The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-14
carpes-Bag ChIc.nery.

OhottouOoSS SOufoAt1ou 10 W Ol8hulHo
forN further political plunder, mainly
upon the basis Of The outrages which
have been manufactured to order. The
following Washington letter from the
New York San discloses the schemes
and fears .of the .curvy set, who re-
cognz the necessity Tor new pretexts
upon which to keep up Nortb.rn oppo.
sition to the Soutb, and nuke tho peo.
pie OF the North look away from the
deso'utlng spectacle of unsettled trade
and the decay of all industrial aud
other interests in the South Hero is
the plan definitely marked out by
which this disastrous ilaicnce is
sought to be perpetuatej:
WAsnISGToS. October 6 G-Dariug
the past few days, there have becu
large additions 10 the carpct-Dug aud
scalawng politicians from the South,
who arc here for tho purpose of con
sul,iug Northern Republican leaders
as TO the policy to be observed nt the
Chattanooga Convention. obtained
to-day, from u gentleman in the conf
dence of John j. Patterson, Powell
Clayton and Tom Settle, the reasons
for holding this convention aud the
outlines of the proposed policy.
The carpet bug uud scalawag politi.
clans contemplate with undisguised
concern their waning fortunes. They
recognize the fact that the masses of
the Northern people arc very generally
becoming disgusted with the stute Of
ufAirs i'll the South. Tho unsettled
condition of society aud of trade, and
the rapid demornliz .tion Of all the in
dustrial interests il the cotton States,
seriously affect tho business interests
i'll the cotton States, seriously affect
tue business interests Uf the North.
The money market has been giuttod
with securities. State aud corporate,
issued by the ton, under tho sanction
of csrpet-bag Legislation. The money
realized on these securities has been
divided among the official and private
thieves who for years have been prey
ing upon the Southern people. Scarce.
y Que dollar in q hundred has been
devoted to the purposes for which it
was ostensibly borrowed. The resul;
Is what prudent men predicted wide
spread bankruptcy aud universal fail
ure to pay the interest falling due on
these securities.
The rutes Of taxation in the cotton
Suites now exceed the interest which
trance and Englnud pay Oh their na-
tlonal debts. Tie people are so im-
poverished that any increase ia taxa
tion will be- prucliell conhecAtion of
their property. Northern capital that
WAS invested IN Southern railroads and
other legitimate enterprises is unre-
lnnuerative, because all the industries
are destroyed or fatally crippled,
through tue general dssqniet aud un-
certainty that prevail. The capitalists
thus injured are beginning to SEQ that
The carpet bag aud scalawag politicians
are responsible for oil these evils. Tho
moneycd men and the moneyed insti-
tutions Of the North being dissatisfied
"nd disposed to favor new order OF
things III the South. the CARPET bag
gers tremDle for their safety. They
know the iba hence these interests
WELD. und hence they seek to arouse
anew the old prtjudlces of the North
ern masses by stories Of outrages by
Southern rebels.
The first grent object OF the couven-
ton at Chattanooga is to concoct and
senh forth u batch Of monstrous lies
III the hope thut tue waning passions
and pr.ji.iices of the Northern people
will be thereby famed to u white heat.
The machipery which the Republican
Natioual Executive Committee and
L,nduulet Williams have been using
to manufacture and disseminate lies
has not proved sufficiently useful
This IS owing principally to the fact
thnt the press Of the North is no longer
the servlle instrument Of politicians
The people huye been educated by in-
dependent journals to disrcgarl the
statements coming through the me.
dunn OF The men who rob the nn,ionul
treasury to provide their wives will,
$1,000 lanlluulcts The impartial man-
ncr in which the New York Times OK.
posed the enormities of carpct-bag
rule in South Carolina aud Louisiana
terrified fellows like Patterson, Spcn.
Ger, Clayto and Packard. These let
tcrs, written by men who were in
structed to tell nothing that was not
we'll authenticated, confirmed all that
had ever beon printed in tho San aud
other Independent papers about the
misdeeas OF Republican tho .es in the
South.
Aud now for tho programme at
CHATTANOOGA First tho nltemut will