Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-28
MEMPHIS APPEAL
TUESDAY MORNING, NAY IS, 1879.



ON CARPETKAGGERs.
The greatest desire Of the South is tC
get rid of the carpetbaggsTs. Every
Southern man knows to his cost the ca
lamities that this tribe has brought upon
the people. Robbery and corruption has
followed their rule in all the Southern
States. A ruined and oppressed people
are groaning under the load Of taxation
which these thieves have imposed
Before the war South = Carolina
was a State unexceptionaily well gov
erned-hOnestly economically and faith
fully in all her departments. Important
as she was, rich as she was, her annual
expenses before the war were about fou
hundred and thirty-one thousand dollar:
per annum on the average. In the yeal
1860 they were less than four hundred
thousand dollars. Her debts were les.
than five million dollars. Now it is six
teen million dollars. The expenses Of
the carpetbagging Legislature alone, Al
its last session, amounted to the enor-
nous sum Of five hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, a good deal more
thant the total expense Of the whole State
government previous to the war. Be
fore the war the taxable property
Of the State was five hundred million
dollars. 1t has now fallen off to less
than two hundred millions, that is 10
one hundred and eighty-four millions.
SO that where the taxes before the war
was four hundred thousand dollars on a
taxable property Of about five hundred
millions, they are now nearly two mil
lions per annum on a taxable basis Of
less than two hundred millions. 1t is
no lack Of charity to say that in such a
State government there must have been
the smallest quantum of honesty to an
i~ntolerable proportion of roguery.
Next, look at the State Of Texas.
Texas is a State Of which it was once
said, that her misfortune was that e man
could live there with less trouble than
in any other place. Her tax assessments
in 1867 were less than three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in round numbers.
-Four years scarcely have rolled by, and
her tax assessments are nearly six mil
lions of dollars. You perceive, there
fore, that her taxes in four years have
increased to the unparalleled extent Of
sixteen hundred per cent. Texas, Of
course, has a carpetbagging government,
elected for two years.
The State Of Georgia, well named the
Empire State of the South, for her
wealth and the intelligence and enter
prise of her sons. Before 1865, her debt
was six and a half millions ofdOllars. 1t
has now grown to more than fifty mil
lions Of dollars, under the administration
of Governor Bullock, a gentleman from
aNorthernState Rememberinghis time
was short, he seemed disposed to make
hay while the sun shined. he issued
bonds, without much color Of law, to va
rious railroads, amounting TO thirty
millions Of dollars; a greater part Of
which were issued before a mile of rail-
way was completed, or the first cent Of
subscription paid. Such are the state
ments Of the Radical State Treasurer on
oath before the Radical Kuklux Com
mittee at Washington.
The State Of Tennessee is another of
the plundered States. Her debt before
the war was less than six and a half mil
lions. 1t is now nearly forty-three mil
lions. This includes none Of the debt
contracted in Confederate times; that
was all repudiated. Sethis is a debt en-
tireIy the fruits Of her carpetbagging
AS in the other cases, this great
increase in debt is in the face of a great
decrease of taxable property. In 1866, ,
the taxable property was three hundred
and sixty-one millions. 1t is now two
hundred and eighty-twO millions
the carpetbaggers have ruled,
find one monotOnous history Of un-
Dlushing rapscity, uhrelieved by a single !
manly quality. To get rid of these crea-
.ures is the great desire Of the South, for
very Southern State is TO a greater or
extent infested with this hated class.
they areex from State Offices
Grant takes care Of them, b~estOwing I,
Upon them the most lucrative of the
Federal appointments. They are made
~ him the Representatives OF the Fed /.
sral Government in all the States iu ,
which they have squatted. All of our
,eople who have business to transact )
With the Government have 10 transact :
[ with these men, for whom they have
disgust They bring the government
hey represent into discredit, and our .
7oung people who are growing up may
,e led TO judge of the government by
Is unworthy agents and instruments.
If the Liberal ticket shall be elected, q
hese people viii be deprived Of their of \
and viii have to decamp or go to /
work. On no subject has Nh. Greeley I
poken more strongly than on this sub c
sct Of the " thieving carbetbaggers." 5
lie described them in one Of bis speech 3
$ as Hfellows who erawled down South y
d the traek OF our armies, generally very h
afe distance in heTear, some fthem on 3
utler' wagons, some bearing cotton a
,ermits, some of them looking sharply o
o see what may turn up, and they re- \
main there. Some Of them get o
lected Senators, Others Representatives, Q
Dme Sheriffs, some Judges, and 50 on. /,
md there they stand right in the public e.
ye, stealing and plundering, many Of i
hem with both arms around negroes, G,
nd their hands in their rear pockets, d,
if they cannot pick a paltry dol al
II out Of them. Let us pray, W
ley say. But they spell pray with an v,
and thus spelled, they obey the apos- ri
Injunction to prey without ceas- O,
"a
Mr.. Greeley stands pledged 10 say to n,
le carpet-bagger-"Go back, thieves - n
it not better to help elect him, and 81
Jus secure the expulsion Of this hated -
tie from place and position, in addi- :,
to securing many desirable and n
ecesssry reforms? 10
HE sALvE FORsOUTHERN WOUNDS. =,
The New York World has produced a re-
ng array Of figures for the purpose Of Ii
most conelusiyely that il a reg CO
or namooratia candidate he nomfnated a.