The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-12-02
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About a month ego Rufus 2. Bullock,
who halls from Orleans county. New York.
aad who was then the carpet beg Governor
Cf Georgia. rnado very sudden exit from
thas State. and. when he had safely rcached
Washington. wrote letter resiging his Of
fee Bullock TINS took time By the fore
lock 20 escape the unpleasant consequences
Of al inl peacbraeut for manifold high crimes
and mistamcanors, which he had good roa-
son to believe would 5c Instituted against
him by the Legislature which waa then
about to assemble. Upoa the 7esiguaGioa
ley) became his successor. - Caaioy Is said
to bo man Of some rcsrectebility end cher
Gcter whsn compared with his predecessor.
Among the first sets Of the Legislature vas
the passage Of law authorizing en- election
for aovcrnor during the present. month
Conley, anxious no doubt 20 coDlplsts and
carry out the unfinished Jobs Of Bullock, We
toed the bill, which wHs, however, taken up
last week by the Legislature and passed over
tbs veto by the necessary two-tLird vote,
This will secure che election Of & Governor
10 that plundered and mirgcverued State
who enjoys the confidence Of the poople, and
who will be In entire harmony uish.tha pop
ular will a. expressed through the Legisla~
tuge, unless GRAFT in the exercise Of his high
prarogative should proclaim martial laY Ia
that State, as he has been importuned 30 do
By Builock's colleagues 10 sinfsmy.
What disgracefuI and siokenIng record
of vilsiny and fraud ia exhibited in nearly
every Southern State under the much boset
ed reconstruction laws of Congress. Holdee,
Governor Of North Carolina, who was the
very cream of loyalty, so-caled, was im>
peached and driven in disgrace from sthe
State, to become one Of the editors Of Grants
organ in Washington Scott, Of South Car,
olina, supported By negro Legislature, has
taxed the people out OF rbeIr very substance
and plunged the State into such en- abyss Of
hopeless bankruptcy that hts negro slIies
have boldly hoiGted the dishonoTod banner
Of repudlstion &c the only escspe from :
bondage verse thsn slavery itself. The cor
Gition Of Florida under the rule Of Governor
Reed, another carpst-baggar. is fast becon~
ing as desperate as that Of South Carolina
Louisiana is s prey to the rEpccitY and
greed Of the two rival factions Of Giant and
Gu;iGFant into which the radical party in
thst State is divided. Texas. the State of
Houston aud Rusk, the garden spot Of the
Union. Is pIundeTed and robbsd and the
voice Of her people proclaimed through the
ballot box is attempted TO be suppressed by
q corrupt snd laSiess Executive. Arkansas.
whose public debt amounts to the enormous
sum Of forty millions Of dollars. wrihes in
ths c0uupt carpet bag embrace of Clayton,
the special pet Of Grant-a Governor intent
only upon piuujer. and Who, if only the
one-half that is charged against him by his
own political frsnds be trus, instead of dis
greciag & seat In tho United States Senate.
TO which he has been recently elected, ought
to BE- serving out term of years in the pen>
itsutiary. There is not single green SPOT
to relisve the eye a. it wanders over this
wide aud dreary waste Of official misrule,
yonaliiy and corruption.