The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-01
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.

'uICkENS COME HUME III kOUSI'
Or the bitter enemies of the South
n the North, the radical Governor of
Pennsylvania, Hartranft, has been
The most persistent, unrelentiDg and
in his hatred of US, our in
our people, and in fact of
Southern. There are and
have been others, such as Morton
and Blaine, who have bitterly perse-
cuted US, but they have had at least
the excuse that they were seeking
political power by waving the bloody
shirt; while Governor Hartranft, Sc
cure in his position and not identi-
fed with National politics, can offer
no such explanation of his unwar-
rantable interference with our affairs.
His officious intermeddling with
things in which he was nowise con-
cerned has been entirely gratuitous.
Our readers will not have forgot
ten his offer of seventy-fve thousand
militia to Grant to quell the out
break in Louisiana On the 14th Of
September, 1874, and his repetition
on the eve Of the count Of the electo-
raj votes last Fall when trouble was
expected. He was then parading his
willingness to assist in the over
throw, persecution and even massa-
ere of an overburdened and down
trodden people who were seeking on
ly their constitutional rights, and
his ostentatious offers of his militia
were no doubt intended to rebuke us
by showing what an admirable and
peaceable government the great State
of Pennsylvania had at home, and
how great was the contrast between
that and ours. The last dispatches
relative to the great strike now going
on and spreading over the States Of
New Jersey, Maryland, New York.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indi'
ana and Ohio, do not display Cover
nor Hartranft's militia to such adj
vantage as did his offers of their ser.
vices to suppress rebellions and in
surrections in the South. Indeed
they are pictured to US as covering
and fleeing with fear and trembling
before an anorganized, unarmed anG
undisciplined mob. So hasty is sale
to have been their flight that they
abandoned their wounded at Pitts
burg to the mercy of the mob. 1t is
true that they did, when they coulc
no longer retreat, fire a gatlin CUR
into the crowd killing thirty or forty
peaceable spectators, but perhaps
they imagined them to be unrecon
structed rebels in disguise and moi
quiet citizens Of the great and law
abiding State Of Pennsylvania
The Governor, we sorrowfully con
fess, does not appear to have sus
tanned his high character for valo1
in the emergency. He seems not t.
have put his trust in those seventy
five thousand Pennsylvanians wht
have for years been hunting for glory
and so eager to be turned loose upo1
the people of the South; and the dis
patches represent him as appealing
to the President for United State!
troops. What contrast have w
here! Seventy five thousand militi'
to suppress Louisiana and coerce
nation into submission to a fraudu
lent President, but not enough t,
put down few thousand rioters a
home! 1t may be that the Governor
like the old war horse, scents th,
battle from affair.""
But these are not the only features
in this affair worthy of remark. W,
of the South have been traduced ant
slandered as a lawless, turbulent ant
murder loving people because occa
sionally slight conflict between tw'
entirely different races would arts
which could not be prevented by tn
people with our State and Nationa
governments in the hands of our en-
mics, whose interest it was to fomen
; disorders; but no where in the Soutl
has such an uprising and open def
} ance Of the law taken place. Th
few disturbances we have had hav
been entirely local and were 500
suppressed. All of them aggregate
would pale into insignificance i
comparison with the huge mobs tina
f are now assembled in the mos
, densely populated of the Norther
! States and who are treating the la
, and its officers with utter contemp
for no better reason than that a ri
duction of their wages of ten pc