The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-01
correspondence.
For the Stark County Democrat. ]
1900. C-.o, AToH

Letter from Alabama.
MEssRs EDIToRs-Please allow me
space in this issue of your paper for the
defence of stigma upon this part, as we'll
as upon many other parts Of the south,
arising from acts committed by the re-
porters themselves, but attributed to the
Southern people. The depredations per-
petrated here IN the murder and CARROT
ing of individuals were made by and upon
those of the southern wing of the radical
party, called ''scalawags" and Carpet
baggers." The term scalawag implies
those men of dixie birth, who aed from
their parent party to its enemy, whilst
that of carpet Dagger is fully understood
by everybody. Well, these turncoats and
cross grained individuals inaugurated
party war, in which all were officers and
candidates for Office whose personal likes,
dislikes and desires could not jibe, and on
account of which they shed each others
blood This was long, long ago, when the
excitement of the war was raging, and
when politics were commencing, so do not
understand that now this same thing is
being enacted in the same districts, or
anywhere else, unless it be where radical
predominance with negro inability carries
the upper hand The cry of ''foul murder
done" IN the south was yelped by the very
cur who committed the deed, and the pa
pers which published the correspondence
sometimes were not to blame for thus CIV
ing to the world a still born untr'uth,
though oftener than otherwise were and
are they guilty. One candidate was i'm
pressively convinced that his opponent
was too much for him, so concluded to do
murder and then cry it upon some inno-
aapf rraroa-a lIry
man. These partiZans in politics and
crime were mostly cGminalB from chain
gangs and prisons, whose profession was
TO do wrong then escape bodily, if they
We're unsuccessful in saddling their deed
upon some one else, Do not confne this
to one party altogether, but give both
due share, for here there is not State
democratic party in organization, the
democrats have not voted since the Warin
this part
The regular ku Klux of notorious ce-
lebrity have all passed into what was, and
only a remembrance of them remains
They were organized in opposition to Sc
cret societies of negroes, and as protective
against their further depredations upon
white people. But they are disbanded,
scattered, are not, and never will be again.
The negro was filled with inflamable ideas
about freedom, with gaseous substances
concerning equality, and rose to such
height in his estimation of himself and his
independence, that he became really un-
ruly and demanded of white people their
lands, their property, their children, all
conveyed to them by the scalawag and
carpet-bag mouth pieces of their party
Such S0GS the state of affairs from @the
close Of the struggle in dixie until 1868,
when "ordef again prevailed in Warsaw"
and which has been improving since, and
which is now quite endurable. Not an
unkind word or act, predicatory of harm,
is said or done. AL is peaeeable, harmo-
NOUS, and the south asks you to take its
large plantations, divide it into small
farms, and make yourselves rich-it has
too much land to cultivate, and would sell
all or a portion. 1t is unnecessary to dwell
further upon this subject now.
In the winding up of the last commu-
nicatlon promise was made to "try and
not forget to mention the prices paid" for
products-in that was meant cotton, corn,
flour, meat, potatoes, (Irish and sweet on
ions, &c, also butter, eggs, lard, beef, pork
and mutton meats, &c, Us follows:
CoTTON-Market duh and declining, extremes
PRoVIsIONs-Hams 25e pork 12c and lard 25c
per pound.
NEW WHEAT FLOUR-S5 90 per hundred old
81 per hundred,
CORN MEAL-sI SO per bushel.
SALTS for 81 bu bbls and So so for bu hbls.
POTATOES-Sweet II 81 so per bu, Irish 81 80
per bushel
EGGS q BUTTERFLIES I5c per dozen, butter
25c per pound.
SUGAR-CommOn brown 1Se, pKme brown zoe,
coffee 22lze, crushed zoe, loaf 25c per pound.
COFFEE-Rio Coffee 25 a 331Ac.
MOLASSES-l 81 25 per gallon; golden syrup
81 Is per gallon
RICE-l5c per pound
CHEEsE-West Reserve CSC, eastern dairy 35e
per pound
F0RAGE-Shelled corn 81 20, ear 81 10, oats 81
hay 81 per 100 lbs, fodder 81 %.
ONIONS-SI so per bushel.
FEATHERS-5Oc per pound
BEEF-S l2c.
HORSES-Farm and coinage from to $500,
This Ia the retail price current of this
section, controlling, it might be said, all
north Alabama.
L. Q. IEFFRIES, .
Athens, Ala.