The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-05-25
NO. 9.
The SHOTGUN Policy in the South.
From the New York HERALD

From the New York Herald]
Louisiana seems resolved to destroy the DEM
ocratic party. Two years ago when the coun-
try was on the point OF accepting the Herald's
idea Of National Convention Of Peace and
Reconstruction, the White Knights, or some.
such gang, overturned the regular government,
compelled Gen. Grant to issue war-like proc
lamation and revived in an hour the spirit OF
Sumter. In an hour all hope of such conven-.
ton faded away. Now, ON the eve OF most
important election for the Presidency-an
election that will determine the control of the
nation for four and perhaps forty years-we.
have news of another outbreak in Louisiana
The results Of this we sum as follows ''Eight
colored men shot; four hanged; twenty wound
ed; no whites killed. Another source re-
ports: s'Three whites killed. The Sheriff
reports Seventeen eoiored men killed and
many wounded.''
In noticing this occurrence we may say, In
the first place, that all news from tile South,
from the Associated Press reporters and the
newspaper correspondents, may be accepted as
friendly to the Democrats and whites. II has
been so at least since the war closed. There
fore, if these accounts have been exaggerated, it
is in favor Of the whites and net the negroes.
The whites write and talk and use the wires
they have the ear of the country, and it is their
story upon which we now comment. 1t is GER
tainiy painful story. We talk OF reconstruc-
ton. OF pure government of bringing the old
sections together. The majority Of citizens in
the North have no purpose so dear to them as
the political, personal, social and commercial
restoration of the Union. 70 bring about
these results, to forever eNtinouisl the painful
memories of the war, to enable the South to
resume her once proud position, there is 10th
ing we would not do, nothing except to cancel
the results of the war. And yet there seems to
be a party in the South which will have peace
on 70 other terms. This party recognizes that
the negro has been freed from personal slavery,
but it proposes to reduce INN to political
slavery. 1t was conquered by the rifle; it pro-
poses to conquer by the shotgun.
1t is time for rs to speak with the utmost
panness to our friends in the South. There
can only be one end to this shotgun policy.
These constant stories of assassination on Red
river, of conventions dissolved by force. OF RI
OTIS, with twenty negroes killedand one white
man woundetl;" of revolutions like that
against Ames in Mississippi; this proscr ption
CT Northern men as ''carpet- baggers'' and of
Southern Republicans rs s-Scallawags,'' this
assumption that because citizen Of New York
to North Carolina and dares to 40 in
to politics as a Republican he must necessarily
be a scamp and only to be treated as an out
law, this ostracsm and prescription and, above
all, these cruel, brutal, inhunlan murders OF
MI,a'sII; w W;a,ch',.,s a,sI ca1.. 1 ,.,.;n,'
wa NOW witness Of Ravo,, Sa.a o,,iv flef,.r :.
fr,a r,oomoiiiato H. Eve saofions # IL
NO answer. 70 savtrat theso onthrt.,lS resnlt
From, tha ,nisooyarn., ert ~ won lilo Moses
,vh;,.na. n,,1 tho ,a.t w,Is,;+ Els. nr.,,,
W.. IT, va ,a,s,,rd th', r,a,,o,l a,n,ar,ant fo
tl,on, 70 hrld 1890, p,,t t,,;s !. W.
ly,,se for tha scrnns 1h,t tal,n ,lace in onisi-
an, 500 Tow Nov Vorl- vas ,,isgnvarnnd
five vaors 40, =, ~. ,nis,rov,.r,,n-nt i,
I,hicsgo To- DIV rharn i ,ntl.i.,r IN tha histo-
Nv nf thn South 70 onn,n,r, Sy;th Il Rut
nathrr Nov VII nor TIIinois wo,,lI stau,s
.ynnsal fo, q ,,,on,o,,t - rho 80, nf t,avns
Lot ,,iyan ,l,on 70 ~. ,o;rn ~ .ss,.s;,,S
W. ann nnlJ1 n+t,.hnta 80 HE 4ho.a VIC
have 90 oftan soa j., ,he south .n1 ,yhic,, ,v,>
now COG il, To,,ici,na f., ~, ra;rn ~ ,ss..sin-
,tin, ,rba INV t,l;,,,, mar, ~ thot c,.+on,rs
lrn'ore if ~ m,,ch .s wi ,ln in New YnrL and
we trust thew viii Take nm arms and srnn,pss
/. We c,nnot fhnl. of tl, l.l,,t 49, ri To,,~
iana-thn n,e, who follo,-,,J pn.,,r.,,,,l ovax-
n nonv hlool1. tflL. oo;,,er ,.itl shnt,rnns in
n thn s,v,nns to 1,,,d..,. ,,a,ons W. nnna,h
% these men to mt an cnd 70 tlis rriy,, If as
;assinatiou. for if tIrv tso not the General
Government will Evnr If ther.. ,vare = Dem
cratic majority in th,. Jousn ~ laryn sraina
he prese at. the people of this Renullic--who.
ought the war for the Uuion-wonld never.
submit in silence TO a uniou which permits the.
.epeated assassination of citizens for. thai, nrin
We differ aho,,t - l,ntlrad