The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-05
THE TRIBUNE ON THE s0Urn.

The following extract from the New York
Tribune, on the condition Of the South, will
be read with interest It contains a very
| truthful and vivid picture Of this part Of the
| country and evinces very just appreciation
| of the causes that have brought the trouble
about
| In concluding its article, the 1r;bune thinks
it sees brighter days ahead for us, but counsels
us to wait patiently the slow process of edu-
eating the negro up to the standard of intelli.
gence. When that time arrives the I,';Aure
promises sort of millennium. To the people
here-and who hope to live II few years
| longer this is not very encouraging: but SO
long as our childrens children may be happy,
we are possibly very unreasonable not 10 be
very jovial over the expectation:
No true lover of his country can Contemplate
the condition Of the Southern whites without thc
keenest conmstratiOu. 4 proud and powerful
race which once swaycl the dostini : OF the Re-
public still hes, nearly decade after the close Of
the war, III certain sections. III almost complete
political subsection to the rude and untutOred men
who once tiled their fields and picked their cot ton
Ia the overthrow Of the Rebel cause great for
tunes were swept away, and men who had counted
then negroes by hundreds became as poor ~ the
poorest of them. and sometimes We're fain to
acknowledge their former slaves as their en-
poyers.
The whole edlfice Of slave power that had
grown to such height f, II in one .sh. and the
runs yet cumber the ground. And nine wears
OF peace seem. after all to have done iIttc iii the
work OF recuperation and growth The political
rule Of the ignorant b acks is still almost I'M
broken. South Carolina, once the proudcst OF
this belt Of hanghty States, cries out 10 mankind
for the pity which every one bestoWs and for
the help which no one can give. Her Governor
is proclaimed and shameless thief, but the
tribunals OF the people are ppweriess to bring
him to Justice, and at the time that lie de-
ties the mandates of the courts he ranges himself
openly on the side of convicted telons. and
restores them i'll gangs to the liberty Which
he does not intend to resign. The estates OF
the people, already impoverished by nurcmlt-
ting thlcvng are sold by the hundred for
taxes levied to support prosperous band OF
Folders, and poor as the victims are they
seem TO grow poorer and weaker every day
As citizens Of the United States hey are even
more helpless than a. citizens of South Carolina.
When they succeeded, after much eXertion, i'll
procuring the punishment OF an offender against
the suffrage, pardon was promptly forwarded
from Washington: a III w.len, in desperation at
the enornnty and reten lessness Of the opprcs-
sion under which they were groanms. the most
influential men Of the State appealed to tine Pre-
JpSSl'lN dlt were
rewarded with an Insulting rebuff. The hand
OF every man seemed against them.
In Louisiana Governor who was chosen not
by the people but by the unanimous Voice oi
President Grant and Collector Casey presldvs
over the destlnles of the Stat Here is the his
torc ground where the Administration has conl-
united its darkest crimes against the liberties of
the individual and of the State. Here the s.,al
Of Federal appreciation has been set fraud,
usurpatlon, and oppression. Here, by
the criminal obstinacy Of the President
and the equally criminal indecison OF
Congress, Government has been perpctuated
which never had any rghtful existence. and
which could never even exhibit any election |
returns on which to base q serious claim to |
being. In Arkansas, the Governor who was |
not elected was installed, and the Governor
who was elected after time attempted to
unseat him. state Of war ensued. in which |
ives were lost and blood was shed, but the |
Administration was for weeks as deaf to |
demands FIR mediation as in the case If |
Louisiana it had been eager to seize the tir-t OPP
)ortunity for an unlawful and unwarranted ntel |
erence. In these three unhappy States the ii.evi-
able results OF the war and its subversions, and |
# the ternately criminal and stupid policy of |
he Administration, have had their most marked |
ii cts hut scarcely Commonwealth of the |
south. though in some of them the work of real |
reconstruction has gone on hravelv, is without |
IS scenes Of desolatlon, decay and despair.