Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-04-28
The Tyranny of the Radical Party
ReHectinG Odium on n Repuhlicar
Governments.
Tho South Treated Worse than Po-
land or Ireland.

From the New York Herald independently.
ave should have welcomed tho leaders of the
Confederacy if they came back to political life
For all people have natural leaders, and the men
who naturally lead the South are the men OF the
Confederacy. But instead of their leadership we
have had In the South n series OF political volca-
noes and earthquakes and ominous grumbllnss.
To-day We see the smoke III Arkansas. ester
day We heard the rumbling in South Carolina
tomorrow the earth may rend Ill Louisiana or
Texas, with spouting fire and lava streams. All
these phenomena mean the same thing There
are flames and consuming fire under the surface.
With all of our craftsmanship we have never
been able TO reach the evil 1t is idle TO talk oil
reconstruction or peace SO long as we sec what
we see IN Arkansas. 1t is easy to make desola-
hon and call il peace 1t is easy TO provoke chaos
and call it reconstruction. This is what we have
dono IN the South Its condition to-day Is lar
cOrSe pOl,tiCdHy than Poland on Ieidnd. In To-
land the military hand presses rudeiy upon the
people, but they are not robbed. In Ireland
aliens sit III authority, but they are gentlemen
who do not show their dislike to heme rule and
repeal by robbing the eXchequcr. 1t has been re-
served for the American Republic to unite Rus
sian severity with rapacity which belongs to no
other nation and for which We have to find n par
aliel in the careers OF Nerres and Warren Hast
ings. The blame for this rests largely upon the
general government, but not wholly. We do not
excuse the leaders OF the South for their apathy.
Something more than SILENT unprotestng acqul-
escence i'll the rule of adventures and ignorant
freedmen was required from the men who had
been high in the councils OF Coniederacy and who
still possessed popular confidence. The Southern
people have been abandoned aud helpless. The
men who should have guided them threw away
responsibility. There IL not Southern State,
excepting, perhaps, South Carolina, where, not
wlthstandng the suffrage to the negroes and dis
franchisemeht, the old leaders OF the South would
not have succeeded in oveTturning the rule OF the
carpet-baggers, OF at least frustrating thcir
schemes until an awakened public spuit III the
North came TO their and"
None know better than the wlilcrs Tor the ed-
tllial columns of the New Y ork Hc,dR HAT the
great statesmen OF the South were not ALLOW cd
TO take part Iii the reconstruction movements
Every man who offered to do So was threatened
with prosecution and violence, unless he joined
with the carpet-baggers and scallawags III the
robbery which was commenced under the Admin
istraton and Congressional leaders. Nor has thle
work ceased yet. President johnson endeayorc1
to deal justly with the South, and as lar as he
could, carry out the pledges made to the South-
srn people to induce them to lay down then
arms. But he was soon termed traitor, and
finally tried by Court of Impeachment
The horrors which the Radical party are in
hictiDg upon the South ID enough to make men
hate the government OF party. The treatment
which Grant bestowed upon the members OF the
South Carolina Tax-Payers' Convention, who
humbly visited him to seek some means of escape
from the terrible taxes that the negro goyernm MT
there is heaping upon the people, would not have
been as heartless had the scene been III ST. Pc
tersburg or Vienna. Either of the reigning mon
archs would have shown some pity, and at least
the dignity and manners, without which civiliza-
ton appears al discount.
Tho Government Of the United States was
commenced in opposition to Radicalism, which
has proved a failure everywhere; and was the
only cause OF the war, the evils OF which we now
begin to feel more keeenly than ever. Compro-
mise and concession built up the government to
APPOINT at which Radcalism stepped iii and seiz-
ed 1t by force. BY force spread greenbacks all
over Our land aud with the peoples own money
kept them lighting for iour years; and then during
twelve years have by force kept themselves in
power during all that period robbery and scandal
GUS transactions to enrich party leaders have been
developed that would make the men of 1875 re-
yoke.
There is not the least evidence now that Canada
desires annexation. Even Cuba were she free
from her tyrants, might hesitate to unite her des-
tiny with us. While intelligence revolls at the
idea, the negro so-called Republics, such as Ban
Domingo and Dohoney, flying from their own
terrors, knock for entrance to the great Republic.
Alas, how Radicalism has reduced the once "best
government the world ever saw"