The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-12-24

Charleston dec. s. Correspondence Of the M

Charleston dec. 81 Correspondence Of the New
York World.
The Radical press now call this THE
banner Republican State of the South III
this is indeed the flagship of the party,
then II follows that the rest of the fleet
must be rotten old hulks, entirely unfit for
sea and unworthy to navigate American
waters. The flag which flies at the mast
head here may be called Republican, but
il really is the pirates ensign, and the raw
head and bloody bones arc plainly visible.
The craft is In such condition that no hon
est seaman would ship aboard, especially
with such a crew, whose every face looks
villainous, and 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
speeted by an honest vessel, 0. in any hon
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 beautitied the
landscape, and travellers delighted to tarry
amid such scenes of tropical loyeliness as
many of these localities presented. Free
dom might have dawned even upon these
islands benignantly, and added a fresh
charm to its surroundings, II its teachers
had instilled into the emancipated the ben
neficent lessons of love and kindness.
But ii came with the simeon blasts Of po-
%litical ancor and party hate-made an is
sue of color and race, and proclaimed q
shibboleth which no decent man could ut
ter, and which no man who failed to utter
could remain in the land and live. Hents
the garden has become a wilderness,
and savages, ignorant, ruthless, and
worthless, render 1t unsafe and untenable
for civilized man-as much so as Ashantee
or equatorial Africa. 1t Is only valuable
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-as they did
on the nth of October last--for no 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 Of refine
ment and culture In palaces, and the
grounds once beautified 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 p little patch worked by q 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 administration--rcstoring hspc
to the white man and giving confidence to
capital, would soon change all this FOX the
better. But such a government this State
neither has nor expects TO have, as long as
Federal 5ayonets are employed 10 force liz.
nofance and crime into all It's places 81
power. The very State papers are filled
with falsshOojs--ytatenient known ~ b.
sued by those who utter them. The Gov.
er.nor's recent Thanksgiving proclamation
abounds in such, and could only have beer
intended as q sarcastic fling at the white
population. The document, II intended tc
BE- received seriously, Is "conspicuously
inexact, 2 but as a specimen Of irony II 4
biasphemously sublime. II would be FOLLY
and betray a decided weakness for anyone
10 rely upon the grayest and most earnest
enunciations from such official sources
They are all CANNON, and succeeding de
velopments always prove them 70 be such