The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-04

portion OF the Federal soldiers now in
the South should be sent where they
can be OF some better service than that
of bolstering up the declining fortunes
of corrupt political party. By way
of "instructing' the Gazette. We will
give in detail. as reported by the secre-
tary OF war recently, the number OF
soldiers in the Southern and Northern
States. Northern States-Maine, ~:
Massachusetts, 1876; Rhode Island, 251;
Connecticut. 100: New York, S77;
Maryinn4. 2I1; Michigan, 347; Kansas,
SIS. Total in eight Northern States,
2.6i1 Southern States-Nirginia. 400;
North Carolina. 235: South Carolina,
530: Georgia. SOB: Florida, 2So; Ala
bama. 2l4; Mississippi. i61 Louisiana,
5O6; Tennessee. 200: Kentucky, 1lJ;
Arkansas. Is; Texas, =, us. Total IN
twelve Southern States. 1852. In
view OF the SIR oi the Indian war that
Is now looming" we would say that
1000 men could be spared from the
Southern States very easily, even if the
Republicans are deprived of this strong
political machine at the November
election-LOuiSriUe COHrter-J0uThdt.
The Louisville CoJrjerJ0uTndt in
dealing with public questions has, gen
orally speaking, had the reputation OF
meeting a question with some degree
of fairness. but in the above instance it
has fairly outstripped the most viru-
lent Southerner in its forced deduction.
It gives the fact and then draws con-
clusion that the facts viii not warrant,
that /, 600 troops can be withdrawn
from the South. Had it been halfway
disposed to fairness. it would have ex-
planned why 3, 71o troops are stationed
in Texas-more than One-halt OF the
entire aggregate in the South. 1t would
also have had the honesty to admit that
the largest number of troops in any one
of the other eleven Southern States
specified was less by several hundred
than the force necessarily kept in New
York or Kansas 1t would also have
had the honesty to show that the ag-
gregate of troops in the eight Northern
States (2,S17) gave those States an av-
erage of 352 each, while the aggregate
in eleven Southern States outside of
Texas, (3.33D gave those States an
average of only 303-or 40 less than the
average in the Northern States-show-
ing conclusively that it WAS not the
purpose of the Government to overawe
or coerce those States, any more than
the Northern ones, and that there were
no grounds for such apprehensions. 1t
would have explained that the large
force kept in Texas was scattered
along the Rio Grande to protect the
people of Texas from the incursions of
Mexican raiders, and that the people of
that State would be clamerous for
those very troops, if the Government
should reduce its force there to the av-
erage of the other eleven Southern
States mentioned. Nor would any pa
per of the South send up louder de-
nunciations than the G. j. if such a
move were completed. Yet of the 1000
troops which it demands to be with
drawn from the South, 3, AS could be
taken from Texas alone and leave it
with the same proportion as the rest.
To do it otherwise would require every
soldier to be withdrawn from the elev-
en- States and 6G6 from Texas. Doubt
less that would please the c. j., for it
would leave the X. h s aud the Derrin-
ger policy absolutely free to work out
their ends-the utter subiugation of
the South. The G. J. is too anxious,
by far, to have the colored citizens of
the South left to the tender mercies of
the Hamburg butchers. 1t would have
the whole South transformed into Il
Hamburg slaughter pen. But it is
comforting to believe that such counsel
is not likely to prevail.