National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-04
SOME SOUTHERN AND NORTH.
ERIN STATES.

ERN STATES.
During the last three or four years the
Democratic organs and orators, in Con-
gress and out of it, have found in the al
legged corruption and wickedness Of the
Republican party of the South never-fail-
ing topic of abuse and assault against Re-
publican management and administration.
The Southern States in which Republicans
have been in the ascendency have been
pointed to as so many blots and blurs upon
, the body -politic, and the people have been
again and again called upon to drive from
power the National Administration, which,
it was falsely reported, sustained and fos-
tered them. To certain extent the Repub-
lican press and many of the leading men in
the Republican party have followed in the
line marked out for them by the opposition,
and joined in the wild howl which has been
raised against the Republicans of the South
We have no desire to defend all that haa
been done in the Southern States, but q
careful consideration Of the whole situation
"a review Of the entire field-cannot fail
to convince anybody that the condition o!
the South during the last five years has had
its parallel in the North and West; that
even those sections Of the country in which
the Democracy have had the exclusive con,
troll have been robbed and plundered and
misgoverned to greater degree than all the
Southern States put together.
Take New York, for instance. It is only
q few years since Tammany was over
thrown, since the city and State succeeded
in freeing themselves from a gang of the
worst men who ever held Office in any age
or in any country. Admitting, forargument'
sake, that the charges against Southern Re,
publicans which have been dinned into oul
ears are all true, which is by no means the
case, the Democracy Of New York under
the leadership of William NJ Tweed have
been guilty Of more corruption than all the
Southern politicians put together. Not tc
go back into history, the condition of affair
in the Southern States to-day is quite a.
good, 30 far as good government goes, as Il
the North or West Let US lock at Mis-
souri,. For two years that State has beer
in the supreme control of the Democracy
1t has a.Democratic Legislature and Dem
ocratic Governor. If the promises OF tn
opposi ton were worth anything, whicl
they are not; if the Democratic reformer
were really sincere in their professions
which they are not, here was the Stat
where the golden pledges, so freely AM
loudly proclaimed, might be redeemed AM
fulfilled, But what is the RESULT Tn
State has been robbed and plundered in tn
most shameful way; the city of St. Loui
has one of the worst governed communitie
in the country, and apparently, 30 far as tn
protection of life and property Is concerned
there has been no more restraint no NOR,
fear of the law within her borders, thai
upon the Indian frontier or the depths o
the African continent Missouri has beel
for two years, and is to-day, the South Caro-
lima of the North and West.
1t is time there was an end Of these al
tacks upon the Southern States and tn
Southern people; that Northern statesme
and politicians should reform the abuses |
their own section and leave the States {