective means of the ballot box, they
succeeded in banishing the System" in tarn
from Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North
Carolina, Texas, Alabama and lastly Arkan-
sas, and from that day all "outrages' have
ceased in those states, the negroes and whites
are imperfect accord, and the states are en-.
joyng the mild content Of good government
and reviving material prosperity. In South
Carolina, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi
alone the System" still maintains preca.
rious foothold, and these states alone are
blghted by the curse of southern outrages."
In view of these undoubted facts, let us
conclude with a most opposite extract from
the New York Herald: suppose aphysician
who had been treating patient for seven
long years should at the end publicly say
that the poor fellow was worse than when he
first came under his treatment; that he had
not benefited in the least by the medicine,
and that his case seemed to the doctor on the
whole less hopeful than when he began to ad-
minister his boluses9 Probably the faculty
would unite in calling him quack and his
patient victim of wrong treatment. But
ia any case the doctors confession would not
rebound to bis credit. Sensible men would
advise the sick man TO try another physician
TO see if a different treatment would not at
least alleviate his misery. And if, across the
street, there should be found half dozen men
who had been i'll of the same disease, and
who had measurably recovered under a d.
ametrically opposite method and medicine,
only very little common sense would lead
the sick mans friends to dismiss the quack
and engage more successful doctor. Con-
slider these sick brethren ours. louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina, according to
Drs. Morton, Kellogg, and Packard, are in a
very bad way indeed; Mississippi, according
to Drs. Boutwell, and Ames, is nigh unto
death, and they can think of nothing to help
but more and bigger doses all the time OF the
medicine they have been forcing down the
throats of these patients for seven long years,
But over IN the adjoining street we find Ar
kansas, once just as dangerously ill as Nissis-
sippi; but under DR.. Garland and different
system of treatment that patient has entirely
recovered On the other side are Alabama
aud Georgia; both of these have changed
doc,ors and both are nearly well. There is