Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-09-14

from northern JUSTICE Inc beSt OF WHOM
were ready for any deed of shame that was
safe and profitable" Mr.. Stoughton de
tends them with spirit and effect. lie says
1t is well known that when the war ended
the South was greatly impoverished, -desti-
tute of capital, unable for want of that and
labor to cultivate the lands. which had be
come wasted and almost worthless. North
ern capital was needed and earnestly asked
tor, and much was taken South. Great
numbers of worthy. industrious mcn-many
of moderate means and some OF considerable
wealth-went from the North to the South
ern States, with their wives and children,
intending permanently to remain. The vast
majority went TO settle, to work, and to live
honestly. They purchased and leased plant
ations, they opened stores, they built mills,
they bought and worked mines, they engag-
ed IN teaching and entered upon all branches
of protective industry. Statistics carefully
gathered show that in South Carolina alone,
between January, lSGG. and January, 1869,
not less than two thousand ahle-hodled men
from the Northern States. with their faml-
lies. settled, carrying with them and actual
ly investing in active business pursuits over
thirteen millions of dollars and in addition
to this, not less than one thousand more set
tied there from the North, and were engaged
in teaching. or in the practice of professions
not requiring capital. And it is fair and
probable estimate, that from lS66 to 1865
there settled from the North, in The States
nf Virginia. North and South Carolina
Georgia, Florida, Alabama Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas,
not less than sixty thousand men, mostly
with families, carrying and Investing in ac-
tive industries there not less than the enor-
nous sum of one hundred and eighty mil
lions of dollars.
This great body of settlers were free men,
accustomed to the ways of free society. They
went South, net as politicians, but AS cltl-
zens. Civil government was, however. a
necessity to them, aLd when the era of re-
construction came, and the native whites
withheld their aid from the mass OF cOlOred
voters, as they sullenly and for long time
did in every State, the Northern settlers had
no alternative but to take an active part in
political affairs. Upon them, then, tell the
hate and vengeance Of the white Democrats,
and the name of carpet-baggcrs was
applied to them. All the milder forms
of coercion were exhausted upon
them, - social OstraciSm in all its
forms. Then came active persecution.-
warnings to leave the State, accompanied
with demonstrations calculated to destroy
the peace and sense of security of the iami-
lies of Republican settlers shooting at
night around and into their houses; and j.,
these failing, assassination and murder
4 a.
like these, were driven from the South, they
were able to carry but little property away
with them.
But it is said the city of New Orleans has
been plundered by the carpet-baggers, and
its property 50 taxed as to be worthless. A
few facts will dispose Of this miSstatement
With the exception of part of the year
1870, aud from the time of the election in
that wear until November, lS72, that city
has been for a generation or more, and still
is, under native white Democratic rule OF
mayor and alderman and council. In $50
Governor Flanders-an estimable man, as
we are assured, and a RepublIcan-was
appointed mayor by Governor Yarmouth, to
hold office as such in conjunction with
a council-part white and part colorcd-
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haro go - hcon o"n
tinued No Republican Legislature of
Louisiana ever imposed debt or charge
upon the city except for its due proportion
of State taxation, nor did such Legislature
ever authorize the city to increase its debt
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