The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-03
THE REACTION AT The NORTH.

1 they committed N placing the Mte Cohieucia'
States under the control Of Ignorant and de
based negroes, led by the scum OF the white
race in the country 1t took them long,
very long time to find it out, but at length th'
;nnumerable ofenses Of their proteges have
| i,ecome 50 rank, tina. even the Administration
orean in Washington feels compelled II
remind the negroes and their rascal.
white leaders that they have gone far enough
and that there is a limit to human endurance
which they can only pass at their own peri
In the last number Of the international Recteoo
a New York serial OF great ability, there IS al
exhaustive article upon the situation in the
South, i'll which we find the following signiti
cant admissions 1.-THE experiment" says the
author Of the article above referred to, has
been conducted on vast scale and with
every variety ofappliance, for a series of years.
During the past decade the negro has been
the paternal care Of Government and the cher
ished object Of philanthropy.
He has been provided with schools and
churches, votes and offices, courts and garr-
,ons and Legislatures all manner of privileges
and safeguards. In his behalf new political
system was established at the South "a system
1t variance with the opinions and customs OF
Doth races-a system framed by remote
Legislature and enforced by the penal SEN
fences of exotic judges and the martial power
If conquerors. At whatever cost, the lowest
of the human races was elevated to full and
equal citizenship with the highest has the
costly experiment succeeded:
To a k such question is also TO answer it:
They 1.-THE Atficans) contented themselves with
following implicitly the directions Of those who
claimed to be the representatives of q party OF
moral ideas. When coun ell was wanted as to
their personal affairs whether secular or re
igious, they consulted their old masters but
in the use of the ballot, they would neither
ask such advice, nor follow it when volunteer
ed, nor accept any propositions for the estab
ishment Of honest government nor heed any
appeals or warnings. They were deaf to the
voice Of the charmer, charm he never so
wisely. The regular candidate, however ilit-
rate or morally degraded, must have the
'tfice he sought He might be charged with
he public purse by constituency who would
lot entrust a private dollar to his keeping.
He might be set to making laws, when lie
himself was a notorious felon, and was even
90 ignorant to write his own name The de-
sion OF the caucus was absolute.
On these accounts, the choice for office, |
wherever the cOlored race was predominant,
vas limited either to the renegade, the
callawag," or the adventurer, the carpet
'agger;' OF to the inexperienced negro. None
theirs could be elected. No possible conces-
ions on the part Of the former could disturb
he sway of the demagogue. Upon the
lasses thus invested with authority, the pre-
edents Of free States, the opinion Of civilized
and the supreme exigencies OF
he Republc had no influence whatever
|tfice they regarded, not as trust, but as al
pportunity. They recognized no restraint
pom the power Of taxation, for they them
elves paid little or nothing into the public
'easury; but, on the contrary, they imposed
ew burdens for the avowed purpose Of thus
djusting the inequality of fortune.
In many parts of Alabama and the other
ulf States, the lands have already been con-
seated by the taxes. Bribery has also been
,duced to a system in every State controlled
Y the colored vote. The Official desk is a $
Doth in a market-place, where an aye or a no ,
Jay be sold as innocently as fish or a pan
Ike. The article is wanted: then it is worth
'mething; and the applicant ought to pay the
rice. The arrangement was too profitable to |
low such trities as principle and honor and I
ficial oaths and the public interest to inter-
re with it. And 50 ''the party" became
int-stock company, which must he held
ether by whatever means. Hence, a deeper |
scent elections were declared or annulled al {
easurc. The facilities for fraudulent voting 8
ere multiplied. The courts secured by the
'polntment of incompetent and lawless :
dyes. Every safeguard OF property was Z
Vept away. A new reign OF terror was insti-
ted; but now the taxpayer was the victim +,
stead of the aristocrat and the drain was OF
oney instead of blood.
How thoroughly and relentlessly the sys- f
IN has been pursued may be illustrated by I
e increase Of the public debt Of the Gull !;
ates during the last decade. From the :
ar 1861 to the year 1871, the debt Of Texas I
creased from two millions to fourteen mil il
ms that of Louisiana from eleven millions O
forty millions that of Mississippi from
thing to one and half million that OF
ALBANIA from nearly eight millions to fifty D
o millions and that of Georgia from two u
llions to forty two6milion All this, be it O
represents just one among the J.
rious methods of spoliation. :,
Nor, indeed, can the evil be confined to the q
,tions it infests. 1t acts upon all parts OF S;
e country. 1t depletes the public resources a
deprives the taxpayers of the means to
'pond to the demands Of their States and OF
; General Government. 1t paralyzes trade 81
tween the sections and commerce with D
eign nations, There is no merchant who n
Ms with the South, in New York or Liver
81, whom our negro Legislatures have not 7
lcted. Unless the system be arrested il v
ne way, it will cost tie country more than IL
uld be required for the transfer of the whole q
e to Africa.
Afier drawing this striking, though far from IL
ggerated picture of the effect of negro 4,
E in the South, the writer notices the fact %
t the Southern whites have been blamed CO
it; but" he adds, 'they really have y,
no resort. Their natural leaders were -
luded from Office. They themselves could ,,o
join party of public plunderers, who,
til from ignorance or social and moral
had become insensible to shame.
ltever overtures they made to the negroes
the establishment Of inst Government re