The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17

generally attempted to be excused by the same in
famous and outrageous falsehoods.
LOUISIANA.
Gen. Sheridan, while in command in New Orleans,
collected with great labor the evidence of violence
in the State Of Louisiana alone for political pur-
poses from 1866 to 1874 and reported to the inves-
tigating committee appointed by the House of Rep
resentatves, as follows:
Killed. ................ .........e.....s."Zl4I
Wounded. 10
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4, $50
This is greater number than fell at the battle
of Bull Run, and with another difference, that in
that battle the slaughter not all on one side.
This terrible record embracing larger number
of victims than have fallen by the tomahawk and
scalping-knfe of the Indians In twenty years. is to
be shouted out of sight by cries of bloody Shirt
"carpet-bagger," 1scalawag," and all the slang
whangery of brutal blackguardism and, as the In
ians mutilate the bodies of their slain, these
m utate the memories of their victims by covering
tn EN- with charges of every species of crime
LOWER IN THE SCALE HUMANITY.
T. hat these men, their aiders and abettors are
lowe in the scale of being than the Sioux or the
Mod pcs is proposition too plain for argument and
insOrn led man. In the South the effective argr-
ments used against the Republican party are the
sho4g n, revo ger and the knife, and in the North
the cha rges of corruption and the cry of reform.
The first set of arguments is sharp and murderous:
and the sc cond set false and hypOcritcal and both
are used discriminately by the same party as the
location or the occasion demands.
THE VI rRTUE THAT CoNNIvES AT MURDER.
have no faith in that virtue which assails with
fury fraud Id corruption, but connlves at murder,
outrage and oppression. Those who make daily
Quietly about frauds, larcenies, and defacations,
but turn deaf ear to the cries of murdered men,
to the shrieks of victims upon whom are inflicted
internal outrages, to the complains of those who
are driven from their homes and made outcasts
from society for no other crime than their race
political opinions are l?harisees and hypocrtes Of
the basest sort. Frauds and larcenesare infamous
crimes and deserve the execraton of all men; but
they are inferior in enonnity to the crime of
der The taking of human life save in self-defense
rlnn51 hoo
men, and the murderer need not be expected to
hesitate at the commission of any Inferior crime
He will commit perjury, forgery, arson, or any
renee of public corruption has been mace pretext
for murder for the establishment of a reign of ter
TOR, for driving men from society, deprTying them
of their means of subsistence, and robbSng many
thousands of people of their dearest political
rights.
REEKINa HYPOCRISY.
If there is anything more Odlous than these
crimes it is that reeking hypocrisy which, affects
to stand aghast at fraud, while attempting to cast
its mantle of concealment and protection
deeds the most dreadful and infamous.
NEGRO PLOTS.
The infamous lies about negro plots to murder
the white people have become exceedingly stale and
disgusting. Last summer the columns OF the
Southern Associated Press for days groaned with
the stupid and clumsy story that the negroes had
conspired to murder the white men and ugly white
women of Georgia That this infamous lie was in
tended pretext for slaughter there is but little
doubt.
Many well-meaning people deplore any refer.
ence to the outrages committed in the South as
inimical to reconciliation and harmony between
the sections. They exceedingly anxious that,
in this centennial year, past dl1erences shsll De
forgotten, and the people, North and South. for
getting and forgiving, and mindful .only of our
reat national future, shall meet and embrace as
nation of brothers. 1t is contamination devOut-
lv to be wished; but / must remind such well
meaning people that any formal reconciliation,
while the dearest rights of millions systematic
ally violated, and the greater wrongs passed I'M
noticed and unpublished, will be the rsnkest hypoc-
risy revolving alike to divine and human justice.
It is only the knavish quack who puts a plaster
over the mouth of the wound and says 1t is healed.
The healing process must begin at the BOTTOM and
be thorough to be permanent and healthy. All
the gushing and Misunderstanding which precedes the
concession of equal rights and justice to men OF
all colors and opinions in the Southern States viii
be the veriest sham and deceive nobody. Such
foul wrongs cannot be ignored and concealed.
They will forever obtrude themselves upon the
world and cry aloud for redress.
BUT ONE HIGHWAY TO PEACE.
Let say to this class of people, and tn men OF
South there is but highway to recon clatlon
and that open, straight, and free; ana over it's
portals are Inscribed these words: Equal rights to
all to a equal protection of the laws ;" and if the
Southern people will walk in that highway they will
arrive at the temple of peace and find unbroken
rest.
WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANNOT BE TRUSTED
The Democratic party cannot be safely trusted
with the control of our Government for many rea-
sons, few Of which L will briefly state
i. because the F1LSl element parry, Tue IuSA
who control its action and destiny, traitors,
and did everything in their power to destroy their
country. No who ,ever deliberately betrayed
his country should be intrusted with its Govern
nent. To forgive rebels is thing; to put them
in power is another thing. To place this Govern
ment into the hands of men who sought its de-
structiUn by armed rebellion would be insanity.
These men accept the Government only
as a military necessity. They do not love
it, nothing about its credit, and it's
very existence is rebuke to them. But
this does not diminish their desire to
get control of the Government, to recuperate and
repair their shattered fortunes. The CONDITION OF
the Democracy of the North is somewhat different,
though scarcely better. Sympathizing fully with
the South, and entirely subseryient it asks nothing
but Office and leaves measures and policies to the
South. Upon economic measures that pertain
alike to all parts of the country, while opposing
whatever is and all that has been done it has not
even a suggestion to make, and is utterly bankrupt
in ideas. aWlth individual members of talent ana
intelligence as organization it has the confu-
sion of ideas and the feebeness of grasp which be-
long to the senlity of age that has outved every
| thing but its passions and the memory OF evil
Deeds It cannot escape from the past, and all It's
| traditions evil 1t cannot point to one OF It's
leading measures in thirty years that has not been
/ condemned by fine voice of mankind. The other
| day in the Senate asked the question, what good
| thing the Democratic party had done, or proposed
| to do in the last twenty-five years? and SAID
would Weld the floor to any Democratic Senator
who would answer. The Senator from Delaware,
| Mr. Salisbury, accepted the challenge, and named
| the appointment of Investigating Committees by
]
| The answer was an awful confession, which was
| painfully felt by every Democrat present. The
distinguished Senator felt the necessity of saying
something, and could think of nothing but the
| appointment of smelling committees to enable the
rebels to find out whether could not have put
| down their rebellion more cheaply than we old
The Fugitive Slave law iii 1850; the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise in 1854; the border-rutian
outrages in 1856; the Lecompton constitution
and the bred Scott decision in 1866; its denial OF
power to suppress the rebellion in 1901; its re-
sponsibiity for the rebellion by sympathy and en-
enlargement; its resistance to every war measure;
its efforts in 1864 to bring about the abandonment
of the war it's protection to treason and conspiracy
! in the Northern States; its opposition to the cou-
! stitutional amendments; its encouragement TO the
people of the South to resist reconstruction ana
its defense of the Ku-Klux, White Leagues, ana
every form of organized violence IN the Souon pre-
| sent an unbroken series of infamous measures
which viii grow darker and darker by the lapse Of
! time. -
| A PiOuS Parrot.
/ 4t,oo ozsifx1 for Tho