Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-04-06
The Piundered South.

The Washington Patriot refen to great speech
by MIR. voorhees,, Of Indiana, on Saturday last,
which it says, set forth in eloquent and burning
words the system of rapius and robbery by which
the Radical party have left the Southern States
with hardly green thing behind. He passed in
review one State after another, and showed in
e.aphic and glowing terms the footprints Of desc
laton of the Radical party. IRON State 10 State
like a band of thieves, they tssk their wsy to
plunder aud prey upon the people. He shows how,
from the very beginning, after the fearful strife
of arms was over, they took possession Of these
eleven States by force and fraud, and how. by
every possible device which cupidity and . vsrsa-
tile capabhty for wrong could suggest, they spoil
ed those fertile fields Of everything that war had
spared. The picture which hs draws 10 dark, for
bidding fearful, unexampled, but just
Never before was such people bound hand and
foot and before their YER, eyes, and in the faes Of
ths whole country and the civilized world, and
against their protests rsmonstrauces and appeals.
preyed upon at will. All the channels Of public
Justice were poisoned. and all the sourcss Of con-
ISOLATION. under their mighty and manifold sppli-
cations, were taken away. There was one policy
pursued, and that was policy Of oppression. Of
hatred, of humiliation, Of robbery. I: therefore,
was comprehensive policy, whose purpose was
the perpetuation in power Of the party originating
and pursuing it. more cold-blooded and isno-
BILE motive for cruelty, and for crushing proud
and stricken people to the eaEth could not veil be
devised. They were deprived Of that participation
IN managing their own a4faiIs which would have
secured them against depredation and for the very
reason that by such cop-se alone would such
depreciation be possible. Had they been allowed
to elect their own public officials and conduct THAR
own State governments, and. gensrauy, to do what
citizens Of all the other States Of the UDisn do,
look after their own interests, there would have
been no room for. and hence no inAvx of, the
thieves But this was not the schsne. Room must
be made and room made. UAdsr the loud
cry Of "oyslty" for themselves and ''disloyalty''
towards those whose possessions were to be stslsn
away, the mssn minions Of Radicalsm, with .
bushless disregard Of every consideration Of hen-
esty or honor. began their systematic bl.gsndass
which they have continued until tAsss eleven
States are in the deplorabls condition % vividly
portrayed by Mr.. voorhees,.
Our space will not permit u 70 present TO any
extent the statements Of M Vsorhses. OF 0sor-
Shs nOWoNCIp w WIZ ~ = WVSO' Inv WV "
that State, at the close of the war, amounted 70
nothing. The debt Of the State in June, 1871,
according to Mr.. Angler. State Treasurer, was
s5ol37 500. So much for the State debt. Now
word as to the expenses Of the Legislature
elected n 1868. At the same time Bullock vas
elected Governor. but before his time was out hs
absconded from the State. and his present where
abouts nobody knows. He 10 . fugitive from
justice.
A with Georgis, 70 with the rest Of ths South.
ern States that have fallen into the hands Of Rad
ical pluuderers. There may b variety IN ths
means. but the end is the sams in al casss-de-
vsststion and ruin. In South Carolina, - ansth.
er example of the cost Of Legialaturss under the
supremacy Of carpst-bsg thieves ''Soath Coro-
Ina drew from the treasury the snormsus suu Of
S5S3 65l ~ to defray its own expsnsss for one
session." besides incurrug 80 debt Of e9l 500 tos
furniture for the State House." whils - session
OF the Legislature Of Ohio at The sass 6Ds cost
but S9O, ,OOO" Here it will Be sesn that ths rob
bers of the South Csrolina Iagislatsrs spsnt
more money for furniture for tAs sAsts House
than did the Legislature Of Gssat saA prospsr-
oas State like Ohie TO cover aal ~ exps.
Go on through the list Of thsse p0ASeA South
ern States and 70 lind the same gensfs' resrts.
Nothing but sicksning sacosssion Of robbery