Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-20
Honesty and Dishonesty.
Hartford 1imes.1

The drift of things In the South. whets the
States seem to be organizing int, two parties,
white men ". negroes, was perhaps inevitable
These ections develop the fact very sharply
v N be followed One st.iking fact must set even
the staunchest part san Republican a-thinking.
The States of the Sauth that have been fortunate
enough to ktep out of the clutcher Of the party
Of Grant and Cong IS & e immeasurably better
off te day, under De- n: cEetic arrangement, than
ihe unhappy S'..-s n WI 'ch Radicalism bears
sway. Look at vi gin.rr Georgia, Texas. No
word Of complaint arsss Of robbery and plunder
by Stbte officials in eithe- of these States. We
do not ca-a ttot their credit is rp:nsd that they
are hspe.es:'y bankrup., that there respective
deb have EsSa quad ,pied in eight years, that
there governors and t1easure,s connive with
OF laws for the- own emolument, and for the fur.
ther impovefishmept OF q pluudered and suffering
people who's Q lest dollf s demanded, and who
abandoning tbeS plantations end fleeing to other
States We hear Of no fraudulent ssne of State
bonds for pretended railway and other specula-
tive int 7rests in tht sc States no proceedings
looking to impeachment, as in piun,lered Florida
and sdme other long-sutfering communities. Oa
the CONTRARY, the tendency seems 10 be, under
Democra C rule In the South, to restore some
Thing like retrenchment, economy, and fair and
honest admi- ration of affairs. Not one Demo-
cratic Governor that we heard Of has ever forged
law and placed it among the laws actually ensc-
ted bv the Legislature In order to favor his plan
| of euriching himself by the ssle OF State lands
| Not one OF these now Democratic States has lost
any Other than Republican Governor by the act
OF perSone, flight, undertaken for personal self
preservat or. Not one OF them is justly che -ge-
able, as every Southern Republican State is, " tn
au ,ncreasa Of its debt aud taxes in time of its
peace.
Now Congress and the President have steadily
upheld the robbers of the South. Plundering
uleIs like the Governors Of South Y, rOlina. Flor
| ida slid Louie'en" aIe, or have been, upheld, If
| necessary by force of Government arms-upheld
| in any end al ways to prevent the people from
having th hrir own way. Elections in these States
| for eight years have been a farce. The rule oil
negro government and government OF mixed
material composed OF native negroes and white
Icarpet-baggeis, has fastened itself upon the vi
tails Of Southern people that Only separate meas
ures promise any relief.
The division OF parties at last is as it s and the
line Of separation is like that OF the Connecticut
State prison convict's panta'oons-a division be-
| tween wh,e and black.
Only, in the case of the Southern people, 1t does
meou one thing more. 1t means, practically, q
liue between honesty and dishonesty, as we'll as
the demarcation of colors. Not that every voter
on The side of Giant and Congress is dishonest,
for many of the negroes no doubt are honest,
| though terrible deceived and deluded. Some of
them are bad men and mean mischief. But their
white allies, what lew they have, are, as class,
not honest men.
So the line broadeps and deepens. VINO is TO
blame for it2
Who have honestly stIiven to prevent itS Not
the party which IS now at all points meeting its
final overthrow in the South.