The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-07-29
In THE SOUTH.

ern states suffered more from the 1n-
cursions OF the Federal army during
the late war than they do now from
the swarms Of Northern carpet-bag-
gers who are crowding their towns and
cities and specializing on their misfor-
tunes. These itinera.t tract.peddlers
and wooden nutmeg vendors are voters
almost as soon as they arrive on south
ern soil, while those who are 80 unfor-
tunate as to be "native and to the
manor born" are disfranchised- al
most outlawed, except for purposes of
taxation-and have no voice in the
government of their own country and
the protection of their own fresides.
In consequence of this State Of affairs,
almost every Office, from drainage COM
missioner to Congressman, is filed by
a Northern scallawag, who in his own
country was probably known only for
his baseness. Those who have been
guilty of the highest crimes known to
the courts, and who have been forced
to flee from the stern justice of the
law, have found safe asylum among
the military posts and ignorant negroes
of the South, and by their aid have
been raised to the most responsible
official positions in those common
wealths; and even some of these crime
reeking outlaws have been sent back
to the Congressional halls to assist in
forging chains to bind those whom
they should rather defend.
To illustrate what sort Of persons
are thus forced upon the South as law
makers and rulers, we give n few speci-
men "chips:" A few years ago man
was arrested in one OF the great North
ern cities for the crime of forgery; he
made his escape to n Southern State
which was then "unrecoEstructed,' y
and as soon as Congress had put il
through that delectable process, this
escaped criminal was sent to Congress
by the negro vote, and now occupies q
seat in that body. Five years ago q
great crime was Committed in Yankee
dom by young politician, 10 escape
the consequences of which he fled tc
the sunny South" became q candi'
date for Office as soon as he arrived
there, and last winter. was elected
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives of one of those unfortunate
States. Nine years ago the greatest
offense known TO the law was perpetra
ted by man on one of the Great I axes
Of tho Northwest, and about q yeal
ago the same individual was honored
with the Speakership OF the House o.
Representatives. of the South Caroline
Legislature. Thus the halls that once
echoed with the burning eloquence of {
Pinckney and Calhoun are disgracec
by the presence of crime-stained vii
lain Of the darkest dye.
The policy that would force sucl
characters on helpless people cannot
fail to eventually sink its advocates in
the gulf of public opinion and make it,
cause the most odious and ipiquou.
that history affords. Ii it has become
an axiom that the "world is governed
too much" when good men and true
have the reigns, what must those States
suffer who ere governed by horde o.
foreign thieves, robbers and murder
ers, whose very unscrupulousnesi
renders them fit instruments in the
hands of the dominant party for the
perpetuation of the power which il
would otherwise forfeit
"The mills of the gods grind slow.
~" but they will certainly grind out
4 sure retribution for those who have
been instrumental in forging the chains
of oppression for nearly eight millions
of white people in the Southern States
and degrading their Legislative halls
to the level of the gamblers hell o,
the robbers retreat. The Radical
party is solely responsible for this
state of affairs in the South, and its
devotees deserve to go down in history
linked with the infamous spirit which
animated the attrocious oppressors oil
the darker ages.