The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-06-20
BASHI BAZ0UKS OF THE PRESS,

still excited over what are termed
Southern outrages, and is making a
coward|y and disgraceful exhibition
of itself.
Every murder which occurs in
Louisiana or Mississippi is repre-
sented as political outrage, and
magnilied into movement to exter
inmate the Republicans and negroes
in tl.esc States. At the same time
crimes of the most atrocious and
beastly character-crimes such as
never have pc uted the criminal an
nails of any Southern State occur
daily throughout the North, and are
passed over with simple recital.
We are willing that the merits, the
christianity and humanity of South
ern civilization and Of Northern civ.
ilization shall be tried and deter
mined by comparison of the crimes
which in the past years have bees
committed in the two sections of the
Union. We do not deny that bloody
and terrible crimes have been com
mitted in the South, nor are we silly
enough to expect that the time will
ever come when the South or any
other region Of the globe inhabited
by man will be exempt from crime.
But we do affirm, and we challenge,
even, the New York Times and it's
hired liar and defamer of the people
Of half the Union, Charles Carroll, to
dispute it, that, for every crime that
has been committed in the South in
late years, ten have been perpetrated
in the North. And we further af-
firm that crime in the South has
never assumed such horrible, loath-
some and beastly aspects as those in
which it riots i'll every town and vii
lage in the North.
Scarcely Northern newspaper
comes to our hands that does not
contain some fearful crime embel
lished with such brutal surroundings
that, were it to occur in Louisiana or
Mississippi, the whole people would
be Mortified and excited, though it
causes not ripple upon the bosom
of that social system in which two
men have become ilustrious and
rich through the prostitution Of a
woman, and under whose blasting
and brusalizing influences even chill
dren are born murderers. And vet
the Northern newspapers raise such
shrieks over commonplace murder
in Louisiana, or the vengeance of a
| mob in Mississippi, as might lead
one to suppose that al the refinement
and humanity of the American peo
Pile were lodged in the North, and
that the Southern people were a race
Of barbarous ruffians and brutes.
A short time ago a mob in KEN
per County, Miss, Infatuated by the
assassination of prominent citizen
of the Co.uty by band of desperate
murderers, entered the Jail and in a
summary and objectionable manner
wreaked a terrible vengeance upon
the instigators of the assassination.
Upon the strength of this terrible
deed the Northern papers charged
the whole South with being murder.
ers engaged in a conspiracy to ex
terminate Republicans. Those jour
nails carefully abstained from CON-
menting upon the fact that the Re-
publicans killed in this lamentable
affair were members of ring of des-
peradoes; that they were assassins or
the instigators of assassination
This fact they carefully kept in the
background by pointing to and howl.
ing over the lawless and violent ac-
ton of the men whose friends and
relatives had been the victims of the
Chisholm gang.
But even while these papers were
making their loudest outcry over
this affair, there occurred in Illinois
one of the most horrible and diaboli-
cal crimes on record. Before the
atrocious crime committed at Strea-
tor, Illinois, the Kemper riot sinks
into comparative insignificance.-
And yet the Northern press has had
vern little to say about that affair;
| and one paper, the Chicago Tribune,
endeayors to palliate and make it
less hideous than the work done in
Kemper. What meanness! What
miserable cowardice! 81.
Then we have the case of John
Law, a negro politician, who was
murdered in this State by another
nonno n.nr mhinh oil tho l,lnnd