Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-12-15
The Radical Banner State. 3
Charleston dec. 81 Correspondence of the New
York World. = - - s

Charleston (Dec. 81 Correspondence of the New
York World.
The Radical press now call this "the
banner Republican State of the South" If
this is indeed the flagship of the party,
then it follows h restEd the fleet
must be rotten old hulks, entirely unfit for
sea and unworthy to navigate American
waters. The flag which fliesat the mast
head here may be called Republican, but
it really is the pirates ensign, and the raw
head and bloody bones are plainlyWisible-
The craft is in such condition that no hon
est seaman would ship aboard, especially
with such a crew, whose every face looks
vi1lainous, n whose antecedents belle
not their looks. And the ship goes to sea
with papers no cleaner than her decks, for
she has been seized by fraud and force,
and has no clearance which would be re
spected by an honest vessel, or in anyhon
est port. ~
Dropping the trope and coming to facts :
The Sea Islands, extending from Charles
ton TO Savannah, were formerly the garden
spots of the South. There wealthy plant
ers lived in elegance and refinement. Cot
ton of the longest staple and finest texture
was raised. The large and handsome man
sions of the planters and the numerous
villages of neatly whitewashed cottages
occupied by the laborers beautidedzt the
landscape, and travellers delighted to larry
amid such scenes of tropical l~ove4iness as
many of these localities presented Free
dom might have dawned even uppn these
islands benignantly, and added-sH mesh
charm to its surroundings, if its teachers
had instiued into the emancipatedthe ben
neficent lessons of love and kindaBSs.
But it came with the simeon blasfs OF POI
litical rancor aud party hate-made an is
sue of color and race, and proclaimed a
~shibboleth which no decent man could ut
ter, and which no man who failedfo utter
ROnl6 rQmain in the land anA Eua-- Honao
the garden has become a w~ildeFness,
and savages, ignorant, ruthless, sand
worthless, render it unsafe and VAtenable
for civilized man-as much so as Ashantee
or equatorial Africa. 1t is-onlGaluabie
to the party in power as a reservoir OF
voters, ready to stuff ~biennially the boxes
with all the tickets sent them. This they
can always do with impunity-aSthey did
on the 18th of October last-foHpno man
could or would venture to invade their
precincts, either TO scrutinize their actions
or to give an opposing VOTE -
The same barbaric outlines of character
are applicable to the inhabitants along the
entire coasts of the Carolinas. Ignorance
and vice in huts take the place oferefne-
ment and culture in palaces, and the
grounds once beautifed with orange
groves and shrubbery are covered with a
rank growth of weeds. Immense tracts, of
rice and cotton lands formerly cultivated
successfully and on a grand system, are
now shrouded in desolation, with here and
there a little patch worked by a lazy negro
with a hoe. The numerous herds of cattle
have disappeared, for with such a popula-
ton it is almost impossible to keep any
kind of stock. A stable government-an
honest OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hope
to the white man and giving confidence to
capital, would soon change all this for the
better. But such a government this State
neither has nor expects to have, as long as
Federal bayonets are employed to force ig-
norance and crime into all its places of
power. The very State papers are filed
with falsehoods-statements known to be
such by those who utter them. The Gov
ernor's recent Thanksgiving proclamation
abOunds in such, and could only have been
intended as a sarcastic fling at the white
population. The document, If intended to
be received seriously, is "conspicuousiy
inexact y but as a specimen of irony itfs
blasphemously sublime. 1t you'd be folly
aud betray a decided weakness for anyone
to rely upon the gravest N most earnest
enunciati01fs from such official sources.
They arpSa1 CANNON, and succeeding de-
velopme1H always prove them to be such.
OVER $4,000 have been received for
conscience saEtatitbe United States Treas
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