The Ouachita telegraph., 1871-04-15
THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTH.

The Democratic papers of the South
are ever ready to sieze upon statements
Of Greeley, Ames and others, as to the
of I<u Klux murders that have
been committed, and characterize them
as infamous liars, &C., &C., but why
don't they conclude the subject by Civ
ing us their views of the number of
such murders and Outrages, ,and proceed
to discourage that order Of things to any
extent achtltever, and come forward with
their moral support to aid the authori-
ties in making crime odious?
Won't some Of them come forward
and give us their opinion as to the
number of this sort of crimes, and tell
us frankly what they think of them,
and the causes thereof? - VIcksbu.y
Times.
Why don't the Radical papers do
their part toward suppressing lawlcss-
ness: Their editors know perfectly well
that nine-tenths of the crime committed
in the South is directly traceablc to bad
government-to the dcvilish laws of
their party leaders and their partial OK
ecution by party favoritcs. The people
of the South have never been a lawlcss
people and are not to-day. There never
was free people on earth who have
been insulted and outraged with 50
great impunity as the Southern people
during the past five years. Their ablest
and best men have been driven either
into exile or insignifitance, while their
former slaves, the offspring of thousands
of years of Ignorance, have been lifted
into tho places of sovcreigns. Idlers,
mendicants, gamblers, convicts and the
debris of creation have become their
law-givers, judges and rulers. The
| most violent upheavals of society and
| the most complete destruction Of the
messed, have transpired in the South,
| and yet these unnatural and unparal-
! relied changes must be accomplished in
a few months, and, forsooth, no cores
ponding results from human passions
follow.
| 1t was the duty of those who over
powered the South, and professed to
| desire Il restoration of the Union, to
give the Southern States good local
governments, and to aid them in the
work of substantial, permanent recon-
structiOn. In the face Of this plain re-
quirement, the N Northern victor became
the South's Oppressor and acted solely
with a view Of destroying the resources
and hopes of our unhappy section. If
one military bill did not suffice to hum
bic our people, another more stringent
was enacted and thus to-day Congress
is legislating for these States specially,
| under the pretense of furnishing I<u-
kluxism-somcthing which has no en-
frightened and in suhjection to Radical
dictatiOn.
The crimes committed in the South,
wherever they have a political charac-
ter, arc invariably the effects of official
misrule. AS Il rule, our officers have no
sympathy for us-in fact, their interests
and their sympathies are opposed to us.
Their sole expectation is to grow rich
from onerous taxation, and their time
and best talent are given to traducing
Our governments, therefore, command
no respect of themselves and certainly
cannot be very ardently beloved. They
are, in effect, governments without
active moral support because to sup
port them thus is to maintain them
in all their iniquities and aSgrcSsions,
which no man of spirit will do.
These governments act in notorious
bad faith to the citizen, without ever a
scruple. They get his services, and pay
him in scrip they repudiatc. 1t will
not tsatisfy even the tax-gathcrcr They
assess his property exorbitantIy, with
out paying a dollar of Indebtedness from
tho taxes accruing. They foster on
large salaries hordcs of useless and in
competent officers, chosen from that
class whose chief recommendation is
hatred of tho people. They are over
ing protection to persons and prop
crty. They are driving capital and
enterprise from among us, and fostering
Migrants and heathcns in the very midst
of refined society. Murdcrcrs are not
hung, thieves are partloned, adultery is
encouraged, profligacy inculcntcd, ras-
cality promoted, vagabondism honorctl,
perjury vauntcd and praised, inccn-
diarism threatened, while indiscrimin-
ate, unbridIed corruption rcars it's hum