The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-02-16


often felt that the two words, "carpet-bag-
ger" and "Ku Klux" have cost the South mill
ions of dollars. We have no doubt that
great many adventures went to the South
like the ''bummers" which used to swarm
after the armies. But il is safe to say that
nine out of ten Of the men who would have
gone South after the war, and who would
60 now if they were not deferred by
the chaotic condition of affairs, care
nothing about politics. Well, the answer
is made that if the Northern men will
only go South and keep out of politics
they will be welcome. But why should any
citizen keep out of politics.? Southern men
come to New York and go into politics
When Sunset Cox tired of Ohio and
came to New York he went at once into poll
tics. Mr.. Blaine did the same thing when
he went from Pennsylvania to Maine. And
yet no one calls Mr.. Cox, Mr.. Blaine,
or Mr.. Burton N. Harrison, the former
private secretary of Jefferson Davis, carpet
Dagger, or denies any of them the largest
liberty in politics. The liberty which We
extend to the Southern man the Northern
man has the right to receive from the South.
1t is an unhealthy sign in any political sys-
tenn when it is made reproach to man that
he was born either in the North or the South.
The conservative men in the South should
Danish the word pet-bagger" from their
politics
The Southern States have had much to
uav opd xuOund than Int tbau ara not a1Ona
in that respect We, also, have had much
to wound and annoy us. If South Carolina
has been robbed by Scott and Moses we have
been robbed by Tweed and Sweeny. No
government in South Carolina can compare
with the government of New York under the
down. The dominant sentiment in the
minds of all classes, no matter what
their color or politics, is in favor of honesty.
The thief is the exception and the rare ex-
ception. Once teach the voter in che Caro-
linas, no matter how ignorant, that the con-
test is between honesty and crime, and
the result will be certain. What the
South wants is peace and liberation.
What the negro wants is education.
There are many things that the South must
learn. 1t must learn that slavery and oil
that comes from it died with the war; 1t is
madness to think that in any way it can be
revived. The South needs capital, energy
and labor 1t needs the Northern man. If
by any means O hundred thousand Yankees
could be sent into South Carolina it would
be blessing to that State no matter what
they did in politics. For, after all, in this
hurrying, practical world, with our bread to
earn and clothes to buy, it makes little
difference how we vote. There is q far
nobler future for South Carolina and the
South than this vain longing for power. The
way to win it is to accept the inevitable as
the decree Oft that Infinite Being who controls
the destinies of men and States. In this sad
Southern question there has been folly, and
perhaps madness on both sides demo-
cratic as we'll as republican knaves have had
their will with these noble Commonwealth.
But the true course is the manly one Let the
people, without distinction of color or birth
place, unite to save the State from the thieves
who infest both parties here and, we pre-
sumo, do the same in the South. There is
work for black and white, for Northerner and
Southerner. When they once take hands
and work with q will the thieving ring in
South Carolina will be broken as effectively
as we in New York destroyed the thieving
ring of Tweed and as we hope to destroy the
thieving rings in the capital