The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-04-17
Tho Congregational S1cnf, 2linS
Salary Grab.
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| furnished bv the South out of q total OF
| ffiy-ninc votes possessed by that section In
| the House or nearly 80 per cent. Ouly tour
came from New England. and. IA might
| have been expected from the later political
/ history of that SIate. Massachusetts fur
niShed every one of the four-Me>srs. Ben
Butler, Cakes Ames, GiBery Twichell aud
! y. p. Banks"
The foregoing, in regard 10 one of the
most disgraceful acts of plumber which
are recorded in these corrupt times, is
| copied into the New York World for
comment Its observations are so ust,
and its vindcation of the South from
the odium attempted to be east upon her
fair name IN consequence of the acts of
the pretended Representatives of this
section is so complete, that We have trans
ferred it with editorial display to our
columns:
This attempt to establish the superior
morality and freedom from greed of New
! England over the Southern country is too
thin. First the facts upon which ii is built
are not facts. In the second place. with
some exceptions. the delegates and Senators
south were not properly representatives of
the Southern people, but of the bayonet
powers of the Executive, and OF the usurp-
| ing forces of Radical Majorities in previous
! Congresses And in the last place, the ma
| jority of the Southern Congressman who
voted for back pay were either negroes or
arpet-baggers from England and Other
places north OF Mason and Dixon's line
"Ofthe twenty-five Senators in the For
| ty- Second Congress who represented the
| eleven reconstructed States, only eleven
| were natives OF the South at all, aud only
eight were born in th- States tor which
! Representatives in Congress from these re-
constructed States. there were twenty ma
| tive 70 the States tor which they sit in Con-
gress; thirty-five in all were born south OF
| Mason and DiXon's line. OF these thirty
/ five. only twenty-six were Democrats, OF
whom one-half voted against back pay. Or
! the remaining Representatives, nine were
/ from New England, giving that region
thirteen votes instead of four. for back pay
mine for the highly moral State of Mas
sachusetts. New York had seven Repre-
~sntatives among them, and Pennsylvania
sour.
/ '.Knowing how the real Southern men,
| TO the manor born, voted in Congress i. be-
comes demonstrable that, had all the South
ern States been Iegtimately represented
! Mr.. Buffers little project for voting money
/ into the pockets of himself and friends
would have been ingloriously defeated.
III the Nation had consulted the census
! tables, it would have discovered some re-
! markable illustrations of how far this prin-
, pie Of vicarlous representation had been
carried by means of carpet-baggiSm. How
the Radicals would howl if, New York being
! Democratic. she should send an hborn
citizen to the Senate to represent her great
| fDreign-b born population of over a million
souls. How they did howl at Mr.. Schurz
last spring for q presumptuouS foreigner
caring TO have an opinion of his own when
be represented only 222267 souls in Mis-
souri,. Yet here is Alabama. with a total
population of 900 992, of whom 744,053 are
natives of State. She is'entitled in both
both houses to eight representatives; but of
these eight in the Forty second Congress
oull two were natives of the State-only
tour of Southern birth. There are in Ala
bama only 80 natives of Massachusetts,, all
told. yet these have one Senator. There
| are 539 natives Of New York in Alabama.
YET these have one Senator and three Rep
resentatives in the Forty-Second Congress.
Anl IL must be remembered that these car
pet baggers are different people from the
| emigrants from other States who go West.
These latte 90 to stay, and make their in
people amongst whom they have settled;
whereas the carpet-bagsers are merely
journers in the land, who keep their loins
girded and their stats ready for the speed
lest departure possible after their purses
have hernme plethoric enough.
Here. again, South Carolina. with a total
population of 7O5,606, nearly all natives, is
constrained to give one Senator and one
Representative 10 325 citizens of Massachu-
sets who tarry on her soil Or here is Lou
isana. with population native to her soil
of sol 400, forced to content herself with
but a single Senator (and a scalawag at
that; while Vermont, with 205 natives
there, has one Representative; Pennsylva-
mia, with 1908, has two; New York, with
3 9l3. has one; ana Massachusetts also one
to take care OF the interests of her $50 So
journers.
''If then, the representation of the South
in the Forjy-second Congress had faults OF
a conspicuous character, We are still debar-
red. by the circumstances of the constitu-
ton of that representation. from accusing
the South as the cause of those faults. What |
ever sort of persons the representatives of
the South may be, they are mainly the crea-
lures of Congress and of the Executive, not
the persons whom the South would have |
chosen to represent her hal her choice been |
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