Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-09-08
THE PIOCHE DAILY RECORD.
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
We see by the dispatches published
this morning under the head Of News
by Mall" that the Government is taking
steps to repress any disturbances that
may occur in the South. This is right.
Bloodshed and lawless violence must and
should be depressed at any cost. No
community can prosper where life and
property is not safe. The presence of
the Federal troops at various points in
the South will not do any harm; on the
contrary, be of benefit, for both sides are
more likely to refrain from outrages.
So much for the symptoms OF the COM
plant. As to the disease that lies far
deeper and is altogether beyond the
power of Federal bayonets or artillery to
cure. The trouble is caused by nine
years of constant misgovernment, rob-
berry and oppression, and the dangerous
symptoms will never cease until the
sources of all this wide spread misery are
removed. The organized system of legal
confscation and miscalled taxation in
several of the Southern States must be
entirely overthrow. The aduhnistra-
ton Of justice must be revised. Able
and honest judges must be selected, and
the machinery of the courts also be puri-
fed. Jurors must not be chosen because
they are black and ignorant, but because
they are intelligent and impartial. The
executive and administrative officers of
the government must be men of capabil-
ity, honor and frmness. Legislators
must have the same qualifications, and
cease to be distinguished by their crimi-
nal and viscious folly and utter lack Of
knowledge of the duties and response
bilities OF their positions. In South
Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Florida these conditions are
unknown, There, corruption, villainy
and prohigacy reign supreme from the
Governors Office, the courts and the
legislature. down to deputy constable.
There, if anything is done right, it is the
exception and not the rule, and very
rarely does that exception occur. This
horrible condition OF things has
been going on for years. The
complaints, the eroans of the
martyred people have passed unheeded
until. lately, when the carpet-baggers
finding their hold relaxing, and a num-
Der of elections approaching, have by
their bad counsels stirred up the negroes
to violence and the result is as described
in former kilograms. This shameful,
frightful, pitiable condition of things
ought to cease. The honor and good
name Of the whole American people are
involved. 1t is not decent or Just that
several millions of people should be
given over to never ceasing plumber and
every imaginable wrong and insult. Do
away, in those so-called States, with
those vicious mockeries called State
Governments. In them nothing but
Ignorance, stealing, vice and malice are
to be found. They are impotent for
good but all powerful for evil. Send
down the United States troops. The
People will welcome them with graft
tude. Put those States under military
rule, and robbery will cease, good order
prevail and they will speedily recuper-
ate. The officers Of the army are gentle
men and stealing is very rare among
them. They are soldiers. They never
insult fallen foe. They do not war on
the defenseless. From them the widows
and orphans of their late adversares
would meet. aid, encouragement and
sympathy at their hands. Their rule,
though despotic and knowing nothing
but military necessity, would be a
seventh heaven of happiness compared
with the atrocious, horrible tyranny
that is now dispensed by Governors Kel-
logg, Moses, Ames and others. Any
change from the rule of the latter must
for the better, but under Military Gov
ernor.those unhappy States might enjoy
the peace and security, the freedom from
legalized confscation they nowso greatly
need, but under the present regime can
never attain.