Year: 1874

the usurpatioa set on foot by fedora


Judge, and supported by the United


States marshal and federal bayonets


and make every citizen understand and


feel that while. preserving intact the


lawful authority Of the government,


they are ready to throw aside all selfish


considerations Of party interest, when


the rights and welfare Of the people


and integrity Of Republican institutions


are in question.


On the other hand citizens of the


South must not be permitted to forget


that they too, have duty to perform.
The people of the North sincerely de-
sire that they should have an honest
and constitutional government. Even a
large majority of Republicans in the
North have long been heartily
disgusted with the government of thiev.
ing adventurers which plundered the
South; but when that public opinion
was on the point Of becoming so strong
that no partisan spirit in power could
have long resisted it, what happened!
The bloody riot in New Orleans in 1866,
the organization of ku.klux all over the
South. the butchery of Grant parish in
1873, the murders of Coushatta, the
slaughter Of helpless negro prisoners in
Trenton, Tenn, not to speak of minor
atrocities. What was she effect? The
growing sympathy with the victims Of
plunder was turned into sympathy with
the victims Of murder.


1t is to be hoped that by this time
the people Of the South have learned
that those who disgrace them by deeds
OF bloody violence are their worst ene-
mics. Let them act upon that lesson.
Let them dissolve the white mems
league, for every organization based on
distinction Of color is not only wrong
in itself, but harmful to both. Let
them let the poor negro feel that he
has not only fitting but an active pro.
tector in every good citizen. Let them
understand that the efficient method to
fight the thieves who rule them is by
relentlessly suppressing the murderous
ruttians among themselves, who strip
them of the sympathy Of the country.
Silent disapproval is nothing; good in.
tentions are nothing; mere resolutions
are nothing; only vigorous action will
avail. Only the practical punishment
of malcfactors will serve. =
Let party spirit cease to be3a shelter for
the criminal.


No white mans league will do them
any good. An anti-rutfan league, of
which every good citizen is an active
member, is the thing the South wants.
l say this as q true friend of the South
ern people, who has more than once
raised his voice against the wrongs
they have suffered, and I hail with
gladness the spirit animating the gov
ernor of Tennessee, who does not rest
until the murderers of Trenton are in
the clutches Of the law, and the charge
of that Kentucky judge who tells his
grand jury that if they fail to indict
not only the man who committed the
murder, but also the sheriff who will
fully neglected to arrest that murderer,
he will And grand jurymen in another
county who will do their duty. In that
spirit which will relentlessly pursue the
lawless elements of society as common
enemy there is salvation for the South
ern people. Let that spirit prevail in
the South, and no partisan spirit in the
North will be strong enough to battle
the sympathy their rlisfortunes deserve.
The South will again enjoy the largest
constitutional measure of selfgovern-
ment, and one of the greatest Of those
dangers will disappear which threaten
the most vital part of our Republican
institutions.


After showing the bad effects of
teaching the negroes that their safety
lay in their organization as a race
against the whites, and making them
partisan supporters of corruption and
robbery, and denouncing the men who
did this as the cruelest, most treacher-
GUS and most dastard}y enemies the
colored people ever had, he discussed
the civil rights bill, saying that he
could not support the bill because he
regarded it as unconstitutional; if it
becomes law It will break up the
whole public school system Of the
Southern States, and nobody will be
greater sufferers thereby than the COL
ored people. Il
Would the law reimburse the colored
race for all that? The colored man
might then indeed enforce his rights to
ride all over the country in a Pullman
palace car, to board at tirst-class hotels,
and sit in the dress circle of the theatre:
but such things can be enjoyed, under
any circumstances, only by the
very small number ofl
the wealthier people among them, and |
these pleasures and conveniences of|
their few men Of means will be pur-
chased At a dreadful price. The inter.
ruption Of the public school system,
the advantages Of which they now enjoy
in separate establishments, would de-
prive the children Of the poor of a |
thing which'is Is necessary to them As
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