Year: 1874




The bloodhounds of the South about this
time begin their deep-mouthed baying. The
newspapers of the North echo this terrible
music. The cries of the negro are heard as
be flies from the ferocious pack. The encour-
aging tones Of the angry Ku Klux blend with
the general discord, which is altogether like a
San Francisco minstrel burlesque Of one OF
Verdi's operas, with colored Leonora on her
knees, believing her woes to some gesticulat-
ing Count while the republican Manrico
howls from his dungeon the anguish which
rends his breast II reminds us Of what We
used to read in the old almanacs, ''About this
time expect rain." or "About this time expect
thunder" It is now approaching to election
time in the North, and it is inevitable that
| there should be an awful time in the South.
The killing Of dozen negroes in any part
Of the South, even if they should survive II,
has always been q sure way of carrying
Northern State for the republican party.
Therefore, they must be killed. The elo-
quence of Mr.. Blaine, or Mr.. Garfield, or
Senator Conkling. or General Butler, has
great effect with Northern voters as every one
who has heard these modern Marc Antonys
will ooncede; but it is nothing when compared
with the influence of murdered negro It
does not matter whether be is murdered or
only imagined to be, the effect upon the voter
is the same. Mr.. Conkling dips his brush in
hues of earthquake and eclipse and paints o
lurid picture like that which actually
made everybody suppose it was rain
ing at the Convention at Utica, and
Mr.. Butler can whitewash the White House
till it is winter than white crow; but these
gentlemen are not half as useful in a canvass
as Ku Klux outrage telegraphed from Ala
bama or Texas This being the case, it is no
wonder that such massacres are common in
the South whenever republican majority is
necessary in q Northern State. The Union
must be preserved, we know, even If half o
dozen colored voters are destroyed.


The Ku Klux (who, some think, are paid by
the secret fund of the republican party) ap-
preciate the importance Of their position, and
regularly, year after year, go to work 10 estab-
lish reign of terror The negroes, also un-
derstanding the nature of the case, offer them
selves up as sacrifices to our Northern candi-
dates. They gladly die that republican poll
ticians may live. When they are reluctant to
perform this slight service their objections
are frequently overcome When the colored
voter declines to be led to the altar of the
party, as Isaac was by Abraham; when the
sullen Kn Klux throws down his gun and
swears he will 60 to work and honestly earn
his living; when blacks and whites show o
disposition to live together in peace, then
some carpet-bagger from the North is sure to
promote row. Order and quietness may be
desired in the South, but such condition of
things would be dangerous to numerous
Northern statesmen who exist only upon the
memories of the war. These gentlemen
would be politically ruined were the South
rendered tranquil by policy of restoration;
for where then would be their reason for
being2 Thus it is that by the nobility of the
determination of the Ku Klux to kill
him, or the skill of the carpet-bagger in get
ting them to murder each other, every year
just before election the North is thrilled with
the horrors of outlawry in the South. The
tale comes about November, like the annual
meteoric shower, and when the heavens begin
to fall the politicians catch larks. L. the
North it is only necessary that negro should
be killed in Louisiana to induce US to vote for
republican thief in preference to good demo-
crat The democrats, it is well known, are, as
o party, in favor of massacre, and must not
be intrusted with power. Mr. Gerrit Smith
has forcibly pointed this out and has shown
that nearly one-half Of the American nation
is 30 hopelessly depraved that rather than
give it voice in the government
we should choose Cesar to rule
over u.s. Taking this view Of the situation
we must say that bloodhounds and bloodshed
in the South ought to be encouraged by the
republican party as far more useful than o
great cotton crop or an honest support of the
Union We advise the Ku Klux to keep on
killing and the negroes to keep being killed,
at least till November is over. The Chairman
of the Republican State Committee of
Indiana showed how neatly disaster and
death can be utilized for party gains when he
sent the following private circular to the re-
publican press :-'sSir-I desire to call your
attention to the horrible scenes of violence
and bloodshed transpiring throughout the
South, and suggest that you give them as
great prominence as possible in your paper
from this time until after the election" After
that event all parties concerned can take the
rest they certainly require





Governor Dix made pleasant little speech
at dinner given him in Buffalo on Tuesday
evening, and while keeping clear Of party
politics, as the proprieties of the occasion re-
10 lol l.