The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-06
[From the Chicago Tribune.l
CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
Testimony OF an Ultra Radical North
ern NeWSnnnnr.-

The people of the Northern States have never
participated in any scheme for the persecution of
the white population of the South. Had Mr. Lin
coin lived he would, in due time, have issued
general proclamation of amnesty to all those en-
gagged IN rebellion, save, perhaps the official head
OF the lnsurreetion. That the rebellion was a
crime, punishable by law, was beyond ali ouestion
put, except as against Jefferson Davis, and per-
maps n lew others, the American people neither
desired nor expected any criminal proceedings
Five years have elapsed, and during that time no
person mas been prosecuted criminally for partic-
lpation in the rebellion. Reconstruction has been
practically accomplished, but the law makers are
daily finding new preteNts for persecutino whole
classes against whom they have long since aban
doned all Pretexts for legal prosecutions
In recent speech by Mr.. DOx, a member of
Congress from Alabama, a northern man by birth
and VINO was loyalist all through the rebellion
we hnd a fair and candid statement of the present
condltlon OF things at the south. Mr.. Dox saws:
Bad laws laws are being constantly enacted by
the strange dynasties which govern in the south
while good laws are badly administered. Men
are eleNaVed Dy the votes OF poor ignorant, inno-
cent negroes, to the highest judicial positions who
would not dare TO aspire in any northern State to
the ONCE OF a cross roads Justice, Sherifs are
chosen who are incompetent to make an inteuigi-
bic return of the service of process aud offices of
all kinds through all grades of responsibilit ore
occupied by men utterly Incompetent TO the nro, ~,
er discharge of the commonest official dutv IN
deed, incapacity and grossest ignorance sra H.
rule 10 which there are eXceptions) but with
those OF high Judicial position and thus is there
generally violated fundamental principle of
Magma Charta, That no man should be an officer
of justice without knowledge of the law And
yet, with such condition of things prevailing
every tiilli ike QualncatlOn branded
and ostaaclzed, 1t Is expected that crime will NOT
exist nor outrage be perpetratedI"
The picture is not overdraWn. However useful
these carpet baggers may have been for a while
their day has gone by. Yet they the men who
seek TO perpetRate the present state of things
All offices must be filed with these adyentuTers
or with coored men wholly untitled for such MIA
ces, and, as general thing the negroes make the
better officers of the two, because, nor are they
mere spectators in public plunder What is
wanted Is the removal of these disabilities bv
which Mi competent administrative officers of the
local government may be obtained 1t is not
merely the men who disfranchised who COM
PLAIN, but the thousands of their friends and kin
dred who sympathize with them Since the break
ing out OF the war, large population, then min
ors, have become of age. A new population is
growing up in these States, and all the memories
and traditions of these worse than useless dis
political distinctions, so far rs the State govern
mentS are concerned, and there will be as en,ur-
ing peace i'll the rebel States as there is in Iinois
The whole country is interested in good govern
mentS IN these States. No good cause is subsery-
ed by subjecting them tS the misgOYernment of
political adVenturers or ignorant and incompetent
persons. The freedom which permits a man to
Tor whom he pleases, is mOczery, which would
not be tolerated in any northern State Yet that
Is the political freedom" which has been granted
to the South, and which Senator Drake insists
shall be enforced by the strong arm of the milf
tary: 1t Is made felony for any man. not within
tne favored class, to accept any Office no matter
II elected thereto by the unanimous vote of the
10 vote for such man. And this is the freedom
winch faction in Congress insists that the Re
publican voters of the United States shall perpetu-
ate. 0'''