The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-08-19
carpet-Rag Governments Breaking Up.

Carpet-Rag Governments Breaking pp.
: The Overwhelming defeat of General
Grants administration in North Carolina
foreshadows it's downfall in all the
former save-holding States. For time
after the war the rule of the carpet
baggers in tho South was matter of
necessity. The old dominant class did
not take kindly to the now order of
things which sprang from the success of
the Union arms. The inroad of 90.
verning element from the North was the
natural result; and that it should bring
almost q thing of course. The folly of
the late insurgents in listening to the ad-
vice of Andrew Johnson, and arraying
themselves in political hostility to the
Republican party and It's plan Of recon
structlon, gave these adventures the
vantage ground FROM the very start, and
soon opened the door for the moro un-
scrupulous among them to become plum
derers and robbers.
The fruits of the carpet-bag reign of
the last five years are what might have
been expected. The World may be search
el an cain for governments SO Immoral, so
shamelessly corrupt. so hopelessly rotten, as
Nose no'o prevailing IN Tie South. Po-
itically they may be changed; but this
cannot cure one of the sorest of the
evils already inflicted. These scamps
have run the States thoy rule ruinously
into debt. The legislatures controlled
by them have pledged the States to the
discharge of pecuniary obligations of
crushing weight, to the future redemp-
tlon of an enormous amount of bonds,
and to the imposition of onerous taxes
through series of years. This has been
done in furtherance of oil sorts of
schemes whereby the authors reap pre-
sent wealth and anticipate larger gains
in the immediate future. These burdens
have already seriously embarrassed all of
these States, and we'll nigh bankrupted
some Of them; and to save them from
ruin, the reign of the carpet-bag robbers
must be speedily brought to On end.
There would seem to be no good rea-
son why the honest men in these sorely
plundered States should not band to-
gether, irrespective of past political diff
ferences, and wrest them out of the
hands of the thieves that despoil them.
All the issues which made their advent
even q possibility, have been settled Let
the better class of old citizens accept the
situation in good faith, and assure the
negroes TINT there is no disposition to
deprive them Of their newborn privi-
leges, and there will be an uprising of
the people that will drive out these rave
nous villains, and restore to tho States
what they have not had since they
plunged into rebellion nine years ago-
stable, thrifty, respectable governments.
These corrupt carpetbag usurpations
are the outlying supports of Gen. Grants
administration. They sustain him by
their votes, and he maintained them by
his bayonets. Their downfall will herald
his overthrow. But let those who invoke
a change, repudiate all idea of resorting
to violence. It was the threat of the
Tammany Presidential Convention of
1868, that their candidate. if elected,
would break up these governments BY
force, which made his defeat both Il ne
cessity and certainty. The people will
tolerate DO such slogan now, any more
than then. Orderly proceedings through
the ballot-box, will prove to be the eff
cient. as they are the only tolerable mode
Of effecting this reform. m.-Ne,o York Sun.