North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-04-13
WHOLE No. 7O4.
The Army and the Infamy.


The Secrtary of War says that the de-
mand for troops in the southern States and
on the frontiers, will prevent a reduction
of the army.
Governor Davis, of Texas, writes to the
president that the troops cannot now be
safely withdrawn from the State.
Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
demands troops to suppress insurrection,
and asks for the suspension of habeas
corpus.
The radical leaders in Tennessee say
that the lives and property of union men
are not safe there, and that Ku-Klux
abound, and that murders and robberies
are committed daily, and that the federal
forces in the State must be largely in
creased, and the present State government
overthrown.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, wants
more troops, and wants Congress to ex'
tend the terms Of Office of himself and
the present Legislature, and says that
such action is necessary to maintain order
and protect the lives and property of the
union men of the State.
Admit, for the purpose of argument,
that all that is alleged by Ben. Butler and
the men who are with him in manufac-
turing and publishing accounts of law
lessness and crimes in the south be true,
what better proof can be used to show
that the reconstruction infamy has been
the parent of crime?
1t "organized he'll in the southern
States," and the men who were engaged
in the work have been given control of
those States. When vice and ignorance
rule, can it be expected that decent re-
seect for law and order can be maintained ?
The press of the ruling party does not
deny that the carpet baggers are despica-
bic gangs of adyenturers, and of the
lowest order of demagogues. 1t is not
pretended that the negroes of the south
have any knowledge Of public business,
or are in any way capacitated to act as
legislators or public officers. Notwith-
standing this, negroes and carpet-baggers
are given political supremacy, and such
was the purpose Of the reconstruction in
fanny.
In spite, however, Of the infamy and OF
al the corruptions and crimes growing
out of it, the accounts of lawlessaess in
the south are grossly exaggerated. The
abundance of the cotton crop last year.
and the Improvement Of the country after
the waste and desoation of the war; are
evidence that the southern whites are try.
ing by hard work to repair their fortunes
The partial return to prosperity has giv>
en- them hope, and they know that all con.
siderations of policy without regard tc
right or wrong, required of them to main
tain order and do all they can to enforc,
law.
They are loaded with political disabili
ties, and excluded from all share in theil
state governments, and yet are the mer
whose influence, prudence and regard fo,
the welfare of society have done most in
suppressing disorder and bringing offend
ers to punishment. The leaders in the
rebellion and the men denied the privilege
of holding civil Office in the south have
redeemed their States from the hell organ
lied by the reconstruction infamy, and
even under negro and carpet bag rule, ar,
bringing them steadily forward in the
road to wealth, and making return to stab,
and just governments probable at nj
distant day.
They have met the most terrible calam-
tiles with fortitude; have patiently
wrought to redeem their States from tht
rayages and waste Of war; have worked
manfully to make life and property saf
under the rule Of semi barbarous negroes
and unprincipled demagogues and hav,
replied to the insult and malevolence ant
oppression of the reconstruction iniamy
with such patience and dignity as become
men who are defencelcss in the hands o
enemies incapable of generous or jus
policies.
Is it not time that the white people O
the south We're released from military des
potism ?-Bmliagton Iosra) Argus.