The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-25
CARPET-BAG RULE.
IN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE CONDI-
TION OF THE SOUTH.
What Is Thought Abroad Of tho Pat
rergon and Pinchback Tribe.

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tzrson and Pinchback Tribe.
From the London Standard, January 81
Almost every mail from America brings us
some new Illustration of The miserable condi-
tion of the Southern States under the rule OF
the party which has acquired another four
years. lease of power. Three facts concern
ing three of the noblest States Of the Union,
| are noted In single paper. Louisiana mas
| fallen into such utter anarchy tnat Two seVe-
raj sets of State officers and two separate Leg
islatures have claimed The obedience OF tne
citizens; OF which 1t would seem that neitner
party was even dscently Respectable, ana tne
quarrel was altogether so dlarepulaole tnaC,
| though the interests Of the dominant laciloo
| at Washington were involved, General Grant
shrank al iirst from interference. Finally. he
decided to interpose In behalf OF his lrlends;
| and supported by decree of the District
Court OF the Uui n (Which seems to
| have about as much 10 DO with the
matter, under ancient constitutions rules,
has ordered the Federal troops 10
uphold the authority OF the party represented
| by the negro Lieutenant. Governor, Pinch
| back-lhe party more odous oil the TWO 10 the
respectable people Of Louisiana. The Leg1s-
lature OF South Carolina, from Whlch tne
South Carolinians are excluded, and which Is
|
ern adven,urers, has elected as United States
senator q member of the latter class, who has
! secured his election by wholesale purchases
| of the roles of negro Legislators. dispute
arose lhereupon, and one Of the supporters OF
the bsaten (negro) candidate expressed his
disgust In such very explicit language as led,
| In American parlance, 10 free light" around
the speakers chair. Finally, the Slate of
Alabama, once among the most solvent and
best trusted In the Union. has purchased and
| sold railway; and, having neither paid the
money for the first purchase nor received that
| for the second, is exposed to the humiliation
| of seeing the property held and sold under an
order In bankruptcy. IL Is needless 10
saw that no snch things could have
happened under the old regime. Men like
Warmoth and Plnchback would never have
been elected to govern The citizens oil Louisi-
ana while the Southern whites elected their
own rulers. A Patterson would never nave
dreamt of Offering himself as candidate lor
| The seat once hlled by John G. Calhoun; and
| II he had his election would have been as lm-
possible as the receipt OF brloes by the chlValry
of the Palmetto Slate. And In the old days
| Alabama's credit was as good as that OF Gan.
ada, and her citizens were as justly PROUD
and Jealous of her financial honor as English
| men OF the fiscal credit and good iailn OF Enk,
land. These wretched scenes are part and
parcel of the system of reconstruction pur-
sued by Radical Congress, and applauded by
English Liberals. The FIRST object Of that sys-
tenn was revenge-the punishment and degra-
| datlon of the Southern 'rebels." The sc.
cond was the establishment OF Radical
ascendancy In the South. The Radicals
knew that at the time OF Lincoln's elec-
tion they were minority In the
| the North; and after the war, which had given
them the ascendancy there, was over, they
might become minority again. But II they
could appropriate the franchises OF the South.
ern States to their creatures. and thus secure
| number of "rotten boroughs," whose repre-
sentaLives would be nominated by themselves
without regard to the wishes OF the people,
thew might contrlve, though In popular mi
nority everywhere, to maintain themselves In
possession of the Presidency, the Electoral
College, and majority in both branches Of
Congress. In order to effect these ends, 1t was
necessary to disfrauchise the real people OF
the South, and create "bogus" people In their
stead. The hrst was done oy means OF Inc
penal acts 30 lavlshly passed by Congress.
America prldes herself upon having sned no
blood on the scaffold. 1t Is true that she dld
not, as other conquering governments nave
done, take the lives o: the chiefs OF the van
oulshed party. But 1t is equally true that Bhe
has inflicted upon the conquered people, as
whole, heavier punishment than has ever
been imposed by m ,dern conqnerors upon
| large portion of their subjects. Wholesale
Acknowledgement, subsection to The rule oil en-
| franchised slaves, and system OIL govern
ment directed to fleece the conquered country
| for the benefit OF its conquerors. nave ior
seven or eight years perpeLuated The distress
and exasperated the bitter feelings et oy a
war carried ON with unusual ferocty. ln nall
| the STATES OF the South negro constituency,
organized uuder the leadership OF adventurers
| from the North, has monopollzed pollllcai
power; has excluded the Southerners from all
participation In the control of their own al
' vaa han mi thpm
representation, and misspept the produce oil
those taxes 10 such manner as to add the
keenest sense of humiliation 10 the btleresL
consclousness of injury. The honor OF States
as honorable as Great Britain has been
dragged In the dust; their debts have been
| left unpaid while their people have been
heeced; their rulers have filled their own
pockets with the produce OF unlawful bonds
| Issued at an enormous discount; ard while
the negroes, who pay no taxes, have been
kept i'm good humor by liberal appropriations,
none of the real needs of the country have
been attended to. The forces OF the Federal
Government have been at the disposition OF
the peculators and jobbers from the North,
who exploit the negroes for their oWnDeneht
| All remonstrance has been in vain. IL was as
| easy as It was useless to expose the Injustice,
| TO loreshadow the effects OF such policy.
The Radical majority In Congress cared nei-
| ther for the Injustice nor the consequences, so
long as they prohted by the cne and the
SouIherners suffered by the other. They
maintained and aggravated q tariff which
cOmpels the Southern planter or farmer to
nav twice the value of everything he
buys-taXes him, that ls, 10 the full
extent OF his proper yearly outlay on imple-
ments, clothing, everything necessary 10 his
cultivation. not for the benefit Of the Union,
but for the personal advantage OF Northern
traders and manufacturers. Show them that
this is to ruin the South, and they are all the
better pleased; for hostility 10 the Southern
! people is the avowed policy of their party.
Gallant and high-spirited nations have been
misgoverned before now. Hungary and
Venetia were Ill ruled after l849, but at least
| their rulers have intended them to prosper if
| they would but be content. But never before
| has nation been governed as the South has
been governed since 1866, by rulers whose
avowed object ls TO punish aud injure them;
! never before have rulers been The open ene-
miles of the country they ruled.
it is 10 vain, Of course, to appeal 10 such a
faction against the folly OF their course. But
we might have thought that those who had
no selfish end to gain must have seen that
every object. we do not say Inherently good,
but decently plausible, must suffer by such q
policy. Grant that the welfare Of the negro
| ls of Indefinitely more moment than that oil
| the white uaau-grant that 1t Is right to sac.
riice the latter as completely as may be neces-
sary for the elevation Of the former-grant
more than the widest OF negrophile fanatics
would dare to claim--is 1t not clear that 10 en-
| bitter the strong against the weak, the larger
! number against the smaller, The higher race
| ooo;n,t the ;oucr nnet ond In tho ruip Of thp