Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
WORSE THAN INFAMOUS.
The Hideuus Suggestions OF an Infamous
ChIcxso journal.
Louisville Courier journal.

Louisville Courier journal.
The Chicsgo Tribune st ems to be gorely
disappointed because the negroes of the
South will no. rise up and massacre the
whites, AMI il the expression of its dis
appointment 1t publishes an editor a., by
the side Of whose infsmy that OF the writ,
iDgs for which certain snarc lists were
hung in Chicago year ago are mild.
It makes public the following letter
from Senator ingalls, with reference 10
HArrison's Southern policy:
ATCHISoN, KAN. Nov II, 1885.
DEAR SIR have yours of the 9Th. The Re
publican administration will be delinquent If It
does not Insist upon equality of all citizens, be-
fore the law. and demand conc.u sive assur-
ances of jus zee. The verdict of Tuesday last
means this or &c is destitute OF signifcance and
our triumph will be empty and barren. Truly
yours, JOHN j. INGALLS,.
Comm nting on this, the Tribune says
Every Republican will approve heartily
ana without reserve tbs sentipent expressed
by Senate, ingalls,. Undoubtedly President
Harrison will Insist on the equality of all ,it
liens before the law alo demand explicit and
conclusive assurance of j1suce.' II has done
that as private citizen The difficulty Is to see
what General Harrison as chief m sgistrate can
do 10 put an end to the sy.tem OF organized po-
liticel fraud In the South. General Grant had
10 withdraw the troops fro III the South and ad
nit LlSL ne COulu mol 'pDIe5b the eVll. Hayes
abandoned wholly all coercive measures. Gar.
field and Arthur made no attemt 10 renew
them. Confessedly as the Jaws stand now the
president lack. the necessary power to make
elections in the South free and fair.
Measures looking to the use Of mill
tary power and the management Of
Southern elections By federal officials can
hirdly be passed, the Tribue re-
grets to think, because the Republican
me nifty in congress 6ill be 80 small;
and laws aimed directly ct the Southern
states, and intended to reduce their
representation, must be drawn with
grest care, it feare. in order to svoid the
constitutional objections stated in recent
DISC sions OF the supreme COURT court,
By the way, which, even before its late
sccessions Of Dem ocrsts, held that the
greater psit of Summers last civil
rights bill was unconstitutional.
"What, uDder the ruling OF the supreme
court can congress DOR" disconsolstely
asks .hs tribune. at Senator Ingalls,
hiss some good and effective pisn to en-
force equsl voting rights in the south, be
will deserve the lasting gratitude Of all
Re- pa olicans, Snd the Tribune will en-
deavor to see that the author OF s schema
80 valuable shall receive full popular sp.
precistion. The ingalls, doctrine is sound
and just, but how can It be enforced?"
The prospect does seem very promis.
ing to it, ard 1t allows its rage st the
helplessnees Of the party which has been
swearing to reconstruct the Southern
states IS soon IS returned to power to
disclose the disbolism of its meligsiiy
against the South in the following OUT
b1gsI:
The &c urce Of trouble is that the blacks will
not fight for themselves, and any coercive pow
er to enforce their rights must be used from the
outside. White men or lnotar situated as the
Southern negroes are would make the rivers of
the South run red before they would submit to
the ursupations and wrongs which the blacks
OF slavery the negroes are non combatants.
They will rot shoot and burn for their rights
They lack even the combativeness found in the
women Of The races long accustomed 10 free
dom. The negroes will net fight
except In association with and under the
Leadership of white men. Wherever there is
considerable portion Of white Republicans
ready to tight, II necessary, for free ballot
and fair count, the negroes can and 90 vote
and have their ballots fairy counted; but If
left 10 themselves they are helpless. even where
they are In vast majo'ity. In what manner
can outside federal power be brought to bear
to secure thu rights of The negroes in ststes
where they cannot act in association with or
Unter the leadership of white men? That Is
the great question. WIN Senator Ingalls, cast
light upon II:
This is a rsproach TO the negroes for
not attempting to deluge tie South with
blood, and az inssigation to them to
adopt such G course 10 the future. Amer
icsn Journalism bears no bIacker plotcb,
and IL would be truly O one. sided law
which would hang an anarchist for uTg-
ing his views through the press, and
which would permit the man who wrote
this to continue to preach, unressfained,
his fendish doctrine OF iIcsnditrism and
murder.