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volting peculation and crime-which went hand in hand from 1867-8 to 1876, bankrupting and

e Czar of all the Russias. The "Invisible Empire," with its "Knights of the White Camelia," was as terrible as the "Empire" which Marat, Danton and Robespierre made for themselves, with this difference: the "Knights of the White Camelia" were assassins and marauders who murdered and terrorized in defiance of all laws, human or divine, though claiming allegiance to both; while the Frenchmen regarded themselves as the lawful authority of the land and rejected utterly the Divine or "higher law." The one murdered men as highwaymen do, while the other murdered th

assins plead in extenuation of their brazen disregard of life, of virtue, of all that is dear and sacred to the race. The dagger of Brutus and the sword of Cromwell, were

and the people, which has served the purposes of tyranny and ri

the people of that state by the Carpet-Bag harpies, aided and abetted by the ignorant negroes whom our government had not given time to shake the dust of t

ch the Carpet-Bag government of Louisiana reveled, we must place the

be run with the same deplorabl

f the nation had made possible a system of government in which robbery and murder were to contend for the mas

as unorganized ignorance. In a warfare of this disreputable nature very little honor can be accorded to the victorious party, be he briga

se they will not become members of a society in which individualism and absolutism are the supreme law-for was it not to escape these parasites that they expatriated themselves from the shores of the Volga, the Danube and the Rhine? Men will not make their homes among people who, spurning the accepted canons of justice and the courts of law, make themselves a community of banditti. Thus, the South lies prostrate, staggering beneath a load of illiteracy sufficient to paralyze the energies of any

act as we act, or you must go!

o brave the muzzles of a thousand rifles in the hands of silent sentinels who esteem a human life as no more sacred than

gitation of the abolitionists and of the "emancipation proclamation"-issued as a war measure by President Lincoln-are no longer regarded as fundamental

ger benefit, if they ever did, the people in whose interest they were incorporated in the Magna Charta of American liberty; while the Central authority which originated them, has, through the Supreme Court, declared nugatory, null and void all supplementary legislation based upon those laws, as far as the government of the United States is concerned! The whole question has been remanded to

d all effort to enforce the provisions of the war amendments. That party stands today for organized corruption, while its opponent stands for organized brigandage. The black man, who was betrayed by his party and murdered by the opponent

dom dictates, to make sure their position in the social and civil system of which,

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ussed. But the terrible state of immorality which exists there, involving white men and colored women, is something upon which the papers of that region are

hameless cohabitation of white men with negro women in our community cries to heaven for abatement. This crime in its nature has been such as to elude our grasp owing to the limited time of our session. It is poisoning the fountains of our soci

s of the people should not be intruded upon.' It strikes the Northern mind that until these 'private affairs' do not need to be 'intruded upon,' Southern newspapers and South