Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1874 — Unmitigated Falsification. [ARTICLE]

Unmitigated Falsification.

There are lies* so stupendous as to force a qualified respect, and there is a degree of impudence so overwhelming as to be almost sublime. The following paragraph from the St. Louis Timet is as strong a combination of falsehood and audacious impudence as ever came to our notice. Says that journal: < The terrible scenes that have been forced upon the people of New Orleans were deliberately planned in Washington to subserve the two-fold purpose of defeating the election in Louisiana and helping out the Republican party in its canvass in the North; a vile plot, in which the liberties and lives of of a State were thrown into the scale against the success of a party which has shamelessly plundered the South for partisan ends. When the reader notes the following namely: that the White League wasMjpenly organized with the avowed purpose of carrying the approaching electionfet all hazards; that its organs declared that henceforth negroes should be deprived of. all part in the control of State affairs; 4hat large quantities of arms were purchased in New York, shipped to New Orleans and distributed to the White League clubs; that a demand on Kellogg towbdicate was made when the plot was coipplete; that upon his refusal he was driven from the StateHouse and some of his adherents murdered; that up to that time Kellogg had not requested the interference of..the Federal authorities, and that noy&tep toward interference had been takepfc that then Penn declared himself Governor and Acting-GoverwiroFLouis-iana, and directed every office the State to be seized and held in his name —when these facts are idea may be formed of the reckßssness of a newspaper which so impudence and falsehood as to arrest attention and inspire awe. all things have their uses, it is well,/jt possible, to turn the* audacity and falsification of the St. Louis Times to Impest account. The Times is a per; it contends for the restoration to power of unadulterated BoufTOnTJbmocracy. The White League of Louisiana constitutes a wing of the national Democratic party; the White League sought to restore the Democratic party tfeapwer in Louisiana, and it committed numerous assassinations to accomplish its unlawful purpose; it succeeded temporarily, only to fail permanently and disastrously. If the White League forced an unlawful contest through which innocent persons

lost their lives, the White League is responsible for bloodshed; and, as the organisation is merely a wing of the national Democratic party, that party is responsible for compassing the New Orleans assassinations for partisan ends. To deny that the White League is responsible for a score or two of murders would be extremely weak; to assert that the Federal Administration forced the contest which ended in murder upon the people of New Orleans is very strong, and as easy as lying. The Time* adopts the latter course, and so clears the skirts of the Democratic party of a grievous offense. Having thus opened its campaign the Timea will doubtless soon find it practicable to advance to the charge that, in oeder to overawe the people of Louisiana and prevent a free vote, Kellogg massacred a large number of Democratic White Leaguers at New Orleans on the 15th of September, 1874.— Chicago Inter-Ocean,.