The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-27
At LAST

The Chicago Tribune has been one of
the most ardent supporters of the Con-
gressional plan of reconstruction. In
common with other Radical papers, it has
filed its columns with ISLANDERS upon the
people of the South and has lent itself to
the schemes of the politicians, who cared
more for party than for the restoration of
the country to peace and prosperity. The
cry of the New York Tribune that the
Republican party cannot afford to be re-
rponsible for any more carpet baggers, is
now echoed by its Chicago namesake. In
a letter which it publishes conspicuously,
we at last have the truth in regard TO va
rious matters which have beensi in contro-
versy, and there is an evident disposition
to atone for past errors. We present a
few specimens. from this communication.
OF North Carolina and Holden's declara-
ton of martial law, it srys:
THE s~calawags Ring of Joe Holden,
Deweese, Abbott, Jenkins and G.. W.
Swepson, have increased the debt of North
Carolina, since the peace, $4,000 ,0OO.-
The bonds of the State have declined to
twenty-five cents on the dollar. Hereto
fore, we have heard only reports of peace
and goodwill IN North Carolina, because
the King has had its W way but now
that the people are forming a reform par
ty, TO preserve their existence and proper
ty, the thrilling legends of massacres, Ku-
klux, &c, are revived"
Hence the declaration of martial law.
Of the New Orleans riot of 1866, this
correspondent, who evidently knows what
he is talking about, writes:
Michael Hahn, once of Missouri. is an
old Louisianan; plausible, wiry and greedy
of gain. He and Fisher got up he Nei1
Orleans riot of 1866 as a p~oLiticaL more
Rlent, calling a convention of ~nobodies-
not a parish outside of New Orleans be-
ing represented in ito violently change
the constitution Of the State. This high
handed outrage on popular government
led to a light, as was expected; the few
usurplng delegates were attacked, and
this led to Congressional action, to a grand
stumplng tour of the North in the rear of
Andrew Johnson, and the Ring was then
sustained against the people. To assist
this demonstration a correspondent of a
powerful Northern paper was kept in the
pay of this gang, and we sold our sympa-
thies for q series of Etlsehoods. The result
is what we see-Louisianal Twelve mill
ions of dollars have been voted to rail
ways, the corporators thereof being named
by the Ring and the margins voted
above the true cost Of the road have been
among the Ring"
b. Georgia is not much better off, than
Louisiana. according to the same authori-
ty. We quote a paragraph only:
Georgia is a prey to anarchy and cor
The Ku-Klux-Klan is a stand
ing political transparency, and Oliver P.
Morton, in the United States Senate, and
B. F, Butler, in the House, mutually pass
it to and fro, like a couple of advertising
promenaders. The whole policy and sole
hope of the plumber set in the South is to
invent and spread diabolical stories of
massacres, murders, rapes, masked batter
les, etc, etc, and under cover of these
to call out the militia. and keep the
better populace by intimidation from the
polls. This is the game"
The Tennessee delegation he regards as
the meanest in Congress, headed by But
Ter, the cadet broker. The debt of the
State amounts to $6O,OOO,OOO. Mississip-
and Florida are in but little better
condition,-and the situation does not ap-
pear to be entirely satisfactory in any of
the States, which have been reconstructed
by Congress.