New-York tribune., 1872-07-23
SECRETARY BOUTWELLiS UNFORTUNATE
STATEMENTS.

SECRETARY BOUTWELLS UNFORTUNATE
STATEMENTS.
sIGHr EFFECT OF HIS sPTECH-IGNORANCE OF
THE NEGROEs-TREATMENT OF Immigrants
UNNECESSARY MILITARY CoERCION-SOUTH-
ERN FREE SCHOOLS.
IFToM The SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRlBUNBJ
CHARLOTTE, n. c., July 20.-Secretary Bout
wells speeches in this State will have no perceptoie
effect upon the election either in August or in NoyeIn-
ber The people, both in this city and at Greensboro
lis ened 10 him respectfully. but his topics were so
badly chosen tha he either failed 10 interest his audi
enees or else he offended them by showing thaI ne
knew nothing of their temper and desires The eoored
portion Of mis- hearers could not understand his hgures
aud the white portion cared nothing for them,
while the latter felt that they were
being grossly misrepresented in regard TO the
welcome give TO immigrants and their attitude on
the question of education. have heard very little snd
either in Charlotte Greensboro, about Mr. Boutwels
financial statements. His array Of figures meant moth
ing ~ people who heard him. Not negro in ten
knows the difference between $1,000 and $,OOoOOO, or
which the greater To prove this have only to relate
took place OF the Eastern Congress Districts
OF North Carolina, only last week. The Con-
soryatve ana Grant Republican candidates
were holding joint discussion before an
audience composed mostly Of negroes The Conservative
speaker referring to the rasoates Of the last Repuo
hcan Legislature. charged with considerable emphasis
that it had stolen allowed 70 be stolen twenty-five
millions Of dollars The Grant Republican orator. follow
ing Immediately after unable TO deny this aecusa-
tOn and unwilling to allow damaging charge TO pass
unnotced and So presumng upon the ignorance Of his
audience, he SAID: "Now felowcitizens you are told
that the last Republican Legislature stole s25OOOOOO
Wei, what they did2 The Democratic Legislature last
year spent h0O hundred and my thousand dOdrS-what
you think Of that 2" Every coored man present yelled
III applause and the Conservative candidate knowing
thai II impossible make his audience understand
fhafo oE oO1o o01xy han q
allow his opponent to gain important advantage over
him Dy this trick. So doubt II there single col
ored man in either Of Mr. Bouwes audiences who
derstOod any better what he talking about when he
referred the nations finances than he would have
done had he spoken in Greek Hebrew. The white
Liberals-and there very few white men
present either meeting who Liberals
cared nothing for Mr.. BOutwelPs figures.
Those whom I have heard comment upon
them at all, say that their value depends
entirely upon the confidence they have in Mr. Boutwes
integrity II he is an honest man. most of them be-
heve be is then his figures worthy Of examination,
bl they add, dishonest Secretary might easily make
"a favorable exhibit One thing that seemed shake
the confidence Of the people Of Greensboro in what the
Secretary this point the fact though
asserted that had lost only $4,000
by dealcatons in tie Internal Revenue Bureau by o
appointed by Grant, every who heard HIM knew
that the late Collector OF that District whose Office had
been in that very town, had stolen $4,000.
THE SOUTH NOT OPPOSED TO IMMIGRATION.
But the portion OF Mr. BOutwePs speech which has \
sused the most discussion that in which he re- \
leed the attitude Of the Democratic party Of the
South in regard ia immigrants and free schools. think
ne must have modified a little, in his speech in Char
'ote what ne said this point IN Greensboro. did
rot hear him here bat this conclusion from
yereatiOns with many OF the citizens who did. At
Greensboro after referring impression that is
abroad in the North and in Europe Democrats
Of the South opposed 10 immigration and 10 the
establishment OF free schools. he said emphatcally that
this idea a deusion This unfortunate sentence
was enough every Conservative his audience
against him, and there not wnte Grant Republi-
can there who resides in the State who did not know
that the charge was false. 1t only another
instance Of that systematic Misrepresentation Of the
sOuthen people in which Grants newspapers and ora
have long been engaged but they thought they
had right TO expect holding the position Seere
tary Boutwell, docs, would do them this injustice
Is sick and tired Of carpetbaggers II is true
they want no adventurers from the North, who
come here for purpose but by their influence with
ignorant blacks gain possession OF the offices and
rob the people their hard earned wealth They want
no more LittleAelds BullOcks scotts But their
srns are wide open to receive anybody who comes
here TO live and to help them develop their splendid
sources This latter class they do not call carpet
Daggers no matter where they from what their
politics Any man who comes 70 North Carolina bring
ing brains capital labor which he proposes to employ
legitimatey, will find as many and friends
he will meet with in any Northern State. Everywhere
have proofs Of this during the short time have
in the State and before reached Its borders
At Norfolk Unexpectedly met acquaintance from
the North, the OF a New-Engand Quaker. and one
Of the most uncOmpromising anti Slavery before
the war ever knew The young has been
no less decided In his opinions than his father, and
though he VIII probably vote the Liberal ticket In No
vember, has, until within a few months, been sup
porter OF the Grant Administration. He went 10 Nor
folk about is months ago to engage the cotton com
mission business and has resided there constantly ever
since In conversation with him, inquired about his
treatment by people of Norfolk. He replied that IL
had been very cordial There the city, he said
few families who, despite their broken fortunes and
sometimes poverty, preferred TO do nothing
live shabby genty and brood over the past without
making any effort TO improve their condition the
future These were the only remnants Of the F. y's
Of Norfolk and the exclusiyeDess which the women Of
this Gloss, especially preserved, was one which no
Northern man would TO penetrate. With this e1
eeption he found the people OF Norfolk rs ready 70
Invite him 10 their houses, and extend 20 him every
social courtesy, the people of any Northern city
would be.
FROM Mr. BOUTwELL's STATEMENT.
But Secretary Boutwell, had in the very audiences
beforo him living evidences that the charge he made
s&nst the peoDle of N"r'h CArona was unjust one