The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-19

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taxation on what those people now have
was In 1870. $l2 S15 while It s., 1885, 4s6 IN
own people and the county taxation In 1860, on all
the property they then owned. only So 49, 1S4;
wn s now o under carpetbag and negro rule is y
IN existence than 1t was on the whole property they
owned when the war began. In view Of the enor-
wAntonly, corruptly and fraudulently heaped upon
q people as poor as the censns reports show,
taxation on the remnant near y fonrfoId as much
as 1t was On the whole when the affairs were
pes S IT II Ss or
spect for the men or the party by whom they have
No man can look over the testimony taken before
the committee without coming to the conclusion
that no people had ever been so mercilessy robbed
lated ana degraded. so recklessly exposed to
sSs yss ana portion Other sss.
people OF the South have been for the last six years.
History TIL now gives no account OF conqueror so
cruel as to place MS vanQulshed foes under the do
mnion or their former slaves. That was reserved
for the radical rulers IN this great republic This Is
sas, and IN 1865 and 1858 1t was SO in
Tennessee and elsewhere The emaneipatea
says s% ss%sa e. sss se %Ss
approved weapons paid for by taxation imposed on
their former masters while white men are denied
for the protection OF their houses their property or
the persons Of their wives and children
W,
fore us Ia analysed and the ignorance and degrade
ton OF the southern negro is understood when, as
General Grant IN ms report 10 December, 1856, they
OF right belonged to them and was not entitled 10
any protection; when, as all the testimony shows,
Leaguers VINO went 10 these States made the wrong
the negroes had suffered and the right they had 10
they had ia6ored to acquire for their masters the
theme OF their harangues; when In secret sworn Or
ganzations, hatred OF the white race OF the South
a = mi n hoo tvpn
pie by every ART and vile that bad could devse
when the negroes were formed into military organi-
cations and the white people OF these States were
denied the of arms; when arson, rape, robbery,
and murder were things OF daily occurrences; when
DISTINGUISHED, and the ballot was put into the
hands OF the negro by the government at Wash.
law enacted was broken and disregarded by the
federal authorities whenever IL suited their
purpose , TO 40 50: when even the courts
were made by Congress absolute rulers and dis
pensers OF what they called justice, ignored insult
DISTINGUISHED white man. while the Official pandered
to the enfranchised negro, on whose vote he relied
90 IN M 81 % Ss
in short, when that people saw that they had no
rights which were respected. no protection from
and that what little they had saved from the raw
ages Of war was being confscated by taxation
who owned nothing mad pledged. and saw that all
their complaints and remonstrances, however hon.
esty and humbly presented to Congress, were
evidence OF a rebellious and unsupdued spirit,
many Of them took the law into their own hands
nor excuse. Situated and clrcumstanced as they
were unable as the evidence shows, to keep any
thing that could be carried away; their hogs,
being proved upon as though the owner had
guilty negro was arraigned and his guilt
VINO wanted MS vote discharged MIN, Or he was
pardOned Dy the sO-called Governors, who had
taught the negroes III their harangues that the
property was OF right theirs there was but little
left for them except to stop these things as best they
could. TO the enormous expressions, DC, was
ADDED the 81, planaerl1g BY the Fr rec Bureau
extent only exceeded by the local carpet-bag gov
ernment which superseded them. ~
repeat that they feel ccndent they are sustained IN
the assertion that there nothing In the evidence
tending 70 show that there s either any comblna-
respectable number OF the people OF the South to
deprive the colored race OF any OF their civil or
political nights and there s certainly none either to
vert or interfere with the legitimate authority
OF the. federal or State government.
Appended to the views OF the minority Is the
up By M sa the
South Carolina. ne states that the election in 1870
took place on the 10th OF October In looking over
General, &C would be observed that while
the dtfAhution OF arms TO- the negro
gna to the 81 sa
election and the expiration OF the ten days allowed
for the republican election commissioners to re-
tain the oa0s boxes IN neir THIS was
ance existed IN South Carolina in 1870 1t was then
that Ku Kluxism showed its head; and even the
showed that the principal ooject Of the Ku Klux
visitat0ns was to search for these very arms dis
trtbuted among them by the Governor.
The report OF the minority covers 300 printed
pages.