The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-12

tlonal Democratic Committee. went I,
Y fIorida 10 watch the yotc-counfiny pro
cess. He Is, we believe, Il liberal Re
Ulpuullcan. ~ any rate his anfecedent
OlHnd dcSpotisin are 20 thoroughly couser
vniiyc that The Republican friends viii
whom he was staying at PHILADELPHIA
the invitation arrived, urged lin
\. most earnestly 10 accept it--and he al,
acccpt il, lie says ia Difference 10 tbei,
WISHES.
Mr. Satonstall's account oftbe manne,
y ny which Slealns and his colleagues ma.
y nipuiatcd The returns does not differ
materially from those already published
M one passage in his report il so ex.
!. ccedingly suggestive that we reprin,
ana commend i TO the studious atten.
tion OF our readers:
The distress and poverty ofthe white
race ia Florida exceed belief I have
heard OF carpct-bag government and
have read Of il, but never until going 10
Florida did conceive the length and
IhFeadtli Of the inamy nf such govern
Iincni. No words can describe The d.
preston, the poverty. the suffering OF
our own race in Florida. The negroes
themselves, AS consequence, are Door.
The stock has about disappeared from
The farms, There are no oxen. nor cowe
nor sheep. nor horses. nor swine. 10 be-
seen ~ greater portion Of the s~ricuI-
inral districts Of Florida. What mules
tiere are there are poor. miserable skele-
tom. The fences arc DESTROYED: the
buildings are tumbling 10 pieces and
going 70 decay the beautiful res sideuces
iiI aud about the cities are dilapidated.
and unnliabited in many instances. hi
Leon county. the county OF Tallahassee.
where the last census bit one recorded
5000 swine. the last censlls gives but
S5NV. aud from the appearance Of those
~ HE street and about the residences
they arc not ftt enough ~ frv Them 7
selves. And all This ia a country that Il |
- iicl that II needs Ong 10 ba scrtlrhe.ii
wii'' h"e 10 make il produce suchl
crops A. We hAve never ,I1csmrd ~ IN
Massachusetts,. II i, enough a. make \
rs hehf' SICK 20 drive through The conn
try A. this time there are l5.CUO acres
oi lani ~ thr hands Of Tic State. for
lriieh Tor ihc non-pasmrnt uf taxes
Nr. ,lsliiiliell. NJ Pensacola. one nf The
snu~i highly intelligent aud cultivated \,
1cnliTnen have ever incf. and who'll
i''sd ~ 'hr house with ne Tor some lwoti
yt ttire weeks. told mo that "a lis ccr- II
lHil kAnM .rd1r. rn ~ Average Tie faxes II
VI the people were sis times larger ,hanl k,
lncy wrrr Nlrn ilr whole slave pr1ucr I,
I, MAS aAcd; and tile land, which ,s;i
worth now 3 pc acre. was worth s5Oi1
ANA 10 addition ID ihi~. hc s.sl tsiat /, h
wA~ impossible lor tue people to payie
i'cit laNe>--ihat industry wa~ 4 nd anl VI
lai there waS mo productive iiiior inl
.he state. NJ
The difference Of condition between ic
hr people IN Florida and Georuia 4.
most rrnarSable ln Georgia uhcrcl
hr people have their own g5ycrn,neni. \
ain informed that the ncgr.es. since
hc STATE ~; rid Of carpci-harism. have /,
~ up from i've 70 -iA million dollars. y
remember. when going through Gcor-
An. ! was delighted 10 sec the state olt,
"ndili"nS there. The people looked
npis' 'hc negroes sang cllrrrfully a. u
hcv We're going along, cracking their II,
okes, hilt everything indicated pros y
e1.iy and iliiil. la florida every man
'oks a. if he had in.t attended the a
ncral ~ all that he loved and every /,
hing That was dear 10 him"
NO comments are needed Ia derpcn
10 colors OF the picture drawn by The ~
npartial hand OF The careful Observer. N
nd what picture il Isl! The only
'atch Tor II that we can call to mind. i IN,
g one painted by 1ainc III his An ly,
cnt Regime" when he describes the N
'ndition Of Tie rural districts of France ~
der ne CALLING. grinding tyranny OIL m
puis XIV. and Louis XIV. ~
That such condition Of affairs can Id
ist ~ one Of Tile States OF the Ameri- lro
u Union ia the Centennial wear ofl -
mcricam independence. is terrible
idcncc or the progress we are maxine \ Il
ing The road which leads 10 national!on
in That what Mr.. Saltonsiall sol
aphicallv describes. Is not the natural bc,
q inevitable result Of civil war. n
owed by the marked difference be- clio
cen Florida and Georgia. The latter Ifoo
lte suffered far more by the war than tic,
former; YET the latter i prosperous sol
! the iorincris sunk 10 the depths of.ow
verify and despair. Why this differ sac
'es Because Florida il sin wearing Il :
carpet-bag yoke. while Georgia has ow
own Il or In Florida we have Re. !
blican rule cxempifed. That tells !
whole story. Yet. II the Republican
'spirncy succeeds, the United Sfatcsls~ =
J have = President manufactured bymi.
very influence OF the very men that (,;r
2 plunged Florida into this abyss of| ~
cry aud degradation. lan,
-s. a.
Man. says Adam smith. "is an An. ~