The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-29
Grants He'll in South Carolina

| lcCcul hu-hluA aTrcSCS, says tlat III the
small county of Laurens alone five hun
dred plows by actual count lie idle, and
the cultivation of ten thousand acres
Is lost.
| If Satan sought to find an agent
which should be the personification of
a public curse, the very embodiment
of a national blight, the incarnation OF
destruction, spirit of political evil to
wither the prosperity of a people, as
the busning simeon withers and par
ches the bright green garb of nature, =
moral pestilence, to bring death to
commefce and trade, and crush out
the last hope of progress-if the devil
desired to find a willing slave to bring
about all this, he mas him in U. S.
| Grant, the President of the United
States. A filter creature to- despoil a
fair country never was found out of
hell. After the reader casts his and
her eyes over the above paragraph,
emanating from Charleston, South Car
DINA, let the eye be turned to an arti-
Gle in another portion of this journal
headed "Barbarity," and then reflect
that this individual, .. S. Grant, is
seeking reelection to the high and
powerful Office he holds, for the con.
tinuation of these internal outrages.-
There is no term known in language
that truly expresses the character of
these acts. There is degree Of cruel
ty in them which cannot be indicated
by words. The people suffering from
this terrible dSspotism are warranted
| in any sort of defence against its
| continuance; but il would seem as if
| the long series of barbarities had ac-
tually crushed out the last spark of
resisting spirit. The despicable agents
of q. S: Grant are as unsparing in their
bitter persecution as the satraps of
Louis the Fourteenth were in their on
s'aught upon the French Professionals,
animated by religious ybigotry. In the
case of South Carolina, it is simply a
devilish political hatred and sectional
enmity. The carpet-bag wretcles of
New England are the willing tools of
Grant in this atrocious infamy. One
of ot.nt-S issso SUP 1Ur tcrs Sd, or these
creatures: "Adventurers, without char
acters at home, have swarmed into the
South, encouraged by the government,
and co'ralletl tic negroes H. the name of
liberty, appropriating to themselves po-
sitions of profit and trust" This Ian
guage puts the case in the mildest sort
of terms; but "corralling the negroes
expresses it exactly. si --- "
These carpet-bag wretches are order
ing arrests everywhere in that dis
tracted, doomed State. "Old men of
eighty, some on crutches, are taken
from thei1 beds and lodged in Jail.
Farmers and planters are dragged from
their fields in the seven counties of the
State under martial law, and thrown
into prison, and their families left
destitute, or 10 be provided for by
those not arrested, but living day by
day in constant fear. No crops can be
put in the ground. No hope of any
planting can be INDUCED at present,
and Dought save starvation and de-
spair is seen for the women and chill
dren of Laurens, Newbery, Spartan
burg and Union counties especially
This is the daily telegraphic informa-
ton from that section. Citizens OF the
United States, we ask you in the name
of common humanity, nay, in Gods
name, in the name of mercy, in the
name ofhigh Heaven, in the name of
everything sacred and holy, if you
will see the people Of the South tor
tured to death by the brutal despot of
the White House, U. S. Grant, and
make no move for. their relief These
pictures which we have given, mere
outlines, remember, are no fancy
sketches; they are horrid realities, SO
horrid, so unaccountable in this coun-
try, under a supposed "Republican
Government" that out of the South
the people can have no conception of
their true character. Yet there they
are in all their fearful realization. Men.
women and. children prosecuted to
death by the hirelings of U. s.. Grant,
and this monster to-day actually find
ing public journals advocating his
continuance in Office, and a vast horde
of villainy, in respectable garb,
scattered all over the country, ready
| to meet in convention to endorse his
rule, accepting the above fruits of It,
Which they cannot ignore, as right and
proper, and desiring to foist the
creature again on the country for
further barbarities after November
next = Is this nation demented j? Has
the Almighty robbed us of reasonf
Are we to perish for the want of the
common instincts of lumanity y 1f o..
3. Grant can, by any means what
ever, be allowed to remain in power
one hour after the 4th of March, 1873,
the American Republic, for some all
wise purpose, is doomed to be blotted
ont Of existence, and a despotism is to
take its place, tho ,enormlties Of which