Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-05-18
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1871
Radical Rule.

~ people wish to sec the effects oil
utkhccked Radicalism let them look
ID fhe South. There tho men who
r'th that political machine have a fair
hqd for their labors, and the fruit is
abundant Life is not safe Liberty
is maimcd and mutlated Property
Is A. The mercy OF ignorant negroes
ahp corrupt, morcenary whites. The
bakonet has been substituted for the
ballot Military men force themselves
insp high positions, and the bench is
Occupied by persons who should be in
The dock or the penitentiary. Above
-alEthis condition of affairs reigns tho
fcli spirit of plundcr The people arc
saih''ed IN the most open and shame.
Tess manner Not State has escaped
the tempest OF speculation and fraud
an nave been scathed and harried by
the army Of destroycrs. In Tennes-
see certain prominent Radicals stole
The bonds into which the coin belong.
ing TO the Banl. of that State had
been converted. Their brethren IN
Arkansas appropriated the school fund
Of that Commonwealth TO thoir own
uses, and refused TO divide with their
negro allies This was adding in
gratitude to their vices and crimes
From North Carolina comes reports
OF like character The Raleigh
SsHtiael states that tho Board Of Edn
cation undertook TO sell tho Swamp
Lands" of the State to n carpet -bng.
ger by the name of Bibles, for the
trifling sum Of G1y thousand dollars.
II was ascertained that Bibles, before
be had paid dollar towards the pur
chase, resold to capitalists at profit
of some one hundred thousand dol
lars. This being objected to by some
parties, the Legislature passed an act
authorizing this same Board of Edu.
cation TO sell the swamp lands in the
counties Of Washington, Tyrell and
Hyde for sum not less than fify
thousand dollars TO actual settlers
The members Of the Legislature had
hardly got home before Governor
Holden called the Board of Education.
or part Of them, together, and sold
these lands to this same carpet. .bagger
Bibles and Samuel 7. Carlow, a ma
tive Of the State, for the sum of fifty
thousand dollars on a credit of from
one to five years. The quantity Of.
land thus disposed Of amounts TO
about four hundred thousand acres. -
The Sentinel learns that the purchasers
propose to sell it at five dollars per
acre. Put the land at the low price I
Of one dollar per acre, aud it is worth 1
TO the State and her educational inter. I
cts from three hundred thousand to
four hundred thousand dollars, and /
yet il is sold by Governor Holden for
City thousand dollars Aud not a
dollar &c that trifling price IL paid,
and 40 security taken. No one be. /
lieyes that the State will ever receive
one cent for the lands sold. The
whole amount will bo pouched by
Holden and his associates Bibles aud
others. Florida has been robbed of
thousands of dollars by her officials,
and the same thing can be truthfully
said Of Louisiana aud South Carolina.
All this has been done by men who
have the ear Of the President in
Washington, and the support Of both
houses of the Federal Legislature
When the people repudiate them at
the polls, Congress rcconstructs the
rccalcitrant State, and General Grant
backs up the thieves and pluudercrs
with tho military power Of the nation.
10 this manner bad men like Bullock,
Of Georgia, are kept in office and the
masses deprived of their rights, libcr
~ and property Is il the interest of
the nation that this mercenary and
corrupt party should be continued in
power, either in the North or South
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