The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-05

Z THE radical press is manifesting fear
full amount of alarm from the fact that
the next Congress will contain eighty-five
/ Southern members, large number of
{ whom were officers III the rebel army, while
most of the others held civil Offices under
the Confederate government. If the South
ern people, instead Of clecting these white
rebels, had only elected eighty-five ignor-
ant and incompetent american citizens
of African descent the beauties of radical
reconstruction would have been demon,
strated, and in the cant phrase of the day,
Southern ioya9y would have been fully
vindicated. The people of the South were
unit in favor of the Confederacy, and
there are now three classes of people in
that section ont of which Congress must be
chosen. These are the native white men
of the South, the negroes, and the thieying
and rapacious carpet baggers and it is
just as natural for the people of the South
as it is for the people of the North to confer
Office on those who stood by them in their
greatest hour of need. Nearly all the cul>
ture and Intelligence of the South is con-
fined to the native white population, and
i'll that class alone, after bitter experience,
have men been found who are competent
successfully and honestly to administer the
affairs of a State, city or county govern
ment. No more conclusive proof of the
truth of proposition could possibly be iur-
nished than the paesent peaceable and pros
porous condition of Virginia, North Caro-
lima and Georgia, when contrasted with
the disorderly and corrupt state of affairs
that disgrace negro and carpet-bag supre>
macy in Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama
and South Carolina. Look at the rebel
General Gordon, an ablo and honored SEN
ator from Georgia, and then at the venal
unscrupulous carpet-bagger, John ]. Pat
tersOn, from South Carolina ; at Gen. Ran
som, of North Carolina, and the corrupt
Clayton, of Arkansas at the eloquent
Lamar a member of the House from Missis-
sippi, and at the mendacious Hayes, now
from Alabama, but lately from Connects
cut. We honor the South for sending her
ablest and most competent mon, rebels
though THY were, to Congress. Substan-
tial goo6 and no possible evil will result
from it. But why should GraEtism be so
terribly shocked at the prospect of rebel
influence in Congress? Did not Grant ap>
point Orr, leading rebel of South Caro- /.
lima, Minister to Russia, and did not radi- |.
ell Senate confirm him? Is not Hughes,
Virginia rebel, Judge of the United States
Court, and is not Col. Mosby, from the
same State, Grants confidential friend and
the dispenser of his patronage among rebel /,
office seekers in the old Dominion? Gener- /
al Longstreet was the Marshal Ney of the
rebel army, and if all the Northern blood .
shed by him could be collected in one vast /
reservoir, he might swim in it; and yet
Grant nominated and radical Senate con-
tirmed him to high civil Office in New
Orleans. The radical party must permit
The South TO select her own candidates for /
Congress, and as her people are determined
to elect her best men as their representa- /,
tives, they will give a wide berth to negro
statesmen and carpet-ba thieves.