Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-10-05


usecd with greater perlinacily and ychemence
than that of the carpet bag governments ol
the South. Mr.. Greeley letters aud.speechrs
have aboundrd with their rciemticn. kaidat
the door OF the Administration, us they are in
all cases. many have cOnle to. think that Presi
dent Grant is indeed responsible for every
abuse OF this character. This perhaps is us
fair and manly us various other positions taken
10y our peripatetIc candidate. The charge laid
at Gen. Grants door IS entirely false one, and
he is no more responsible for them than he is
Tor any Other purely State concern. These
evils are not result OF anything that the Fed
cral Government has done, or fnilrd TO do
! They are entirely without and brynnGf lis con.
trOi. We hear no complaints about the postal
service, the revenue service Oh the federal iu.
| 'iciary, rs executed IN TIC southern States
! With the single exception of the bitter assail
ing Of q relative of the President, it would
appear that the administration Of Federal nj
fairs is as faithful in the South as in any other
| part of the country, and no general or local
benefit would be likely to follow such II gen
cra change in the Service rs Mr.. Greelsy
would rndeavor to make by his election. The
|
seen in the allusiOn made tie other night, by
our cilcvant lriend--the Coloncl-to, South
Carolina. Now, the fact is, the officials of this
State from Governor down, and the members
of the Legislature, have with IL few exceptions,
been tainted with fraud, and the financial ai.
lairs nt the State have been brought Into
| condition which is almost hopeless. President
Grant could do nothing To prevent these evils
he could no IL ire control them than any psi
vate citizen, and he is us little responsible for
them as for the niisdccds of the Tammhny
| Ring Of New York city, Financial frauds in
State and local affairs lie outside Of the
sphere of Federal authority, and Mr.. Greeley
il elected President, would have no more pow
cr than he now has to prevent and punish
them. This mast be done by the people of
tic States, aud in South Carolina real reform
movement has been Stated, which, by the
way, has been denounced in Mr. Greclry's or.
gan-thc New York Tribune.
Mr.. Sumner deprecltcs what he calls the
policy of hate, but the man who is doing mus
to pcrprtuatc it AT this time is his Presidential
anlidate, Mg. Greeley, who is unspuring in
his denuncation of carpet baggcrs," term
of approbium applied to all men of Northern
birth who reside in the Southern States and
dare to exercise their constitutional right as
citizens 10 take part in the management of
public affairs 1t is not impossible that some
of th 81 men are of bad character; yet they
would have been pOWerlcss for evil ii they
had not found rascals OF Southern birth able
and willing to help them. The Leader Of the
CorruptOnists in South Carolina IL native OF
the State, and the Relormcrs have nominated
for Governor a man OF Northern birth, which
illustrates the injustice Of cond.mning by
, wholesale all Nortlcrn nan who are in public
life in the Southern States.
The right OF II citizen Of one State to re-
moHG 20 another and to take part in political
affairs has been largely exercised and is the
most valuable privilege of citizens Of the Unt'
cd States. Mr.. Greedy migrated from the
the place of his birth to New York, and has
represented that State ia Congress. The most
esteemed and useful member Of Congress
from tue South, lloracl Maynard, of Tenncs-
see, was born in Massachusetts,. Judge Thur
man, who represents this State in the L. s.
Senate, Is native Of Old Virginia. New Eng
lanI contributes one member of the Congress
sional delegation from Pennsylvania, and is
; paid back la Mr.. Speaker Blaine. Delaware
and Vermont are the only States wholly rep
resented in Congress by nuliyc-borD cilizrns.
the six members Of the lower llndse from the
State Of Michigan are all natives Of New York
: and the old Keystone State has us many OF lis
/ nuNcborn citiz. in the Congressional dele
! CATIONS Of other States as there are Southern
!, members OF NOrlhcrn birth in the present Con
I grcsS.
Carpet -baggng has been one OF the principal
employmrntS OF the American puoplt it has
, added IL great empire to the thirteen riainal
States, and one ol the results of The war
I which We are not prepared TO Surrender is the
} right Of II Northern man to reslle any where
$ in the Southern States, enjoying the same
privileges and mmuniics MS their own cilizsns.
This constitutional right could not be exercised
prior To the abolition o! Slavery, and the spir-
1t which Mr. Greeley culliyates by his lrca d.
, nunciuliUn of " CLrpct-Bhgsrrs would soon
bring about the old state Of alrurs. 81 his
course, he encourages the Southern people To
keep up the odious distinction and ill-lvelin 4
: which Is only calculated to defeat and render
: rOnsensiuul aud absurd all his fac spun thuor-
e les ol c.asping hands over the" bloody chasm.
There is now healthy lide Of immigration
I setting southwark and ii is the interest OF the
country 10 encourage it, II MI Greeley i,
prevented from exciting elem mis- of dscord
now nearly sublacl, uhd rtviying prjadices
and passions now nearly qlelleI Pennsylyan-
In, New GJrS, aud New England will re-eGaci
for the States in the South the miracle per
formed by their agency ia the West and
! Northwest, and secuOnal feelings as well as
supposed sectional interests will soon bG oblil-
erated never again. perhaps, " disturb the
~, peace and prosperity OF the county.
I HORACE GREELEY said in Nov 1860
q "lt the cotton States shall decide that thry
II cun do better out OF the Cnion than in II, ",
we insist ON lcllihg them so in peace"
The right to sccudc may he u revolutionary