New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-11

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At the came time there was man named
JUDY Glsspse, colored; they put rope
around his neck aud swung him up to .
limb Of . tree. but Let him down again.
There we're thirty or forty armed white
men With sactgans. have seen Juba
Glasper Oce since.
fro BE cONTMutD.1 II
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Graspisg shs siqatiss.
A correspondent Of tho New York Herald
writes from wsshington, under. date Of
August l: ~
Tho President today sent : nsssase on
Southern affairs into Congress, containing .
COW of . letter he hsd written to Governor
Chamberlain, of South Caroline. Tne mes!
sage contaips . severe deaunciAtio1 Of tho
political conditiea Of kississippi and Louis
lana, snd in his letter be pro@ises Governor
Chamberlain such assistance - he can, I'M.
der the constitutions, render him If ha Ahall
need it; but tails him to do his duty - Coz
eenor. The Governor seems to be doing It,
% tho following account Of the progress Of
the inyAstiGatio2s at HamburG,, received
hero By eslszraph to-day by SsnasoR Rob.
ertson, shows The date Of The diSpatch Is
Columbia, August !. 49,
The coroner's inquest oyer the victims q
Hamburg brought id work % close yes
ouhlishoa, ,Is charges General n. G. Buti
fsr, Colo1el A. p. Butler. Dr.. Pierce ButiAr!
Rev. y. Meeling and ff,y-three cidzens.o
Aiken and Ed9edeld counties, and thirty
0eorgiano, with murder.
Z Tho inoueGs has been searching and ex.
hAustivA, AID the verdict has been reached
ct the earliest practicable time. War1Aota
Of arrest for Oh the persons charged With
the crime are now in the hands Of the sheriff
Of Aiken county. The South Csrolinl2ni
ere said 10 intend to surrender - haehsrin
without delay. Governor Chsnberlam will
immediatsly issue acquisitions upon the
Governor Of Georgia for all persons charged
bF the verdict In that State. Attorney
General STONE 10 IN Aiken by direction Of
the 0svsrsor to take charge Of the prose.
oution. The evidence il sid to be far more
dsmuing than heretofore believed. !
s. far the Law haA taken ltA course, a11
this report ssys the South Cxoliniaas Will
surrender to the sheriff. L may yet turn
out, e. Q lsading Republican remarked
here, thAt this Hamburg affair viii be
most fortunate incident nor the South. Pub
lie attention hes been % directed to It, and
there has been suoh universal demand IN
the North that the local authorities shall be
allowed and required - do their duty, and
that the Federal power shall not interfere
| unless further and vary serions remittance
| 10 law 10 made, that both the Governor and
| the white people will be held BY public
| opinion to their just responsibility.
Ids known here that Governor Chamber
I lain intends to enforce the laws, maintain
l order, and see that Justice Is done wtthou.
1 Federal interference tharhe will, It naces-
sary, call upon the white people Of the
county in which Hamburg lies, and if they
are not sufficient upon those OF adjacent
counties, to help him; and that. in short.
local self government, 80 long neglected in
| such cases, 10 once more to be assestsd. l.
should not be forgotten that the region
about Hamburg IL . disorderly corner Of
the ST. ate, and that for this and other rea-
sons the Hamburg case 10 orueiat test to
which the whole country vii! look with In
terest until thu triala are concluded. This
Hamburg riot will, it ID hoped, cause the
sponsibil;ry for disorder 1t will certainly
have the effec. already felt hereof fixing
public attention upon such outrsges. taell
causes. and thevigor with which tas loca
governments reprees and punish Them. z
Ten Southern SsAtes-vrginia, West Wiz
giria, Georgia, AlabaNs, TennessAe, Ken
lucky, Missouri, Milniasippi, Arkansas AMI
Texas--have now Democratic Governors
fcp--North Carolipa, South Carolina, Flor
| ids and LouisianA-have Republican Rav
ernors; Mississippi had . Republican Gov
ernor. Ames, until, by his resignation,
Democrat (Stoue) succeeded, few month
ago, and the Legislature ia also Demo
cratic There il . disposition to hold thes
Governors, 10 matter whether they ar
Democratic Or Republican. respensibl
for good order and psace in their r.
spective States, and, while doubles
the President 10 very ready to affor'
the assistance of Federal troops where
Econstitutioaa i ground fot such demand ca
be shown, Republican politicianslhsve beel
made to feel that such federal interference
will be very unpopular and damaging to tn
party, unless it il made clearly necessar
through tho apathy and misconduct of tn
whites, who, il, il generally admitted By th
Democrats, must, under such changed Gil
cumstancea, come rapidly to the help
the authorities in maintaining order An
Furnishing lawlessness - that is to cay
local public opinion aud local actor
are to have IN opportunity in tn
Southern States to sct toward the mali
teusnce Of peace and the prevention
and punishment OF lswleGsness. and it vii
depend upon the white people Of the Sout
from now until after the election t., !settl
the vexed question whether those State
are - rlawless - the extreme Republican
assert, or whether it ie, as the Democrat
Say, the fault Of Republican State COVER,
ments that outrages occur and crime zoe
unpunished. The test 10 . perfectly to
one, and one on which will depend, to
| considerable extent, the Northern vote
November, for there u no doubt that one {
1.-two outrages hke that ct Hamburg. If the
| were not 1t once put down BY the efforts I
) the white people and by their cooperatio
| with the local powets, vould turn . ver
large Northern vote from the Democrat
to the Republican side. The Southe1
whites are put on their responsibility,
T. - "a -
49,, b. The CutU4. DO - '
The Mississippi river has fallen ~ rapid
| within the last two weeks that We ean NO
Judge pretty correctly what VIII be Il
effect Of the cutoff on our city A bal.
! forming shove Delta on che 1souisians sit
. Of the riFer, and, another IN the epper' o.
. Of the Like. These bars ere the b6undari'
I between which the Mississippi VII pass t.
. | years, and their location Allows that Il
. channel Of the river will not fer many yea
be much more thaa . half male from T!
I city. The. river has almost etraightened
! self FROM, Kings, six miles above ham, to
point opposite Delta. This, and The b.