The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-02
BAsHI RAzOUKs OF THE PRESS.

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Southern o,rtrages, and Is making
: cowardly and disgraceful exhibition {
: itself.
Every murder which occurs In Lor
: isiana or Mississippi is represented as
political outrage, and magnified into
movement to exterminate the Reput
licans and negroes In these States.
the same time crimes OF the most afro
cious and beastly character --crime
such as never have polluted the scrimi
nal annals OF any Southern State
occur daily throughout the North, an
are passed over with simple recital.
We are willing that the merits, tn
christianity and humanity Of Southern
civilization and OF Northern civilization
shall be tried and determined by cona
parison of the crimes which in the pas
years have been consulted in the TIVE
sections Of the Union. We do not deny
that bloody and terrible crimes have
been committed In the South, nor or,
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 1t. that, for
every crime that has been com mitted in
the South in late years, ten have been
perpetrated in the North. And we fur
ther affirm that crime In the South has
never assumed such horrible, loathsome
and beastly aspects as those in which
it riots In every town and village in
the North.
Scarcely Northern newspaper comes
to our hands that does not contain some
fearful crime embellished with such bru-
tai 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 ilIustrious and
rich through the prostitution OF wo-
man, and under whose blasting and bru-
talizing influences even children are
born murderers.
And yet 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 all the refinement and
Of the American people were
lodged in the North, and that the
Southern people were a race Of bar
barous ruffians and brutes.
A short time ago mob in Kemper
county, Miss, infuriated by the assas-
3ination of prominent citizen of the
county by band Of desperate murder |
srs, entered the Jail and in summary
md unpardonabts manner wreaked a
,errible vengeance upon the instigators |
4 the assassination. Upon the strength |
If this terrible deed the Northern pa
)ers charged the whole South with
,eing murderers engaged in a con-
Ipiracy to exterminate Republicans.
Those journals carefully abstsined from
upon the fact that the Re-
,ublicans killed In this lamentable af- !
air were members Of a ring of despera-
loes; that they were assassins or the
nstigators of assassination. This fact
hey carefully kept in the background /
~ pointing to and bowling over the
awless and violent action OF the men
whose friends and relatives had been
he victims OF the Chisholm gang.
But even while these papers were
making their loudest cutlery over this
flair, there occurred in Illinois one OF
he most horrible and diabolical
rimes on record. Before the afro
,ious crime committed at Streator,
Illinois, the Kemper riot sinks into
insignificance. And yet
he Northern press has had very little
o say about that affair; and one paper,
he Chicago Tribune. endeavors to palli-
tie and make it less hideous than the
work done in Kemper. What mean
less! What miserable cowardice!
Then we have the case Of John Law,
! negro politician, who was murdered
n this State by another negro, over
which all the bloodhounds Of the North |
,rn press were moved to the most fero-
,ious indignation. We had just read a |
7icious and lying article in the New
York Times on this subject, when,
over the Chicago Times. we fell
upon three columns of items in that live
" and highly moral sheet, headed
Busy Brutes." Seldom before have we
read so revolving record. Within those
,hree columns were collected the stories
Of the atrocious crimes committed dur
ng the preceding forty-eight hours
several Northern States.
Many of the items were too revolving
and indecent to be printed in a South
,rn newspaper. But we have selected
,ne of the least revolving which we
herewith present as an Offset to the
Law murder:
DEvILISH outrage