The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-15

Charleston Dec. 81 Correspondence of the Ne
York World.

Charleston Dec. 81 Correspondence of the New
York World.
The Radical press now call this "the
banner Republican State of the South" Ii
this is indeed the flagship of the party,
then it follows that the rest of the fleet
must be rotten old huliSs, entirely unfit for
sea and unworthy to navigate American
waters. The flag which flies at the mast
head here may be called Republican, but
1t really is the pirate ensign, and the raw
head and bloody bones are plainly visible.
The craft is in such condition that no hon
est seaman would ship aboard, especially
with such crew, whose every face looks
yiliainOus, and whose antecedentS belle
not their looks. And the ship goes to sea
with papers no cleaner than her decks, for
She has been seized by fraud and force,
and has no clearance which would be re
spected by an honest vessel, or in any hon
est port.
Dropping the trope and coming to facts ::
The Sea Islands, extending from Charles
ton 10 Savannah, were formerly the garden
spots of the South. There wealthy plant
ers lived in elegance and refinement. Cot
ton of the longest staple and finest texture
was raised. The large and handsome man
slOns of the planters and the numerous
villages OF neatly whitewashed cottages
occupied by the laborers beautified the
landscape, and travellers delighted to tarry
amid such scenes of tropical loneliness as
many of these localities presented. Free
dom might have dawned ever upon these
islands benignantlv. and added a fresh
charm to its Surroundings, if its teachers
had instilled into the emancipated the ben
nefcent lessons Of love and kindness.
But it came with the simeon blasts of po-
litical rancOr aud party hate-made an is
sue of color and race, and proclaimed a
shibbOleIh which no decent man could ut
ter, and which no man who failed to utter
could remain in the land and live Hence
the garden has become a wilderness,
and savages, ignorant, ruthless, and
worthless, render it unsafe and untenable
for civilized man-as much so as Ashantee
or equatorial Africa. 1t is only valuable
to the party in power as a reservoir of
voters, ready to stuff biennially the boxes
with all the tickets sent them. This they
can always do with impunity-as they did
on the 18th of October last-for no man
could or would venture to invade their
precincts, either to scrutinize their actions
or to give an opposing vote
The same baTbaric outlines of character
are applicable to the inhabitants along the
entire coasts of the Carolinas. Ignorance
and vice in huts take the place of refine
ment and culture in palaces, and the
grounds once beautified with orange
groves and shrubbery are covered with a
rank growth Of weeds Immense tracts of
rice ard cotton lands formerly cultivated
successfully and on a grand system, are
now shrOuded in desOlation, with here and
there little patch worked by lazy negro
with hoe. The numerous herds Of cattle
have disappeared, for with such popula-
top 1T is almost impossible TO keep anv
kind Of stock A stable government-an
honest MISUNDERSTANDING hope
TO the white man and giving confidence to
capital, would soon change all this for the
better. But such government this State
neither has nor expects to have, as long as
Federal bayonets are employed to force ig-
norance and crime into all its places of
power. The very State papers are filed
with Observation-Disclosures known to he
such by those who utter them. The Gov
ernor's recent Thanksgiving proclamation
abOunds in such, and could only have been
intended as a sarcastic fling at the white
population. The document, if intended to
be received seriously, is conspicuouslv
inexact; but as n specimen Of IRONY il is
blasphemOusly sublime II would he folly
and betray a decided weakness for anyone
TO rely upon the gravest and most earnest
enunciations from such official sources.
They are all CANNON, and succeeding de-
Velopments always prove them to- be such.