The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-06
Congress aud the South.

1t is evident that the days of carpet-bag
demagogueTy in the South are numbered.
The patriotic gentlemen who have been
forcing themselves inte prominence and OF
fetal position, filing 50 many Offices, both
great and small, have had good time.
but they have finally killed the goose that
laid the gelden egg, and arc now oelng
turned adrift. In the Southern States, at
the close of the war, there was an immense
field for ECTthcrn brains and industry, ana
had the large number of bright young men
who betook themselves thither, been actu-
ated bv proDer motives and acted with
decent reraId for the best interests OF the
neopIe among whom they located. they
would have contributed vastly to the polit-
icaI regeneration Of the South and won ell
yiaLlc f&mo. But, with few exceptions,
public interest has been made subservient
to personal advancement. The result is
enormous debts III nearly every State, and
il several of the largest unprecedented
political decentralization.
The lost cause" is finally lost the spir-
it Of the rebellion no longer threatens a re-
newal of the struggle for national supre-
macy, and it is, therefore, high time that
Congress turned its back upon the unprin-
Gipled adventurers who have been the cause
Of so much trouble in the South. The re-
cent overthrow of the Davis hierarchy
its aims and tendencies, was complete.
The Legislature of Texas passed an cleo
ton law. 1t was approved by Governor
Davis and by all parties. An election was
held under 1t, which resulted in a Demo
cratic triumph, by an overwhelming ma
jority. After the election the Supreme
Court of The State declared the law uncon-
stitutional. Thereupon the Governor, re-
presenting the party beaten at the polls,
issued proclamation warning the persons
elected not to assume the functions OF the
offices to which they had been chosen, and
rightly anticipating that his manifesto
would be disregarded, called upon the
President of the United States for troops.
The call for aid was peremptorily refused
on the just ground that it was not made in
accordance with the Constitution, and the
acts Of Congress under it. This was not
the kind of a reply the ambitious Governor
expected to receive, but 1t had the desired
effect. The attempt at usurpation came to
an inglorious end, ana the regularly elect
ed State officers were duly installed.
The Louisiana struggle, it seems, is
likely to end in q similar way. There Is
no longer any doubt that the Kellogg gov
ernment is Illegal, and it seems quite Ger
tain that Congress will so declare it by or
dering n new election. Senator Morton
stood by the scheming Pinchback until he
discovered an array OF damaging evidence
against his pr0tsge, which was too much
even for such an extreme and persistent
partizan. ''Piuch,'' as he is familiarly
called, is III a tight place and viii be apt to
squeal before the investigation which, with
characteristic audacity, he processes to
court, is ended. A new election in Lou
isiana will probably result in complete
Democratic triumph, but the Republican
majority IN Congress can better afford this
than it can to bolster up and protect the
crowd of unprincipled political tricksters
who have 50 long infested and so deeply
disgraced that State.-P0ttSUHye Standard.