The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-07-06

carpet'bag- officials. we quote b
Tribune
Georgia is. a party to prey 70 anarchy
and corruption The Kuskux clan
s standing political transparency,
and Oliver P. Morton, in the United
States Senate, and B. T Butler, in the.
House, mutually pass it to and fro,
like a couple of advertising promenad-
-ers. The whole policy and sole hope
of the plumber set in the South is to
invent and spread diabolical stories Of
m~assacres,r murders, rapes, masked
batteries, ETC., etc, and under cover of
these lies to call out the militia, and
keep the better populace by intimida-
l from the polls, This is the game:
This is the device. The object is en-
tirely vulpine.
Then here is the Tri6une's sketch of
Mississippi:
The State has neither debt or credit.
Senator Ames was elevated to his place
by b unerring aid of presuming bay
onets kindly boosting him from below.
Men who think honors gained in that
way as legitimate as any other, have
only to buy a new pair of trousers and
wrap the drapery of their couch around
them. Revels, the other Senator, was
fairly chosen in Difference to the color
ed vote, and he has distinguished him
self over his Southern colleagues by
being honest.
Arkansas is "in the bonds Of strewd
carpet-baggers and sensible natives"
who are han.ling her interests we'll.
This is the case, to come extent. with
Texas. But beth the. g - States
owe their prosperity to the immense
emigration pouring into them from the
other Southern States
Alabama, the Tribune says is the
banner State of reconstruction, and the
credit is given to Generol Swayne, of
Ohio, "who fixed things on an equi-
table basis, and even allayed prejudices,
and taught ex slave, ex-redel and inn
migrant to bear and forbear 1t is
mentioned as something remarkable
that General Swayne organized a
Republican party in the State, the sole
aim of whose existence. was not plum
der and cowardice." ~
Next comes South Carolina. "Once
the Connecticut of the South in in
~diviiuality, independence of spirit,
generous impulses and great men, it
has become the State of thievery,"
That's the Tri5une's idea.
Then le'e is Virginia-the State,J
fairly reconstructed, by renting its
Affairs to the management of the hon
est, citizens of the State. The Ancient
Dom Mon, Democratic now, as ever!
Oftlis brave old Commonwealth, the
Tribune says: a;
Forty millions of debt, honestly met
on interest day with three per emf. in
certificates, readily convertible in cash
this is1he state Of the Old Dominion
An honorable mar for Governor, too
conservative to do all the work he
might; two Senators of different poll
tics, both of good character. and peo-
pie with the aptness to learn and re-
cover, this State demonstrates the pow
er of the bal OF, exercised without ma
interference, make us q land of
rich and vi. tueus Commonwealth
We give this review of the cohdi-
ton of the South to our readers be-
CtluSG II Is ITUtn IrOIu u IedliICdf SDuICc, L
and for the further reason that it sus-
ali the arguments used by Demo-
against the Radical process of
reconstruction. The Tribune Makes
one other point especially worthy the
serious thought OF Radicals. 1tis the
of the article from which
we have quoted, and is as follows
''Since the war closed not one leading
has broken the law. In all the
distorted, exaggerated acts OF violence
at the South they have not named one
General as perpetrator. Alas !
for some of our Generals. rewarded in
the indiscriminate gratitude of the peo-
pie beyond their merits! 1t is sure
hat the controlling men in the Radical
of many States infthe South
ire without p~recedents, principles, or
bride. They are o worthy to be eN-
of the Republican party of the
Their motto is rule or ruinl
Their correspondents, supporters and
Ill w-craftsmen in Washington are
P. Morton, SENATOR and Ben
amin F.. Butler, Representatives.
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