New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-26
Az ALLEGED ExposuRE.

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ical societies has made most stu
pendous discovery within the past
week or two. 1t has found out, or
pretended to, that there exists in
this city another secret political as
ISOLATION; one that does not derive
its authority or its permission to
exist at all from the Democracy, but
is in fact hostile to that old fraudu-
lent organization On Sunday, this
organ treated its readers to eighteen
or twenty columns of what purpOrt-
ed to be the proceedings of secret
meetings of this newly found politi-
cal organization. These proceed
ings, with here and there an excep-
ton, appeared innocent enough on
the face, and, standing alone, pre-
sented none of the odious features of
the transactions of Kuklux and
White League councils.
But the expose of the crowning
iniquity was postponed till Mon
day. Then came the crushing an
nouncement that the old companies
of cred Warriors " have been re-
vived with all the traditional accom-
paniments of tomahawks, red paint
and scalping knives. This is indeed
strange and dreadful. Who would
have supposed that in peaceable
city like New Orleans, where not
over one political riot year ever
occurs on an average, such things
could be! In a city where civil
liberty is SO free and well protected
that no thought is ever entertained
of spotting, ostracising and starving
out any man on account of his polit-
ical affiliations, who could suppose q
bloody minded organization, as the
Red Warrior affair is described to be,
would be generated, grow up, and
become formidable
The real truth is, we suspect, that
this society owes a portion of its
existence and all it's terrors to the
fears engendered by guilty con-
science. 1t is logical consequence
of violence to beget opposing vio-
lence. The people will fight the
devil with fire the world over,
though the wisdom of this mode of
warfare is liable to be doubted. The
late success of the White League in
the political wars of this State may
well encourage others, especially
those of that ilk who have been
denied their share of the fruits of
former victories, to form new ALI
ances on the same plan. The pres
ent State administration owes its
possession of power to force. Arms
were used first in the elections to
intimidate voters, and again to in
stall the officials whom the Return
ing Board found had failed, in spite
of the trouble and precautions which
had been taken, to secure votes
enough to eptitle them to legal COM
missions. A large number of people
who lent their assistance to this
coup d'etat of the Democratic party
have been since quietly ignored.
They have seen positions given on
the police, in the schools, in the City
Hall, and every where else to those
who were either strangers to them
or enlisted in hostile interests.
Under these circumstances, what is
more natural than the thought-We
placed these men in power by force
secretly organized, and we will GUST
them by the same means! The
knowledge of their own delinquencies
has, no doubt, had something to do
in suggesting to the Democratic
leaders the suspicion that a secret
society inimical to their interests
was in existence, and they have
eagerly seized upon the bugbear
known as the Red Warriors, and
proclaimed it as a reality. The
Democrats of to-day, like their pre-
decessors of 1852, have set a per-
nicious example before the people,
and can not be surprised to find it
followed. Such an organization as
that described by the Democrat,
whether it actually exists, or is only
the creation of guilty fears, is the
logical sequence OF White Leaguery
and the ingratitude that has been
practiced towards those brave young
men who made success possible for
the pretened reformers Of 1876.
We have no knowledge of this
portentious scarecrOw, further than
that which has been afforded to the
public by the organ Of it's parent
and rival, tho White League. AS
indicated above, we have seen