The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-10
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From the Chicago I ribune

From the Chicago Tribune
While nearly every Democratic paper in
the North is cursins the premature enthu-
siasm Of the Georgia Democrats, who could
not wait until after the election, but went
over 10 Hamburg, S. C., and murdered a
half-score or 50 OF Republicans, whose only
oFense consisted in having black ekin and
voting the Republican ticket, and while
some Democratic papers in the South are
striving to palliate the murder and cover it
out of sight, the Southern Confederate
papen openly justify it. Among these
papers is the Augusta (Ga.) Cnastlutio.alis.
As this paper is the rep sentative of the
red-hot secession journals, and is laboring
zeslously for Tilden and Hendricks, We re.
produce brief extracts from . series Of ar
ticles upon the Hamburg massacre tha,
have appeared in its columns, that our rea-
ders may know the spirit of 6endishness
which pervades these papers and tie con-
siituents they represent in their relations to
the Republican negroes in the South. The
Coastitutiondtis says: For years past, Ham
burg has been the vilest and most pc .tilent
hole in South arolins. 1t is ruled by ne
gro intendants, aldermen, constabies, and
inhabited exclusively by negroes" III the
town is inhabited exclusively BY negroes,
who should rule il but negroes? Who can
rule 1t but negr-es?
BY what authority Of Law or equity can
carpet-baggers go in and hold the offices in
a town in which they are non-residents ?
II says: "The outburst of last Saturday
night was simply the climax of wrath
that had been long and wanronly provoked,
and they could forbe.r no longer" Forbear
from what? Why could these Augusta
Democrats forbear no longer? The events
oi that bloody day answer these questions.
They could not forbear killing negroes be-
cause they were Republicans. II says
"Gen. Butler was there professionally
not dreaming at the time he went that any
outbreak would occur. He did his best un-
der the circumstances" The evidence in
this case, as furnished by Southern Dem
ocratic papers themselves, shows that Gen.
Butler was there to disarm a negro militia
company, regularly organized and armed
by the State. Is that professional What
law or form Of law justified him in sending
to Georgia for a force to disarm this conl-
pany? These black men were citizens, and
entitled to all the rights of citizens. The
Constitution OF the United States pro-
vides that "a weli-regulated militia being
necessary to the security Of free State, the
right Of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be intringed." When, therefore,
Gen. Butler sent over to Augusta, in Geor-
gia, for a mob to disarm these men in
South Carolina, he was violating their
constitutional right. Is that professional :?
The ConSittionaiiS lets out the secret of its
hatred and virulence in the following ex-
tract:
Hamburg is very blot upon creation,
and the life OF every negro in it-all of
them politically poisoned, misguided,
wrong g-headed-is not worth that Of young
Merriwether who fell in the fray" "Politi-
cally poisoned" That is it exactly. Ham
burg is a very blot upon creation because
its people are Republicans; therefore, kill
them. In another article the Constitutional
ia makes light Of the affair, as follows: at
is nothing but poppycock to keep up a
squall over . riot in South Carolina, when
atrocities of graver character are Of al
most daily occurrence in all parls of the
Union. The South is to-day the most
peaceful section" 1t may be nothing but
poppycock in Augusta, Ga. to murder men
in cold blood who are guilty of no infracrion
Of the laws, Of no violation OF the public
peace, of no ofense against society, and to
rhoot them down because they vote the Re-
publican ticket; but before this campaign
is finished the Cons.nutionaiia will find TO
its sorrow how -uch a massacre is regarded