New-York tribune., 1872-08-29
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OF conrse. there is great deal Of loose talk
about the reconstruction and regeneration oil
the late Slave and now Free States. Ot course,
they are not to be restored to the tull 1lush
of new prosperity by MI Henry Wilson'S
speeches to the Freedmen, or by any spangled
trades about the value of Liberty. The pros
perity of a State is determined by statistics
and these frequently are not dull reading. IL
YOU look into the census report OF 1870, and
find that since 1860 there has been decline
of One-Fifth in the area of improved lands
in States under the political control OF
CARPET Baggers and Freedmen mainly in
huenccd by Carpet-Baggers; II you
find in the same States a decline of from One
Third to TwO-Thirds in the valuation of farms
that is one fact Then if you find In States
which have been comparatively free from the
Carpet-Baggcrs, say Kentucky, Virginia, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Tennessee-States which
were most wasted by the war-if you find IN
these hardly any dccline-that Is another
fact Kentucky is an illustration. Her yalua-
ton of land has advanced from 1921 40j,0jj to
S3ff. .23S.91G. South Carolina has had gov
ernment in which apet-Baggery has been
the positive and The old White element the
negative quantity; and lands there have fallen
in value One-Third since 1860. In Kentucky,
since that year. the improved land has run mp
in acres from 76i4,2O8 to S103,Sj); in South
| Carolina there has been o decline of One
| Third. South Carolina has been governed
mainly by the political agents of the Grant
Administration Kentucky has governed her
self in the oll-fashioned way. Kentucky
blooms like gardcn-South Carolina promises,
unless there is a great change there, to lapse
into a desert This proves, if it proves any
thing, that meddlesome interference with the
social affairs of State may be utterly ruinous
that guardianship ike that which the General
Government has extended to its wards Is as
bad as are leading strings for boy OF ten
| years and that if you run States i'll the inter
ests of a Party, you will soon run them to dis
couraging decay.
The facts all point one way. Consider Ten
nessee for instance! That State, in 1863,
! through a coalition of Liberal Republicans and
| Democrats, thoroughly freed itself from Carpet
| Bag domination. What is the result At once
| there is an increase in the area OF improved
! lands-an increase which bas been making
progress ever since. Compare This with Georgia,
where, during the same period, the area of inn
proved land has steadily diminished. 1t was
100000 acres in 1SCO-it was G,SOO00O in 1870.
Such is the result of Bullockism, which, we
take it, is the full flower of Baggery. So in
Missouri, where they have had Universal Am
nesty and Gratz Brown, the improved acres
ran up in ten years from SG,24G,81 to $780,
G15. Put this against Alabama, where the
area of cultivation has been reduced by One
! Fifth! Land goes up III value i'll Missouri in
the ten years from $230,G32 1876 to 1892 ,041
it goes down in Alabama from $11j,000,0OO
| to $67OOO,OOO in the same time! Consider two
other States in the matter of taxation! In
Arkansas, utterly given up to the Carpet Bag
gers, taxes are As greater than in 1860, against
decline in land values of 0ne-IIalf. SO in
| Louisiana, the State and local debts in 1860
amounted to only $11,OOO,OOO, and in 1870 they
had reached the frightful aggregate of SG7,-
100000, with taxes doubled and the area of
cultivated land diminished by One-Fifth; ;
while land values had run down from S2O4,-
| 100000 in 1860 to 1000 in 1870
Here are the results of Grant pacfcation
and Grant management They can prove
nothing except that the interests of labor
have been grossly mismanaged in those States
in which the old White population has been
crushed out of all energy and usefulness by
a horde of harpies which has used the Black
race for its own puTp0ses-which does MT want
it industrious, intelligent and educated, be-
cause it can make more money out of it while
it remains indolent, stupid, and lazy. This is
the state Of things which it is proposed indef-
initely to perpetuate by giving the present
Administration another four years. lease of
power. We fully agree with The Chicago
Tribune when it says that the Freedmen need
the Best and not the Blacklist Government.
At any rate, Carpet-Bdgging is not for their
moral any more than for their material good.