Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-01-14
The Radical Banner State.

radical press calls this "the banner Re.
publican State Of the South" II this is
indeed the Gag ship o. she PARTY, then i,
follows that the rest Of the feet are rotten
old hulks. entirely un6; for sea and un.
worthy I, navigate American waters. The
flag which flies at the mast head here may
he called Republican, but it really is the
pirates ensign, and the raw head and bloody
bones are plainly visible. The craft is in
such condition that no honest seaman would
ship aboard, especially with such crew,
whose every face looks villanous, aud
whose antecedents belle not their looks.
And the ship goes to sea with papers no
cleaner than her decks, for she has been
seized by fraud and force, aud has no
clcarauces which would be respected by an
honest vessel, or in any honest port.
THE GARDEN BECOMES A WILDERNESS.
Dropping the trope and coming to facts;
the sen islands extending from Charleston
to Savannah we're formerly the garden spots
Of the South. Their wealthy planters
lived in elegance aud refinement. Cotton
Of the longest staple and finest texture was
raised. The large and handsome mansions
Of the planters and the numerous villages
of neat wite.washed cottages occupied by
the laborers, beautifed the landscape, aud
travellers delighted to tarry amid such
scenes Of tropical lovelincss as many Of
these Localities presented. Freedom might
have dawncd even upon these islands be-
niguautly, and added fresh charm to its
surroundings, if its teachers had instilled
into the cmaucipatcd the bcnefcent les
sons of love and kindness. But it came
with the simeon blasts of political rancor
and party hate-made an issue of color and
race, aud proclaimed shibbo!cth which
no decent man could utter, and which no
man who failed to utter could remain in
the land and live. Hence the garden has
become wilderness, and savages, ignorant,
ruthless and worthless, render it unsafe
and unteuable for civilized man-as much
so as Ashantee or Equatorial Africa. 1t
is only valuable to the party in power as a
reservoir of voters, ready to stuff biennially
the boxes with all the Radical tickets sent
them. This they can always do with i'm
punity-as they did on the 10th Of Octo-
Der last-for no man could or would ven-
turc to invade their precincts either to
scrutinize their actions or to give an oppos.
ing vote.
IGNORANCE AND VICE.
The same barbaric outlines of character
are applicable to the inhabitants along the
entire coasts of the Carolinas. Ignorance
and vice in huts take the place of refine.
mcnt and culture in palaces, and the
grounds once beautiful with orange groves
and shrubbery, are covered with rank
growth of weeds. Immense tracts of rice
and cotton lands, formerly cultivated sue
cessfully and on grand system, are now
shrouded in desolation, with here and there
a little patch worked by lazy negro with
the hoe. The numerous herds of cattle
have disappeared, for with such popula.
ton it is almost impossible to keep any
kind Of stock. A stable government-an
honest administration-restoring hope to
white men and giving confidence to CAPT.
tai, would soon change all this for the bet.
ter. But such a government this State
neither has nor expects to have as long as
Federal bayonets are employed to force ig-
norance and crime into all its places Of
power. The very State papers are filled
with Observation-Disclosures known to be
such by those who utter them. The Gov.
errors recent Thanksgiving proclamation
abounds in such aud could only have been
intended as sarcastic fling at the white
population. The document, if intended to
be received seriously, is conspicuously in
cxact;" but as specimen Of irony it is
blasphemously sublime. 1t would be folly
and betray decided weakness for any one
to rely upon the gravcst and most earnest
enuuciations from such official sources
They are all CANNON, and succeeding deyel-
opments always prove them to be such.
MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The picbald Legislature is now in ses.
sion ir Columbia, and Gov. Scott (the Ohio
doctor, as he is called, has been Inaugural
ted for second term. He was conducted
to the chair by cadetship Whittemore,
arm-in arm, aud the chaplain who offered
the opening prayer made the ludicrous
lapsus Hngue Of invoking Gods blessing
on r. X. Scott, "who is now about to be
iuaugurated Governor Of OAio." A gen.
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this happy hit, when the parson corrected
the mistake by substituting South Carroll
ma. In his message he plays the conserva-
tsve role and congratulates the Legislature
on the peace which prevails throughout
the State, when he knew and they knew
aud the public knew, while this was being
read, the notorious Joe Crews, with au-
thority from the Governor, was overrun-
ming the upcountry with thousand armed
men, including six companies Of Grants
troops, quartered among the people of
Laurens and Union counties, arrcsting the
best citizens, denying them the rights Of
habeas corpus, and shipping them by spe-
cial trains under military guard to Colum-
bia, where they are now confined. He
knew at the same time that armed bands
Of negro savages were burning barns aud
gin houses aud dwelling houses, taking out