The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-03-28
HOW WILL IT ENID

We copy the following gloomy
picture Of affairs in Louisiana from
N. o. paper:
"The most Notifying and dis
hcartcning Indication which has
been given in regard to our troubles
is the apparent insensibility OF our
Northern brethren to the serious re-
suits upon every interest of this once
Aourishing community, produced by
our present political condition, or
chaos. Your people are SO used TO
these political troubles in the South,
that whenever the wolf is upon ns,
you regard it as false alarm, or
mere cry of defeated or designing
party. You were never in so great
a delusion, Come yourselves or
send any intelligent and honest per-
son, and you will be quickly con-
vinced that this State and city are
rapidly verging towards the abyss
Of utter ruin and decentralization, po-
litically, socially and commercially.
Every interest is paralyzcd, proper
ty is worthless, rents are not collec'
table---securitics are valueless, mon
ely is boarded, enterprise is banished
and industry only needs the means
TO fly the country. A prosperous
cotton season and high prices for
that product, give the only vitality
to commerce which is visible. Az
for sugar, another Of our great sta
pies, but few Of the plantations can
last through another season, without
falling into the hands of the sheriff
or mortgages.
There can be no vxaggeration of
our woeiul condition. And it is all
due TO our political troubles forced
upon us and maintained by the fed
eral executive, and which have been
foisted upon our people through the
m ost audacious fraud and usurpation,
and is composed Of majority of ig-
norant negroes, controlled by band
of robbers and plunderers, acting
upon the boldly proclaimed purpose
of despoiling all the respectable class
es for enrichment of good Republi-
cans"
We had hoped for natural and
ultimately, beneticen, solution of
the race problem in the South. But
there 10 persistent purpose to use
the black race, managed by politi-
cal adventures in founding a despo-
tism at once degrading to the whites
aud destructive to liberty. There
seems no way OF escape. If we ac-
cept civil and social equality in all
It's depravi,y, blacks and whites are
at once swallowed up in the most
infamous tyranny for this would be
a voluntary surrender of all the safe
guards of freedom. If we resist,
clinging TO the purity Of race, We
array ourselves against a government
powerful in its resources and con
trolling race it is using for the ex-
tinguishmont Of liberty.
The problem is by no means
solved. II is only in process of solu
ton. Equality is the specious pre-
;cnce of the government in seeking
absolute power and to reduce all ra-
ces not only to abject submission but
to a condition of degradation as
hopeless as that of Mexico. This
we believe to be the object Of the
government and the end of its poll
cy. But, it is policy, SO far as
the equality of the races is involved,
against nature, and ultimRt ely,
though the South may have much
to suffer, her people will find them
selves in even a better condition
than those Of the North who are
bringing with ruthless power this
disaster and shame upon our COM
mon country.