The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-09

OUR SOUTHERN CORRESPoN-
DENCE.
Politics in south CarOiinn-AC oiorcd
city Judge.

upon which there is so much That might ne
said and yet upon which one comes to say
so little, that am really in worse fix than
you would he with fifty different articles
which must appear in your next mornings
issue. and only room for two or threc.
As your correspondent, u few days since,
on visit to Sullvan's Island. picked up |
upon the beautiful sandy beach stretch
inc out between Forts Sumter and Moultre, |
grape shot, deeply corodcd by twelve
years exposure to salt water. and as |
| walked about the last named fort | saw the
battered walls and dsnpunted guns OF that
sanguinary, though bootless contest, which
| initiated the most extensive and terrible
civil war on record, was most deeply inn
pressed with the certain rctrbution that
inevitably returns upon the head of the
transgrcssor. Every gun that this once
proud and beautiful city fired from Fort
Moultrie at Anderson's brave band in his
toric Sumter. was slow match to train
which not only laid in ashes the finest por-
tions of the city, but wrecked her industry,
commerce and trade. Block after block in
the heart of the city, which shells from
Morris Island and fires from other sources
left a heap of ruins, are ruins still The
English cathedral, which before the war
was magnificent structure of brown stone,
shows now few broken and charred walls,
and three or four other once very fine
churches are in the same condition, their
only occupants and frequentcrs being the
rambling goat and feathercd songster. Still
St. Mchacls church. CharlcstOns choicest
relic of architectural beauty, though con-
structed entirely of brick and wood, and
standing near the southern point of the city
where shells from the Union batteries fell
in the most destructive profusion, still
stands complete, having escaped it all with
out Il scratch. 1t has just been treated,
from the vanc down, with II new coat of
paint,-a substance for years unknown in
Charleston. but it is hoped the example set
in the new dress of St. Michael will be con-
tageous. and hundreds of old rusty, black
{ ened but otherwise beautiful walls, will be
/, transformed into the light and cheerful ap-
pearance they bore before the war. The
, steeple which surmounts st. Michacls is
e over two hundred feet high and of most
, beautiful design. 1t was built by the Eng
fish in 1755, after designs by the famous
+ architect of St. Paul's, London, Sir Chris
: topher Wren
+ If Charlcston's, misfortune had only
been the material damage she had received,
it would have been an easy matter COM
: paratively, to again recover her commerce,
life and prosperity but her money was
gone. She invested heavily in confederate
bonds the last years of the blockade i'm
y povershcd her TO an extent it is necessary
y to mingc with the people at home to at al
realize. Then much of the wealth of thu
/ whole State was in slaves, and was al
e swept away by President Lincoln's procla
e nation of emancipation. The most intel
p ligent of the southern people are coming t.
L sGGAhjrgsin tbrr tFanG liiqlfi ol"tlie Govern
IL ment for all this, but say they should havt
u laid down their arms when they had an OPP
u portunity, and prevented its coming to thu
Us worst but nevertheless it has left then
&c beggars. And there are many who owl
ID that they will eventually be better off will
S. free labor, and only regret that they drew
Is the sword to protect it, instead of accept
IS ing some compromise for its gradual ex
re tinction. They all think there should hav
's been some arrangement to pay them TO
Y. their slaves.
tc But the greatest enigma, and to the ma
ID tive southerner the greatest trial, is thi
Is black portion of the population, which nov
&C have equal political stains with the whites
&c As general rule the whites dcspisc AM
s. look down upon them even more than the,
t. did when they were rated as human cattle
II While, on the other hand, the black rae,
70 are not made more agreeable element il
4 society by the intoXication of a suddel
C. transition from the most abject bondage t.
freedom and social. equality. And tn
is abuse of the prerogatvc of freedom is in
y creased in proportion to the ignorance tina
er had for years been forced upon them. Blu
'r it cannot be disputed that the freedmen a
&c a rule show as little of this spirit of inso
or lent eXultation as, with their former igno
y nature that they should Add to this til
lc peculiar training of the whites, the habi
T. and disposition to command and dictat
re without question, which has been bred in til
very bone, and it is only wonder tina
~ this great change in the social economy @
y the South has been accomplished with $
'h little commotion and trouble. But wha
gals the proud spirit of the former ruin
IS class of South Carolina more than all else
s. is the fact that the State is literally cor
10 trolled by this same colored people whoi
st they once owned as their property, tn
lie blacks having an actual majority in til
u, State of from fifty to sixty thousand, q
1e least. And they have taken advantage q
H. their numbers and do control, not only tn
Fl. government Of this city, but of the Stat,
Oh The city Judge Trial Justice most of til
nd jurors, Sheriff, and many of the polio
force are colored. / hear no con
in plant that they are not con
Xxi petent to perform their duties, or do nc
W make good officers, but they are niger
he This state of things must continue as lon
&C. as certain class who ought to influenc
nd the franchise of the state for its owl
he good, insist upon clinging to the ideas an
nd relics of barbarous past, and pulling har
as against the government, and fancying IL
to blame for all their ills, while the entir
I'd black population arrange themselves unar
ST. imously for the other side.
v. But all learn wisdom fastest by misfol
k tunes experience, and we think the laps