Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-18
1hs Rsesnrrrustsd slstes.
From the National IntslIirenter. sth.l

The Reconsffucted slater.
From the National Intsiiifeneer. sth.l
After all the numerous efforts at recon.
struction BY congressional nciioni aiter
the enfranchiseme Of nearly the whole
white population Of tho Southern States {;
AFTER the establishment. by act Of Cen
gress. OF State constitutions, manufac-
iured BY :he Congressional Star Cham.
Dor Committee after the election OF ne
gro legislatures by undisguised frauds
and military interference, and after the
creation aud recognition Of 80 called
State governments, IL is found, in every
instance. that they cannot stand alone.
Tennessee, with Brownlow and his negro
militia, piteously implorcs the Federal
Executive for military aid whenever
there is an election to be held. Florida,
one of the blushing maidens just ad-
mitted 10 the Union, was no sooner re-
constructed than she began to plead for
more soldiers TO prop up her Congress
manufactured STAY government and
even Louisiana nav comes whining
at the footstool of Executive power for
more soldiers--more soldiers for what2
To control the coming election.
The so-called Governor OF Louisiana,
II. c. Yarmouth, has transmitted TO the
President, by one OF his trusted follow
ers, letter reciiing a most shameless
and disgraceful condition Of affairs in
the State over which he claims 10 be
Governor. According to his account, II
is suddenly become q den of horrors upon
the instant Of his accession TO Office.
There appears TO be no officer in the
State willing 10 perform the duties Of
his Office except this so.called Governor,
and he appears TO be shivering with fear,
and pleads most earnestly for Federal
protection. I NI
II what this Governor 7" tells of his
own bailiwick is one-half true, it is eyi.
dent that his State government 10 Of no
earthly use. II was not made ~ the
people, and don't fit them. 1t was manu-.
fsctured in a Congressional committee
room, and may do for rec' xless or crazy
Congressman, but canno'. be worn easily
by free white people who pay taxes for
the support of the government II all
the statements, o, even one-half of them,
are true, Warn. outh should at once abdi-
cate, and le'. the military, under some
humane United States army officer, such
as Hancock, resume control. But War.
mouth evidently is OVERRIDING the thing.
He wants soldiers badly, and is evidently
making case for that purpose.
The thing has been so much overdone
that even the reconstructed Senator from
Louisiana finds it necessary torepudiatc
it. The correspondent of the New York
Tribune, good authority in such case,
says:
"Senator Harris has many letters from
Louisiana and Mississippi, and none Of
them contain advices of on organized OPP
position to existing affairs in either State.
There we're no disturbances, excepting
in two parishes of Louisiana. They were
trivial, and such as are not unusual in
any community. They are caused by
reckless persons, whose conduct is con-
demned by good men of ell parties"
Similar statements are made by other
correspondents; but the whole affair is,
after all, in a nutshell 1t has been as
certsined that after all their efforts, the
carpet-baggers are in imminent danger of
losing the Southern States in the coming
election, and the carpet-baggsrs want
more troops to enable them to control
the result, and Brighten the poor freed
men into voting the Radical ticket. This
is what it means-Do more or less.