The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-10

ware much more powerful than the roO-
ber bands that infested Germany after
the close of the Thirty Years war. They
swsrmed over all the States from the
Potomac to the Gulf, and settled IN
b )rdes, not with intent to remain
Iere but merely to feed on the SUD-
stance OF PROSTATE and deienseless PEG.
pie. They took whatever came within
their reach. intruded themselves into all
private corporation, assumed the
functions of all offices, including the
courts of Justice, and in many places
they seven run the churches" BY force
and fraud they either controlled all
elections or else prevented elections from
bang held. They returned sixty OF
themselves to one Congress and ten or
twelve of the most ignorant and vernaI
among them were st the same time
thrust into the Senate. This false repre-.
seltstion of people by strangers and
enemies who mad not even bona hde
residence among them was the bitterest
of al mockeries. There was no snow OF
truth or honor about 1t. The pretended
representative was always ready TO vote
for any measure that would Cypress and
s1slaya his so called constituents; his
hostility was unconcoaled, and ne lost no
,portunity TO do them injury.
HIS DESCENT UPON LOUISIANA.
The Agricultural and commercial
wealth of Louisiana made hsr strong
temptation to the rpet-bsggers. Those
vlltures snutted the prey from affair, and,
=, soon rs the war WAS over, they
syooped down upon her in fOcks that
d4rkened the air. The State WAS de-
liyered INTO their hands by the military
authorities; but the officers imposed some
restraints upon their lawiess cupidlty,
They hailed with delight the advent o!
negro suffrage because 10 them 1t was
merely a legslizod method OF stutiing the
bs lot-box, and they stuffed it. Thence
forth, and down to very recent period,
they gorged themselves without let or
hin 1rance.
The depredatiOrs they committed were
.ri,nt ul They appropriated, on one
pretence or another whatever they
could lay their hands on, and then
pledged to themselves Lne credit OF the
State for VnCouI led millions more The
public securities rau down 70 hiatt price,
aud still :ucy put their irsudu lent bonds
on the market, and sold them .0t what
they would tech. the owner Of the
hes, real estate III town or country We're
utterly impoverished, because the bur-
dens upon j, were heavier than the rents
would dlscharc" Daring the last ten
Years the city OF New Orleans paid m sc
firm of direct taxes more than the "stI-
mated value OF all the property within
urr limits, and still has n debt o! equal
amount unpaid 1t is not likely that
other parts OF the State suffer
81 less. The extent OF their spoil
ations csl hardly be caicu-
lated, bu, th3 testimony of the carpet
bsggers themselves against one another,
the reports OF committees sent by Con-
g-ess to investigate the subject, and other
Information from sources entirely au-
taentic. make il safe TO say that u general
cOnhagrstion, sweeping over ali the
Slate from Oue end To the other, and de-
s.roying every building and every article
personal property would have been a
vi ration Of mercy II comparison TO the
curse of such government
This may seem al first blush like gross
eyagguration, because it Is worse than
anything that misrule ever did before
Toe greeiiest OF Roman proconsuIs lett
smelhinr to the provinces they wasted,
the Norman dId no. strip the Saxon
quite to the skin; toe PurItanS under
Or lmweil did not utterly desolste Ire.
land. Their rapscity WAS confined to the
visible things which they could
presently handle and use, They could
not take what did not exist. Bat the
American carpet Dagger has an invention
unknown to those old-fashioned robbers,
which increases MS stealing power As
much AS the steam engine adds
I, the mechanical force of mere
natural muscles He makes negOt!a-
bic bonds OF the State signs
and seals them according to the forms of
l,w," sells them, converts the proceeds TO
his own use and then detes justice "tO go
bshir d the returns BY this device his
f,lonious fingers are made long enough
, reach into the pockets OF postcrlty; he
l,ys his lien on property We! uncreated,
h anticipates the labor OF coming ages
and appropristcs the fruits OF 1t IN nj
vance; he coiLs the industry OF future
generations INTO cash auG snatchcS the
inheritance from children whose fathers
s-e unborn. Projecting his cheat for
ward BY this contrvaEcc and operating
ls.eraliv 1T the same time, he gathers M
amount of plunder which 30 country IN
the world would have yielded to the
q 9TH or the Naudsl.
THE REIGN or ANARCHY.
Security of lie can never DO counted
ON where property is not protected.
When the public authorities wink upon
theft the people are driven by stress Of
sheer necessity to defend themselves the
best WAY they can, and that defense l.
apt to be aggressvely violent. Justice.
iniuriated by popular passion, often
comes TO its victims n u fearful shspc.
Disorders, therefore, there mus. hNye
been, and bloodshed and vIo,onc" and
loss of life, though they are not
enumerated or clearly desrrbcd in the
reports. 1t Is known tina: bands
of regulators trayersed many parts o.
the State. and the fact is established tAat
seven OF the storchouses used ~ places OF
receiving stolen goods were burnt to the
GROUND IN one IlSuG. liz OA'N'4S va thN
c4rpet-bsg government "csred tor none
of these things.' They SAW the struggle
between larceny and Lynch law with as
much Indifference a. Gallo looked upon
the controversy between the Jewish syn
sgogue and the Christian Chmcn nj
Epbesus This horrible condlt,o" OF so
ciety WAS caused solely by the want 0!
@, honest Government
But this Is not nearly the worst OF It, II
carpet baggers themselves and thcr
special friends are worthy of any cred
ence at all. They testify to numerous
other murders, wanton, unprovokCd
an! strocious, committed with IMMUNITY
under the very eyes OF their government.
General Sheridan says he collected list