Outrages To Order

The Chattanooga Convention has said its little say and adjourned. It had three objects. The Northern heart waa to be nred " until after the election" with stories of Southern wrongs. The President, so döar to carpet-baggers, was to be renominated for a third terin. A definite stand was to be taken on the CiviiRights bilí. A message from Washington out away two of the three. Civil rights were ignored, lest the whole South should be lost to the Republican party. The third term was cautiously avoided, lest the whole North should be likewise lost. This left only the outrage business. The delegates did what they could in the way of furnishing horrors, but the supply feil short of the deinand. Most of the slories were of unknown antiquity, whereas something fresh was needed. A day-old murder for political reasons would have been worth ten legends about the killing of a negro " somewhere iu Louisiana" in 1867. Then, again, none of the delegates had seen any outrages them8elves. Most of them had been told by somebody that he heard that some body else had a friend who was told that a masked man had murdered 4,000 negroes in South Carolina since 1872. The slaughter of a single piccaninny befqre the eyes of a delégate would have made a better story. However, albeit the outrages were somewhat cold comfort, the Convention warmed itself up to a proper pitch of horror, and implored its dear Federal Government to keep on sending goldiers. Mr. Kennedy, the representative of North Carolina, was wioked enough to say that there had been no outrages in his State for a year, and that life was as safe there as in Massachusetts. He was promptly snubbed and made aware that he was out of place in a Convention called to manufacture murders. Mr. Davis, of Georgia, offered a resolution indorsing Civil Rights. The delegates sat upon Mr. Davis and his resolution. Nothing more was heard of either of them. The last two acts of the Convention were the appointnient of a permanent Committee on Outrages, charged with the duty of providing autrages in suiflcient numbers to juatify Federal interference as soon as the South repudiates Republicanism, and the election of an Executive Committee of ten. The majority of the ten are unknown, but we recognize the familiar ñames of Dorsey, of Arkansas; Pinchback, of Louisiana, and Spencer, of Alabama. With this trio of patriots controlliug Southern