New Orleans Republican., 1876-10-28
Especial Correspondence Of tho Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
Tho gravity of the political and social
condition Of affairs in South Carolina, and,
to some extent, in other Southern States,
has ct last become 30 notorious that tho At
tempts to belittle it by illusions to the
bloody shirt" and to divert attention
from it by charges of ''radical corruption
and misgovernment" have been pretty gem
orally abandoned by the more intelligent
class of Democratic politicians and sympa
thizers, ana the financial ruin threatening
the country in the event of Tilden's elec-
tion, through the admission of Southern
war claims, reaching to between two thou.
sand and three thousand millions of dol
lars, has become 80 apparent that the efforts
Of leading Democratic organs and speakers
have been diverted from the hopeless task
Of disproviDg the perjury and secession
record Of their "reform" candidate to the
equally tutile endeavor to conceal the
purposes Of the ''solid South" in forcing
the payment Of its demands. The recent
proclamation of the President to Wade
Hampton's Democratic ssssssins has been
exhsustively discussed here. 1t is. Of
course, characterized by rebel copperhead
partisans a. high handed outrage against
the chivalric Democracy of the Palmetto
State. and Secretary Cameron is the re.
cipient of the West abuse because of his
prompt interpretation through the military for
tho protection of voters from the brutal and
savage desiens Of their Ku. Klux neighbors.
But the indiscretion of Southern Demo
cratic editors c0nvincingly reveals the
falsity of the assertions of Northern Dem
cratic newspapers, and proves the necessity
for Just such action a. has been taken by
tho government. 1t 10 estimated that moro
than 200 colored voters have been mur-
dered by tho Ku-Klux of South Caroline
within tho past three months with
ont any attempt at coDcealment,
and these atrocities are openly sp-
plauded in the columns Of almost every
Democratic newspaper in that State and
by their public speakers at political meet
ings, and their purposes to carry the Stsee
in November by such means are every
where svowed, aud it is held here that the
government would have been recresnt to
every principle for which governments
were institu' ed had it longer delayed its in
terposition. This is the feeling, not only
among Republicans, but it is the universal
sentiment of that large class of men exist
ing in every community who reason and
vote upon matters of public interest from
moral and humane; rather than Q partisan
point of action. Many moderate Demo
crats who are conversant with the actual
situation from personal observation or from
the tone of Southern Democratic senti-
mente, admit that the interference of the
government was imperatively demaaded to
save the South from state of absolute
civil war. The only discoverable differ
ence between the situation in many
Southern communities in 1861 ard
now 10 that then their revolutionary
efforts we're openly directed against the
government and its friende, while now they
secretly plot its subversi by the murder
or banlshment Of its faithful friends and
supporters. The same men who led the
secession movement in 1861, and who have
never, by word or deed, indicated their re-
pentence, are the recognized heads of this
new conspiracy to defeat the will Of the
majority through violence. In many States
of the South the Democratic party is to all
intents and purposes IN army, organized,
Offered and armed, for the one purpose of
making rlden the next President, without
regard to the will of the majority, unless
that will comedies with that OF the leader;
and to secure to the voters of such conmu.
nities the rights accorded them under the
constitution and laws, is the only purpose
of the President in sending Federal troops
into the South.
Charles 81. Moulton, real estate agent,
money broker. note shaver, etc., has occa-
stoned quite sensation among our citizens
by hssty and secret departure from our
midst, leaving debts to the amount of from
$4,000 to 5000, ,000 to adjust themselves.
He has been heard from, it Is stated, bis
present residence being in Richmend, Vir-
ginis, from which point he sent magDani-
nous assurance of forgiveness to his cradi,
tors, with q modest proposition for COM
promise; but as the property nominally be-
longing to him is understood to be covered
by mortgages, his victims are not likely to
secure very satisfactory settlement. He
was formerly clerk in the second auditors
office, and. it is now affirmed, that while
acting as disbursing officer there he fell
under the suspicion ofA government de-
tective, whose investigation resulted in a
demand tor his resignation, which was
promptly complied with.
It is said that the engineers detailed to
81 anime the feundation OF the incompleted
Washington monument, have decided to