Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-07

three months, an ddUdnce, i0ith tn
privilege Of changing postobice.
THE OUTRAGE MILL AGAIN.
The New York Times has Ions
had a monopoly of the Southern
outrage business. One Redpath
an INSCRIPTIONS liar, with a ieryit
imagination, was sent into thC
State last year to manufacture sen.
sational news to fire the Northern
heart. In this he was only partial.
ly successful, for the Northern
people have become a little incredu.
lous about the wild exaggeration'
always trotted out just before cleo
tions, After the election there was
a lull all along the line as to Missis-
sippi, but a gush from Louisiana
where a few electoral votes were at
stake. The Kemper county affair
in Mississippi, however, afforded a
new text for such papers as the
Times, and such politicians
as Morton and Boutwell,. The
Times has reopened an outrage
bureau at Washington with the eyi.
dent intention Of running it al
summer. A purported dispatch
from there, dated the 4th, is headed
"The slave-drivel whip-Its use
restored in Mississippi-Governo
Stones mendacity respecting the
Chisholm butchery-The crime APP
proved by the Democratic press
and party there-Cases Of terrible
whipping in Jefferson county during
the sitting Of the grand jury there
The rule of terror" Under these
startling headlines follows a long
and blood-curdling recital Of the
wrongs and outrages Of Union men,
aud even law-loying Conservatives
in Mississippi. The following is one
of the mildest instances mentioned
A letter received at the Times bureau
from another point in Mississippi relates
the whipping Of DR.. Tbos. w. Stringer,
an educated colored man about fifty
years Of age. DR.. Stringer is a minister
of the African colored church, and is
located at Grenada. he has been in
Mississippi for several years, has been
always recognized as a conservative man,
and was in 1873 a candidate on the
Democratic State ticket for State treas
urer. lie protested in prblie against the
oppression and wrong Of which be was o
daily witness. This gave ofense to the
Democrats, and lie was accordingly
whipped.
1t is specifically charged that the
press and the masses of white peo-
pie approve the Chisholm murder;
that the laws are not enforced, the
lives of Union men IRE in constant
peril, aud hat Il reign Of terror
prevails. Those who are anxious
t, get at the truth know well
enough that the Chisholm murder,
although the result Of an old fami.
lY feud, and not connected with
politics, was deplorcd and con-
demned by the entire Democratic
Southern press, with pr baps one
erratIc exception IA paper whose
opinion upon current topics ordi-
narily has no weight and is never
sought outside Of a local circula.
ton. This tragedy was an excep.
tional affair, and the governor has
made every reasonable effort tc
bring the murderers to justice.
He has made as much progress u
Governor lIartranlt did towar,
furnishing the Molly Maguires 0
Pennsylvania the first few month
after they delied thc civil author
ties, and may bring some of tn
murderers 10 justice. The pcopl
of Mississippi are as law-abiding a
any in the Union; they are quietl
attending to their affairs, bus
about their crops, getting alon
tremendously together, and tn
most Of them unconscious Of th
crimes laid at their doors. The oil
iect Of such a crusade against Mi;
sissippi at this time can hardly b
OWNED, unless to provoke strife an
angrydebates in congress. There al
organs and men that depreeat
the era Of reconciliation which ha
gradually dawned in spite of the.
most persistent efforts. They II
tsrly disregard the truth, disto'
meta and mannfaeLure statemon.