Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-12
Letter from the South.

Mr.. EDITOR .--IldVluS olltH Ueeu ASH
ed when North, about the State of society
and other matters relating to the South
| beg leave to reply through your paper.
STATE OF SOCIETY.
The aristocracy and wealth Of the coun-
try, what little there is left Of these, re-
ceive Northerners, excepting carpet bag
gers, with much more kindness and cor
diality than before the war, while the
masses appear to be more friendly to the
Northern than the Southern born. There
is rebel element, perhaps one fourth OF
the population, who have smothered
hatred of everything North. Can it be
expected that the burrows dug through
out the South by cannon balls will bring
forth love for those who have devastated
their much loved and beautiful plauta
tions (not over one third of the sugar
plantations are now cultivated.) That
the widows, and there are thousands here
who lived happy in affluence and ease
with their husbands and children, but
now have to toll for their daily bread
and that of their orphan children, will
not teach them to remember the cause of
their poverty and sorrows2 That the
fathers and mothers who have lost their
idolized and promising sons and nearly
all of their wealth, will not plot the Gay
of revenge? Human nature being about
the same everywhere. There is no fear
of another rebellion for the reason
there are no negro slaves to fight for, but
many negroes and foreigners to fight
against it. One excellent result of the
war is, that it took all the buckram and
starch out of the F. F. V's. or nobility
of the South. In loosing their slaves
they lost their "royal blood. They are
not now regarded even here, as better
than other human beings, while the
Northerner is looked upon more with en-
Wy, than hatred and jealousy as formerly.
Never northern-born man, in all the
Southern or slave States sent to congress,
made Governor or Judge o. high court
prior to the war, while in the West very
few others held high positions. ! chal-'
lenge all of your readers to show contra
ny to this statement.
CARPET BAGGERs.
A carpet-bagger has to be from the
North and radical republican, to con-
troll the negro vote. He is an agrarian,
socialist, communist, a metropolitan,
political ADVENTURE, who has LETT the
country of his birth for his country's
good, but through the the tricks of trade
with the ignorant, uneducated negroes,
manages to get into the legislatures where
he is ready to sell his vote for the price
of sheep or that of plantation, as op-
portunity offers. These carpet-bag legis-
latures of the South, have legislated the
Southern States into not less than $780,
100000 of debt through bribery, since
the war, to fill their own pockets. To
give you an idea of how this villainy
and rascality is carried on in the legisla-
lures of the South, | will state few
cases out of hundreds which have trans
pired here in the Louisiana legislature.
There are about 100 members, 80, House
80 Senate the law allows only so days
session. The last session commenced
early in January and closed early in
March; its debentures amounted tc
$500, 900, so the State Treasurer told me
The first act passed was, that not dol
lar should be paid out of the treasury fol-
any other purpose until the members o
the House, Senate, and other expenses O
running the government 60 days were
paid in full. The Attorney General o
, the State receives legal salary of 5000
year. The legislature of 1869 passed
, a one per cent. extra tax bill which wa
, resisted by some one of the tax payers a
{ being unconstitutional for defending tn
$ interest of the State in this single case
the Attorney General made a claim up
on the legislature for extra services Q
$4,000; his bill was passed, the Govern
or vetoed it, and was again passed owe
: the veto by nearly unanimous vote
Another man got bill passed donatin
himself $4,000 which went like he
, cakes over the veto of the Governor
Another party got s150,0O0 appropriate
to build ware house in this city whic
: neither the city or State ever heard :
: until passed, vetoed, and passed over tn
d veto. A gentleman in Boston said to m
d last year that he would make $4,000
+ without paying dollar, out of the Cha
Is anooga railroad which is being built
II run through some parts of Alabaml
le Louisiana and Texas. When / can
II here l was anxious to find out how Il
r thing was done and learned, that all
p these States had voted subsidies to sal
e. road, some of them SIC, 500 per mile an
r Others s12. 800 per mile; that the Sta
Of louisiana had voted said road a d
b. nation of s3.0e0,000 in addition to 81: