Year: 1875

Dali, were received as usual Iii society,
and all escaped punishment through the
influence of family connections, or the
venality of the courts. But if the mur-
dering of white men is looked upon aS so
venial an offense in these lawless dis
tIicts, it is easy TO conceive that the
tortures and death of multitude Of
harmless negroes would scarcely be no
ticed by the superior race. 1t is plain
that the massacre OF Coushatta would be
20 the people of Shreveport only amorn-
ing's sport.


Connected with the a.e cruelty of
this ruling class at the South is their
shameless and audacious cunning. They
deny everything, spread false rumOrS,
talk of oppression, claim the sympathy
of the Northern Democracy, fill the
newspapers with calumnies against Re
ident and the administration with a fe-
rocious bitterness that indicates both
their hatred and their fear. Yet the
murderers of Coushatta and Grant Par
ish, of Teche Parish and New Orleans,
must hear, almost with grim smile, that
their rude cunning and daring falsehoods
have found any credence in the more
civilized Iart of the country; that their
violent attempt to seize on the govern
mani ,f TouiSiano ba, l,aa,, oornHa
nanced by any honest or humane man;
that great meeting has been held in
the city of New York to sustain them in
their new rebellion; and that respectable
citizens have been so far deluded by their
pretenses as to look upon them as the
victims of Republican oppression, and
join in fierce denunciation of the tyr
amy of Grant and Sheridan. With
what peals of ribald laughter III st they
learn that their rude inventions are re
peated by respectable Journals; that tine
Northern Democracy is willing to assume
the responsibility Of their Grim $, and
shield them from a swift Justice; that a
venerable poet is prepared to chant their
praises as ii c martyrs of freedom; that
astute lawyers uphold their usurpations,
and Irish judges defend the cause of
rampant murder; that even some repu-
table Germans have been deceived by
their hypocritical complaints; and that
all the followers of Tweed and Sweeny
have once more crept out into the pub
lie eye from their hiding places, no longer
conscious of the general detestation, 10
join in the assault upon the nations de-
Tenders.


The patience and kindlineSS which
President Grant and his administration
have shown in all their conduct toward
the rehellious South through their whole
term of office; their careful abstinence
from all military interference in the re
volted States, except where actual muir
der and riot forced them to intervene;
their generosity to unhappy Louisiana
in its recent disasters, when large part
of its people were fed by the public char
ity; their willingness to confer offices
and emoluments on every loyal native
of the South; their firmness and discre-
tion, will, we think, be remembered by
the nation, if not by enraged and rival
politicians; and it is certain that the
Judgment of future ages will decide that
no policy could have been devised more
likely to heal the wounds of the suffer
ing section than those plans of education
and internal improvement which Repub
lican legislators have impressed deeply
upon the Southern States. In response
to this lenient treatment, what return
have the Republican party and Presi-
dent Grant receiyed2 Future ages will
hear with shame and sorrow tie reply.
His life is openly Threatened by the as
sassins of the South whom he has striven
to tame and subdue. 4 journal in New
York plainly demands his assassination.
He is called tyralt or dictator. and as
sailed with all the ribald terms the
White League of the South or their
Northern allies can devise. He on whose
life once rested the fate OF freedom be-
fore Richmond, whose arm saved the
nation in the midst of n thousand foes,
who is the defender of the rights of the
workingInen of every land, is now as
sailed once more by the terrible miuionS
of slavery at home and abroad, and by
their deluded followers at the North and
the South. At the recent meeting in
New York, when Grants name was men
toned, there was cry, Hang him,"
Hang him." And grave men sat look
ing on, and made no remonstrance, And
for what. Why do they seek his life:
Because he has labored earnestly to pro-
tsct the weak and the suffering IN Louis
lana, and is firmly resolved that the
murderers of Coashatta and Colfax shall
neither escape a just punishment nor
bring utter ruin to their perishing State
II this is an error. il is so yenial a one
that it will probably be shared by the
great majority of his countrymen. The
people cannot be deceived, and should
the ruffiians of Coushatta or any OF their
Northern allies proceed to execute their
threats, living wall of faithful hearts
and manly breasts will gather around
their country's CHIEF defender, reaching
from Maine to Oregon, and from the
Lakes TO the Gulf, that not all the rage
of the White League nor the fiercest
shafts OF rival politicians can pierce.


1t is instructive to review the histories
of many of the men who gathered at