The weekly clarion., 1871-06-01
THE SOUTH.
A Land ssTaxed and Swimdled by
"a Horde Of RascaIly Adven.
furer~.ss


the condition of the Southern people
the wrongs which they have suffered, the
trials by which they have been tested,
and the patience with which these trials
have been borne 1t is said that false
hood travels league while truth is get
ting ready for the journey. But the for
mer finishes its career the sooner and is
overtaken by the other in the end. The
adage is verified in the strong article
which we have copied below from the
most authoritative and most candid of all
the Republican newspapers of the North,
the n. Y. Tribune, of the 18th.
The Tribune necessarily has many
contributors to its editorial columns,
but there is no mistaking the paternity of
this article. Its plain and simple, yet
terse and strong language, declares Mr..
Greely himself, whose name is insepara-
bly, associated with the Tribune, to be its
author. Speaking from information OBJ
tanned, not from Democratic journals,
nor from sources outside of the South,
but from its correspondents who have
been sent here to make the affairs of this
people the object of their closest observa-
ton, the Tribune holds the mirror up
with startling fidelity, and prOclaims the
wrongs of which they have been the vic
Tins under military and carpet-bag gov
ernments. Here is the language of the
| Tribune:
The SOuth-Hfs Sins and Hts SuE-
| ferings.
Our corresponder is have now been so
long in the disturbed districts of the South
that we can form from their letters distinct
idea of the state of society in that unfortu-
nate part of the Union. IL is a melancholy
picture that they dra,o for as. The most in
telligent, the influential, the educated, the
really useful men OF the South, deprived of
all political power, have come 70 look upon
themselves as the outraged subjects Of a des-
potic conquerOr. IdIed dnd S,cindled Gy q
horde Of rdscally foreign ddUenturerS, and By
the ignorant class, which only yesterday
hoed the fields and served in the kitchen,
they care nothing for politics except to
throw off the oppressive yoke; they have
no interest in national affairs; they would
call themselves of either party, provided
their rulers were only of the other. The
refuse Of Northern cities, aohO 1oent sOuthlgdrd
| after the acdr, 0ut-dt-elbolcS and destitute of
character and education n0tC roll in splendid
carriages and drink rare 11ines, glitter aoith
diamonds as big as FiSkS, and steal tdreS as
| fast as a New York Street Commissioner. 1t
is no aooader that the impoverished planter,
growing poorer every day, the ex-Confed-
crate officer who fought so bravely for a
cause in which he honestly believed, the
professional men, accustomed all their lives
to hold Office and lead the public sentiment
of their communities, look on such things
with rancorous hearts. They might submit
to be ruled by soldiers who had beaten them
in battle; but here they are plandered by sat-
lerS and camp followers.
This is a miserable state Of things indeed
for Republican Governments burIesque
upon the Suffrage, when the only restriction
from voting is that the votes shall NOT be
| cast for the most intelligent and virtuous
citizens. We have often warned our party
in Congress of the inevitable result of the
vindictive method of Reconstruction.
Taxed and swindled by horde of
foreign adventures" who are the "re-
fuse of Northern cities the representa-
tives of the intelligence and property Of
the South are truthfully described to be
growing poorer and poorer every day"
Notwithstanding all their patient indus
try to bring back some measure of their
lost prosperity. In the face of the de-
cline in the price of their chief staple
last year, the value of this production
alone was not less than two hundred and
twenty-five millions, and yet it has all
been absorbed chiefly by taxes imposed
by the " adventures" who came hither
''out-at-elbows" to make their fortunes.
With the exception of Virginia, there is
not Southern State which has not been
taxed beyond its resources to satisfy the
clamors of these vagrants.
Now, we ask our distinguished contem-
porary, in all sincerity, if the imposition
of such rulers as these upon high.spir-
tied people, and the practice of such
abuses as it describes, are not enough to
have provoked retaliatory measures p
Are not the "outrages with which the
columns of the Tribune have teemed
and which have contributed SO largely to
the volume of prejudice and passion that
,~0.-Dro1 he L.
natural manifestations of impatience un-
der wrong which have invariably marked
the history of the Anglo-Saxon racer
Are they not the out-cropping of the
spirit which wrung the Great Charter
from a reluctant King-which brought
the head of another to the block, and
which, at a later day, consigned the car
90 of tea to the bottom of Boston har-
bor? These free-born Southern people
have not lost the spirit of their race by
having been overthrown by superior force
in battling for cause in which, as the
Tribune truly remarks, they honestly
believed" If there is not the perfect
"peace," which good men everywhere
crave, upon whom does the responsibility
rest? If there is trouble, who has pro-
duced it? The Tribune answers the
question which reason dictates, when it
says, 1--WE have often warned our (the
Republican, party of the ineritable re-
"sult of the vindictive method of Re
construction" 1t is this ''vindictive
method which has disfranchised the
white people of the South and denied
them the right of equal participation in
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