The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-30
rSpecial telegram to the DiSpatCh.l
A Perverted View of Southern Polifi-
cal Troubles.
from tie Baltimore SUM-

From tie Baltimore Sun.
The last No. of the New York Nation, in
an editorial notice of the political troubles
in three or four of the southern States, lately
referred to in these columns. disposes in the
following high and mighty way of the whole
question "ArkanSas, Louisiana, and Ala
bama," 1t says, care all reminding us in
fresh way of truth which we have too
much forgotten of late years, and that is, that
it is not the carpet-bagger of whom we hear
so much who is wholly responsible for
southern disorder, but that great portion Of
The South, the larger portion Of ii by far, has
al,Cays been a frontier country, it!-ctrilzed
| to the point of reckless and habituGl disre-
gard of lap." The Nation concludes sum-
/ mary Of the facts, which is itself Us mac
curate IN its statements as 1t is fiippant and
supercilious in tone, with the following re-
Elections, conceived and expressed in the best
spirit of sectional phariseeism, taking COM
fort in the thought that it is not as this
| Southe,per and sinner: "The temptation to
interference will be great, but we must recol-
lect what the South always was in the days
when the North had not yet felt compelled
to assume the moral responsibilities of its
neighbors. They fight now disgracefully,
but they always did fight" Like many
time appeared in the columns of the same
journal III reference to southern affairs, the
whole paragraph bears tue impress either
of ignorance so gross us to be willful,
or Of studied maleyolence. To the
writer Of the paragraph it would seem
tie people of the South IRE no bet
| ter than "outside barbarians," whose place
in American history has always been that of
the unruy children Of the republic, whose
outbursts of infantile rage are constantly
provoking their elders and betters to i" in
terfere." and who "now fight disgracefulIy,"
whereas formerly they only fought. So much
for the fact of American history as seen from
the standpoint of the New York Nation.
Nor do the facts OF geography fare much
better. In what sense the South or the
Southwest is any more 81 frontier country"
than the North Or Northwest is us difficult
to understand as it would be to demonstrate
the superiority of the civilization which
to-day prevails in Kansas or Colorado over
that Of Arkansas or Louisiana. Nay, the
Nation itself being witness and judge, its
own columns furnishing the materials for the
comparison, we should like to know how
much better, in the Judgment of the Ma
ton, is the "civilizat0n illustrated
by State and city government such
as it has over and again described that of
New York city and State TO be than that
which has tlourished under the carpet bag
reign Of Bullock, Warmoth, or Scott. One
would imagine that the bare recollection of
the '.ring" frauds of the last few years, OF
the long chapter Of Erie" rascalities, of the
judicial scandals which made the very name
Of justice n mockery of 'uneolYed mysteries
Of crime like the Nathan murder, of other
tragedies of guilt with which the names of
Foster, Mcfarland, Fisk, Stokes, and King