The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-12
The south Wants Rest Instead o.
Medicine.


the lamentable condition of society in some
of the Southern States? These gentlemen
have been allowed to fix the policy on which
reconstruction has been carried out IN those
States. Whatever has been done down
there by republicans has been done not only
with their consent but by their initiative.
The policy is theirs the men who carried it
into effect were and are their political allies
and friends, whom they have supported; at
their instance the President has used the
federal forces to countenance and MAINTAIN
both the policy and the men. And now.
after they have had their way entirely for
nearly eight years, they burst out INTO COM
plants that matters are worse than ever
down there. Is not this blunder OF the
first class? Is it not an open confession
that their policy was mistaken one; that
their friends whom they have so vigorously
supported in carrying it out were not tit
men; that, in short, they who now complain
have experimental in the wrong direction!
Suppose a physician who had been treat
ing patient for seven long years should Mt
the end publicly say that the poor fellow
was worse than when he first came under
his treatment /; that he had not benefited in
the least by the medicine, and that his case
seemed to the doctor on the whole less hope
full than when he began to administer his
boluses? Probably the faculty would unite
in calling him quack and his patient q
victim of wrong treatment But in any case
the doctors confession would not rebound
IL.
the sick man to try another physician to
see if different treatment would not at least
alleviate his misery. And if, across the
street, there should be found half dozen
men who had been i'll of the same
disease and who had measurably re-
covered under Numerically opposite
method and medicine only very
little common sense would lead the
sick mans friends to dismiss the quack and
engage more successful doctor. Consider
these sick brethren Of ours. Louisiana, ac-
cording to Drs. Morton, Kellogg and Pack
ard, is in q very bad way indeed; Missis-
sippi, according to Drs. Boutwell, and Ames,
is nigh unto death, and they can think of
nothing to help but more and bigger doses
all the time Of the medicine they have been
forcing down the throats of these patients
for seven long years. But over in the ad-
joining street we find Arkansas, once just as
dangerously ill Mississippi; but under
DIR. Garland and n different system Of treat
ment that patient has entirely recovered.
On the other side are Alabama and Georgia;
both of these have changed doctors and both
are nearly we'll. There is an occasional
twinge of the old pain, but they are on the
high road to recovery.
All but they have not been cured by DR..
Boutwell's celebrated pills, and DR.. Mortons
far-famed sticking plasters, and General
Grants solution of lead. That is the real
cause of all the cutlery. These doctors seem
to care less about making the man we'll than
they do that he shall remain under their
treatment. And when the poor fellow per-
sists in getting worse, no matter how much
of their medicine they ram down his throat,
then they get up and scold him. He is
wretch, scoundrel, because he complains
and is unhappy. And as to the fellows over
the way, Dr. Boutwell, and DIR. Morton hint
gloomily that they are only pretending to be
we'll that it is oil painful fraud they are
not Yell at all, but sick and will presently
die.
the people who are its subjects prosperous
and contented. Such q policy is not like
the moral law or the Ten Commandments
irrevocable and to be endured whether it
makes men happy or not. A political policy
is an expedient. 1t is one way to reach
result, and the condition Of adopting and
trying it is that if it does not succeed it
shall be changed. Governor Ames and his
party and methods have ruled Mississippi
for several tedious years, and the State and
both races living in it are less happy and
less prosperous to-day than before. Evil
IDENTIFY Ames and his policy are failures,
and it would be wise to try some other way.
But here comes Mr.. Boutwell, and demands
that Ames and only Ames is COM
petent to deal with Mississippi; that
his policy-only more of it's the
only adequate remedy. Governor Cham
berlain, in like manner, has been trying
to set things right in South Carolina. We
do not doubt he means we'll: but what is the
result? After long and fair trial, ''confound
the State" says Senator Morton, lit is no
better than before. We must give them
another twist of Chamberlain" kellogg and
Packard and their noble compeers have been
working ut Louisiana since 1858, and because
they have not made the people contented
and prosperous therefore they insist on be-
ing still longer retained by federal interpo-
sition rs her rulers Is it not ali great folly
and absurdity? In fact, all this cutlery
very grave tragedy.
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