New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-04

promised full indemnity to the families o
the deceased, put guard of soldiers arount
the house OF the American consul, and u
American ship-of war was ordered, by tele
graph, to protect the life and liberty OF an,
American citizen in Turkey.
manifested for the safety of the American
citizen in foreign land that the House o
| Representatives in Congress assembled. tn,
majority Of the dominant party Of which
| were Confederate soldiers, lately armed il
the rebellion against the government
| showed their appreciation of the righ's o
| An American citizen and the duty of tn,
| American government to protect him IL
those rights in Turkey by unauimousl,
rebel. requesting the President to inform
| the House what measures he had taken I,
/ see to it that no harm should come to hal
of citizens head.
But the President was to do this in Tur
Almost in the same dav . leading Re
publican Senator, of the State of Louisiana
embarked with his br0ther-in.lsw in . sklff
to be ferried by . negro over the Missis
sippi river. A man. disguised. and armed
with repeating rifle. who lay in wait fol
him, having got his man thus helplessly ex
posed in On open boat commenced . delib
crate fire upon him, and wounded him in
many places. He then deliberately shot
and murdered the brother-in-law, and
when the wounded Senator threw himself
over the side of the boat to shield himself
from the assassin's rife. he leisurely walked
down to the shore, fred upon him with his
rev0ving pistol until lady who was in the
ferrytost assured him that his victim was
dead. when the cowardly murderer mount
ed his horse and rode of unmolesred; and
20 kHAfa mn Ayvn h1Ua haaN
taken for his arrest. BY this murder the
political majority in the Senate Of -Louisi
ana was to be changed, rot by the ballot,
but by the bullet. Let no man say. then,
this is . mere sporadic instance OF crime.
1t iS Q murder in pursuance Of . set pur-
pose, to make murder IN element in p0liti-
cal action in one part of the country.
Is this the liberty, order, and law-abidin2
which We were promised at Appomatsox
Has the country carried on this long and
bloody war for no other better and greater
result than this
This being done in OR own country, under
the protection Of our flag, and not in
Turkey, the only movement for redress
made for this great wrong which the news-
papers have brought to our notice is that
the Senate of the United States has in
strucsed its committee, raised for another
purpose, to inquire into the circumstances.
- LuOuRu tuo CiECuLuStoucoS WcAo uVa
known we'll enough already.
But perhaps . more pointed illustration
is an outrage more like in it's facts to that
of Salonica, occurring . day or two after in
Mississippi. A negro there was accused Of
stealing q cow. The Turks accused the
two European consuls in SaloniOa of steal
ing Turkish girl, and killed them TO
aven2e the abduction of the woman. The
newspapers Of both continents we're filed
with columns OF descriptions of the dreadful
catastrophe, and modes of redress adopted
by all Christian nations.
In America q mob assembled to punish
the larceny of the COW. give the descrip.
ton of their dOings in the rerse and effect
i've worlds of the New York Herald, of May
"a, instant:
''sLAUGHTER OF FEGRoEs.
"NEw ORLEANS, May %, 1876.
were twenty-nin negroes KILLED in Wilkin-
disturbances there"
No Christian country has demanded re-
dress for this slaughter. Nobody has been
punished: nobody has been arrested but q
few negroes, for the alleged crime that they
fred upon the mob and did not hit any
body. No ship OF war has been ordered to
the scene OF the outrage, by telegraph or
otherwise, to demand at the lannon's mouth
the punishment of these murderers and in
demnity tor the widows and orphans of the
slain; but after Cabinet consultation an
order was transmitted to the commander
of the United States troops to interfere to
prevent any further bloodshed, and he re-
ports that "ali is quiet at the place of the
transaction" which report is doubtless
true, a. the negroes are dead, and the news
papers infJrm US that with that report the
Secretary of War is delighted"
This was not done in Turkey, but near
Vicksburg, which surrendered to Grant and
the soldiers of the Union, and came under
States on the Fourth OF July. 1863, being
the anniversary of the day when the inslien-
able right to every citizen of the country
was proclaimed to 'life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness"
Thirty, save one, American citizens have
been murdered-report says, whether true
or false. many more wOunded-on Ameri-
can soil, under the protection of the Ameri
can constitution and American law, under
the very folds of our flag, in the centennial
year of our national existence, at the very
hour when we are indulging in infinite
gush" over the necessity OF peace and good
will toward each other by all citizens OF
the country; more than ten years after we
had established this memorial day for deck
ing the graves Of our soldiers who yielded
no their lives, and the country went into
long mourning over an assassinatsd Presi-
dent, that We might establish equality of
right and full protection t. every Am srican
citizen under our constitution and the laws
Of the country.
Yet in this centennial year of that procla-
nation, when, if ever, it should be a living
reality, the Congress OF the United States
in Meth ar house inquiries, by resolution, of
the President of tho United States. what he
has done to protect and save the lives of
American citizens, on American soil, where
three times ten have been ruthlessly slain;
but tie House of Representatives carefully
direct their attention to the d0miniOns of
the Sublime Porte, where, as yet, no Amer.-
san citizen has been hurt.
Has it come to this, then, that all We have
gained in . hundred years is. that an
his 'li:e, liberty and pursuit of happiness"
and any wrong done to him will be more
surely avenged in Turkey than in his own
country, under his own constitution and his |
own flag!
As have said, my comrades, we are will
ing to forget all that wa suffered and lost |
70 obtain this great right; but such occur |
FENCES IS these on our soil we ought not to i
'0rget, and their recurrence We can not, We |
must not, We will not permit.
What think you would our loved and lost |
lead, if they could speak to 10 from their |
owly graves, whether resting under the |
green mounds of every village in our land,
" buried in tho unknown bitches of every |
,attle field in the South, say to Ne, If haply |
hey might answer, if this horrible story Of