The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-11-04
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 2S. 1876.

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The official reports of commanding
officers of the troops recently distrib-
uted to various points i'll the South
are daily received at the War Depart
mcnt confirming the previous concur
rent testimony of witnesses belong
ing to all political parties, as to the
scores of unprOvoked murders in that
section, and establishing the fact that
the Democratic party of South Caro-
lima and other sections is organized
upon a military and war footing,
armed with improved weapons, acting
under the orders of such men as But
ler OF Hamburg. infamy, for the open
" ayowed purpose OF carrying a "sol-
id South for the State and national
nominees of the Democracy. The
satirieal cry of "bloody Shirt" by
which every orthodox Democrat has
attempted to break the force of the
allegations of the atrocities i'll the
South, directly cllargeable to the
Democratic party is no longer tenable.
The testimony of military officers
shows state of crime, violence, fraud
and terrorism that should bring the
indignant masses of American citizens
to the polls in such overwhelming
force as to ensure the utter extinction
of Mr.. Tildeu's party. 1t is dyed
crimson with the blood of thousands
of innocent victims of its sayagery.
From every low grOggery and gam
bling den of our large towns comes up
the cry of g Tilden and reform" Its
strongh0lds are found in those com
munities where crime and ignorance
| abound and where no encouragement
is given to the common school system,
the chief reliance for the perpetuation
of republicans liberty aud for the ex-
tirpati0n of caste, Intolerance and
bigotry. 1t is striving with all the
power OF cunning and spbtlety and
hy the aid of armed violence to re-
form of African slavery. 1t is as loud,
offensive and hIazen in its enuncia-
ton of the dogma OF " State rights
| as though the occupants of the i've
| hundred thousand graves made dur
ing II rebellion of four years duration
melted for the express purpose of Sc
curing it's authoritative recognition,
Were of nO more consequence than "a
like number of I" beasts that PERISH
It's record for the past thirty years
reads like passage from an authentic
history OF the medieval ages, when
superstition ran riot, and when the
minds of men were elouded by the
black shadow of priestcraft and feud
allsm which overspread the Whole
earth as with pail. Its ahject pros
tration at the feet of "a monstrous slave
power untitled it for the administra-
ton of our regenerated republican
government, founded upon the broad
base of equality of all men before the
law; and the indecent haste it made
in the direction of s.reim bursting the
South for losses incurred through re-
belliom, simultaneously with its first
partial return to power, leaves no
room to doubt its intentions III the
premises, notwithstan ding the pro-
testations Of its reform candidate.
Evidences multiply that Tilden's crea-
lures, despalring of their ability to-
secure New York State by an honest
vote, are making strenuous efforts to
overcome it by fraudulent Daturaliza-
tion papers and illegal registration i'll
New York city aud Brooklyn. So
We come to have the amazing spectacle
of this model '' reformern attempt
ing to foist himself upon the Ameri-
can people through the aid of the
rife, the corrupt use of money belong
ing in equity to the government, TO
the defrauded miners of Michigan and
to the stockholders of numerous rail
roads by the liberal distribution of
twenty five cent "Tilden and Hen
bricks flags, and by the Tamnany
methods of repeating and unlawful
naturalization.
The threatened extension of the
present war between Turkey and
Servia, so as TO involve the whole of
Europe in a gigantic struggle for pow