The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-15
OTTAWA FREE rRADEA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1879
The Southern Outrages of 1879.

! An able philosopher Calls our 3tlcntiou '"
the curious fact in connection with these de.
/ plorable blotS on civilization and the census
known a. southern Outrages, that southern
otrages" are never committed until Just after
( the Republican nominations in the North
have been made and the campaign orators be-
! Gin To paw the dust and below The fact Is
indisputable. The explanation of ii demands
reflection II seems to show analogles with
/ the action of that law of he Extraordinary colncl-
dcnccS evolved by Professor Anthony Weller
from his study of stagecoach accidents ana
elections to the House Of Commons. But 1t
has pcCuliaritios 0f its own. No state or con
grcssiOnal clcCtlunS-that is, no state elections
of conscqucnce-takc place IN the South tins
year, for example so that there can he no
special political necessity ielt there for bull
dozlng and committing outrages; yet II we
are to believe our Republican contemporaries,
the Southern demons are it again with the re
curing autumual equinox. 1t might rcasona-
bly, have been expected that out OF natural
interest IN the success of their brethren IN the
North the Southern Democrats, who exhibit
/ cd such patent magnanimity and perfect sell
control throughout the summer of 1876 and
the spring of 1877, would be slow 10 furnish
the Republican campaign orators with patent
kndlng for the firing Of the Northern heart,
! and not Ovcr-anNlOus 10 top negro gore where.
! Win 10 TtllhUut INC luNllllUllluOuS ANU NNh'i'
er.faded bloody-shirt 1t might have been sup
posed they would put off their murderous re-
creations say till the second week in Novem.
her. after getting on so comfortably without
them well ON into the early autumn. Alas!-
if we are 10 believe our Republican COntcmp-
OrarieS-thc southern Democrats are As reck-
less of their own interests as they are OF the
lives Of mankind IN general. In the days OF
Grant and The carpet baggcrs the Southern
Democrats used to live at peace with their ne
gro ueighbors from the beginning of Novem.
Der in one even numbered year till the middle
of August in the next even numbered year
| when Just about the time at which English
aristocrats go running after birds the ku hluX
would sally forth and begin shooting holes
through the hats of the friends Of Senator
Spencer and chewing Africans and blood
hounds with such terocty that paternal Gov
eminent was literally compelled to quarter
troops throughout the country and to keep
! them there until the Returning Boards had
4 completed their work. Why have they aban-
! dOncd this sweet pcri0dlcity since the carpet
baggerJ ceased out of their land? Another
system of popular dementia, if we are to be-
! lievc our Republican contemporaries, has re-
Gently made its appearance among these dc.
testable Southern Democrats. We are assured
! that IN a kind of frenzy they all insist on com
passing Il new rebellion, and on tipping the
| 'nlun M on end. rather tlmn submit t0 the
operation Of certain clauses of the Federal
Election law which were meant to worry the
great cities of the North and do not affect their
section of the country at all. How is this to-
be explained? Another peculiarly of these
strange creatures eminently deserves notice.
| Though born with Il shot gun IN his hand, rs
one might say. and accustomed from his era
die up TO use it freely upon all animated
things, from the Judge chewing his quid upon
the bench to the negro on "a dead run for the
swamps, the moment that the close season for
cOlOrcd Republicans is over and the Southern
Democrat goes out cunning for them in com
pany with the staff correspondent Of our es-
eemed Republican contemporaries, all his
skill deserts him Six or seven years ago the
best he could do was to shoot the hat Of Mr..
Hester This year at point blank range his
waverng bullet only perforaes the clothing of
la postmaster. Everything favOrs him-thc
darkness without, in which he crOuchcs for
his aim the dusky form of his victim wcll-dc-
fined against the glare of the official plnc-knGt
within. He pulls his trusty trigger-and 10,
mir cum hcraHS! Now, why is this thus? As
mankind is indebted exclusively for such in
formation as it now possesses about these
Southern monsters in human shape to our cs-
teemed Republican contemporaries, would II be
asking too much OF them to beg them to fOrmu-
late something like a working theory of the
causes which lead the Southern bulldozer to
bulldoze only when oull-dozng is sure to be
most movement to his friends and most use
iul to his enemies-to get up rebelhons against
the United States with an exclusive eye TO the
necessities Of stalwart campaign in behalf Of
laws intended solely to facilitate the incarcera
ton IN iron cages OF all the Irish and Germans |
in New York and Cincinnati, and to waste his |
shot and powder deliberately IN the interest of
Northern matters and the makers Of ready.
made Clothes.-N. J. WOrd.