The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-27
BULLDOZING In OHIO.

ciat the version Of this outrage as re-
lated by the victim of 1t to a Commercial
reporter on his arrival in that city. OF the
man himself we know nothing beyond the ac-
counts Of him In the papers. His crime ap-
pears to have been the manifestation OF q hu-
name disposition to aid and protect poor,
penniless woman, who had been cruelty
beaten by her husband, cast out OF her home
and sent adrift upon the world, to encounter
Its always cold charity under the added lgno-
miny that attaches to a repudiated wife. her
worldly possessions seem to have been hus-
bands curse and few articles OF apparel and
household goods. So Storer, or Allen, found
her. a wretched, cast-off wife In the highway,
and his offense consisted of the assistance he
gave her to obey the commands Of her brutal
husband. We have read q similar story, but
not so sad one, some where else. It went
somehow this way
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped
him of his raiment, and wounded him and de-
parted leaving him half dead.
And by chance there came down a certain
priest that way and when he saw him. he pass
cd on the other side.
And likewise q Levite. when he was at the
place. came and looked on him. and passed BY
But certain Samaritan. as he iournayed.
came where he was; and when he saw him. he
had com passion on him.
And went to him, aud bound 10 his wounds
pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own
beast and brought him to an inn. and took care
OF him.
And on the morrow when he departed. he
tooa out two pence and gave them to tt 9 host,
and said unto him: Take care OF him and
whatsoever thou spendest more. when come
again | will repay.
Which now Of these three. thinkest. thou. was
neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
This old story has, perhaps, never been
heard Of In Batavia; but could not Garfield,
whose home is not more than days journey
removed, and who at least before he went to
Congress, was a minister Of the gOspel-could
not he spare day to go over there and i'm
press the homely lesson 1t conveys?
AS for the woman, Mrs. Atchley, the nature
of her offense does not appear on the face Of
the papers. Whether it was merely one Of
those episodes Of conjugal life known as a
family jar" or whether 1t was serious vlo-
Iation Of marital law, is left to surmse and
speculation. Judging by the code of morals
most familiar to our people, we are obliged to
accept the testimony of the husband, who
was the original prosecutor, that there was
no criminality. but merely family
row, because he has taken her back,
and peace and Joy now reign in the house Of
the Atchley's at Batavia, Ohio. The woman
Atchley having been proven innocent Of
crime upon the admission OF her husband,
her accuser, it follows that the offense of
Storer, or Allen, Is limited to that Of aiding a
discarded wife, a helpless and homeless wo-
man, In her distress whether with good or
bad intent-and this seems to be the view Of
the case taken by the officers of the law by
whom he was tried and discharged as an in
nocent man.
We already know how one hundred coura-
geous men, with masks On their faces, deadly
weapons in their hands and murder in their
hearts, in the dead hour Of midnight broke
down doors, seized this one man, placed q
rope around his neck, dragged him to a
bridge over the Little Miami river, tied the
end of the rope to beam Of the bridge, and,
with tiendish fury, cast their victim into the
shallow, rock-bottomed stream below-and
all this In the State Of Ohio-the State of
Hayes. Of Sherman and Of Garfield.
The Cincinnati Commercial now reports the
and battered, faint from the loss OF blood, his
neck marked by the rope, he has crawled
away from the savages OF Batavia and Is
making his way to the far West.
Such dasMrdly occurrence could happen
anywhere, and II Is no more surprising be-
cause it occurred near the homes of Hayes,
Garfield and Sherman than was the SINH
lar outrage committed at Mount Vernon,
Indiana, last year, where the colored popu-
Iation was set upon, some hanged. so2se shot,
and nearly all driven from their homes by
cowardly mas. Nor do we wish to be
understood Is condemning these communities
simply because these outrages against law
and society happened In their midst. 1t is
their misfortune, and we only hope to witness
and testify to their standardization.
But we listen with hand to ear for the
shrek Of the apostles Of human liberty and
acknowledgements. Where Is the man whose
profound sympathy for the colored man was
SO touchingly displayed when the election re-
turns OF 1876 were found to be against the
Republican candidates. Where is the distin.
guished financier and chosen successor Of
Hayes. who mingled his tears with those oil
our own martyred Eliza, when she rehearsed
| her carefully conned story before the visiting
sttitCsulSHt NHtL0 10 LuS hIu1. WucI0 1t
Piegan Phil? Will the silent traveller be
called back from over the sea to punish, with
strong arm and merciless hand, the Ku-Klu2
of Indiana and the bulldozer of Ohio?
| When the perpetrators Of the Mount Vernon
massacre and the band OF murderous ruffians
of Batavia have been made to feel the strong
arm Of the law, the Christian statesmen d
Indiana and Ohio, who love to paint in black
est colors every act Of lawlessness committed
at the South, may consistently turn theil
eyes from their own homes to find elsewhere
examples Of violence and humanity Unit
then we say to them, in the language of the
Master: ''Thou hypocrite, cast out first til,
beam out of thine own eye, and then shat
thou see clearly to pull out the mote that il
in thy brothers eye"
PROMISOUOUS CHARITY.