Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-16
WHAT RADICAL RULE MEANS.


The Radicals who have had control of
the State governments in the South, have
acted as though they regarded these States
as fit subjects to prey upon, and to enrich
themselves from the spoils they could
gather from the States possessions or
from any other fund for whatever pur-
pose it may have been set aside. 1t is
fresh in the memory of the people of Ten
nessee how certain leading Radicals in
this State set themselves to work to get
possession of the bonds into which the
coin belonging to the Bank of Tennessee
had been converted, and which had been
set apart by act of the Legislature as q
part of the permanent school fund of the
State. The partial investigation of the
disappearance of that fund, which was
made by the last Radical Legislature,
when that body had been driven to the
step by public sentiment, showed that
quite number Of leading Radicals were
implicated in the disappearance of that
fund, and that they had been profted by
that disappearance. Reports come
from Arkansas that Radicals in
that State have been peculating
upon the school fund there, and now
intelligence comes from North Carolina
that a startling fraud has been developed
in connection with the school fund of that
State. The Raleigh Sentinel states that
the Board of Education undertook to sell
the "Swapp Lands" of the State to a
carpet-bagger by the name of Bibles, for
the trifing sum of fifty thousand dollars.
1t was ascertained that Bibles before he
had paid a dollar towards the purchase,
resold to capitalists at profit of some
one hundred thousand dollars. The fraud
was so outrageous and manifest that even
the Legislature interfered apd and upset
the "Ring;;n but the friends Of the frau
dulent enterprise rallied just before the
close of the late session of the Legisla-
ture and passed an act authorizing the
Board of Education to sell the Swamp
Lands in the counties of Washington,
Tyrrell and Hyde for a sum not less than
fifty thousand dollars, to actual settlers.
The members of the Legislature had hard
ly got home before Gov. Holden called
the Board of Education, or q part of
them, together, and sold these lands to
this same carpet-bagger Bioles9and Sam T.
Carlow, native of the State, for the
sum of fifty thousand dollars, on a credit
of from one to five years. Not dollar
of the money has been paid, so far as can
be learned, and no security for the pur-
chase money was given. 1t is said by
those familiar with the facts, that there
are three hundred thousand or four hun
dred thousand acres of land, and great
deal of it the richest land in the State.
The Sentinel learns that the purchasers
propose to sell it to laboring men for
homes, at five dollars per acre. Put the
land at the low price of one dollar per
acre and it is worth to the State and her
educational interests from three hundred
thousand to -four hundred thousand dol
lars, and yet it is sold by Gov. Holden,
almost before the ink is dry on the rati-
fed act allowing its sale, for fifty thous-
and dollars And not a dollar of that
trifing price is paid, and no security
taken.
1t does seem that Radicalism is only
another name for villainY. From every
quarter our exchanges bring us accounts
of the most stupendous frauds perpetrated
upon the people by the carpet-bag and
banditti, who have been put in