The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-04-17
BLOWING HOT AND COLD.
now TIE C.IRPETBITGERS ARE
VIEWED BY OLD FRIENDS

a few wholesome truths from infiential
Radical Journalist Blaine still bowling
the political Baal.
Now that the sceptre has for ever
passed away from Southern Radical
ism, none are more severe in their
denunciations of carpot-bagism and
negro domination than those very
journals which were bowling negro.
philists and foul-mouthed calurn-
niators of the Southern whites as
long as such course brought grist
to their mill. Here is what tho
Chicago Tribune has to say in com
menting upon Packard's recent
defiant letter:
"Mr. Packard mistakes the value
of the services Of the carpet bag
governments to the Republican par
ty. They have beon disgrace and
q reproach to the Republican party.
They have been q burden under
which the party has staggered for
several years. It was the reproach
that the Republican party was
coercing the people Of the South ut
the elections by the use of bayoncts
that caused the widespread de-
foction of 1874 and 1876. 1t was
the disgraccful character of the
carpet baggers and the roproach OF
'bayonet rule that cut off 10000 of
the Republican majority in Illinois
in 1876, which rendered Wisconsin
q doubtful State, reduced the ma
jority in Ohio to q handful, and lost
to the party the electoral votes of
Indiana, Connecticut, New Jersey
and New York"
The Now York Tribune, which
was founded by Horace Greeley, and
which for years has been the special
champion Of aboitionism and uni,
versal suffrage, now boldly abandons
the cause of the down-t -trodden
African, 'and literally fays him alive.
We quote from one of it's recent
editorials, giving n retrospect of
Radical rule in tho South:
"The result is before the world.
In one way or another, by fair
means or by foul, the control of
several Of the States has been socur-
ed to tho colored race. They have
occupied the bench and the jury
box, made the laws, collected tho
revenue, voted the appropriations,
handled the money-done every
thing except pay the taxes.
They have had ample op-
port,lnity to develop their own
latent capacities, to get an educa-
tion, to make fortunes, to acquire
land, to rise in society. What have
they done of all these things? Our
correspondent in Charleston drew
picture of the condition of the COL
ored people of South Carolina, and
it is about the same in every State
where the negro has held sway. AS
race they are idle, ignorant and
vicious. They neither learn nor
save. They were fond Of their
books in the first novelty of freedom
but they care for them no longer.
They we're eager to get their little
farms, but they have lot them fall to
ruin. Why should a man 60 to
school, asks the usual typo of South
Carolina freedmen, when it is 40
much nicer to go to the Legislature
or get elected Justice of tho Peace? ?
Why should man work when he
can make living by stealing chick
ems, and sit on the fence for alnuse-
ment? Lot us face the truth. Our
Southern policy has not only been
curse to the whites, but it has
been curse to the freed people for
whose benefit it was adopted. It
has not made them good citizens.
It has not taught them how to use
tho ballot. It has introduced
among them q Generalization more
dangerous to the country than the
violence of tho white league, for no
Republican government can stand
which is not founded upon the
sutfrages of the virtuous and in
telligent." .t ~..
Other Radical journals and politi-'
clans have similar unkind words for
the carpet baggcrs. while few
apologists arc found for them any
where. Yet they are not totally
bereft. Tho Massachusetts Motho-