Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-01
The Resorts Of Radicalism to Fire the
Northern Heart.

From the Louisville Journal
The history of the reconstruction OF
the Southern States contains little else
than one dreary recital of an organized
system of Misrepresentation. The Gin
cinnati Gazette, the Chicago Tribune
and the New York Iribune-we speak
of what we personally know to be the
truth-sent to certain points in the
South number of correspondents with
instructions 10 be as sensational as pos.
sible, that is to get up as many rebel
outrages," real or imaginary, as pos
sible. These correspondents were the
avant couriers of the Congressional
or official detectives that came after,
for the newspapers we're quicker than the
politicians to recognize the policy upon
which system 30 infamous as recon-
struction could alone be sustained. In
many instances the correspondents fal
tered, siekened by the disgusting work
appointed for them, aud endesvored to
tell the truth. But, in every instance,
they were discharged, and in no instance
did their efforts to be honest find admis-
sion into the columns specified. Their
letters we're often altered and constantly
cut down, when passage or
line conveyed kindly sentiment for
the South, or narrated worthy
action on the part of the Southern
people. Ultimately, this detestable SER
vice was, as it now is, occupied by the
most abandoned persons, such az the
Georgia correspondent of the New York
Tribune, and the Tennessee correspond
ent 1--WE mean Furay, of course of the
Cincinnati Gazette These men have no
character, literary of personal, and they
are being recruited, as we observe, in the
shape of species of correspondence"
which is creeping into the New York
Times and Cincinnati Commercial, by
others just as INSCRIPTIONS.
The plan pursued by them works
nicely. 1t involves only little enter
prise in the manufacture of falsehoods,
and an eye for the salient point of the
political situation. As Kentucky has
latterly become an object of something
more than bate, that is an object of
political necessity to the Radical party
and of lustful desire with Radical plum
derers in particulsr-other fields having
been exhausted-the swarm of carrion
crows is to be let loose upon us. Already
we scent the revolving odor on the
air. Already we hear their vile cawing
on the border. Presently we shall see
the whole swarm of them, led by Furay
the foulest bird that ever was fed by
offal-alighting upon every bush and
bramble 10 the State; stirring up strife
between the blacks and the whites;
violating the sanctity of homes and
heartbsiones; and sending away to the
distant North, by letter and by telegraph,
SANDERS al which the heart shudders
This is reconstruction. The entire
system Is embraced in one formula.
Founded upon liei permeated by lies;
hedged 10 by lies; itself one great, cruel,
selfish, cowardly, atrocious, roaring lie,
it finds no excuse that is not lie, and
appeala TO no precedent that is q truth,
proceeding from and going to the father
Of lies and liars.
We regret the necessity that bids us
use such language, yet we do not use Il
in the sense Of the epiihet II is only the
Saxon for reconstruction. We should be
untrue TO truth il we should mince words,
auu arc tuttil ncAtuEN Iao1tou
nor resentment, for We look out upon the
elements that seethe and boil about rs
10 fear and sorrow, rather than in anger.
The South is already ruined. Three
years Of maladminisiration haV done
the business for it. IL cannot Be any
worse of II is picked as bare as .
bone, aud therefore the raid on Ken
lucky, which has still q great deal to
lose-is. in point Of fact, prosperous
Carton is wanted; and IS the dead and
diseased members Of the flock have been
exhausted, a source and healthy mem
Der is TO be seized and sacrificed 10 the
iusensste appetite Of the cross Of recon
struction.
Where is the end Of al thisi Do the
people Of IodisBa expect 70 escape when
Kentucky is done for; aud after Iodiana
cone Ohio and Illinois; then such other
prey as may be most accessible; then
the people be;pg At last weary and worn
out with misgovernmeut-a revolution. q
usurper, and an empire. What has been