The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
HOW THE NORTH RELIEVES A LIE.

ihe Whole system of Radical govern
ment in the South was devised to subordi-
nate whites to blacks, and thus to give
these States Radical masters, making social
systems utterly intOlerable. So UNANIMOUSLY
Insutferable has this partisan conduct be-
come that there is hardly white South
erner, however embittered in former years
against Democracy, o. however devoted to
Douglass or Bell, as against Breckenridge,
Davis and Yancey, that heIdoes not adhere to
the organization which Tiiden leads
! Everywhere in the SDu,h, among those who
stood by the ConfedeIacy 10 the last, the
assertion is constantly made, and by many
/ if a moderate and wise and lber-
al leader of the people, who could
rise above parties and discard both
organizations and def both-such a party
and such leader C, uld control more than
half of the white voting power of the
South. These people, if they would, can
not help themselves. There is no possible
place inside the Radical camp for n South
ern white man, and if Hayes be elected
and Morton be his master, there never can
be. To say nothing of moral denominations
in the shape of local civil rights acts and
Of the attempted degradation of the people
of the South, robOeries placticed by Radi-
calism have repelled decency to such an
xtent that no honest Southernor who sym
| patlized with the wronged and robbed
can affiliate with the Republican party. A
| simple statement illustrates facts asserted
and holds the South blameless.
The property valuation in South Carolina
amounted in 1860 to S49O, 600, 900; in 1870,
it was $4,000, 900, a decline of 67 per
cent. The tax levy amounted in 1860 to
$500 600; ir 1873, to 81, 700 600, an in
crease of nearly 800 per cent The legisla-
tive expenses amounted in 1860 to $40, 900 :;
IN 1873, to 1921, 900, an increase of nearly
| 700 per cent. The same extraordinary
calamit es and even more terrible befel
each State or county or city that has been
suhjeCted to Radical sway. The Republi-
can party in its rage, when led by Thad
5 -evens and hating Andrew johnson,
ovenged itself, when Johnson was impo-
tent by fastening federal codes upon the
SJuth that were ruinOusly oppressive and
even more offensive to popular prejudices.
Ins cad of separating Wings and Unionists
from Secession Democracy, every possible
act was done to separate the races and Or
ganize political parties defined by rsce-fea-
1 o,,l
necessary cons quence of this whole history
OF ten years of misrule is discovered in
consolidated South, fools or knaves lift up
their hands in holy horror, and Morton and
the New York Ti'iJuae leading the way,
the people of the n orUh ale told that
! the South, in prcferring TIlden TO
Hayes, is re-organizIng the rebellion.
| Tlden is assailed as another jeff Davis or
Yincy, aud there are honest Northern peo.
pie weak enough, in the face of plain facts
here recited, to give cred-nco to these false
assertions. The pending presidential elec-
ton will be determined by the question
whether the North believes lie or the
truth. Republican newspapers and orators,
with one voice, assert an unmixed false
hood when they say that any sane man in
the South dreams of revolt against the
Union or it's laws. There is hostility to
those who speak falsely Of us as Blaine and
Morton ard their mitators and organs have
done; and God forbid that these men
should constitute the Union, or Grant it,
impersonation, or Thad Stevens tnat of its
haiowed memories. We lbhOr these he
roes and philosophers and their practices and
speeches, and political conduct and history :;
especially do we detest the knaves set over
lie as masters when States were enslaved
and slaves liberated and masters made the
serfs of slaves. Evils enough we have
borne and outrages that no Northern white
man would have tolerated. We have been
taxed till taxation was legalized robbery,
| and this even after we had lost seven thou
sand millions of property, and after halt
the producing white population of the
| South were put under the sod. ISit strange
| that there is all united 5 nth Democracy
and Republicanism per sc ale as nothing in
| the South's eyes. Ii is the reproduction OF
| the Federal Union that we would have.
| Democracy, for the nonce, promises us free
dom and right, and equal laws and honest
local State and Federal governments. and
Republicsnism has devoted taste and learn-
ing to our vihfcation and genius 20 our
robbery aud humiliation, and If there be
those of the North who condemn a South
eru Wing or adherent of Douglass in 1870
for adhesion to Tildcn in 1876, we can nell
ther comprehend nor sympathize. II Hayes
become President whether the dissolution
of the Democratic party be the result or
not, he can shape as he chooses the course
| of political events in these Southern States.
II he and his Congress adopt the proper
policy, doing evt handed justice to whites
and blacks aud reproducing in the federal
system the government of our fathers
giving States chat degree of local inde-
pendence that was our heritage, the solu
tion of sectional troubles will be easy, and
The South never more suspected of treason.