The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-19

the citizens mere puppets; proscrlDes SELL
government as rebellion, and lauds the spo-
liation of tAirty-seven million five hundred
thousand men, women and children by
two million five hundred thousand monopo-
lists, as protection to industry" While
all the world beside is rising up to liberty,
we are sinking down beneath the pressure
of a consolidated despotiSm. Heartless In
trieuers and empty mouthcrs seek to perpet-
uatc among us, or rather TO renew, those
political sophisms which Europe casts to the
winds.
For our part, we think that the States are
quite as important in our system rs the Cen
cral Government The former made the
latter, and could do quite as well as they
70 rmerly did were tile virtuous City OF Wash
ington to experience the fate OF the Cities
of the Plain. Nay, we even hope they could
manage to survive were careless Nature to
break, like a potsherd, that sleek Robe
spierre mould out OF which shcmade Sumner,
or that crooked, squipt-eyed John Wilkes
mould out of which Butler sloughed. Under
any circumstances politicians will grow. But
States do not take root so easily. If they
perish they may involve liberty in their over
throw, and may require century or two ior
their establishment. The obsequies Of q
Congressman require only few yards
Grape; those of State demand the tears
and perhaps the blood OF thousands.
We cannot but think that the reception Of
General Ames in Congress, as the senator
from Mississippi, is one of the most sisnii-
cant and momentous circumstances that has
occurred in the United States since the war
This gentleman was citizen OF Maine, but
was elected to represent Mississippi simply
because he was in the latter State at the
time OF his election. The New York Times
admits the significance of the Congressional
action in this case, and asserts that resi-
dence of two or three days in any State is
sufficient to entitle any citizen OF the United
States to Office there. Under the present
regime, Horace Greeley can represent Vir-
ginia. The Union is nation. The citizens
of any district have relationship to all, and
can be returned to Congress from Carolina
or Oregon, just as Mr.. Bright can be sent to
Parliament from Manchester or Plymouth,
from Cornwall or Yorkshire. Thus the
Union adopts new device for dominion
not the knightly sword or spur-nst the
royal crown or sceptre-but the CARPET
BAG. That parti-colored ensign OF adven-
ture is now the very star OF empire The
wooden clock, the wooden ham, the wooden
nutmeg, were the harsh experience OF the
past; the carpet-bag is the yielding, tender,
all-absorbins promise of the future.
Now add to the prestige of the carpet-bag
the power OF protection. Give every
scolndrel who has 'an itching palm" the
right to dip into his neighbor's purse. Let
Lowell have cent or two for every yard of
calico that is used by anybody in the United
States. Let Pittsburg have its additional
dollar upon every dollars worth OF iron that
enters into any engine or plough, or axe, or
anvil, or stove, or pot Fosslize the conf
munity Wherever you find fifteen poor
men, consolidate them into q phosphate,
and crush them into dust, that the fields Of
one rich man may bc fertile Forbid the
very rivers to flow unless they turn their
sands to gold, and give their gold to Midas.
Not content with subduins the South 10y
overpowering numbers, New England de-
mands that these grand States should be-
come oprolites-c1cresccnts Of part that
has perished forever, yet that may be utilized
like the bones OF the heroes of Waterloo that
now fertlize the pastures and enrich the
cheeses OF Cheshire. That such folly should
have awakened the apprehensions and sharp
ened the pen of MIR. Cardozo is lamentuble.