The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04

Carolina during the canyafs there, denouncing
carpet baggers, designation applied to all
the Northern men who have gone South TO
live since the war. To infiame the preJudices
of the people of the Southern States against
Northern men, who go there to 1--we. IS a
strange way to create harmony and good feel
ing among all classes of the people. i know
that many bad men from the North have
found their way into office in the Southern
States since the war.
GREELEY's cARPET-DAoGEBs.
But all the bad men in office there were not
born in the North, nor are they all Republic
cans, nor do they all support President
Grant. Five of the Governors of the recon-
structed States were born in the South, and
five of them are Democrats. Virginia has a
Democratic Governor and the largest public
debt Of any of the Southern States, and War
moth. who is the reputed Tweed of the South,
is loud for Greeley and reform. Attacks are
made upon President Grant as though he was
| in some way responsible for the action OF the
| Southern State Governments. He has moth
| ing to do with them more than any other
man. People there choose whomsoever they
will to fill the State offices, they do in other
| places. They have elected Democrats in
some of the States, and in others they have
elected Republicans. Complaint is made Of
| the President because he allows, as ii Is said,
the carpet-bag State officers of the South to
| plumber the people, and at the same time he
|
Southern affairs.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.
When the enemies of the Administration
have nothing else to say about it, they charge
it with corruption, meaning, L suppose, the
misuse of the public money. Let us look this
| tlippant accusation square&y in the face for a
moment. More than dozen investigating
committees have been organized to find some
ground upon which to sustain this charge, but
| Of Ia rlIaa Nv nil 40 Far
| they were intended to affect the integrity of
| those who compose the Administration.
Take, for example, the alleged sale of arms
| to the French. With much affected virtuous
| indignation this attack was made because TN /;
| proceeds of those sales were not accounted
for. But the charge finally dwinded into an
allegation that the Secretary of War did not
exercise proper vigilence to keep those arms
out of the hands of the French after they
were sold to private individuals.
No intelligent person can fail to sec that
this charge WAS concocted by Sumner and
Schurz with the view of influencing the Ger
man vote in the Presidential election. This,
like similar attempts, seems to have failed.
What can be said of the good taste of an
American Senator who goes about the coun-
try endeavoring to arouse the Germans here
against the Government OF the United States
on the ground Of some suppose affront to
the Government of Germany? Defalcations
have occurred under all Administrations since
the formation Of the Government, and always
Will occur. because 1t is impossible for any
| President. in the tens of thousands of men
whom he appoints to office, to avoid the occa-
sional appointment of a dishonest man.
Cashiers and clerks of banks and business
houses are constantly committing defalca-
tons in spite Of the vigilance of their en-
ployers, but that does not prove that those
who manage such banks aud business houses
are char cable with corruption. When Tam
many controlled New York city, its govern
ment was corrupt, because all, from the
hi hest to the lowest shared in the pecula-
lations and frauds upon the people; but there
is no shadow of ground for saying that as tC
the Administration of the General Govern
ment. When il can be made to appear thai
any official under this Administration has
been guilty OF enlightenment or fraud, anC
has not been promptly exposed and prose
cuted, and, if possible, punished, some begin
ming will be made to sustain the charge o
corruption.
dREELEY's REFoRMERs.
Suppose Greeley is elected, what reasons
have you for believing that the condition o
things in respect to this matter will be i'm
proved? Greeley has given his adherents t
understand, notwithstanding all that is sail
, about civil service etorm, that when he i
President he will remember those TO whom IN
is indebted for his election whether they b.
Democrats or Republicans ; and no man doubt
that he will, if elected remove from offic,
every man he can who opposes his election
!, on that ground, if no other exists, and fill tn
, places so made vacant with his supporters
, Look at the long and hungry procession tina
: Will follow him TO the White House in view o
, this result. Foremost among these are tn
renegade Republicans, the modest men thel
follow the Tammanyites, who responded Il
Greeley's nomination with a hundred guns
; the pure men and last but not least tn
, Democratic politicians, the patriotic men
. All these will press their respective claims 70
office upon the consideration of the ne,
, Executive with a Babel-ike confusion o
, tongues.
HIS FINANCIAL THEORIES.
{ Congress, from time to time, passed law
: reducing the burdens of taxation upon tin
| people, to which Mr.. Greeley was strenuousl
5 opposed. insisting that the taxes SHOULD b
: kept so high that the whole Of the public deb
t of the United States could be paid off within
( the period of ten years. When the war wa
: over there was a strong sentiment in tn
s Democratic party in favor of the repudiatio
@ of the public debt then it was proposed {
= pay that debt in greenbacks, and now it
3 suggested that the revenues may be so re
d duoed by legislation as to make the Govern
II ment unable to meet its public engage
s ments. Can anybody tell which Of thes
{ financial schemes will be brought forward
e the Democratic party succeeds Some chang
n is to be made, of course, in that event, f.
o the present financial policy of the Govcrnmer
e is bitterly denounced, both by the Democrat
II party and their allies. If they mean anythin
e by this clamor. they mean, of course, to ovel
J. throw that system if they can, and introduC
e in the administration of the Government
l. new and financial policy.
IF Are we to have ih that event the vagares
20 Mr.. Greeley, or the theories Of the Democrat
~ party? Does not every man of Intelligent
know that any attack upon our public cred
would force back upon the markets of tn
IL country, with widespread and disastrous r
suits hundreds of millions of dollars of oil
70 securities held in the Old World Does an
e. body doubt that if an attempt was made
n. destroy our national bank system, which
e. bitterly assailed by the enemies Of the Repu
ii lcan party, or any other radical change a
le tempted in our financial affairs, that dIsorde
3 confusion and ruin would fall upon the mon
ie tary Of the country.
" GRANT NOT STATESMAN.
D. 1t il quite common for the coalition party
o. say that Grant knows nothing about CT
It affairs, but Greeley is great statesma
10 This is so in'respect o professional politci;
ID and ali inveterate office-seeker. Year aft
@. year his name has been associated with vaca