The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-02

. agricultural tools we're imported. A mi
, and factory. and church, we're erected
. aud a school house for vhito children au
, a school house for oolored children. 1h
negroes were given regular employmeu
at good wages. More Northerners came
The little village increased and aourishe,
; aud paid steadily increasing tax int
} the state treasury. Upon sll this th
} shiftless natives, who had all their live
lived upon the labor of slaves, and care,
for nothing while they had suffi ,ient t,
eat aud drink and smoke, looked will
envy and Jealousy. They began system
attic persecution OF these prosperous peopl
and finally armed men iu the night tin,
ordered the aix leading men % leave th,
place. There was no alternative. 1t wa,
-ure death TO remain. The meu sen
swsy their families, disposed of every
thing st ruinous rate aud prepared tc
leave. Their prosecutors promised then
an armed escort to the river on their way
to Shreveport end they started for The
river under guard. Once within the wood,
the six men, including one Of the Twitch
ell brothers, we're stood up in row anc
shot full Of bullets and their bodies lef
10 the busSards. A year later the Other
Twitcbell brother who still remained, wat
shot all to pieces 10 broad daylight, &c
that both arms were sDputatcd. lie is
now back 10 the North with half dozen
bullets 10 his body and both arms gone
That's the way Northern immigation is
encouraged. King, who wse with Twitch.
ell, was killed at the same time, but for
the murder Of these meu no one has ever
been punished. The perpetrators were
probably myths, or "Fairy.tale BULLDOG
ers." and have no existence, except in the
minds of Northern newspaper oorrespon
dents. Those seven rottiog corpses aud
that poor fellow go horrible n.aiuicd for.
ever, tell a different tale.
Now, 1t is true that many Of these out.
RACES, except to show how rotten Louisi
ana is in law aud politics, have 40 direct
political Significance. Our Northern
Democrats seem to insist upon that dis.
tinction. They arc outrages, to DO suro.
but not political outrages, they claim. A
negro stesls pig, and company Of men
20 to his cabin at night, take him out,
and give him bulIdoze on the bare back.
we'll laid on. He etesls a horse or mule
aud ho is taken out at night and hanged
on limb Of the nearest tree. There is
no political Significance in that. It is
merely the order.lovng citizens preserv
ing law aud order. am willing to allow
this distinction. But what about. the
scores OF negroes killed 10 St. Mary, the
Do negroes killed 10 the St. Lsndy massa
ore 10, 60? What about the killing of 100
negroes at Mechanics Institute 10 '6S?
The dozen or two 10 Bossier the 100
and over black men slaughtered at CoIfax
Court-h. use 10 70; the killing OF 30 DO.
lcemen by the White League, on the Ie.
wees in IA? The twenty or thirty mas.
sacres of from 8 to 20 colored men 10
other parts OF the state at one time and
another7 Ia there DO political siRni0
canoe 10 all ihat2 ls thero no Pei;,icnl
Significance 10 that terrible list kept by
General Sheridan of over 5000 murders
Of Republicans In that Statef Was all
this accomplished by Fairy.talo Bull.
doseTsr Verify, these goblins are act.
i've and energetic for the characters of a
fairy telc,and those "ima magiuary outrages"
were "transparently and obviously" pretty
serious frauds" for tho victims l.
"there'a no such thing" any reply to ueu
who are hore, who are ready with specific
instances, with causes, With names and
datca and places, all verified beyond
doubtf Who came not here to hide and
to cover up, but to lay open and reveal
| caro- not how many Democratic emissa.
ries or representatives Of Northern Demo.
cratic newspapers come here aud shout
back that everything is quiot, that
there are no outrages, no violence, no
intimidation, or that the blacks have
committed the outrages and intimidated
the whites. When I believe the latter
statement I will believe that a sheep
broke out Of the fock and bit the shep.
herd dog and drove off the shepherd. /
care not how many general deDials aie
made, here are the facts and the proofs.
uodeniabls and conclusive. Let my friend.
who believe is honest 10 his belief, and
expresses it so unmistakably as well as
wittily, possess bis soul 10 patience. and
in the Interests OF impartiality read the
testimony on both sides. that will be
offered before the Returning Board. and
then say what he thinks OF "imaginary
outrages" and Fairy tale Bulldosers. !"
1t is true this "ourrago porridge" has
been served up often, but so have the
outrsges to put in the porridge. And il
is true that the business has often been
overdcne aud overdrawp for political
purposes. But there Is no need to over
do il 1t is bad enough without coloring.
And in answer to what Is said about
inasuiog the North with hatred of the
Southern people. will cay that the men
who commit these ou.rsges. who ride by
nieht booted and spurred end armsd. are
uos lair representatives OF the southern
people. Going into those desolate back
parishes aud places Of ignorance and vice
for representative Southerners would be
something like searching 10 CinciDnati
along Front street, or in the low dens ia
the Sixth Ward, or about Sixth Street
Market Space. for representative CiDcin
ustisus. These outrsges arc not to be
charged upon the Southern people as a
whole. They are to be charged upon the
turbulent, ruf6snly. lawlets and reckless
element but net the less do they require
exposure and punishment and remedy.
especially when that element ia strong
enough to force state which is as hon.
estly Republican as Vermont to vote o
Democratic ticket. or to change the
political complexion Of o state either way
by force and intimidation Of voters.
Now, here is little list Of things that
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