The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-07-06
Reconstruction Reviewed.

Not by q Democrat, of course, for
from such a soutce it would possess no
novelty but we got a scatlling review
of Reconstruction" and an exposure
lof the villainies and villains it has
matched eat, fromthe Chicago Tribune,
the leading Republican paper of the
Northwest, and a journal only second
to ITS New York namesake in ability
and influence. The Tribune takes up
tie Southern or ''rebel' State, and
iearlessly exposes the results that have
| followed Congressional Intervention in
[their local affairs. We have not room
for the whole article, which is lengthy
aqd exhaustive, but will give read
ers its salient points.
First, as to North Carolina. A
~scallawag ring composed of Radical
politicians, State officers and Congress
men, have increased the debt of the
State since the war ended in
1865, the sum of S23, 100000, and
have u down the bond of the State
i'm the same time twenty-five cents. on
the dollar. The debt of the State is
upwards of $40, 900, the new portion
almost entirely raised for railroads OF
which not more than n has ever
been built a mile. The bonds of the
road have been sold and the money
sunk amongst the Legislators and cor
p~orato:s. The Supreme Court of the
State has recently repudicated twelve
thousand dollars of the debt as uncon-
st~itutioaal. The citizens of classes are
uniting to overthrow the scoundrels in
power, but the result is doubtful, as
they manage the negro. vote precisely
as WIisemoredid We quotetle T'tb-
une. -.f.. f,.j
North Carolina has been the most
mi smanaget State in the South, not
e-xceptingLouisiana fbrin the latter
State, thieves have had commercial
brains, and have built some public i'm
provemantS with the proceeds of their
plumber. Heretofore we have heard
only reports of peace and good will IN
North Carolina, because the ring has
had its own way j. but now that the
people are forming q reform party to
preserve their existence and property,
the thrilling legends of massacres, ku-
klux, etc, are reyieWed.
The Radical Governor, Holden, the
Tribune charges, is tsorganizing an
armed militia to protect legislative rob
berry and keep up the status of the
ring This will do for the old North
State. r, 81 fr15 s;i SIS isF.ftf G.A
- Next comes 10 aisiana- Under
Radical control since the war, of the
most approved sort, its debt has been
increased eighteen millions of dollars.
Its whole debt is now about S27 ,0O0,-
600, and the bonds are worth sixty five
cents on the dollar. Besides this, the
city of New Orleans has a special debt
of ten, twenty or thirty millions ; no
on knows exactly tell the amount The
Tribune gives an account of the lead,
ing carpet-baggers and ~scallawags who
rule the State, from theG overnordown,
and shows that there is a happy con-
cord between certain rebels and union
lists of war times to plumber the peo-
pie. That crafty old fox, John Sill
dell, and his friends, are hand and
glove with the Radical State Goyern-
ment in its schemes of robbery. 10
oppose stealing in Louisiana is to be
disloyal. Theft is another name Tor
ralfying around the flag.
: Then comes Tenne ssee. Under thet
rule of the reconstructionists b debt
of this State has been increased two
thirds since the war, by jobs and ex-
penditures to keep up Radical rule,
and in its entirety now amounts to
100000, OO9.seIts bonds are worth
forty cents.
Georgia, we isrs told, is except out
of the Union by the liberal expendi
ture of State money by the Bullock
party at Washington" Thus money
is c iuired by the robbery oftheS ate
rIilIolds, now under the control OF