Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-15
fctter from Hs. BarnWen Rhett, Jr.

r, he ulitor fhe MU York HunU:
Your issue of the 26th ult. coDtaiDs an edi
tor;a! under the head of IAN Opportunity tor
Barnwe Rhett." 1t compliments me highly
for sincerity and capacity, for which tender
nv acknowledgements. But while attrlbutiDg
10 me an Importance | do not possess, 1t IN
Weighs agaiust my efforts for the democratic
party, and holds me up before the Northern
public in light both incorrect and Injurious.
The Herald of the I'd inst and that Of the Sd
bring me forward again 10 condemnation OF my
course which is nisrepresented This Is uu-
jnst to me, to those Southern men whom aln
supposed TO represent and to the democratic
ticket support, and therefore crave small
space 10 your CO. umos to set mEself right with
you and to reach the great Northern public
whose opuions are reflected by the Herald.
| find myself described in the Herald s> the
chief Of irrecoucilabes, and classed as oUe Of
those with whom "thc lost cause is !reSher
and more potent than in war days, and the
war issues which have long been forgotten
gain new life.
Suffer me to call your attention to few
facts Upon my re-eutrance on the stage OF
editorial life, in the Charleston Jourual of
Commerce, few weeks since, distinctly an
nounccd: "rhc issues of the days gone by are
fought. We have rrverently buried our dead
aud propose TO march forward trom the past to
meet the emergencies Of the living present.
have not made mention OF ''the lost cause. ;"
have not alluded to the war; or to any Of
the war issues ''The lost cause, !" the
with the "bitterness" felt by the entire white
,,,,,,l,t;on ~ h., Cont hnrp Stotac toward tho
oppressive satrapies put over them by the re
pnblicao party and toward the political ennis
s:.rcs who have done the dicty work of band
ing the negroes 10 hostility to the whites. The
feeling is produced by the gross DiSgovernmcnt
and systematic plunder to which the Southern
people have been subjected since the war and
which are fast bankruptng these States, cOun-
t!cS, towns and citizens Of every class. The
agents of the ruin are honestly regarded IS the
worst enemies vt thcil iupeo .he noeroos and
Of the whitcs-the victims of their rapacity aud
rnmty.
The Herald correctly states that support
with oil time fcrv,r Tilden and Hendricks
l'iIden was a free sell democrat, aud at Buffalo
IN lS4S supported Van Buren and Adams. Lu
1850 he was u sQultter sovereignty democrat
and supported Douglas. He was Union man
and war democrat in 1861, and afteiward sus-
|lltlcu LIlCOlu III tIlC Oi SihPc III
,tItutons in the South to break down the lost
Cause and make the war against the Southern
tonfcdcracy successful.
submit that my recent record as a journalist
and my support OF Mr. Tilden rcfute the allie
CATION that | am irrccoucIlablc.
While described In the Herald as "a cool man,
with wide experience am yet placed in the
category of those with whom ''Northcrn men
arc carpet baggcrs-the Southern man who
Tocs acc rng to bis conscience is, ii ho votes
republican, scalawag,' and with whom there
is the same spirit of antlpathy towards the
North that was manifested before the war.
The people Of the South whom | represent
i!aw very wide distinction between the peo-
r!c Of the North and the radical par,isans of
the North. They make a still wider distinction
i'2rwecn Northern men coming to the South to
engage in any regular business and briog capl-
ill, ard the radical emssaries and political ad-
Fenturcrs who have come here to array the
Drgrocs in opposition to the whites, and to use
Ike power conferred upon the uegrocs for per-
sona pluoder and republican ascendancy,
through the political depression, social degra
catou and pecuniary robbery of the whites:
They are the authors of the 'color line" and
race issues" of the misrule aud anarchy por-
galing every State which they govern.
|! the people of the North and those who
shape their opinion could notice the character
Of the negro radical governments imposed upon
the Southern States they would marvel at cur
patience and hurry the reform we seek. 10
c0ablc you to get faint idea OF the govern
msnt of South Carolina will present few
.aets-tirst as to the personnel OF lose who oc-
cupy the seats of power, and then, as to the
abuse Of their power, to the Injury and pros
?cctlvc destruction Of the people.
THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Ecetmive Department Governor, d. Il.
'harn5eraln, white carpet bagger from Mas
s"husctts; Lieut. Governor, r. Fl. Glcaves,
mualio carpet bagger from Louisiana; Treas.
lFcr, t. l.. Cardoza, mulatso scalawag, from
>}uth Carona Secretary of State, ii. Il.
il.ync, mulatto scaIawag, from South Carolina;
Attorney General, w. Stone, white carpet
'agSer, from Vermont; Superintendent of Ed
lticn, J. *. Jilseu, white carpet bagger,
;tom-~-; Ajjutant aud Inspector General,
Il. h. purvls, mulatto carpet. bagger, from
I'nrrr'van'a.
Legislative Department t-Presdent of the
>:aalc, Il. II. GraveS. mulatto carpet-bag-
;er trom Louisiana OF SO senator's, 70 are
'a.ieaS, I conservatives, l9 arc negroes aud
Ana';ocS, white carpet bagge's, ) white
';alawlgs, and white conservatives or demo-
STATS.
oi l24 members of the House of Represcu-
'A''ve>, 81 are radicals, SO conservatives, 10
''c negroes or mulattocs, white carpet bag
SeFs, white scalawags aud SO white coDser
Sa'lr"S or democrats.
"'"iictuy Deparnent-The Supreme Court
SyrsIstS OF judges-Chief Justice +. l. Noses
"h!ie scalawag from South Carolina; first AS
t'aatc Justice, a, l. Willard, white carpet
J,,s;er, from New York; second Associate
%u't'G$, }. j. Wright, negro carpet bagger,
i2H';l, ii'2'l Pennsylvania. The Circuit Courts are
n'M by judges, elected by the L,gisl lature.
=. -: these 5 arc carpet baggers, 8 Scalawags
.a ccnser7atives-l republican and dem
u, 10 1850 the taxable property of this State
Sss 500, ,2SS. The annual State tax was
,"1 ,~1'0oo The Legislature, sitting three weeks,
rOs 0. saeh member paid So per diem and milage,
''st Tie Stat, sic rbo pDfio n o.