The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21

wag vet retain their authority. This great
crime ofthe administration against the South
is one that will need to be frequently held up
to public adherence, and the editorial
columns of the Sentinel will never cease to
ring with denunciation so long as the mis-
rule in South Carolina and the tyranny in
Louisiana continue.
In answer to the old SANDER that
the unrest, insecurity and bankruptcy
prevailing in some of the southern
states are due solely to the former rebels,
this powerful argument may be adduced.
The states which recovered first from the
control OF the general government, and as
sumed into their own hands the control of
their own affairs. are comparatively pros
porous Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
are rapidly acquiring the independence. and
with it the security and prosperity of north
ern states. This has not been because they
were ruled by a majority of white men
merely, but because they were ruled by men
OF intelligence and property, whose interests
were identified with the welfare of The COM
mon wealth. The party OF outside adventur-
ers, whose interest it was TO plumber the
state, failed to secure the support of an ele
ment strong enough to put them in power,
and the central government was left
without a chance to use loyal
colony as means of torture to disloyal
people. According to theories of vindictive
partisans who maintain the total depravity
of southerners these states ought to present
pictures of every kind of wrong. oppression
aud misery. 1t might be expected that the
negroes would be trodden under foot ia
them, the fields untitled and the public mon
eys squandered But, strange to say, it is
in the states still under the radical control,
like Louisiana and South Carolina, that race
hostility and universal destitution are to be
found. In the former, the neglected levees
have broken away and the people have had
to beg for aims through the length and
breadth OF the land. A newspaper has been
suppressed in a principal city Of the
state under fiimsy pretense. aud the whole
state government has been overturned by
the order of a corrupt judge who, according
to the judiciary committee of congress, had
no authority to interfere in the premises.
Imagine for a moment the displacement of
all the officers chosen by the people of this
commonwealth at the wilf-of a United
States official, who rises at midnight in an
swer to the call of political associates to de-
eide the fate OF a state DY judicial order.
There are already White and Black Leagues
organized in that home of radical govern
ment, both of which profess the opinion that
war OF races is inevitable; and
the whole matter may be summed
ana there is to be found neither
public liberty, social security, nor individual
prosperity. In South Carolina there have
been fewer of the elements of strife and dis
order, because the radical party have had
such decided preponderance that no con-
tention was possible. The whole people
conscious that they were out voted, in
stead OF appealing to violence, as they
would naturally do were they the blood
thirsty villains painted by the party press,
have submitted to their fate quietly The re-
suit has been the reign of plumber, ending in
bankruptcy. All business interests are pros
trated, plantations once among the most pro-
ductive in the county are being sold for
taxes, capital is leaving the country. The
State itself could not, according to the pres
ent governor, borrow dollar in any market
of the world. The correspondent OF the
Courier Journal gives the following details
in regard to the rascalities of single admin
istration, that OF B. K. Scott. extending from
1865 to 1872 The figures will be appreciated
when it is remembered that Moses, and not
Scott. is considered the champion villain in
the recent history of the State:
When Scott came into Office as stated above,
the State funded debt was in round numbers
s5,OCO.OOO. When he left IL, Ii was in round num-
bers Sl6,0O0,OOO Qt was nearly $1,000 900. The
amount OF taxes was about q. 200 90 per snnum,
0c0 Deduct the five million old debt from six
teen and we have eleven. To this eleven
sand. and dO we have ffteen million eight
hundred thousand, which is the apparent cash
the governor OF south Carolina. The other
credit he desc is the interest he paid on the
public debt and the legitimate expenses of the
five million Tor three years, which, at six per
cent, would be s9OO,OOO say Sl,UO0,O00. The ex-
pense of the state government before his advent
amounted to 100000 per annum; for four years
Si,6OO, 900. Add TO the amount he paid interest
and what should have been the expenses of the
state government together, and we have 81 Co.,
700. Deduct this from the amount he had in
hand, sl5sOO.OO9. and it leaves, as the gross
amount stolen by Scott and his cOnfederates, |
thirteen million two hundred thousand dollars,
and this, 10 the brief space of four years. How
long II WOulu nave taken LQeIn 10 nave
stolen out the whole state can be easily caclu-
lated.
Not mile of railroad or canal or a public
improvement of any kind remains to the
state in lieu of such an expenditure. A
tract of land in Helrs Home Swamp is the
only value received by the unfortunate
commonwealth. AS a contrast to the
misery which has desolsted South Carolina
and Louisiana, the happiness and prosperity
of Georgia may be instanced. Under date
of July 9, a letter writer describes the situa-
ton of the crops as in the highest degree
satisfactory. The corn and cotton are flour
ishing and an abundant yield it expected.
Order and content prevail. The explanation
NAV be quoted at length: