Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — Southern Outrages. [ARTICLE]

Southern Outrages.

The Sun publishes a long article from the Rensselaer Union, in which the latter att» mp's to belittle the recent outrages in Louisiana and other Southern States, and quotes the Union as “one of the staunchest Republican papers in the State.” Our n igbbor is very greatly mistaken in the weight of the authority he quotes. The Union has not been a reput lican paper since one of its editors failed to get the appointment of postmaster at Rensselaer. The Shock of that disappointment Unsettled its principles, and started it adrift-upon the stream of chagrin which empties into the gulf of Democracy, The article referred to leads to the conclusion that it will soon be swallowed up in tho dark, tempestuous waters of that gulf, where the last vistage of its former Republicanism will be washed away forever. But is it uot a little thin, brother Jacobs, to quote a drivelling tirade from this obscure sheet, ag iinst the startling f.ct that hundreds of Republicans havdbeen murdered in the 8< uth within the last six months, simply because they were Republicans, and not one of their murderers have been brought to punishment. Are the snee s and jibes, or bald assertions of the Rensselaer Union sorehead a fair sdt-off to the recent attemp-ed revolut on in Louisiana, in which prominent men committed treason and murder tor he purpose of cont 1 oiling the election in that State by force? It is the truth the people want, fi lend Jacobs, not such stuff as this'Chftln m u’s balderdash. The lives and’ libWttib-* bf American citizens are in peril, on acctmnt of their political opini- ns, and it behooves every true man.’to be up Mtid’d'oifig to right this wrong, nth er than to. be covering up or s' eeriuai at the patent facts which constitute the wrong.— Loaansport Journal. ?,ii: Ip : '■