The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-05-14
Ere E .ick ~. BAKER, Editor.
FRIDAY, MAY 14th, 1S75.
To Correspondents.
Senator Anthony on the South.

Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, who
recently passed through the Southern States,
has given expression to his views in regard
to the situation there. His conclusions diff.
fer materially from those ofJudge Kelley and
other prominent Republicans, who have also
visited the Southern States. This is not at
all strange, when we recall the Senator's Bit
ter hostility towards the Southern people; as
displayed in his Jealous support of the Force
Bill, the Ku KluX laws, military rule and
Federal interference in the South His con-
illusions are summed up in the declaration
that 1.-THE feeling of the people of the South
at bottom is resentful, and their professions
Hnsound."
Mr.. Anthony arrived at this opinion after
convcrsng with the natives, with carpet
baggers and with the military The native
people assured him that the only difficulty
they had was with the carpet baggers, while
the latter asserted that the presence of the
military was the only security they had for
life and property. Mr.. Anthony could not
reconcile these opposing statements, and
therefore questioned the officers of the regu-
lar army, who were not natives and could
not be classed among the carpet-baggers
These gentlemen, he says, told him without
passion or complaint that their wives and
families were never visited socially by the
Southern ladies, nor did they receive any of
the courtesics of intercourse common to
civilization and always made The especial
boast of South
Considering the evidence he therefore con-
cludes that the Southern grievance Is not yet
ended. We suppose that when the Southern
people cease to complain of being plundercd
by arpet-baggers who are protected by the
military, and welcome 10 their homes and
firesides those who have enriched themselves
at their expense, Senator Anthony and 9th
ers like him will admit that the Southern
troubles are ended.
The New York Tribune, newspaper that,
no matter what its past history has been,
now has manliness and independence enough
to raise its voice in behalf of the crushed and
almost ruined South, speaks as follows in re-
gard to Senator Anthony's views:
Senator Anthony's views of the situation
are somewhat different from those of other
leading Republicans who have travelled
through the South and investigated the con-
diton of affairs with some care. But even
il there is such state of sullen dissatisfac-
ton as he represents we fail to see how the
policy of the Administration can do any
thing to change or mitigate it. 1t is unfor-
tunate OF course that the Southern people do
not fraternize with army officers who are
stationed among them ostensibly TO protect
tue lives and property of the Northern adj
yenturers who, with the aid of the negroes,
have seized upon their State Governments
and plundered their treasures. But it is not
so unnatural by any means as Mr. Anthony
seems to suppose. The army officers them
selves seem to understand that part of it, and
to talk about it without passion or com.
plant" Does Senator Anthony believe in
policy whose object is to force these people
to associate with persons whose society is
not congenial to them? 1t seems to be the
present great grievance of the Administra-
ton wing of the Republican party, that the
Southern people are resentful, and their pro-
LESSONS otloyalty unsound. And so they are
10 be governed from Washington and menac-
ed with q standing army until they fall in
love with the Union and-and-well, what {?
why, vote the Republican ticket, of course.
That's the only sure test of loyalty, and we
fear that Mr.. Anthony and other statesmen
of his sort will always find the Southern peo-
pie resentful and will always distrust their
professions of loyalty until they make up
their minds down there that military rule is
lovely, that the carpet. Dagger is u boon, that
they themselves are incapable itself. govern
ment, and that Gen. Grants administration
is Heavens last best gift to man.
1t would be interesting 10 know under
what clause of the Constitution these gentle.
men propose TO cure the people of state of
sullenness and compel them TO exchange So
cial courtesies with carpet. baggers.