The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-12
THE PLAIN TRUTH.
Garpet-Bag Governments Breaking Up
From the New York SUM-

The overwhelming defeat Of General Grants
administration in North Carolina foreshadows
its downfall in all the former slaveholdmg
States. For time after the war the rule of
the clrpet-baggers in the South was matter
of necessity. The old dominant class did not
take kindly to the new order of things which
sprang from the success OF the Uuion arms.
The inroal or governing element from the
North was the naturalresult; and that it should
bring in its train body Of adventurers was
almost thing Of course. The folly OF the late
insurgents in listening to the advice OF Andrew
johnson, and arraying themselves In political
hostility to the Republican party and it's plan
OF reconstruction, gave these adv entnreIs me
vantage ground from the very start, and soon
opened the door for the more unscrupuious
amons them to bscome plunderers and rob-
bers.
The fruits Of the carpet-bag reign Of the last
five years are what might have been expected.
The aoorZd may be searched IN pain Jor goue77a-
,nents so immoral, so ShdmeleSSty corrupt, so
South. Politically they may be changed; but
this canlot cure ono Of the sorest of the evils
already inhicted. These scamps have run :he
States they rule ruinously into debt. The Leg
1slatures controlled by them have pledged The
States to the discharge of pr cunlary Obligations
Of crushing weight, to the future redemption
Of an enormous amount OF bonds, and to the
years. This has been done in furtherance OF
ell sorts OF schemes whereby the authors reap
present wealth aud anticipate larger gains IN
the immediate future. These burdens nave
Eli eady seriously embarrassed all OF these
states, and we'll nigh bankrupted some OF them;
| aud to save them from ruin, the reign OF the
clrpet-bag robbers must be speedily brought
| to 40 end.
rbere would Som to DO no good reason why
| the honest men in these sorely plundered
| States should not band together, irrespective
| Of past political differences, and wTest Them
out of the hands of the thieves that despoii
them. All the issues which made their advent
even possibility have been settled. Let the
better class Of old citizons accept the sltua lon
10 good filth, and assure the negroes that
| there ia no disposition to deprive them OF their
new born privileges, and there will be an up
rising Of the people that will drive out these
rayenous villains, and restore TO the States
| what they have not had since they plunged
into rebellion nine years ago-stable, thrifty,
respectable governments.
These corrupt carpet-bag usurpatons are
the outlyi e supports OF General Grants ad-
m,pistration J hey sustain him by their
votes, aud he maintained them by his bayonets
Their dowufilI will herald his overthrow. But
let those who invoke a charge repudlate all
idea of resortins to violence. IL was the threat
of the Tammany Presidential Convention OF
1868 that their candidate, if elected, would
break up these governments by force, which
made his defeat beth necessity and certain
ty. The people will tolerate no such slogan
now, any more than then. Orderly proceed
inSs through the balol-box will prove to be
the efficient, as they are the only tole1able,
mode Of ef2ctiug this reform.