Year: 1873

to Louisiana the whole country seems
penetrated by a secret association of the
lawless portion of the population, who
are bound by no pledges, however sol
emn, who scoff at the Constitution. and
defy the Laws. Nowhere except in the
States where the Republicans rule is
there any safety for life and freedom. It
seems fixed purpose on the part of the
Democratic politicians to prevent the
restoration of peace at the South, and in
this policy they are unhappily encour-
aged by the Democratic and Liberal Re-
publican leaders at the North. Both
hope to keep up their party organization
by melting instructions in Louisiana,
and by charging upon the Administra-
tion those scenes of fatal discord which
have sprung from their own evil prompt
ings.


That the recent shocking events in
Louisiana owe their origin in great part
to the intrigues of selfish and cruel poll
ticians in all parts of the country might
easily be shown. And if the Ku-Klux
association has been able to maintain its
existence in every Southern State with
even more than its early ferocity, this
too is due to the open countenance it has
received from Democrats and Liberal Re-
publicans. When Georgia was overrid-
den by the Ku-Klux, and the vast major
ity of its voters driven from the polls at
the last Presidential election, when the
opposition ticket was chosen by violence
and fraud, every Liberal Republican and
every intolerant Democrat expressed un-
bounded Joy. They accepted the labors
of the Ku-Klux as their own, and gave
their countenance to the league of MUIR
derers. At the same time the Ku-Klux
in Louisiana renewed its outrages
There too it drove the white and colored
Republicans from the polls, scoffed at
the constitutional provisions or the En-
forcement act, and deprived large part
of the population of their votes. 1t en-
deayored to force the NJ Emery govern
ment, elected by such lawless usurpation,
into office; and when it was defeated by
the resolution of the honest portion of
the citizens, it refused to obey the deci-
sions of the courts, and began an inef-
fectual rising in New Orleans. M Emery
ana Warmoth began period of blood
shed. They were secretly or openly en-
eouraged by the Liberal Republican and
Democratic politicians of the North.
Their guilty courage rose, and their latest
exploit or that of their imitators, is the
burning of hundred negroes at Colfax,
the murder of as many more, and the in
Fiction of such calamity upon Louisi-
ana as a generation can scarcely repair


DuG INC Nu6SIIOA VI ClSOf-
der and violence at the South must now
be taken from the control of cruel and
selfish politicians, and be committed to
the decision of the whole people 1t is a
question that belongs to the community,
and we believe the community will now
sweep aside the frivolous logic of politi-
cal leaders, the outcries of faction, and
the clamors of the unwise. 1t will pro-
ceed to do its duty. The nation is bound
by the Constitution to secure the equal
rights of the colored citizen in Georgia
or Louisiana, to afford security to the
white voter, and to repress every lawless
association The Executive is bound by
his position to enforce the Constitution
to its utmost limit The people will de
mand the punishment of every political
outlaw, however noted his name, or how
ever he may be sheltered under the pat
Eanage of the Liberal Republican or
Democratic leaders: and if the Liberal
Republicans and the Democrats persist
in their alliance with the Ku-KIux asso-
citation, they will soon be swept away be-
fore the general rage of the nation. For
we believe it is the intention of the peo-
pie in every section, with no party dis
tinctions, to insist on the preservation of
good order in the Southern States, and
to make them all at last the home of
free and prosperous population.