The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-16
THU WOES OF BOSTON FROM A
SOUTHERN STANDPOINT.


The condition of the Gulf States as af
fected by the poverty of the people, by
the Impossibility Of obtaining advances on
crops as in former years, and the universal
ity of petty depredatious committed by
hungry negroes these are facts that be-
get enmities and discomfort, thus giving
origin to collisions that will be continuous
and irrepressible. It is also, true that in
counties and towns in which the negroes
are absolutely omnipotent the white people
are impatient of incurable poverty wrought
bv thieves invested with Office by the STU
pid blacks. In New England it is all very
well if the ex-planter's estate is practically
conf3cared by the ex-slave. II it quite
pleasing in New England that po o'erty is
made the law, and comfort and decency the
exception in wide negro-populated districts
of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina. But it so happens that the whine
people of these impoverished counties, see
ing no hope for themselves, aud that it is
quite impossible to make their own condi.
ton worse, are more than willing to have
military masters substituted for thieves and
knaves placed in Office by the blacks.
Therefore, the evils of which Senator Al
corn has been talking are perhaps incurable.
We do not know how tamely New England
ers would submit if the descendants of
the negroes they sold the South were
oh To 70
tons, Quincys and other mayors of the
ancient capital, or how well Boston would
be pleased if the very dregs of Southern
society were sent thither to shape the Off
sion of the Hub. We are much inclined to
think that Winthrops and Appletons and
Parkers and Lawrences would become ex-
ceedingly ''rebellleus," " and that Governor
CASTOR would be forced to call on Grant for
assistance in the maintenance of order and
quiet even in the patriotic precincts of Fan
euil Hall. But it is our OK that is gored
and not theirs of New England, and there
is no help for Africanized districts of the
South, save in the substitution of military
despotism for negro despotism, and the white
people prefer bayonets to blacks. There have
been disturbances begotten, solely fer the
purpose, we doubt not, of precipitating the
Presidents intervention. State rights and
State freedom would signify nothing to
Bostonians if negro rabble managed the
city, making property on Washington and
fremont streets valueless and investing So
ciety in all its aspects with such disgusting
features that strangers entering the city
turned away in horror. Would Boston
weep if Grant sent soldiers, commanded by
white men and by educated gentlemen, to
subvert the established black system in Bos-
ton? Why does not Senator Alcorn present
the plain facts, and why should Lamar and
Gordon go laundering vapid nonsense be-
fore the million. Lamar has just reached
conclusions and asserted purposes for the
announcement of which, eight years ago,
Alcorn was proposed to be denied ad-
mission to a Southern city, and now
Gordon and Lamar cling to the vain
delusion that unity and peace would
be possible in Boston if Timbuctoo were
set up in absolute supremacy in the old
State House on King street. MIR. Attor-
ney- General Pierrepont and Secretary Fish
need not go through the senseless forms of
consultation about it. There will and can
be, and should be, no peace in Boston. Let
the soldiers be sent forward at once. Let
the statehood of Massachusetts, sacred as II
is in the eyes of those who were taught from
childhood to revere memories that Peter
Farley embalmed in our hearts, wonderful
as were the deeds and wisdom of the patri-
OTIS of the venerable commonwealth = lei
them disappear that Timbuctoo may ravage
Boston and that savagery may supplant civ
ilization and that the black may become
partially white. We pity Boston but ''hu
manitarianlsm" demands the sacrifice an6
the troops must move upon Boston.
We have stated the facts as they are
save that "Boston" is substituted where tn,
word Mississippi" should occur, and we
speak of that which we do know, that how
ever terrible the calamity to other states
the sooner Missi sippi ceases to exist ant
becomes in fact and in form satrapy gov
erned by military masters, in substitution
for negroes and carpet-baggers, the bette
for the hapless white people. They woult
not bring down upon other communitie
woes that befall themselves, but when on
star, whether Massachusetts, or Mississippi
ia stricken from its place in the ralaXy o.
states, the reign of darkness has begun and
the splendor of the heavens is slowly bu
surely dimmed forever. We see to-day tn
beginning of the end.