Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-15

the rights OF tbs loyal states, and the late
election in Georgia shows that they can
as freely choose whom they will to adj
minister local aEalrs.-S. F. Bulletin.
1t is conceded that in order TO write in
diligently or truthfully on any given
subject, it is very essential that the author
should know something of the matter
which he attempts to discuss. But to
this general rule the San Francisco Bull
ietin evidently imagines it is an exception,
for in the quotation which heads this
article, it places itself in the dilemma of
betraying the grossest ignorance or utter
ing a malicious faIsehood. We are chari-
table, and prefer to believe that the
former is the trouble under which the
Bulletin is laboring. 1t is like the vast
majority of northern and western papers;
it is content TO accept the statements Of
those who have direct interest in de-
flaming the South, in order to continue
the wholesale system of robbery which
now prevails.
Mr.. Greeley, as the editor of the Tri-
bune, was not content to receive and be-
lieve these e1 parte tales from men who
were enriching themselves from the very
troubles that they pretended to deplore.
Mr.. Greeley went to the South himself,
and moreover sent number of able and
reliable correspondents, who travelled
over great portion Of that section. As
TO what they found, no matter what
political party they belonged to, they all
united in a common declaration-that
the South was frightfully misgoverned;
that it was being drained OF its last dollar
to pay the enormous taxes; that the debts
of the States, counties and cities were
being piled mountain high; that the
governments of the several States were in
the hands of the vicious and dishonest
IN short, that ruin, financially, politically
and socially, would be the lot of this IN
happy people unless the State govern.
ments We're placed in the hands Of honest
and capable men, and the then incum-
bents driven into obscurity or the peni-
Tertiary. This was the conclusion OF the
Tribune, the only Republican paper that
either chose or dared to investigate the
matter for itself. This was the Judgment
of Mr.. Greeley, the only trustworthy Re-
publican leader that personally visited
the scenes where so many crimes in the
name of Republicanism we're daily being
committed.
The verdict ofthese men was unbought;
it was their honest conviction, reached
after months of patient investigation
They had visited the South and Judged
for themselves, and in most cases had to
| condemn those that their own political
predictions would have inclined them
to support. Surely their opinion was
entitled to respectful consideration, and
all honest, thoughtful men will at leas,
accord them that much But now, in
| contrast to all this, look at the Bulletin
edited and controlled by men who know
no more about the South than they do Of
the source of the White Nile. Yet they
hippantly and falsely allege that the
Southern States :" have all the rights en-
joyed by the loyal States, and point tc
Georgia as an example. Answering the
latter first, We can tell the Radical Bulle
tin that it is true that Georgia can now
elect those whom majority of its people
may desire, but it is equally true, thai
that could not be done until the carpet
bag government was overthrown-unti
the robber Bullock, Grants special pet
was compelled to fee the country-unti
a legislature actually elected by the peo
pie purged the State of the wretches thai
had robbed her, and the statutes of the
Infamous laws that protected them
Those are the reasons why Georgia wa.
able to elect Governor who is neither
rascal nor robber, and consequently
not tool of Grant.
But turn to other States. To Florida
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas: te
Texas.
Is anybody bold or false enough to say
that the people can there have equa
privileges with the north? The whole
machinery governing the use of the fran
chise is under the control of the present
carpet-bag governments. Is any one
idiot enough to think that they will loosen
their grip until compelled2 They will
do as they have hitherto done-make {
mockery of the franchise: as Yarmouth
of Louisiana, did-declare men elected tc
the legislature who had never been in the
parish for which they were returned; fol-
whom not single vote had been cast
and scarcely man in the district had
ever heard Of them. These are the kind
Of privileges the South has. How would
the Bulletin like the same system to b.
practiced when the Railroad Subsidy
Question is voted on in San Francisco
They ought to try it once. in order to BE-
able to get slight taste of the blessings
OF being governed by Grants especial