New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-30

The red-hot secession journals Of the
South. aided and encouraged by the New
York World, are still upholding and JUS
tifying the recent massacre OF unOffending
negro prisoners at Hsmburg. South Caro-
lima, and seeking to offset the feeling of hOr-
ror which has been created in the North with
false statements, exaggeratlons, and bra
Tweed's boast. "Whst are you going to do
about it," Men like Lamar, who have
| had the manliness to protest against this
murder, and the few Democratic newspa-
pers which have had nerve enough to stig
| Matte it as q shocking outrage, have be-
| come the target Of abuse and vilificatiOn all
through the South. There are some Of
| among them the Charleston Ners and
| Courier. 1t pertinaciously adheres to it's
original comments, and still declares
| that the ostrich policy in treating
| the affair was neither wise nor prac.
ticable. In answer to the state
| ments of the Augusta Const:tutiOn0list, that
| the publication of the particulars of the
| Hamburg affair was injurious to the State
| and to the national Democracy, and was,
therefore, wrong. it replies, that 1.-The publ
cation was and is injurious; but only be-
| cause tina facts, as published. were shocking
| and scandalous" The ConstitstioaoHst
asks the Ne,cs AID Courier if it is neces-
| sary to condemn the action of the whites
at Hamburg, while publishing the &C.
| answers "that every friend that the
| State has in the North and South,
| condemns it in unmeasured terms, and
| that the people Of the State condemn it
az heartily as we have done;" and that the
! fact is uncontradicted 81 far. that body
| of whites, without authority of law, put to
| death number of black men at Hamburg
T.. - stoy, md rof
| of barbarism." There are some Democratic
papers in the North also, though few in
| humble who do not whip into the traces at
| the bidding of the New York World any
! more readily than the Southern paper we
| have just quoted, and among these is the
ST. Louis Republican, which says:
.'Tbe white men who shot the u3offending
colored militiamen at Hamburg ought to De
severely punished-and we heartily hope
they will be. But it we're far better that
they be punished by the Sdate authorities
than by any other power; it would
have more wholesome effect. 1t
would force the lawless and violent
white class to respect the local govern
ment they now despise, and deter them
from shooting unotfending negroes in the
future. 1t il said that as soon as the in
quest shall indicate the offenders in the
Hamburg affair, Governor Chamberlain will
order the arrest of them, and, If need be,
call on the law abiding citizens of the
neighbOring counties to assist in the work.
If he do this, the whole country will ap-
plaud and uphold him.
The extracts we have made from the
Charleston News and Courier and the ST.
Louis REPUBLICAN show that there is some
dignity and manliness left in few of the
Democratic papers, ana that there are some
Democrats who will not follow the dema
gogue Cox in apologizing for the murder OF
negroes, nor the malignant COnStitutiOnaiist
and the equally malignant Butler in defend
ing it. 1t is to be regretted. however, that
Democratic manliness is in such feeble
minority. The majority of the Democratic
newspapers in the North are apolOgizing for
the massacre, and the majority in the South
justifying and egging on the ignorant white
mobs to repeat it. As they are determined
to make negro killing an issue in this cam
paign, they will be accommodated, and they
will find that if the Hamburg murderers are
not speedily brought to justice and pun
ished, and if ample guarantees are rot given
that repetition of this infamous outrage
shall not occur, that the Northern people
will not forget it. Ii the eX-slave
masters and their tools, the igno-
rant whites, are determined that the
negro shall not have perfect freedom and
equality before the law, and shall not be
allowed to vote the Republican ticket IN
mOlestpd, they can be assured that all men
in the North, in the Republican party and
out of it, who love liberty and respect the
authority of the laws, will rally at the polls
in November. and vote down the candidates
that represent the oppression and persecu-
ton of the weaker race. If the ex-COnfed-
crates of the South want to make an issue
OF this kind with the North, they will have
no reason to complain that the campaign
is not lively one.-Chicago Tribune.