The weekly Louisianian., 1874-04-11
81 ME- SOL1HERN AND.
NORTHERNSIA7ES.

years the :,
oratorsin Congress and out OF II
have found in the alleged corruption
and vickedaess OF the Republican
party Of the South a n~ever-fa'llns -
nc Of abuse and assault against ne
publican management and admins
trat;on. The Southern States IL
which Republicans have been II
tha ascendecy have been pointed te
as 50 many b]ots and blors upol
the body-po]itic, and the people
have been again and again callee
n,on to drive from power tht
National Administration, which, il
was falsely reported, sustained and
fostered them. To a certain extent
the Republican press and many Of
the leading men in the republican
party have followed in the line
marked out for them by the oppo'
sition, and joined in the wild howl
which has been raised against the
Republicans Of the South. We
have no desire to defend all that
has been done in the Southern
States, put a careful consideration
of the whole situation-a review of
the entire feld-cannot fail to
convince anybody hat the condi-
ton of 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 exclu-
sive control have been robbed and
plundered and misgoverned to a
greater degree than all the South
ern States put together.
Take New York, for instance. It
is only q few years since Tammany
was oyerthrown, since the city and
State succeeded in freeing them
selves from a-gang Of the worst men
who ever held Office in. any age or
in any country. Admitting, for
arguments sake, that the charges
against Southern Republicans
which have been dinned into our
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 to so back into history, the
condition of affairs in the Southern
States to-day is quite as good, so
far as good government goes, as in
the North or West. Let US look at
Missouri. For two years that
State has been in the supreme
control Of the Democracy. It has
Democratic Legislature and a Dem
ocratic Governor. If the promises
Of the opposition were worth any
thing, which they are not; if the
Democratic reformers were really
sincere in their professions, which
they are not, here was the State
where tile golden pledges, SO freely
and loudly proclaimed might be
redeemed and fulfilled. But what
is the result? The State has been
robbed and plundered in the most
shameful way; the city of St. Louis '
has one Of the worst governed {
communities in the country, and
apparently, so far as the protection {
OF life and property is concerned, I
there has been no more restraint, I
no more fear of the law within her 6
borders, than upon the Indian 8
frontier or the depths of the African '
continent. Missouri has been for t
Two years, and is to-day, the South e
Carolina Of the North and West. s
1t is time there was an end of :.
attacks upon the Southern i.
y and the Southern people,; y
'oa' Northern statesmen and politi- +
clan should reform the abuses in .
t u own section and leave the
OF the Sou'h to take care of
themselves, to manage their own :.
Alalrs in their own way. The j.,
whole policy of appealing to Con- :
BFess and to Washing: u upon the
0ne hand and ia; essional in
reference upor: . other is all e.
" wrong contrary o tI, spirit of our "