The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-10-25
Chr SemtineL.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25.


GRANTISM IN HIS DEATH STRUGGLE.
We are now face to face with the same
es-duplcated-tha aroused the coun-
try four years ago. The scenes are dupli-
cated-it is only the localities and actors
that are changed The same means that re-
suited in q Louisiana massacre four years
since and fastened on that state a vampire
government of corrupt carpet-baggerS, are
invoked now in South Carolina to rule her
with adventures and prop the decaying
power of Grantism with bayonets The
negroes, led by unprincipled adventures,
resist the law-defy the officers in its execu-
ton. The whites rally to the support of the
officers. The negroes tear up railroad, burn
barns, and armed and organized, incite
a rebellion to lawful authority. The
whites organize resistance in sup
port OF the law and its officers and the gov
ernor of the state issues proclamation Or
dering their dispersion, the dispersion of
posse summoned by the sheriff to enforce
the law, orders their disarming, the disarm-
ing of men who combine TO protect their
property from the torch of the inccndiary
who combine TO defend their homes from
rapine, their families from lustful insults
This is the picture, as facts paint it. in
South Carolina to-day. Defeated in the
West by the votes of the people, interrupted
in their feast of corruption and luxury by
the handwriting on the wall, the Office
holders turn with hearts of bitterness and
wrath towards the South. They hope that
in the pandemonium they will create to
arouse the prejudices of the North and di-
vert attention from the evil they have done
and the dangers to which they are yet intent
on leading the people. From South Caro-
lima turn to her sisters and neighbors. First
is Georgia She suffered from the same
cause and in the same proportion. Carpet bag
government enriched her rulers but de-
spoiled her people. 1t organized anarchy.
1t arrayed the whites against the blacks. 1t
converted the profits of state property to
the pockets of the gang that ruled
her in the name of loyalty-and finally, when
by destroying the states credit by man.
moth robberies, they forced a combination
of all classes against them. the
leaders and rulers and authors of
thCSt SitHhhiCAui OOAI5or iACu W SSNtPc JuStltE
to foreign lands. There is now no more
peaceful, better ruled prosperous state in
the Union. Alabama has but recently lifted
the curse from her shoulders that once Op-
pressed Georgia Industries have revived
peace dwells within her borders and hope
sits, crowned again, in the hearts of her peO-
pie. Mississippi, also. by the aid of the col
ored people, lifted the incubus, Ames, from
off her prosperity, and she also is ruled by
intelligence, integrity, moderation and JUS
tice. Her governor does not hold his place
by arraying one against the other. He
does not maintain his power by sscrificial
offerings OF blacks to sectional prejudice and
political passions, but by encouraging and
creating kindly feelings between the races,
welding conflicting opinions into common
interest for the whole he is bringing order
out OF chaos, prosperity where
distress prevailed and enkindling
hope where despair had dwelt.
Texas, under the rule of its own people, is
taking giant strides to wealth, prosperity
and power. All that Louisiana needs to make
her spring forward into new life and vigOr
and rival her sister states of the gulf
is TO take from her throat the clutches that
strange her and paralyze her efforts. The
comparison of the condition of the states
uled by carpet-baggers with those that have
thrown off this rule, can not fail TO convince
every rejecting mind of the true course to be
pursued to attain prosperity and peace for
their people.
And it is plain as sunlight that if the aim
OF the administration was the advance
ment of the happiness. prosperity
and peace of those people, they
would direct their efforts in attaining n gov
eminent identified with their interests, their
people. their happiness, their prosperity.
But as long as this shibboleth maintains
that the success of the Republican party is
the only way Of advancing the country-that
the Republican party and the government
are one and the same-and that devotion to
the one is loyalty to the other, so long will
all the machinery OF the government, all the
power at its control be used to maintain it
in its continued exercise of its arbitrary will
regardless of the rights of the people, of the
justice Of its action, or the liberties of the
masses 1t has become an oligarchy; and
Grant, Butler, Morton, Logan, Cameron,
Blaine are its high priests.
FROM DIPLOMACY TO WAR.