The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-14

and that he was moving away because b,
was "spotted by the Democrats for be
longing to q Republican club" The cor
respondent didn't ask her if all the Other
members of the club were moving also
nor whether her son had been INDUCING in
roast pig without paying for it, nor did he
reflect how prem ature q job it was, con sid
ering that the next election was then nearly
| year off. Certainly it was rather early
to open the campaign on New Years day.
Fact No. 4. An old man 65 to 20 years OF
age was sitting in his cabin lamenting over
the loss of his crop, out of which he claimed
to have been sEindled. This is manifestly
singular piece of proof of bulldozing. 1st,
the old man was not robbed by violence, bat
swindled by craft; Cad, it is not said by
what sort of merchant he was swindled
whether Christian, Jew, or Gentle, whether
Democrat or Republican. 1t may have
been q Democrat granted, but did he
swindle the old man because of his being
a Republican, or because he was himself q
rascal 7-was it for politics or pelf7-was
it matter of threats or theft on the part
of that bulldozer We fail to fad the con-
nectioD.
Instance No. 5. Correspondent heard
one white man cay that if the troops should
be Withdrawn "every white man will 60 to
the polls with a club, and drive the niger
away unless he votes the Democratic
ticket" Strange that an intelligent stranger
should pay any attention to the rawlings of
a single fanatic. Is community to be
judged by one such mailman And yet
upon this case and the four cases preceding
it as above cited, and on not particle of
additional fact, the Irish Worlds cores
pendent bases his sweeping testimony that
all white Mississippians are bulldozers,
experts in intimidation and violence,
while all the colored men are timid, harm
less, helpless, innocent eheep, driven to
the slaughter.
Such being the proof of the charge, we
must consider that it is a vile, unmanly,
slauderous fabrication, and the more so that
it is virtually anonymous and suppresses
all names and localities by which its false
hoods could be traced. That it ia full of
venom against the South, bitter, insolent,
intolerant, is manifest in almost every
paragraph of the article. Teeming with
malignant falsehood, as it is, we give it
place in our columns merely to show
Southern Irishmen what sort of friend
they have in the Irish World, and to what
kind of reports 1t gives currency just at this
crisis when such libels can do most harm.
That paper says distinctly, in comment,
ing on the infamous communication in ques-
ton: eve have read this correspondence
letter carefully, and, from what he dis
closes, as we'll as from information sent US by
other trustworthy persons, we are forced to
believe that the negro in many parts of the
South ia subjected to intimidation of va
rious kinds" This is indeed coupled with
protestatioDs that no harm is intended,
that no sectional jea!ousies are sought to
be fossered, ETC., but the SANDER is pub
lished for all that, and published in sil its
spirit of bitter hatred, Published with no
word of dissent or modification, but recog-
nized as authority which has influenced
and convinced the editor of the paper.
Let it be remarked that the Irish World
through it's correspondent likens the Irish
people to the Southern negroes and puts
their cases on parallel. Such a COMPARE
son is as bad in point of taste as it is alb
surd in its reversal offacts. The people of
Ireland have been governed in their own
country by strangers tn Southern ne
groes have governed in a country not their
own but belonging to those whom they
have governed: the Irish people have been
frightfully misgoverned, plundered aud
persecuted the negro governments OF
Southern States have been, not indeed Sc
bloody, but financially even more ruinoue
than the British government in Ireland.
In fact the real parallel for the Irish Peo
pie, as every body knows, and as the IrisI
World perfectly we'll knows, is found in the
,vhite population of these Southern States
robbed, disfranchised, ruined, by despotiC
and implacable conquerOr acting through
imported agents whom we call carpet-bag
gers and who in our case have used the