Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-26
Where Are the "sOuthern Outrages.s

III IS Oad IDEA TO Grub salt on old
sores" but as the question has been
asked, "where are the Southern out
rages? we propose to revert to it for a
moment What leads to this INQUIRY is
the fact that more tn two months has
elapsed since an election was held only
second in Importance to a Presidential
elect on, and yet from all the vast terri
tory not single wall of Southern out
IA o" has gono up. 1t is a well known
fact to all intelligent people that the
Republican party in the South has ex-
isted since the war only By creating
strife and attempt nc to array the col
ored race solidly against the whites.
This succeeded for the me. being led
by all the vituperation that men infa-
nous in infamy could cOncoct to widen
the breach. A Southern outrage"
was sweet morsel to oil under their
unhallOwed tongues 1t was insisted
upon by carpet baggers and scallawags
that the colored voters of the South
were intim dated and bulldozed until
there was no chance for them to exer-
else the franchise given them under the
law. The people of the south know
that of all classes the colored voter votes
earlier and oftener than any other. He
has never been depri, ed o. the privilege
OF the ballot box. and of others he
uses it the most freely. But, as we have
stated. not single instance of Southern
outrage has been reported, this too, with
the mail and telegraph lines open to all
and the SoGth iull of Republ can office
holders. black and white. From one end
of the country to the other the cleo
tionday was as quiet as any other,
and in many places one must have
been tIld SO 10 have known that an
election was Icing held. 1t has been
suggested that past experience has
shown that the bad treatment of one
negro Tor political reasons is much
more quickly published to the world
than the good treatment of fifty for
any reason whatever. This is true,
there ore the irresistible conclusion is
that the negroes were not disturbed to
any VS. b o extent in the recent exercise
of the right of suffrage. else we shou d
most assuredly have heard o. it through
the usual Republi, an channe's.
The last election developed the fact
that the negroes of the South have
grown tired of being the slaves of North
ern Republicans. and have thrown of
the shackles which robbed them OF their
liberties. The. felt that in "a large de-
ee they owed their liberation from
slavery to the Republican party, but
they also Ieel that sixteen wears of
serviiude under such severe task-mas-
ter have compensated for whate err
debt o. graft de thew owed. Iho g
things combined with the interest that
must naturally attach to being in har-
monv with Their white riends among
whom they live. has brought change
over the spirit OF Their dreams. and
they acted and voted with the democrat
ic party.
And, again. the fact is that the CO n
try has become heartily sick and tired
OF the so .thern outrage" bus ness,
as worked I'm by rom lncers, that it has
ceased to find enough believ ers to paw
for the time and trouble expended
thereon. The kepubl cans are natur.
ally unwilling to acknowledge Thu. but
very few 'epub.icans are now will ing
to swal ow the stories VIII Gu. but a
short while ago, constituted the main
pc on of the party creed. and, so the
clmpaign mana GERS have wisely dis
cont nued the manufacture. " hat the
next device will lie to "iire the North
ern heart il is impossible to guess,
but here is a cheer nj probab lily that
hence Orth the two races will be abe to
settle the own iii ences N their own
way. and live to rether in peace and
harmony, without the evil influences of
hep lean falsehOods. 1t has taken sew
enteen years to br NC about tn cond-
ton OF affairs, but its present and pro =
pective bene Is promise 10 amply atone
for the delay. COtunl6tts( Ga. EnquireY
The Democratic Generals OF the War.
II is now com NC to be understood
that while the war Tor the non, as it
was ca ell. was going OH here was in
the .cia' @ upmen Of he Un;on arr Y
q toinc dent part cOnnict. There we e
eneralS who cult, ated a common in-
icreSt W TN the oil ais o. the evil ov-
ernment. and relied upon the avor OF
the Adm 'nlstrat!o to keep them in their
places, and Generals so UNIV ting as to
i'm g ne that 10 win victories. gain inn
pOr,ant a " ant ges, and p eser,e the
lines and the efficiency o. the troops
nder their command was the proper
mode to obtain the approval and secure
the countenance OF their superiors. The
tie Foit cal Generals" invented by
Sherman and appl ed TO those who hal
not EN- Dyed the ad, antages of 'mtli-
tary educ tion." h d a wider meaning
than that given to it by its
author. esidcs these there were
other political { ener Is -Gener lis
who used their monopov of the ear oil
the AdmiDis at on to defame. and their
in uence whit to reno e from the r
commands m n whose brilliant achieve
ments we're con rast TO their own
ftebe and W steful oper tons. The
p bic Is coming understand whose
were the gen me and whose the coun-
tel, g { viclor.es. the latter heralded by
false dispatches and tested by sub.
sidrzed newspaper 60 responder 8. I
is com NC to understand by what shame.
tut means Buell. and kOsecrans and
Porter, able and sue, eSsful Command
ers were DIR ven o of the sen ce. and
what were the methods emplo ed to
force that grand old herr. Tho "a, into
battle or which he was unprep rel in
order TO oFen the W y 10 h removal.
4 rand rs is the history o the war in