Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-03
oRCES Err.
Twcea,s senatorial District.

the district, report that its voting population
so utterly destitute of principle, and even dc
cency, that they cannot find among the voter
hopeful basis of opposition to the infamous
man who has SO long been its chief saehem. |
has few respectable people who board at thu
Astor House aud at some of the hotels OF
CORTLAND street; and it has more rich and eX
tensive business establishments, probably
than any other senatorial district in thu
city; but the owners and managers o
these establish ments reside and vote elsewhere
The World, whose account of it may be trusted
saws: 'the district is not made up of honest
voters: and adds, it dis the most loathcsomG
political scab in the United States" Nearly all
the great wholesale houses, banks law offices,
insurance companies, and newspaper offices, are
within its limits; and so are the custom house,
the sub.treasury, the city halA, and the wharvcs
connected with the moStsimportant commerce of
the city. The resident population, however, are
more accurately represented by the low grog-
Shops the brothels, and the activities OF crime
whieH disturb the nights. The World says:
~''no respectable person consents to live in this
district" and "the very dregs and scum of our
DDpuidllOlg luC ull -eNuullllr vi llilo NOhHt9
all others, inhabit it,"
And vet, for some years, this senatorial dis
trict has done more than all the others TO control
the municipal government of the city. 1t is the
headquarters of Tammany's body guard, the
citadel of Tweed, the main source of the inf1u-
ences which have made the city government
notorious for its rascalties. 1t has furnished
Of nd hoy st11ff.a
has been ready TO do whatever Tweed might sec
fit to orders it has now nominated this chief
bucanneer for senator, and he feels sure that it
will elect him in defiance of all that can be done
by the rcormers and the republicans to prevent
it. The opponents of Tweed will unite on
0'Donovan Rosa; but they appear to have no
hope Of success. The decent people in the dis
trct are too few and he shameless villains too
many. The dens OF crime have had protection,
during the reign of Tweed, and those interested,
understand very well that his downfall will he
likely TO bring disaster upon them. Therefore,
the brothels, the low grog-shops, all the haunts
of crime, the thieves, the burglars, and all the
vile characters who make that district city of
refuge, are actively canvassiug for Tweed. They
nav NANNANd ulth uul luNN viii NlNSt
him now. The history of our politics has moth
ing equal to this case, which shows what Tam
many has been, for years.
II is hoped that the senate will expel Tweed or
refuse to admit him. that he will be tried and
convicted before the legislature shall meet; or
that something else may turn up to nullify the
voting of this seething scoundrelism. Those
who feel this anxiety should give some thought
to the means by which Tweed has become what
he is. This man would be of little or no ac-
co unit, if he had not for years been able to use
the democratic party for his own purposes. 1t
is because he could use that party, in the city,
at Albany, and in all cases where he found it
necessary, that he has; been able to protect
scOundrels, have such tax bills as he desired
control the city government, and rob the city
treasury. The successes of the democratic par.
ty in the state have been due chiefly to the won
derfuI m4jorities which Tweed and his ring
could manufacture in New York city; and, OF
coarse, be was recognized and treated as a
power in he party. He could make and
unm1Ss. H could per9etuate rascalities at
Albany without being called 10 account
b. his party frieais. They have never
called him TO account for anything, until
now when the overwhelming exposure Of the
roaberies he has planned and patroHized, threat
ems TO break down the party itself. Tweed
win his army OF reporters producing vast ma
5ori-ies TO carry city and state elections, and
Tweed made Infamous BY exposure from which
the public judgment does not allow him 10
escape are B55 Of equal value TO the democrats
party; and now, the World, no Longer hesi-
tarlz, describes him Is "this exposed swim
DIR II he had been properly denounced and
hanE aside when bis fellow democrats first
began TO observe his rascally ways, he would
not have been in a position TO buy the support
Of New York seOundreldom, and perpetrate the
monstrous robberies now brought to light
Reign of Terror in south Carolina.
We learn from the democratic newspapers
that a reign Of terror prevails in some parts
Of South Carolina. They become pathetic and
eloquent in depicting the terrible sutFeriugs en-
dured by the oppressed people There has bee n
reign of terror there for a long time, although
the men who now declaim about it profess to
have only just learned the fact The terrors
take ho.d upon them now, whereas for many
months before they were secure, and only ne
groes and clrpet-baggers were the victims OF
midnight alarms aud daily outrage. We need
not refer to the evidence that organized bands
of assassns and inccndiaries have ruled the
poor people Of those regions with an intolerably
cruel tyra my. The evidence exists and hai
been published in abundance. 1t is sufficient Il
ii.
secured by partisanship, as to reject whatever h,
wishes to disbeiieye. The local laws. no doubt
were, as laws, well enough adapted to protect
the rights Of all citizens, but the local magis-
trates and officers were unable or unwilling to
enforce them. After long torbearance aud many
warnings the president uses the powel
which the law gives him to restore or
der and bring criminals to punishment
Some of the members Of kuklux bands have
surrendered themselves, Others have been ar
rested, aud Others, taking counsel from their
guilty fears, have Aed. Am ong these last were
mauy against whom no charges were made and
who were not even suspected of crime. OF thi.
long delayed effort o compel obedience to Law
and respect for the rights of citizens a Soutl
Carolinan writes: 1.-The cruelty, the inhumar
barbarity Of this most unrighteous war upon ii
is enough to bring the blush of shame to tn
cheek Of Nero and soften the heart of ii
berius." Tue writer of that bit of buncoma i
endorsed by Reverdy johnson as ga gentleman
Of high character whose statements may b.
confidently relied upon" However high hi
Character, be is evidently afflicted with the pre-
Yaiiing southern mania for exaggeration anC
grandiloqueuce. The cruelty of which he com
plains in such fervid language is nothing NOR
than this, that, long series of atrocities having
been peipetrated with the lutent and result o
establishing system Of political oppression,
the per ons suspected Of committing and instigar
ing them have been arrested and are held fo
trial This is all there is Of it, No doubt these
things would be surprising TO Nero or Tiberius
trial by an independent court aud an impartia
jury was not their way Of dealing with offenders
Martial law has not been proclaimed or estab
lshed in the disturbed districts, as the demo
cratic papers are fond of asserting. Martha
law suspends the operation Of all other law, di,
places for the time all civil magistrates an
officers, aud vests the supreme authority in ID
commanding officer, whose orders become III
law, and are applied to individuals by court