The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-19

cessfully withstood. In other words. IN
use one OF Holmes SMILES. ifyou put lot Of
( potatoes IN cart aud drive it to market.
1t Is IN the nature OF the large potatoes To
get 70 the top. Slowly but surely the class
that 1t was desirable to repress advanced To
the front, not always peaceebly, perhaps or
iawinlty. but as qu city as the condition OF
society permitted. The rule of adventures
supported by men who neither understand
the rights or responsibilities of citizenship
Provedweak and corrupt beyond anyexample
OF venal rascality furnished in history. Had
the carpet bsggers been virtuens men IL is
ooupIoI II they could have withstood the
temptations to vlllainy-nay, the necessities
ior h-thst surrounded them. AS they
were for the most part natural-born
scoundrels, the descent through bribery.
violence and terrorism into baakruptcy
and anarchy was easy. To defeat the
administration party, made up as it was o
the elements most unit FOR governing
slate, the respectable people of The South
gradually united, and one state after
another was redeemed from misrule. On
the true theory Of reconstruction, this
gone on without interference. But republi-
can partisans refused to submit to defeat.
and invariably appealed to Washington for
aid. TO check the advance If the
counter-revolutioD, and save the
supremacy of the party, every
possible means Was resoried TO by
the leaders in the North, and thus a struggle
began between the better part of the people
of each reconstructed state. against the home
opposition supported by the administration.
In slate after state the people Won, until
finally the power of the republican party was
secure only in Mississippi and South Caro-
Ina. TO save Louisiana and Arkansas, every
species OF fraud and force has been resorted
to, and the battle is not yet decided. 1t
Is now clear to all politicians shat the
reconstruction scheme az pat ia operation
has proved two edged sword, that in the
states where the white people have secured
the sscendarcy they can count with
certainty upon the negro vote, and in such
communities the power OF the conservatives
is safe for years-hencs, tho desperate IA
ture of the effort made to hoio tIss states not
yet lost to radical rule. To sum the whole
matter up in few plain words, the
Issue at in Louisiana is merely the SUI
premscy of that miserable and corrupt or
ganizationnow called the republican party.
To save that, the fundamental idea of the
reconstruction policy, namely, the t$ght of
the eommunity 10 regulate is own loEal af-
fairs, has been abandoned, aad the govern
ment deliberately trsmples into the dust /
every vestige of that state Sovereignty with |
which it endowed The restored comznon- |
wealth of Louisiana, The new theory |
of reconstruction a that the PEOPLE /
of that state are to have freedom and Z I
state government only on coaditic L 5hat
they vote the republican ticket and submit
to be ruled and plunGeTed by the worst
men of the republican party. Shall uch 8
scheme prevail? This 10 the clear pri .ctieal
question to be settled, setting aside al, con-
sideration OF theprinciples OF civil liberty,
which must be violated TO. carry on one
policy, and vindicated in sustaining the
other