The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
the extremity of her afllction. South

In the extremity of her afliction, South
Carolina appeals from her p~lunderers to
those who have fastened her ~plunderers
upon her. Until this appeal had been sent
forth and signed by whatever of repute or
character there is left in the state, the adj
ministrstion presses s~tudiously avoided
any light on the administration rule in
South Carolina and the Southern states.
With the facts before them they do not de-
nounce the wrongs or demand the rights,
they simply excuse and apologize for them.
of the rascally ring masters who
nave carried confusion all through
the south. The ignoble end of Bullock in
Georgia, the grand scandal in Louisiana an
archy. and the disgrscetul travesties of cleo
i've governnontsin Arkansas and Missis-
sippi are all outranked by the abominable
indecencies of what was once the state of
South Carolina. There the enfrsnchised ne
groes bear u~ndisputed sway, and it is no ex-
aggeration to say that they have destroyed
the state. Its white citizens and all its in
teIligent people of character and culture are
ruined by the results of utterly .abominable
legislation. They would leave the state
had they not become too poor to get away.
They are in the anomalous and p~aradoxical
condition of being unable to either stay or
go. Since the war the state has been run in
debt $40, 0O0, 600, and its credit is completely
destroyed. Yet the money that has been
realized for this crushing mountain of
bonds has been stolen and wasted, so far as
the state is concerned, and there is nothing
to show for the debt. Taxation has been
carried to that degree that the assessments
cannot be realized by the sale of the prop
erty, for nobody will dare the infiiction of a
title to real estate which is subject to utter
recklessness of taxation. The legislature
which is now in session is nothing but a
wrangle of ignorant negroes, who openly
clamor for money, and make no scruple to
use their votes in the service OF downright
theft and robbery. The worst feature is
the absence of remedy. The blacks hold
unbridled power. Under the constitution
and laws there is no chance for redress. Re
bellion is the only expedient left, and there
is neither the spirit nor power for hat.
Republican rule is a failure and so it stands
confessed. The glory of reconstruction is
claimed for the party; it cannot shirk the
responsibility of the ruin and desolation
which it has permitted, ii it has not caused.
The New York Times now comes out with
excuses charging the evil consequences upon
political adventures who have debauched
the negroes. 1t says with pathetic reference
TO the past: "The present disgrace can in nc
way b charged upon the party which earned
the respect and admiration of mankind by
the liberation and reimbursement OF $780,
600 of people," Why not? On the contrary,
the ''great partyv cannot escape nor repel
that very charge. 1t has both furnished and
upheld by all means in its power these ad'
ventures which the truculent Times now
denounces. In the midst of rent and ruined
states the republican party is e~ntangled
among the fragments of its own destructive
work. And the end is not yet reached.