Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-24
All True.

Now and then we meet with even q
Republican who wonders, inquiringly,
whether the reports of outrages in the
South are true. They are hard to be-
lieve 1t is difficult for right-minded
men to believe his fellows, living in
this land Of boasted freedom and in
telligence, guilty of such hellish inhu-
manities. Few citizens can take the
time necessary for full acquaintance
with the facts and those who cannot
are not to blame for a degree CT in
credulity. But il Is time all had
learned that the crimes done in the in
terest of Democracy cannot be exa e.
gerated. Those who tell them have
not the heart to exaggerate them.
These outrageous crimes are old sto
ries. They began more than forty
years ago. When the Kansas troub-
les began they became wholly Demo
cratic. At that time a northern man
could not safely travel through the
south. Men were assassinated even on
the floor of Congress as they are now
through the South. The deviltry in
Kansas was the same as that practice
now in the South, with the help of
the Tilden-Tweed stuffing. These
things have been going on as Demo
cratic instrumentalities of political
warfare for twety-three years
They have always denied the ac-
counts, called them fabrications and
exaggerations; but they are not now
denied. They have all been proven
true and the half has never been told
Since the war the Ku Klux plan of
Democratic campaig ming was tried.
Their outrages were az unprovoked
and as horrible as any in history, yet
Democratic papers here among US
pronounced them fBbrications. The
Washington Government investigated
them and it was found that the North
had heard of only few of the worst
cases. The outragcs were so com
mon in the South that neighbors to
them thought no more of them than
we do of dog fights, and seldom re-
ported them. Since the war more
than 10000 political assasinations
have been. made in the South in the
interest of Democracy. In Louisiana
alone there has been over 1000 of
these murders. There have been oc-
casional spells OF quiet. When? W as
it when United States soldiers
were withdrawn and the Sout hern ers
were allowed 10 govern themselves?
No. 1t was when the strong arm OF
the Government was used to ferret out
the assassins, and they were brought
to trial and punishment. Scores OF
Ku-klux murderers have been con-
victed and sent to pcnitentiarles but
not by the State courts. With these
facts before us, no man is entirely ex-
cusable for discrediting the accounts
of the Southern outrages, or more
properly the Democratic outrages, tor
they have practiced them in New \ DIRK
as well as in the South. There too
they have hanged negroes to lamp
posts, stoned them to death, and mu-
tilated them after death. On the
first page of last weeks Icra aid We
published synopsis of an official re-
port of the way they have taken Mis-
sissippi from the Republicans. There
is not doubt of the truth of the whole
report. Let our readers not be de-
ceiyed. 1t is no triffing matter, He
who closes his cars against the cries
of the wrongcd shares to some extent
the guilt of the oppresser. Wrongs
allowed to 90 on grow greater and
at last can only be put down by war
andand its attendant calamitics Let
us be united in the determination that
our nation shall, by its Indulgence,
suffer no longer.