The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-12-02
Horace Greeley on Carpetbag
Government.

Horace Greeley on Carpetba,
/ Government.
The developments of rascality
in the management of the recon
structed governments Of severa
| Southern States have been grow
ing moro and more conclusive
The facts are in part concealed
or Obscured, but cannot long re-
main so. .. r..s.
We have communications from
leading Republicans in Texas,
insisting that we have regarded
their legislation and rule with
greater disfavor than facts will
warrant. Two years ago, they
elected a Republican Governor,
Legislature, and three out of four
Congrcssmen; now, they have
chosen Democrats to--Congress
from all of the four districts, by
an aggregate majority of at least
ten thousand. Yet there are far
more Republican journals printed
in the State to-day than there
were two years ago, with all the
Federal and State patronage in
the hands of the party which
has just been SO signally defeat
ed.
While in Texas last May, we
could not fail to SEQ that the old
Texans who stood fire for the
Union and organized the Repub-
rican party-Gov. Hamilton, Gov.
Pease, Judge Hancock, Judge
Sabine, etc.-were out in tho cold
while the Republican machine was
in the hands of younger and less
eminent politicians, mainly new
to the State, enjoying no consid-
Grafton outside of the ranks of
their followers. Had the legis-
lation of the last two years COM
manded public confidence, the
State would have gone as strong
ly Republican in 1871 as it did in
1869.
The State Constitution, framed
in 1869, by Republicans, plainly
provides for tho election of a
Legislature every second year.
The present Legislature, chosen
two years ago, has held at least
two long sessions, and is now
holding q third. 1t ought to
have provided for the choice Of
it's successor ut the recent cleo
ton; it did just the opposite of
this. -.
"The wicked flee when no man
pursueth, but the righteous are
as bold as Il lion," says the sa-
cred proverb. Don't you believe
that the inspired penman had
Bullock, of Georgia, in his eye
when he made that observation
And he didn't class him under
the head of "the righteous"
either. s.-
Here is Clayton, of Arkansas,
charged by his neighbors with
crimes that, if proved, should
send him to tho State Prison in
stead of the Senate. Now, we
don't know that the charges
against him are true; though the
people of Little Rock seem to
believe them, if we may judge
from the result of their recent
election.
Possibly, Clayton is all that he
ought to be, and Bullock, all in
nocent, prosecuted saint, who
has retired from the Governorship
of Georgia with clean hands and
u pure heart. Possibly, there
have been no frauds in the re-
constructed legislature-no bonds
issued by Littlefields and Kimp-
tons but just such as should have
been. It's even conceivable that
the Judge, colonels, merchants,
doctors, etc, of upper South
Carolina, who took to their heels
as soon as they read Grants
Ku-Klux proclamation and learn
ed that United States Marshals
were coming, backed by Federal
soldiers, are Innocent as SO many
newborn babes, never having
ridden about in masks at mid
night, whipping negroes until
thcy would swear never
again to vote Il Republican tick
ct. They mny have to run away
with good consciences, but we
don't believe it. Docs any one?
! The Trade of North LOlliSi ana.