National Republican., 1878-10-29
WHOSE FAULTS IT.

most extreme measures in opposition to the
bloody usurpations of the Bourbons.
WHOSE FAULT Is Irf
We hear great deal Of Democratic fault
finding at the renewal of what they call
the "bloody shirt" excitement. They don't
stop to think that If there had not been
renewal Of the Ku-Klux outrages In the
South there would not have been renewal
of the alarm occasioncd by them in the
North. The outrnges are the cause of their
effect. Let HAMPTON and his ilk remove
the cause and the effect will disappear.
Is it the outrages in the South, or the talk
about them in the North, that constitutes
the crime? Is it the HAMPToNs and GARYs
and MoRGANs that participate in and aid and
abet the perpetration of the crimes against
free elections in the South, or the SuER-
MANS and CoNKLINGs that talk about 1t in
the North, that are the criminals? :?
Border State optimists like Mr.. House, of
Tennessee, affect to believe 1t the latter
Says Mr.. HOUSE:
Iu the next contest between the two great
parties they will divide upon governmental
policy and without sectional animosty. oh /!
grander than the victory Of Appomat0x Is the
victory won by the people Of the North In
their noble and generous contributions to the
stricken and suffering South. GODS own
hand has bridged the bloody chasm. Let not
the ambition of man seek to reopen the wounds
and to rekindle the embcrs Of sectional STRIFE
o, that the ambition of HAMPTON and his
compeers did not demand that the 10000
Republican majority in South Carolina
should be trampled under the iron heel Of
his military despotsm o, that he would
permit the South to divide upon govern
mental policy and free the Republican voters
from GARY and his red-shrt guerillas.
The back-door organ Of the Democracy,
alias the Post-erior, recently INDUCED in n
very illogical attempt at reasoning induc-
lively from cause to effect. 1t argued that
it was the attempt Of the Republicans to
hold political meeting at Sumter that
made it necessary for the Red Shirts to break
it up. That it is the attempt of the Repub-
licans to exercise their rights as voters that
makes 1t necessary for the White Leaguers
to forcibly prevent them from so doing.
And, ergo, that the Republicans are primar-
lily responsible for any disturbances that
occur; because (logic) if they did not make
the attempt to vote it would not be neces-
sary for the Red Shirts to resort to force to
prevent them. 1t further argues that as the
HAMPTON Democracy have announced their
determination to divide tho time and
speak at every Republican meeting
they are as much Democratic meetings rs
Republican, and that if the Republicans OBJ
ject to such an outrage, they are trying to
break up Democratic meeting, and are
therefore responsible for the consequences
1t is presumable that if Bob INGERsOLI
should insist upon every Christian minister
dividing his time" with him, and allow
ing him to demonstrate to the assembled
congregation that ian honest COP is the
"noblest work of man. his attempting 10
divide the time" would create lively
row in the most peaceably disposed cOngre.
CATION in christendom, and that Bob
would be held severely responsible for shoot,
ing any Of the Obstrcperous congregation fol
breaking up his meeting. The PoSt-eriol
further argues that if Mr.. GoRHAM, in pur
suancc of his mission to secure the election
of Republican Congressman, advised South
crn Republicans to organize in district:
having large Republican majorities ant
elect one of their number to Congress, he /.
responsible for any blood the Red Shirts may
have to shed in order to prevent the Rcpub
lcan from being elected; because (logic) /
the Republicans did not organize and at
tempt to elect Radicals to Congress, /
would not be necessary for the Re,
Shirts to resort to murder and outrag
to prevent it. This reasoning Is abOu
on a par with that of o Western murderer
who held that it was not he but the parent
of the murdered man that was responsible
for the murder; because if the man ha,
never been born he could not have killc
him.
That the law-abiding citizens of the loya
North should view with alarm the aggress
i've spirit exhibited by the unrepentan
rebels is but natural. That they shoul
look with suspicion at the methods b.
which the Southern Democracy essay re
turn to their dnte-Jeilum supremacy is eS
cusablc. That they should regard as into
cradle state of affairs that vests the col
troll of the National Senate and House
Representatives in rebellious minority {
lately rebcllious section is justihabl
And that they should sternly resolve thg
that minority of that section should not, b
those methods elect the next President
only the part Of wisdom.
In the meantime let the Southern how
ers for conciliation learn that II is the higl
handed outrages against the rights of Anne
' lean citizenship, as defined by the Constit,
ton and laws, and not the talk about thel
in the North, that estranges the sections.
Q THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
r Seems to us we have heard 1t rumored tn
a one L. c, WADE had been put up by the RI
pubicans Of this district as a candidate ft
Il Congress- This man WADE used 10 be col
= sidered by many people gent leman. Soc
1, after the war hOwsyer. he started out to NAL