The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-10

T hear that the United States mar
shals now have in their hands Writs for
the arrest of 500 citizens in North Caro-
lima.
A gentleman on the stand 1900.
General Schurz: 1900; and this is
done to frighten voters from the polls
and to carry out the same laws. The
number of deputy marshals has been
so increased that hardly know to-day
whether am not addressing q mass
meeting of United States marshals.
The Chairman: There are several
here.
General Scllurz The meaning of all
this is, fellow.citizens, that the elective
franchise has been taken away from
the people and given to the tools of the
administration. We of the North are
not so much affected by this as you are
of the South. If the South is enslavcd
we are in danger, and we must, there
fore stand UP for each other.
Neither you nor know exactly how
far the arm of the old Federal Govern
ment has reached. The mails, even,
are no longer safe. l hear that Gov
eminent spies invade the postal cars
on your railroads, and take thence doc
uments in the mail-bags being trans
mitted to the people for their enlight-
enment, merely because they are
in opposition to the administration.
Where will this end?
The character Of the governments
imposed by Gen. Grant and his admin
istration upon the South has passed in
to history. This has already recorded
it's verdict as one of the suppression of
honesty, Of intelligence and free
thought, and the placing in power of
adventures and plunderers, who have
dcsolatcd cveryCo1nmonwealth OF with
the President placed them in charge.
The South has been the mere spoils of
war. Its finances have been made SUBJ
servicnt to private enrichment, its ma
terial prosperity prevented, its liberties
subverted, and its COmmOnwealths
have been treated, not as States of the
American Union, but as mere subjects
of spoilatiOn, governed and controlled
by the pro cOnsuls of the Radical party.
And these, for the most part, men who
sense of mankind, have proved ga dis
grace to the civilization of the age"
And yet, with a knowledge Of these
facts, they were sustained and support
ed by Gen. Grant and his administra-
ton, even to the extent of arms and
force. AS Mr.. Schurz expresses it, rThe
governments of the South We're taken
hold of by the most ignorant and de-
PRAYED men that ever bounced down
upon n devoted people. They were
run into extravagances that can hardly
be believed. These expenditures seem
really absurdly great. The North Car
DINA State debt has been increased
from fifteen to thirty-four millions, and
sixteen millions of railroad bonds found
their way into the capacious pockets of
carpct-baSgers without the tax payers
ever hearing from them again. Bad
as this state of things was, the Repub-
lican party was responsible for it, not
because the principal chief did it, but
because the carpet-baggers who COM
mitted the rascalities were counte-
nanced by the national authority and
We're honored with confidence and
patronage. l appeal to any Esir-mind-
ed Republican to know is this is not
true? Is it any wonder, then, that
the whites of the South did not spring
into your arms with alacrity? They
accepted tho results of the war, but
could you expect them snilingly to ap-
prove your efforts to rob them and
strip them naked? To such 4 system
of outrage is the administration lend
ing its aid.
Who will deny that the infinite num-
Der Oh deputy lnafshaiS now III NOftn
Carolina were appointed to control the
pending election, to fix upon the necks
of these people the yoke of those in
sympathy with the men through whose
fingers ran that 100000 of public
funds?
Gen. Schurz then alluded to Mr..
Boutwclls strange words that this is
no time for "clasping hands across the
bloody chasrl," that there Must be no
reconciliation ut this time. fIe could
not conceive how it was possible that
any heart could be so obuuratc as not
to rejoice when the hand of rcconcili,-
ton is offered by one sincerely DESTROYS
of peace. How can Il man delight in
war when peace is nttainablc? We
have all heard of the Puritan of the old
time who delighted in hanging disscn-
tors and burning witches. Thank God,
the spirit of WITHDRAWING has left
Massachusetts long ago; but it appears
that there are yet some in that State
who cannot sleep unless they burn their
witch :, day.
There arc still men who live by in
| flaming tho ani1nusitics that have divi-
dcd our people. Why Is this done >
! For no reason but that the party lenders