New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20
tho name Of election than the murder OF the
Christians by the Turks.
eI.AucHrrRa I'M TIE SOUTH.

tho name Of election than the murder of the
Christians by the Turks.
sLAuoHrERs IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten or twenty negroes are killed,
and sometimes ono white man ID the com
mon report, but every announcement is fol-
lowed by the stereotyped lie that the negroes
began the attack, and the whites were act
ing in self-defense. The negroes-pOor. un-
trained, almost unarmed and unskilled in
the use of wespons-are always represented
a. precipitstinG themselves upon their we'll
armed skillful and intrepid enemies. and
procuring themselves to be shot for NO
other reason than to make . little political
capital for their Northern friends.
HAMBURG.
The murder . few days since of ten ne
groes in Hamburg, South Carolina, under
circumstances of extraordinary atrocity is
but the opening of the Tilden campaign in
that State. 1t was the beginning of the
work of intimidation, terrible blow to
strike terror into the hearts of the c0lored
people,. Upon Q very mean and scandalous
pretext about three hundred white men
suddenly assembled in this little town, in
habited almost exclusively by colored peo-
pie, perpetrated the foul murders, sent the
women and children to the woods in deadly
fright and searched and sacked their hum
BILE homes.
Had a band of Sioux Indians suddenly
pounced upon q peaceable white village and
inflicted such horrors the cry of extermina-
ton would have gone up throughout the
Land.
1t openly proclaimed that the Republican
msj0rity of 81, 900 in South Carolina is to
be overcome and the State carried for Til.
ing colored men from the polls or cOmpell-
ing them by force or fraud to vote the
Democratic ticket.
In Mississippi, since reconstruction in
1869, the average Republican majority has
been over 81, 1000. In 1872 Grant carried it
by -, 1897 votes. Last year, after q cam
paign of horrors, the Democracy carried it
by msjority of $4,000, and 90 complete
and abiect wss the terror in the county of
YazoO, where the Republicans had regis
tered vote of 2427. they polled but seven
votes, and these were permitted only that
vote. The White Liners were organized
into military companies in every county,
well armed, and marched up and down the
country with threatening onstrati0ns
Murders, whippings and every form of vio-
lence were of daily occurrence, and promi.
nent Republicans, white and black, were
notified to leave their homes on pain
of death. Leagues were formed in which
the members were sOlemnly pledged
to rent no land. give no employment, bust
ness, custom, or social recognition what
ever to white or black Republicans. The
government of the State was compelled to
disband q few military companies he had to
prevent their massacre. and to treat with
tho Democratic central committee for his
own safety, the preservation of the peace,
and protection of the public property. The
tvoa
mittee alleging their inability to restrain
their savage followers. and Mississippi
throughout the campaign was IN armed
mob, having all of the license with none of
the discipline of the camp. The result was
what might have been anticipated-a
bloody, lawlese, wicked revolution. in
which . large majority was overwhelmed
massacres at Hamburg, Vicksburg, Clinton,
Coushatts, Colfax, Red River, Mechanics
Institute, and at hundreds Of other places
that might be named, are all of the same
character, for the same political purposes,
and are generally attempted to be excused
BY the same infamous and outrageous.
falsehoods.
General Sheridan, while in command in
New Orleans, collected with great labor the
evidence of violence in the State of Louis
to 1874, and reported to the investigating
committee appointed by the House OF Re-
representatives., as follows:
Wounded. ....................Zll3
Total .4256
This lie a greater number than fell at the
battle of Bull Run, and with another differ
ence, that in that battle the slaughter was
not all on one side.
This terrible record, embracing larger
number of victims than have fallen by the
tomahawk aud scalping knife of the In
dams in twenty years is to be shouted cut
OF sight by cries Of "bloodylshirt," carpet
Dagger" ''scallawag," and all the slang
vhangery Of brutal blackguardism, and as
the Indians mutilate the bodies of their
slain these men mutilate the memories of
their victims by covering them with charges
OF every species of crime.
LOWER IN THE SCALE OF HUMANITY.
That these men, their siders and abettors,
are lower in the scale of being than the
Sioux or the Modocs is proposition too
plain for argument, and will not be denied
6y any gO0d.hearted and we'll informed
man. In the South the effective arguments
used against the Republican party are the
shotgun, revolver and knife, and lin the
North the charge of corruption and the cry
of reform. The first set of arguments is
sharp and murderous; the second set false
and hypocritical, and are both used indis-
Criminately by the same party as the lOca-
non or the occasion demands.
THE VIRTUE THAT CoNNIvEs AT MURDER.
1 have no faith in that virtue which as
sails with fury fraud and corruption, but
connives at murder, outrages and opPres.
sion. Those who make daily outcry about
frauds, larcenies and defalcations. but turn
. deaf ear to the cries of murdered men, to
the shrieks of victims upon whom are in
hicted Internal Outrages, to the complaint
of those who are driven from their homes
and made outcasts from society for no
other crime than than their race or pOlit-
ical opinions, are Pharisees and hypOcrites
of the basest sort. Frauds and larcenies
Grafton OF all men; but they are inferior in
enormity to the crime of murder. The
taking Of human life save in self-defense is
the wickedest deed under heaven and
among men, and the murderer need not be
expected to hesitate at the commission of
any inferior crime. He will commit per-
jury, forgery, arson, or any deed. We
have seen how the pretended adherence of
public corruption has been made pretext
for murder, for the establishment of
reign of terror, for driving men from So
ciety, depriving them of their means of
subsistence, and robbing many thousands
OF people Of their dearest political rights.
REEK1NG HYPOCRISY.
If there is anything more odious than
these crimes, it is that reeking hypocrisy
which affects to stand aghast at fraud, while
attempting to cast it's mantle of conceal
ment and protection over deeds the most
dreadful and infamous.
NEGRO PLOTS.
The infamous lies about negro plots to
murder the white populaticn have become