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Abus*1 of Nejfrops. . ^The Indianapolis IL'd7y Am/-.*, an in* dependent journal, says: It is Pune of «f otir business, but we may, as a didntor* a\ ested friend v.mii wants no fitvors, and nv couldn't tret thorn if we did, hint to tin* rti Democracy that tin* way their Southernbrethren are operating among the ne- ,x{erops, and the wav I emoeratie organs in (.(the North are defending or extpnuatinir \u their comrades will beat them in 1870 Mf just as surely as it did in 1 s?2. It eon- y firms everything charged or suspected of the intention of'the impenitent rebels to ^ overturn the whole system of legislation based on the abolition of slavery. No concealment of that purpose has ever been attempted by the more impetuous exponents of Southern sentiment. Jeff.1 hi vis has predicted its final success more than once, and no one doubts that he fully represents the dominant feeling ofecseetoi» I n i ithe Soutli. And every act of violencecommitted, under anv pretext, on ne- aiw4tftnroes, is accepted as a proof the irrecon-citable enmity which will be satisfied aionly with this success No doubt thereare occasions in which the provocation (*comes from tlie negfoes, but nin etimo* nin ten the whites make it, or force it, to -Snet an opportunity to indulge their hate. *They are not the host class of whites, to % 'be sure, hut they are the dominant class n in a good many sections, and they have the secret sympathy of a great many bwho are too respectable to express it popenly. They never kill a “nigger” that tl thev don’t Use tiftv votes for it, for a the timidity and indisposition to violence tiand dangenus collisions of the creator hlt; » .majority of the negroes, is as well under- estood here as the recklessness and brutaltendencies of the lighting whites, and no \Northern man of any party has a doubt rlt;that the bloody riots are usually white t!work. The uniformity with which they \w » -*kill “niggers” and “no whites hurt or lt;]killed” settles that point. Naturally tNorthern sympathy goes to the helpless \ and abused race, even if its ignoranceand often absurd presumption make itudo wrong or silly tilings at times.ti»ct1 The miserable condition of the negroes ' in a large part of the Southern States and ' the terrorism under which they live are * t not so well understood at the North as I they should he, but sufficient light is I thrown on the subject by procedures in I the Southern courts to show how verv * s hadlv oil the negroes are. In the late '? (ieorgia “outrages” the negroes, afterI undergoing a fair and impartial trial,, were discharged, absolutely nothing hav- 1i - » • y 4L' ing been found against them. The *White Leaguers got up stories of out- I rages on the part of the colored people • t only as an excuse for outrages against *c them, and it i- worth while observing that* •i in the troubles it is always tin* negroes •who are killed, the whiles coming oil ([* seat h less. The agents of the A—oriated ;1 Rress in the Soutli are ncgrophobisis, and ;j with the White Leaguers thev send news I1 * /- to the North colored to suit themselves,; “ horrible outrages’* lv the negroes form- '* ♦ i wr mg a!wavs the -tore thev have to tell. ;' K • % J.t Thirtis the case in regard to the massacrei. of negroes in Mississippi, recently, con-r eerning which the fuel- are that at a * political meeting at (Minton the negroes ^I * K ,wen* set upon by tiie whites, and huteli- ] x ered right and left. Tin* accounts ot the ] o a fair given Uy the Associated Press 1 r dealt verv iutnilv with the colored men,I, and very gently with the desperadoes | who attacked them. Tlie whole truth will probably not be told until we havesome observer to do for the South what Mr. Trench, in his “ Realities ot IrishLile,” lias done for Ireland. Certainly no faith should be put in Associatedl'ress dispatches.e«S1-ItoTin.SK are some of the tilings (Jen.e Sherman said to the Indiana, soldiers aty their reunion in Rockville: “I fully*1(1 agree with Senator Morton,” he said, 11 I “ that we fought tor the holiest of causes.‘r We were right and our enemies were♦r 1 wrong, and so* it must be writtteu in all e ' time to come. We must teach it to our }V 1 children, and these are the right kind of r , gatherings to teaeli it them. I feel no*■’ : anxiety lor the future. We area nation. ^ ! Indiana has her rights and so has (ieur-f *re i gia ; but both are only parts of a great ie | whole. They have been likened to the V; : harmony of the spheres ; each keeps its own place. S must each State. Our last WiM settled this. If the people ot n the South wish to nourish tiieir supposed j* grievances, let them do so; but before : these little boys grow up, it will bedifli-{iy | cult to find a man willing to own that r* either lie or his ancestor was a rebel.”it (-V’t
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Martinsville Republican
Martinsville, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1875
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