Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-02
A RADICAL VIEW or RECOHs
sTwUgEEnN.

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ing Radical paper. Comment is
unnecessary. When the high
handed outrages of scaIlawags and
carpet baggers can excite the vir-
tuous indignation of their own
party, then, indeed, there seems
some hope for US.
We may safely say the day is
close ut hand when that detested
class of Radicals at the South
who now rule with such unblush-
ing etirontery, shall hide their d.
minished heads in inglorious
shame, and the people breathe
freely because relieved from the
awful incubus Of military despo-
tism; or-forbearance will cease
to be virtue.
"The whole process, since the
Senate decided to begin recon
struction in Georgia the second
time, has been one well calculated
to alarm as well as disgust every
friend of free government on this
continent 1t has consisted in the
surrender Of a great community,
fresh from a civil war, to probably
as bad a lot Of political tricksters
and adventurers as ever got to-
gether in one place, to have ell its
places ofproiit and trust scrambled
for by them under military super
intendence, and by means OF
nearly every devise known to the
gambling house, the mock auction
room, the thimble riggers table;
and all this in the presence Of a
large, newly enfranchised, and
very ignorant constituency, to
whom the very form Of govern
ment, not to speak Of It's princi.
pies, are still unfamiliar And to
make the shame and humiliation
all the greater, all this has been
done under the pretence of estab-
fishing "a Republican form of
government, and securing "equal
right for all" We must say, that
we think the silence or acqui-
escence of the Republican press,
with n few honorable exceptions,
in this disgraceful procedure. does
it little credit, and certainly has
not helped the party, as, time, we
know, will show"
"The cry now comes from
Washington that not only ought
the Bingham amendment to be
struck out of the bill, but the
whole State ought to be relegated
to military government, pure and
simple, and kept there for the next
four years, owing TO the outrages
on the line of the Brunswick and
Albany railroad, and the threats
of the "rebel press" as to what
they will do when they get the
State into their own hands once
more. We should like to ask, Sc .
riously, those who talk in this
way, whether they really believe
that at the end Of the four years
the copdition Of public sentiment
in the State would be any better
than it is now, or as good +?
Whether they ever heard of q
community being trained into
peaceableness, love of order, and
respect for law by a military
government" which was simply
another name for the rule OF q ha-
ted and despised faction, composed
largely Of worthless adventures ?
Whether there is any State in the
Union in which peoples blood
would not be made to boil in their
veins by such a spectacle in their
Capital as that which Georgians
have been witnessing in theirs
during the last three monthsP :
Whether they really believe In the
old European doctrine that men
can be cudgelled and bayoneted
into good behavior, and have 10.
tally abandoned the American
one, that ali the political and social
virtues, like nearly all the other
good things Of this world, are
the results Of growth, and slow
growth too7 How long do they
think the political habits Of the
American peopIs-which have
hitherto been the salvation Of the
Recommendations respect for the
forms Of law, their love of peace.
fOl discussion, their willingness to
abide BY the results Of elections
their confidence in official integri
/ ty, will survive il the policy nov
pursued, or threatened, In sGe0f
gia be persisted in Ifa minori
ty has only TO cook up stories o.
doutrages,s' Of '.riots, and deniall
Of Justice, and run with them tc
/ Washington, to be able to get thG
/ State Government overturned
how long would It be before VI
we're in the condition Of Mexico
4 with d distinct aud weIl.mariset
civil war in each Stste, our Beder
al army roaming from one to tn.
4 olhef fghNng 4 iittle here ans
4 fighting = little there; setting ul
"a feail5lican form % oqaFnlnang
/ III 6as biilee, chashl 3 Dictator il
another, and 50 on General But
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