The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-06

Blame Whers it BelonRs.

Blame "hor0 1t Hcl0nR0.
We have sins enough OF our own to
answer for, without being saddled with
those of other communities. Massachu-
sets and the other States which produce
and boast of such honest men as Ben.
Butler and Oakes Ames have scattered a
large contingent of their sons Of this
peculiar type, carpet.bag in hand, all
over the South and West. We can track
the stream in all tho new governments of
these States. They creep into every
office and every position they can posi-
bly, find. Grateful communities Of
newly made voters have returned many
of those oarpet-baggers to Congress. and
there the ':moral ideas" with which they
are charged have esoaped. in irregular
forms OF action-such as taking bribes.
selling cadetships, voting for the salary
increase, and to sustain and screen the
Credit Mobilier frauds. But they are in
no fair sense representatives Of the
South. Respectable journals, like the
Nation. which indulge in statistics,
should reoolieot this fact, and correct
their, figures. The Nation ought to be
more exact and more candid. We shall
see shov q plain statement will expose
the slandAr which it allows to percolate
through. its analysis OF the vote given for
the back pay. e says:
'The back pay was voted by 90 against
~. VI these' ninety nine, forty seven
we're furnished by the South, out of q
total OF fity-nine votes possessed by
that section in. the House, or nearly
eighty per cent. Only four came from
New England, and, ss might have been
expected from the latter political history
OF that State. Massachusetts, furnished
every ono OF the four-Messrs. Ben.
Butler, Oakes Ames. Ginory Twiohell
and n. P. Banke."
Now, here is an accusation. or an i'm i.
putation at least. although it might be
considered compliment in the land of
steady habits and moral ideas.
The compliment to Massachusetts,
which it also contains. is fully deserved,
but does not do it exact justice. Let
what are ISLANDERS on the South, which
is not amenable to them. be removed,
and placed as laurels on the brows Of the
Bay State, where they properly belong.
Hero are the facts and figures. in a
pointed article in the New York World,
which will chow different per oentage
of notes for the back pay grab:
"Of the twenty-five Senators in the
forty second Congress who represented
the eleven reconstructed States, only
eleven were natives Of the South at ali,
and only eight were born in the S,ates
for which they stood as Senators. OF
the fifty Representatives in Con-
gress from these reconstructed States,
there were only twenty native to the
States for which they sit in Congress;
thirty-fve In all we're born South Of
Mason and Di1on's line. or these thir-
ty-five, only twenty-six were Democrats,
OF whom one.half voted against back
pay OF the remaining Representatives,
nine were from New England, giving
that region thirteen votes, instead Of
four, for back pay-nine for the highly
moral State OF MASSACHUSETTS,. New
York Ind seven Representatives among
them and Pennsylvania four"
oS 40 Wild oiaAooI Ioiuteus anu JUS
tice done those States from which the
enterprising Representatives and Sena-
tors have recently come, who nominally
represent the rotten boroughs and States
OF the South. We pray the Nation and
the rest OF mankind not to make q mis-
take in this matter. We find ourselves
more capable than ever before OF appre-
oiaiibg ByTon's iinss following some
verses quoted from Southey:
THE four first rhymes are southey's, every
line;
For Gods sake, reAder, tako them not for
mine."
THE CoURIRB's LAST IssuE.-The
Charleston Courier, OF Saturday, says:
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