The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-28

A Northern View OF the Southern
Problem. @s
Tie Nation discusses at length the prob
lem in the South, and, iqs o the course of a
temperate and scholarly article, tells the
negro -shriekers Of the North some sound
and wholesome truths.
1t assumes, to begin with, (what we can
not admit,) that there is no doubt about
1.-the multiplicity and atrocity" OF the
outrages committed on the negroes and
Unionists OF the South, that the persons who
comm commit them arenot brought to justice, and
that "through a great part. q the South
..thsre isno security for either life or prop
.'erty." Tie Nation continues as follows:
i ssThas some suchstate ofthings would come
.topass was foreseen after the war. 1t was
said that fflegtslation ana the election Of OH
-oerswereleft solely TO the Southern whites,
the southern blacks swould beieft without
.adeqaate protection. Consequently, the suf-
ftuxe was given 10 the blacks. But this was
Enos felt to be sufficient. Agreatproportion Of
themore experienced and Intelligent people
st the South were excluded by the State con-
situations, and by an amendment to the United
Sssees Constitution, from all share IN the
government. In this way not only were the
negroes and Unfonists guaranteed voice In
the government, but they were secured IN the
exclusive control of 1t. That H., to speak
plainly, for thepurpose Of securing the poor
and ignorant against oppression, not only were
they admitted to an equality of rights with the
r1Cn ana euucaled, but they were put Tn pos
session ofthe whole administrative machinery.
Considering that Large body of the voters
In some States majortty-had recently emerg-
ed from slavery In It's most brutal form, 1t
must be adm tied the experiment was bold
one; in fact, 1t vas lhe boldest ever known.
No similar rear,aagenieat of.the social organl-
zatian has ever been attempted anywhere
else. The experiment has, ho,oeUer, totally
fa,led. The most influential portion Of the
Southern population, loi4 ,ohose support no
government can in the long 7stn dispensr, ls
has been thousand times proved, have hot
only given the new governments at the South
no. assistance, but have, naturally enough,
been bitterly hostile to them. The new politt-
cal systam, Indeed. was Of Kind to rouse all
their prejedices ssainst 10. The men who took
mart In and aided the rebellion, and who are,
therefore, DISTINGUISHED, have within the last
Eve years been reinforced by 9 powerful body
Of youths who were boys during the rebellion,
and who have entered on manhood during 8
period of great disorder and uncertainty and
poverty, in which few careers areGpen to-
Them. and In which all the circumstances of
their lives tend to exasperate and embltter
them, and prepare them for turbulence and
violence. They may therefore be said, with
out exaggeration, to have taken the field
against the new regime.
'iOn the other hand, the new governments
have done nothing to atone for the theoretical
defects of their origin. We o,oe 10 human 'aa-
ture to say that ,oorse governments haze seldom
been sesn IN civst,zed country. They have
been largely composed Of trashy whites and
ignorant blacks. Of course, there have been
in them men Of integrity and ability ofboth
races; but the great majority of the officers
and legislators have been either wanting In
knowledge or In principle, or both. That of
South Carolina is one Of the ,oorst specimens,
and, as such, We have often commented on
It."
This, in the main, is calm statement OF
the reason why South Carolina is impover-
ished and filled with discomfort; why the
people are preparing to resist, In q body,
the exactions OF the State Government
which, in 10. sense of the word, represents
the wisdom, the wealth or the purity OF the
State. We are curse with the worse gov
erument the civilized world has ever seen.
The State officials, from the highest to the
lowest, with terribly few exceptions,) are
charged with fraud and corruption. The
General Assembly is principally composed
of ignorant negroes and dsreputable whites,
whose only aim is to I'LL theirpockets before
the coming Of the political deluge. The debt
of the State is swollen to huge proportions,
and the public cannot tell whether us toeal
amount is ten millions or twenty. Taxes
to the amount OF four millions are due this
year; while the taxes before the war, when
the people were rich and free, did not aver
age more than an eighth of that sum- All
this because, as The Nation declares, 1.-THE
''great majority of the officers and legisla-
"tors have been either wanting in knowl-
,"edge, or in principle, or In BOTH"
What is to be done? Nearly every Radi-
cal Congressman mas his remedy, and not
one of these touches the root OF the evil.
or the Federal legislation now demanded the
bill brought in b, Blu Ter is fair specimen,
and it consists simply in attempting tosub-
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