New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-27

NEW ORLEANS SATURDAY. MAY 27, 1876
aauehern 0nfra9es.

Southern Oatrages.
The Times says: 1.-The outrage reports
from Louisiana bring forcibly to mind the
fact that We are about to enter upon pO
litical camoaign in which the Republican
party intends to make the outrage mill a.
prominent % possible" This c0ntemptu0us
mention Of the recent slaughter of negroes
in Louisiana will not serve to blind the
people to the fact that Republicans could
reap NO benefit from Southern 0utrsgee #
such 0utragee were not perpetrated. The
truth 10 the White Lesguers Of Louisiana
seem determined to destroy the Democratic
party.
Two years ago, when the country was
prepared to believe that the war was really
over, that the South was loyal to the gov
eminent, and willing to obey tho laws, the
White Leaguers OF New Orleans overturned
the regular government of the State, forced
the national executive to order out federal
troops, and revived, in one day, all the bit
terness of 1861. We have now news of an
other outbreak in Louisiana, just upon the
eve Of . most important election for the
presidency, the result of which may be
summed up ss follows: eight cOlored men
shot; four hanged; twenty wounded: No
blacks killed" Another source reports:
Three whites killed." The sheriff reports:
Seventeen colored men killed and many
wounded"
If these reports are exaggerated it is in
favor of the whites and not the negroes. for
all the Associated Press reporters and resi-
dent newspaper correspondents in the South
have since the close Of the war been friend
ly to the Democratic party and the whites.
The whites write and talk, and 30 have
largely the sympathy Of the country, and,
from their own reports, We are forced to
conclude that there 10 party or faction
in the South which will have peace on no
other terms save the complete 0anceling of
the results of the war. The faction proposes
to reduce the negro to sort Of political
slavery through intimidation and assassins-
ton.
The time has como when even the Dem
ocrstlc press of the North, or st least that
part of the Democratic press not controlled
by blind bigots, recognizes the fact that
these oft-reCurring stories of Outrages on
the Red river, of conventions dissolved by
force, of riots, with "twenty negroes killed
and one white man wounded" Of revOlu-
tions like that against Ames in Mississippi,
are destroying Democracy end perpetual
ing the power Of the Republican party.
The assumption that because citizen of
Northern State removes to Louisiana and
does his duty by taking proper interest in
politics, he must necessarily be q scamp
only to be treated a. an outlaw, the Oetra-
cism and prescription. and above all, the
cruel, brutal, inhuman murders of negroes
seen in New Orleans, Memphis, Vicksburg
and Colfax, and which we now witness at
Bayou Sara, only tend to strengthen the
Republican party in the North, to convince
loyal people every where that the South is
not tit to be trusted, and that the Demo
cratic party, which has it's stronghold in the
| South, is not the party to control the al
| fairs of the government.
We are ready to admit that there has
been misg0vernment in the South, the result
of electing adventurers to responsible posi-
| tions. But this does not excuse the out
RACES that seem to have become chronic in
| Louisiana. Northern States have been mis-
governed, but the people have not resorted
| to assassination a. remedy. New York
was governed for five years by gang Of
! thieves, yet no one was shot in the streets
| by political faction, or hanged to q lamp
| post by political zealots. Chicago is to-day
m,sgoverned, and yet the people have not
| fallen into the outrage business.
| when he denounced the Louisiana White
| Leaguers as '.banditti" That State is in
| fact subject to q reign of assassination.
! Law-abiding people in the South as in the
| North admit this fact, and deplOre it as we
| do. But they of the South stand idly by
| and see the States depOpulated by gangs OF
irresponsible rOughs who care nothing for
| the development of the country, for the vel
| fare of the people. OF for the restoration of
harmony bet ween the sections. The honest
people Of the South should know that un.
less there is an end to this negro killing,
| unless this reign of assassination is ter
minated, unless the best sentiment of the
| South asserts itself and Furnishes the out
| laws, the strong arm OF the general govern.
ment will fall upon them. They should
know that the North will never consent
| to leave innocent black people to the ten
der mercy of men who seem determined to
annihilate them.
It is not surprising that Republican news
papers should call attention to such out
| that the Democratic party will not do to
trust; for the best Democrats of the South,
| by their non-interference, tacitly indorse
| the assassinations, and such Democratic
papers as the Times, whether in the North
or south, openly defend them, and sneer at
! all attempts to punish the assassins.
| Republicans at the North have certainly
| no cause for complaint if the Democratic
| party ie determined to destroy itself. But,
| in the interest of humanity, all good Repub-
licans pray that an end may be made OF
| Southern outrages. The sneering insinua-
| ton of the Times that such brutalities are
welcomed by Republicans as so much poll
| tical capital, is not worthy Of notice. But
as long as Republican newspapers print the
news, and as long as the South is ruled by
assassins, 80 long will presidential cam
! na!gns be determined more or less by
Southern outrages.-,S Louis Dispatch.