The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-23
GAmHnwH AWD SOUTH CARO-
LIMA.
A CONTRAST.

"A CONTRAST. e@
Virgins Is the best ordered and mos
peaceable of al the Southern States.
She is so well governed, that the Radical
authorities at Washington cannot invent
the tyranfs plea Of necessity for inter
fering with her domestic government =
As much as they abhor her devotion to
the principles to which she clings fast as
to an anchor in a stormy sea, they can
find no pretext for putting into practice
tle infamous measures by which their
tyrannieal usurpation has been illustra-
ted in other Reconstructed States.
Now, promising that in Virginia the
Radicals have never been in control, and
that from the beginning of the era of re
construction she has been thoroughly
conservative, or Democratic, In all the
departments of her State government,
let her history (since Reconstruction and
her present condition be contrasted with
that of the unfortunate States which have
been subject to Carpet-bag-ScaIlawag do
mination. And especially is the contrast
vivid one In the condition of the col
ored populations. In the Carpet-bagged
States, the colored people are in a con-
stantly perplexed and confused state
Ignorant, inexperienced, and excitable,
their passions are the mere organs on
which the cunning and INSCRIPTIONS adj
venturers have. played without ceasing
for their own aggrandizement, and thus
they have been employed as facile instru-
ments for the injury not only of the
whites but of their own race. Their
minds have been kept in continual fer
ment-at one time elated by the hope OF
some impossible good, at another tortur-
ed by the fear of some remote evil-and
thus the poor creatures have been driven
by their Carpet-bag oracles, like a wea-
vers shuttle, from one extremity to an
other. The recent elections in Mississip-
pi and elsewhere, prove that this delu.
sion is passing away and that the negroes
are breaking away from the rule of the
knaves who have gained their confidence
but to deceive and mislead them.
Recurring, however, to the matter OF
the contrast, we will permit it to be
drawn for the benefit of our readers by
the Richmond Enquirer in the following
well-timed observations:
From the Enquirer.
We challenge a comparison between the
condition of the colored man in Virginia
and in those Southern States where the
Carpet-Bsggers have obtained the control
of the government. Are the coloTed peo-
pie of Virginia less contented than their
brothers in South Carolina? are they less
prosperous? Is justice more impartially
meted out to them in South Carolina than
in Virginia? Have we any ku Klux in
Virginia? Are the. races arrayed against
each other in bitter hostility as in South
Carolina? Has Virginia been plundered !?
Has there been any breath of official cor
ruption here? Have not our judges been
just and i'm partial?
Has the colored man better opportunity
to get common school education in the
mixed schools of South Carolina than in
the separate" common schools established
by the Conservative officials in Virginia p
Have they sthree thousand common
schools in South Carolina?
The Carpet baggers have control in South
Carolina, in Mississippi, in Florida, in Lou
isiana, in Texas; and is the condition of the
colored man In any one of these States any
better than it is in Virginia? is it as good
Bad government is bad for all, and the mis-
government which has prevailed in South
Carolina has fallen on the blacks as we'll as
the whites. The plumber of that State NAV
have enriched few carpet baggers, but it
has benefited nobody else: and while it
comes directly out of the whites, it Injuries
indirectly the colored population also. If
the planters of South Carolina are ruined.
and their estates are abandoned, what be-
comes of the plantation hands? Society is
in the Southern States, and the
and the non-propertv-
holder all suffer together. Every branch of
industry languishes in Turkey and i'm ia
maica because there is bad government:
and so in Louisiana, Mississippi, and South
there is general prostration of
business because the laws are bad and are
badly administered.