Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-16
Fruits of MfsruIe.


Three years have now passed since the
cessation Of the war. And with any
tolerable management Of public affairs
we should by this time have built up the
waste places, made our deserted fields to
smile again, and restored the hum OF
commerce and the life Of all mechanical
pursuits. But now that the rebellion Of
the South against the Union is sup
pressed, new rebellion against Repub-
lican principles is inaugurated by those
who are enemies in peace, in war specu-
lators and skulkers. And now we see
the result in universal misgivings, dread
and insecurity, with destruction values,
cessation of business, and wretchedness
to all the poor and working classes. This
state of things may do for few trick.
sters, plotters, Office holders and gentry,
who can run their fists deep into the
public purse. But poor, laboring,
honest men, hoo do you like III
Will you fly froA the South, be-
cause you cannot live heref If you do,
you will find the same result wherever
you 20 under this hell -begotten Radical
American rule. Every poor man should
swear, as did the great Carthaginian
Hannibal to his father Hamilcar, eter-
nal enmity to these tyrants. They are
the foes of the poor, and the poor me-
chanics and working men will never
prosper until they are driven and de-
stroyed from the face of the earth.
Agrarianism and anarchy, or the vilest
despotism with which this earth was ever
cursed, is better than this state of things.
Let poor men think of it. The rich have
turned shoddyites. There are few patriots
now but the poor. Let them redress
themselves by whatever means are neces.
sary, for none can prosper when the
poor cannot; and we must all prosper or
fall and suffer together.
In proof, that this damnable condition
of things and fruit of trampling down
the Constitution is not confined to the
South, read the following from the
Springfield Register, published at the
capital of Illinois. The motto of every
poor man should be the Constitution and
government as it was, at all hazards, and
in defiance of all consequences:
The suffering among the white people
throughout the country Is very great
In all the large cities hundreds Of
mechanics and laborers are idle, and
absolutely suffering for the necessaries
of life. The fairest and most profitable
producing portion Of the Union-the
len Southern States-are held as mill
tary dependencies by Radical congress
sional enactments, for the purpose Of
securing the votes of those States for
the Radical party. By this means the
most extensive and best market for the
products of the North and West is de-
stroyed, and our farmers, mechanics
and laborers are either idle and be-
coming poorer every day, or else suf
fering for daily subsistence. If the
party in power had, as patriots having
the true interests of the country in
view, done their duty as representatives
of the people, and not partisan dema-
gogues, those ten Southern States, in
stead of now being in state of pauper-
ism, would have been restored to their
places in the Union six months after the
war closed, and their people now pros.
porous, peaceful and happy. But instead
of this, all legislation has been TOR the
benefit OF the negro aud the continuance
of the radical party in power, to the
degradation and ruin Of the white masses.
No wonder one Of our exchanges should
break out as follows:
"a hundred thousand white men wiring
their hands on the street corners of New
York and Boston, and beg in vain for
work, to save their wives and little ones
from absolute starvation
''Niggers feast:
White men starvel
Niggers vote:
White men pay taxesl
Move on niggersl
Americas all fleeing show for mig
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