The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-22

the affairs OF the nation over to Greeley and
his Democratic following as sign of Its good
will; but, as far as the South is concerned, this
Is all that the election means. There is,
therefore, no occasion either for despair or de-
spoHdency. Six months have been wasted In
the interchange OF coarse abuse over Greeley,
which Ia doubtless misfortune; but other
wise things remain as they were. Republican
institutions are In no more danger, carpet
baggers in no more favor than they were be-.
fore the canvass began.
"What we think about carpet-baggers, and
what We think about the Ku-Klux act and
other attempts to find a remedy for carpet
baggers, are we'll known to our readers. We
hold, and we have always held, that con-
quests entails on the conquerer, among other
responsibilities the responsibility of providing
peace and security for the conquered. Un-
fortunately the United States did not attempt
to provide these things for the South. They
set up government which In many Of the
States was simply cover for robbery; and,
when Congress attempted TO provide reme-
dy tor the resultant disorders, 1t only went
half way. We should never have said word
against the Ku-Klux act If, In addition to
hunting down midnight assassins and rob-
bers, 1t had sent officers to Charleston to oust
Scott and Parker and take charge of the State
finances, and see to 1t that every taxpayer
got the worth of his money In legislation and
police. 1t would doubtless have been uncon-
stItulional, but 1T would have been that kind
of unconssItutIonalIty which great crises
Justify, and which never lessons the respect
of a community for liberty and law. What
Congress did was, In practice, to furnish the
carpetbaggers with all they needed-protec-
tIon against the pistols and cowhides of the
men they were plunderipg. Thia, we hold,
was, taken by Itself, both wrong and I'M
polite but Greeley would not have reme-
died 1t. All that he promised with re-
gard to the carpet-baggers was pure
moonshlne. Nobody believed ir. he could,
Ii elected, have done nothing to the carpet
bageers except denounce them; and If Parker
and hls kind care for denunciation, we are
greatly mistaken In them. 1t is no doubt true
that in the beginning people at the Nerth dlo
encourage the carpetbaggers. 1t was only
two years ago that Parker was cited as W.T.
ness against the Nation by the Independent, OF
this city, regarding the intelligence Of the
South Carolina Legislature. Many OF these
f.llC VS. left the North In the odor OF political
sanctity, and, by shouting ior the Union and
tor human brotherhood, kept up a certain kind
OF maudlln admiration In their rear, and sue
ceeded in persuading certain portion of the
Northern public that they were missionaries
carrying light into dark placess. But Greeley
was one of their most prominent supporters.
Nobody did more to halloo them on, or en-
courage the use of United States troops to pro-
tect them against the consequences OF their
crimes. Therefore, 1t was ridiculous as well
as useless for the South to ask the North to &C..
lect him as the exponent OF Northern indigna-
ton against the carpetbag regime. =
"But the Northern mind is completely rid
of any deluslons 1t may have ever labored uR-
der with regard to carpet-bag government.
There is no desire to perpetuste or counte-
nance any of the Southern abuses. There Is
no hatred of the South, or desire for her fur
ther impoverishment or humiliation that we
know of or meet with. The state of the
Northern mind on the Southern question, If
we know anything of it, may BE described as
pa hearty willingness to clasp hands' and let
..oo, -. m hr,.--., r.~.iI.a tho Gouth U'll
frankly accept the results of the war-that is,
accept them just as they are accepted in the
Cincinnati platform but accepting them
frankly means to the Northern mind accept
ing them In deed as well as In word-that is,
moi only putting the acceptance into platforms,
but putting candidates and parties on the plat
form whom we know to be really favorable to
these results, and not candidates and parties
who never did accept them until they saw a
chance of electing President on whose weak
ness and want of perspicaclty they thought
they could count with confidence; and not
only writing newspaper articles inviting North
comfortable and secure after they have settled
On these things the North Insists as the only
true signs that the war Is really over, and no.
thing can take the place Of them.
"We wish most sincerely the South could
now be convinced that her future is In her own
hands, and suoh Is the truth-melancholy 1t
may be, but still the truth. Congress has done
all thati can do; the North has done all it ,osl
do. Every Southern State is now handed
over, and all States are, to the rule of the ma
jority of Its own people. fit be true, as many
think, that where the negro voters are In a
majority, or where they hold the balance of
power, there is no hope of Improvement from
the education of public opinion, the South
must look to immigration for her resurrec-
ton. Those white men who groan 30 dread
fully under negro and carpet.bag rule must
get other white men to come down and settle
on their wastes, and give them majority.
II they can neither do this nor win the negroes
over, they must suffer on. They may rely
upon 1t, there ls something wrong In their
own policy, as long as hundreds OF thousands
of newcomers from Europe seek homes two
thousand miles away on the semi.barbarous
Western frontier, when they could have them
almost for the asking all along the Atlantic
seaboard, within q days journey OF French
and German and British steamers. 1t is not for
nothing men thus plunge into the heart of the
Continent. If the South can find no means Of
attracting them beyond the publication OF
flaming advertisements, If when they get
strangers dowR there they cannot make them
an hsnny and hopefnl that thew shall ask their