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the blacks? In the official returns of the GEN.
| sus for 1870 they are thus represented


sus for 1870 they are thus represented
white population. 2s966!
Coored population. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4i5sl4
Colored excess. 126,la7
Hence the overwhelming defeats of the
South Carolina whites as party against the
blacks under the ingenious manipulations OF
the carpet-baggers. Of course the State has
the spoils have been divided among them and
their retainers without shame, though the
State administration for several years has
been utterly disgraceful.
The remedy, however, is still in the hands
OF the white planters and land owners, and it
is the remedy proposed by General Beauregard
for similar evils in Louisiana-the remedy of
concession to the blacks, covering all they
claim and all they can desire. The two great
misfortunes under which our reconstructed
Southern States are now suffering are-First,
a division of parties mainly upon the basis Of
color; second, shocking accumulaticns of
corruptions taxes and State debts in the ad-
ministraton Of State affairs, which threaten
most of them, from North Carolina to Louisi-
ana, with bankruptcy. Harmonize whites and
blacks politically and displace the carpet
baggers by bringing the responsible white tax
payer to the front, and not only will the frat Of
these great evils be removed, but the way will
be opened for sound retrenchment and reform.
As things have been and as they are in the re-
constructed States, the Southern white plant
ers and property holders have been and are
little better than the passive victims Of organ
lied bands of robbers These passive victims,
nevertheless, in making the blacks their allies,
have the power to put an end to all these
abuses; and this is the moral of General Beau
regards plan for the redemption of Louisiana.
Our Current Record Of Rowdyism and
Murder.
Four murders signalize the opening of the
present week A sad commentary, truly, on
our boosted civilization! Four brutal, mex
cusable, fendish murders are added to the
list of deeds of blood that disgrace our crimi-
nal calendar. The week opened with an ARRAY
between brothers-in-law in tenement house,
during which one of the parties undertook to
explain matters to the other with Ratchet
On the same evening man was fatally stabbed
in drunken ARRAY in liquor store. After
midnight the proprietor of another drinking
saloon was desperately wounded by knife
at the hands of man to whom he
refused liquor. But the saddest case of
all was the murder of Mrs Gillen,
OF fho re or
husband, a worthy representative of the
corner loafer class. This last mentioned
tragedy is of such an atrocious character that
it calls for grave reflection. A beautiful
young girl, employed in store, forms the
of good-looking but dissipated
young man, whose principal occupation seems
to have been loafng She foolishly consents
to marry this wretch contrary to the wishes
of her father, and, quickly ascertaining her ter
rible mistake, leaves her worthless husband
and takes refuge with her parents. The hus-
band killed her for this on Sunday night.
We cannot speak too often of this frightful
epoch of murder which seems 10 be now at it's
zenith in this city. 1t is useless to argue
more on the incfficiency of the law on this
subject. When murderers become the es-
pecial proteges OF the Court and every obstacle
is thrown before the wheels of justice we
can only wait patiently until such
monstrous outrage to civilization is
removed from the statute book. The
last session Of the State Legislature
was spent in purely political schemes, and
nothing was done to secure the speedy punish
ment of assassins. Once in the Tombs the
murderer finds numerous advocates, and the
plain, unvarnished story of his cowardly
crime, when it is placed before the jury, be-
comes tangled labyrinth of sophistry and
rredeemable nonsense. When the jury find
him guilty convenient judges and technical
errors give him another lease of his life Trial
after trial may take place until the public for
gets the crime, and the execution takes place
when the very object for which it is, intended
is no longer in the memory of the people.
But in the murder of this girl.wife the per-
nicious element of corner loaferism comes
into prominence. There is class of young
men-we may call them boys--in this
city, whose principal occupation consists
Of profanity, drunkenness and, oc-
murder. Unhappily this class
is very large, and is constantly in
creased by willing recruits. Parents arc too
often to blame for the existence of such
wretches, as they make poor attempts to curb
depravity. The police willingly or
in despite of themselves, allow gang Of
young ruffians to tester into crime at each
prominent corner. The marriage law is SO
lax in its provisions that any weak-minded
girl may be persuaded into wedding one of
these scoundrels. The natural result Of such
. marriage is shown by Sunday nights
tragedy. The remedy for such disgrnceful
condition of affairs in society is plain. A
criminal law, unancumbered with vexatious
delays and miserable subterfuges; stern, un-