The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-07

16E1aS Oh ta2t E4 9pie sisslfc g bES II s1C4t q
no people ever saw OF. exhibited.
Extracts are made from the evidenct
| to show the contemplations and feel
lngs of the people of the Soutf
| toward the classes of persons who
have cause TO be generally known AZ
carpet-baggers aud scalawags, and
which show that gentlemen, regard
less of politics, who go South, from
Northern States, and in good faith
settle among that people, are as kindly
treated, and as likely to be promoted
to official positions,T after they arc
known, as they would be if they
moved from one Southern State to
an nother.
THE COST OF MIsGovERNMENT.
The minority dwell at much length
on the cost of the carpet-bag, scalawag
and negro rule to the Southern peo-
pie. We quote:
But the subject which attracts the
greatest attention is the existing finan-
cial condition of the States after the
few years rule of the men the Radical
party intrusted with the destinies OF
these communities. A careful CON-
pilation of the debt, as it existed pre-
vjous to the war, and that heaped up
by these governments, reveals the
fact that the aggregate increase OF the
debts and liabilities of these several
States will be found to greatly exceed
two hundred thousand dollars. No
account of the war debt of these sew
eral States enters into the above state
ment, as that Indebtedness was repu-
dated by the Fourteenth Amendment
to the constitution. Although the
value of property in the eleven States
has been reduced from 50, ,333, Isl. .942
in 1860 to $2,026, ,440,97I in 1870, being
loss of $2,307, ,306,971 or over $780,
100000 more than now remains, the
State taxation on what those people
have was in 1870 $12, ,813,615 while it
was $S, ,165, ,4SG in 1860, when their af-
fairs were managed by their own peo-
pie.
"The country's taxation in 1860 on
all the property then owned was only
$3,115,1S4, while now. under carpet
bay and negro rule, it is Sl4, ,29S, $50,
or 1,1S3,4 ,446 more on the remnant
still in existence than it was on the
whole property they owned when the
war begun.
"Taking the State of South Caroli-
ma for an example, it appears the Off
GERS who were in power by the Radi-
cal party, all told, pay only the small
sum of SIT taxes yearly. The salaries
awarded to these officers are increased
the enormous sum of $l25,989 over
what was paid to the same officials
under the old regime"
In view of the enormous debt,
which is shown to have been wanton-
ly, corruptly and fraudulently heaped
upon. a people as poor as the census
reports show with five-eights of their
property gone, and taxation on the
remnant nearly four-fold as much as
it was ON the whole, when affairs were
honestly managed, is it to be expected
that the people OF these States will
have either love or respect for the
men by whom they have been thus
plundered? No man can look at the
testimony taxed before the committee
without coming to the conclusion that
no people has been SO mercilessly
robbed and plundered, SO wantonly
and causelessly humiliated and de-
graded, so recklessly exposed to the
rapacity and lust of the ignorant and
vicious portion of the community and
that of other States, as the people of
the South have been in the last six
years. History till now, gives no ac-
count of a conqueror so cruel as to
place his vanquished foes under the
dominion of their former slaves
That was reserved for the Radical
rulers in this great Republic. This is
as it is to-day in South Carolina, Texas
and Arkansas. and in 1866 and 1868
it was so in Tennessee and elsewhere.
The emancipated slave regiments pa
rade in State and Federal uniforms,
armed cap-a-pie, with the most ap-
proved weapons, paid for by taxation
imposed on their former masters,
while white men are denied the right
to bear arms or to organize even as
militia for the protection of their
homes, their property or the persons
of their wives and children.
THE NEeRoEs--wHAT INcITED VIOLENCE
The minority say that when the tes-
timony before US is analyzed and and
the ignorance and degradation of the
Southern negro is understood when,
as General Grant said in his report in
December, 1865. they believed that The
property of their former masters of
right belonged to them, and was not
entitled to any protection; when, as
all the testimony shows, carpet-bag-
gers, bureau agents, and dloyal-leaguers
who went to these States, made the
wrong the negroes had suffered and
the right they had to take whatever
they pleased of the property they had
labored to acquire for their masters,
the theme of their harangues; when
in secret sworn organizations hatred
of the white race of the South was
instilled into the minds of these igno-
rant people by every art and every
vile that bad men could devise: when
negroes were formed into military Or
CARNATIONS, and the white men of
these States were denied the use of
arms; when arson, rape, robbery, and
murder were things of daily occur
renee; when the great mass of the
Intelligent whites were disfranchised.
and the ballot was put into the hands
of the negroes by the government at
Washington when every promise
made and every law enacted were
broken and disregarded by Federal
authorities whenever it suited their
purpose to do SO, and even courts
were closed and Federal officers who
were made by Congress absolute
rulers and dispensers of what they
called justice, ignored, insult
cd and trampled on the rights of
an racised and disfranchised white
man, while the officials pandered to
the enfranchised negro, on whose vote
he relied to obtain seat in Congress,
to be made Governor, or other big Of
fetal of the State over which he ruled
jim short, when the people saw that
they had no rights which were respect
ed !; no protection from insult; no Sc
curity for their wives and little ones,
and what little they had saved from
the ravages of war was being contis-
Gated by taxation and being rendered
valueless by debts for which men who
owned nothing had pledged it; and
saw that all their complaints and re-
however honestly and
humbly presented to Congress, were
wholly disregarded, or regarded as
evidence of rebellious and unsub-
dued spirit, many of them took the