The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-03-10
Sauthern Ontrages.


The Radical leaders in Congress have
concluded that their only hope Of sue
cess in the Presidential election Of 1872
is by again exciting the enmity OF the
North against the South, and that the
only way to do this is to get up a vigor'
Gus cry, in terms as fearful as possible,
of Southern outrages, unheard of and
undreamed of in point of magnitude
and terror. Carpetbaggers are to re.
double their insolence, impudence and
insult, to induce the resentment Of
somebody, no matter who, so that 1t Is
done in the South, and whenever shoe
leather shall be applied to the posterior
of an insolent meddler in other peoples
business, said carpet.bagger Is to be I'M
mcdiately dubbed martyr ana the
wrong perpetrated upon his seat OF honor
is to be held up to wondering Northern
eyes as thequintescence Of ku-klux hor-
ror and outrage. The feeble efforts ofthe
Philadelphia Press, for time past, to
get up sensation on the subject, have
fallen still born, and even the re-echo
of the Tribune failed to stir up North
ern sensibilities on the subject, notwith-
standing the sad wear and tear OF the
Southern loyalist's shoe leather battery.
If the pestiferous carpet-bagger persist
emily informed the rebel, in season and
out of season, that he was traitor, and
in return therefor received rather
forcible salutation under the nose and a
propeller In the rear, no Northern tear
was started or ccmmisserating observa-
ton made. Radicalism could not stand
such unpatriotic want of sympathy,
votes are wanted, and the case must be
worked up to catch weak-minded nerv'
Gus voters. But Press and Tribune au-
thority amount to nothing. Their fab
relations have been worked over SO
often that they have become stale In
the market. Charcoal will rSurendte
tainted meat, but charcoal can not make
rotten lie believable when uttered by
the same polluted lips. To give renew
ed impetus and character to the crusade
of falsehood and defamation, a Senate
committee was raised, and twenty
thousand dollars were taken from the
public treasury, to enable its members
to purchase witnesses to give the neces-
sary testimony. These perjured scoun-
drels of course will not have the hardi-
hood to face the people they have lied
about, and must be furnished with
funds to do their loafing and meddling
in some other locality. If no more
than $50, 900 were taken the job would
be cheaply done, but the committee
will only report the lying testimony to
the Senate. In that body the whole
case will be worked over, with import
ant and soul.stirring amendments and
additions, and all at the expense of the
people. Congress will print these Rad
ical electioneering documents In such
numbers as to supply every man, WON
an and child in the Nation, and every
yankee grocery with wrapping paper
and all at the expense Of the United
States treasury
This gross fraud is to be committed
and the people again invoked to hate
and to war if possible, merely that the
er to cheat, to defraud, to oppress the
people, to squander the public treasury
and to crush the spirit Of the people
with taxation! Let brave and sensi
BILE people guard against such infamous
oppression and wrong!