The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-19
THE SUN AND THE SOUTH.

The Southern people have become some
what enured to misrepresentation and sian,
der since the war. Almost the entire press Of
the North and West ut one time lent itself tt
the circulation Of the most shameful
and infamous stories concerning Southern
people and communities-stories, most d
which would have challenged credence in or
binary times, but which In the then excitec
condition of the N~orth-when all the wilc
passions aroused by the war were still alive
and active-were received as gospel truth
In those days the banner of the "bloody
shirt" waved ~triumphantly, and beneath the
multitudes and mountains Of lies the South
was well nigh buried. She protested, denied
proved up the falsehoods, but truth Travelled
slowly and YEARLY, while the mills OF malice
and hatred were rapidly grinding out myriads
Of lies that sped on the wings Of lightning
through the country, to be reproduced in the
journals OF great cities and copied into town
and village papers, to poison the minds Of the
Northern people against US.
1t was a shameful work, but it was we'll
and thoroughly done. The South will feel
the effects OF those miserable falsehoods for
many years to come. During the time, how
ever, when the most atrocious statements
against the South were readily received and
read with avidity, there We're some few pa
pers North that were inclined to be just, and
among these was the New York San, which
not ~infrequently said a kind word and did
much to check the torrent OF abuse and SIAN
der which had been pouring upon the people
Of this section increasingly for years.
The Sun, therefore, came to be regarded as
a sort Of champion Of our oppressed and
wronged people, and they were grateful for
its efforts to stem the tide of calumny. 1t is
with surprise, therefore, that we notice In the
Sun, OF the thirteenth instant, a statement
concerning the late tragic occurrence at Man
deville, st. Tammany parish, which is so
glaringly and eonspicuously incorrect as to
suggest a malicious desire to iDiure the peo-
pie OF New Orleans. According to the Sun,
Capt. Boyle played the role OF the assassin,
and was himself killed In the attempt to kill
the NEGRO" Bosque. It goes on to say that
the Heroine, on the day after the killing, took
over to Vaudeville, from .this city, what pur-
ported to be an excursion party, but what
was really a crowd Of lynchers, who caught
Bosque and visited summary punishment
upon him by hanging him, after which they
unmolested to the city.
This extraordinary romance is all contained
in a small paragraph, and seems to have been
boiled down by the paragraphist Of the San
from some more detailed account. 1t Is quite
impossible to believe that the Sun could have
evolved the story from its inner conscious
ness, or, in plain language, have invented out
of whole cloth the lie; we prefer to believe it
was imposed upon, and that 1t will not refuse
to correct the story 50 as to make 1t conform
to the facts. Let it convert Bosqle, the "ne-
gro" into the cowardly assassin, who stole up,
and, while screened himself, killed Capt.
Boyle; and, then, let it not hang Bosque by
an Imaginary crowd Of lynchers, but await
the death Of the wretched man, which is
rapidly approaching, by reason Of shots fired
by bis victim while defending his life.
The business Of defaming the people Of the
South should be left by the San to smaller
and less able journals; it does not sound we'll
from a paper which has struck some stalwart
blows for right and justice in the past, and
which, whatever its political mistakes, COM
mands the respect of even its adversaries.