, 1872-04-18


the State officials had been developed
SO much willful concealment and ap
parent Ignorance Of the amount of th'
robberies and isues of the State bond:
was manifested, that there was no Ger
tainty that even the frightful aggregate
which was established would not bt
augmented when all the plundering hai
come to light.
But whether it be more or not we have
there an addition to the State debt since
the war of near $11, 100000 And this
snm has been million by million, dollal
by dollar, deliberately taken by the vii
lains who have had possession of the
State since that period, with the excep
ton of such moderate sums as were
necessitated by the measures of recon
struction.
THE STATE MIRED.
The State is mired, nd their seems
to be no standing-ground for an effor,
at extraction. And yet it must be ex.
tricated or government is failure. AS
has been already said, there are but
thirteen Representatives out of one
hundred and twenty-four members OF
the Legislature, who are regarded as
representatives of the taxpayers of the
State. Of these, eight come from two
upper counties adjoining Georgia.
These Representatives are tired of a
hopeless struggle against the thieves
who have plunged the State in bankrupt
cy, and threaten general confscation.
These two cornties have petitioned to
be set off to Georgia. AS their excisDn
would just about extinguish the trifiing
minority of the Legislative and leave it
a unit in its corruption, it is supposed
the majority will grant the prayer. So
that the last remnant of the holding
ground of the taxpayers seems to be
on the point of disappearing.
1t is thus that 100000 white people,
more CT less composing the intelligence
and property-holders of the State, are
put under the heel of 400,0 pauper
blacks, fresh from state of slavery and
ignorance the most dense. Guided by
unprincipled adventurers fIou other
Ctatac Who ,,o1ya ,,ca of fbora frao1u, on
as their agents for the most nefarious
acts which were ever committed Under
the shelter of Republican forms of
government, this blind and unintelllgent
mass is precipitated upon the intelli-
gence and wealth of the State till they
are buried out of sight. ...r.s
WHAT OF THE NATIVE WHITES?
1t is sometimes asked why the white
people of the State do not endeavor to
influence the blacks by kind treatment.
The answer is, that the jealousy of the
black of his old master is profound, un-
yielding, and universal. Where the
kindest personal relations prevail,
where the freedmen remain on the old
plantations, and work the land on
shares in contentment and harmony
with the proprietors, the testimony. is
that, SO far as voting is concerned, the
old master is utterly without infu-
ence. He cannot obtain a vote or the
promise of vote. In this matter the
black will lisen only to the unprincipled
Iadventurer who rides through the coun-
TRY claiming TO be one of those who
gave-freedom to the slaves. Conscious
of their present liberty, the freedman's
dread of its possible loss makes him
most suspicious and apprehensive Of
mortals. In property and sickness, in
trials and troubles, he reports to his
old master, and seeks his aid and coun-
sci with childlike confidence. But
in voting he is steeled to his advice, and
will die before he will take it.
Thus overwhelmed and helpless,
what is the average property-holder to
do? lie aims faithfully to get upon
his legs and keep upon his legs, but the
grinding taxation actually imposed, and
still more that which is threatened,
makes him despair of escaping virtual
confscation. He would get out of the
State if he could, but there is nobody
to buy his property. On visit to
South Carolina few years ago. Senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island, attracted by
the great natural advantages of water
power at the capital of the State, pur-
chased it and spent considerable sum
of money preparatory to starting man
ufactories there. The development,
soon after, of the corruptions and meas
urless robberies of the State Govern
ment, brought his operations to II dead
stand, and now he Only awaits the
folorn hope of an opportunity to ex-
tricate his venture from the clutches OF
the thieves and villains who have the
States by the throat and are sucking its
life's blood:
s'wHY DON'T YOU REBEL AGAIN"
"why don't you rebel again?" asked
Boston man who was lately travelling
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