Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-03-27
Realizing the Situation.

Don Pia,t a Colonel 10 the Federal army
during the late war, is beginning to realize
some Of the fruits of that struggle, and in a
late number Of his excellent and oulspoken
newspaper, the Woshing,on Capiiol, gives ut
terance to the following
Public attention. is being called TO the de-
plorable situation Of the South. The social,
financial and political condition is so wretched
tfat 1t beggars description While Senator
Carpenter, with the matches eloquence for
which he is justly celebrated is depicting with
unanswerable facts the bayonet misrule Of the
Administration in Lonisiana the property
holders OF South Carolina are knocking at the
doors Of Congress for relief from not only
thieves but gorllas who hold all that the ciii-
zens once possessed nj their sweet will. The
Indebtedness Of the State is sucb that it is
hopeiessly bankrupt while the rate oftaxaton
is actually beyond the assessed value Of the
property, and amounts TO coniscation. In
deed, ii is believed that secret organization
stretches through the South under the control
Of carpet-baggers and scalawags, who propose,
through taxation TO confiscate the property of
the whites, so as TO perfect IN infamous divi
sion Of the same among the negroes.
The so-called legislature Of South Carolina
is composed of the most ignorant and corrupt
is that Of thieves and whose manners are those
Of balloons. Wells of rage or laughter, The
vilest profanity and abuse, fst-shaking and
fights, make the order of the day, while the
cunning leaders, white and black, SO direct
legislation, If we can use such term in this
connection, as to Eli their pockets with public
plumber.
''Ef dat brack son of b opens his ugly
mouf agin, Mistah Speakuh IN mash il
shuah, = was the response of one Of the honora-
BILE members to another who had proposed re-
ducng their pay.
An illustration of the character Of these
creatures may be found in the fact that when
the Statehouse was furnished all the old car
pets, chairs tables and other articles were PM
in lots and carted to their several homes by the
members in broad daylight and under sane
lion Of the governor. This ast-named official
is a convicted thief and bribe-laker and
while he presides in the governors mansion
another Of a like sort, who spells conscience
with Ok, = and knows about AS much Of its
meaning as he does of its spelling, is the States
chief justice.
A friend gives us an account Of a evee at
the governors that was paid for by the State.
The rooms were thronged with negroes and
sprnkled with few white men and women,
the last named hanging on the arms Of their
man and brother The refreshments heing,
free, were literally partaken Of, especially the
cigars. When an honorable member from
Africa took one to smoke for they blew clouds
in each others colored countenances, he also
seized handful TO solace his legislative hours
at home.
Now although South Carolina, owing TO
the heavy population of negroes in its borders
is something worse than other Southern States,
the entire South, under The rule of this cor
rupt Administration, is as wretched MS il is
possible TO be. The liberal and democratic
members of Congress, instead of sustaining
appropriations for an army That is degraded
into tool to sustain these outrages, had better
vote to disband the whole concern.