Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-18
PEACE IN THE SOUTH.

Since the withdrawal of Republican bay
onets from the South, profound peace hath
reigned throughout all her borders. The
departure of the tyranical soldiery unbound
the sbackles, and left the people free. The
olive branch of peace quoted the turbulent
waves of contention, and the war thunder of
the carpet Dagger has no longer been heard
in the land. From Maryland to the Rio
Grande, and from the extreme boundaries
ofsArkansas, away out on the Indian Territ-
DRY, to the Atlantic Ocean, there is peace.
What wonderful change is here? Before
the long and dark stormy night
of oppression ended, during eleven
terrible years Of robbery and plumber, no
living tongue can tell the suferings of the
Southern people. The entire labor system
of centuries revolutionized, with four mill
ions of Ignorant, thriftless, lazy, enfrahchised
slaves, sunk to the lowest depths of poverty,
every cry, every prayer for relief, spurned,
plundered, trampled upon, insulted in all the
relations of life, Inundated to degradation,
there is no sadder, no more painful picture
in all the annals of national crime. Poland
was dismembered, but her heroes had the
privilege of death. The cry of Hindostan
assembled to God for vengeance, and Warren
Hastings was dragged by the immortal Burke
and his associates to the bar of justice.
But it was necessary for the rule of the
carpet-baggers and the success of the Repub-
ican party that the strife in the South
should be kept up, that Federal bayonets
should be kept there, and that occasionally
some military snob with high sounding
title should be sent there to insult the people
and to report them still in state of rebel
lion. This was all a part of the Infamous
and blackhearted system of Republican poll
ticians and swindlers. Almost every flash of
the wires, preceding elections especially, was
loaded down with negro outrages and the
cruel treatment of some sickly Union
man who had strayed down there
to do a little stealing. These
things were manufactured or gotten up by
the carpet-baggers themselves. Yarmouth
of Louisiana was candid enough to say, on
one occasion, that the murder of negro OF
two would be a Godsend for the Republican
party.
Finally, it came to pass, that public opin-
ion forced the withdrawal of the troops. It
was more the omnipotent force of public
opinion than the act of any one man. Light
had at last dawned on the minds of the peo-
pie. They saw that they had been duped by
Grant and his myrmidons, they saw that the
country and it's resources were being ruined in
order to save the rotten organization known
as the Republican party from the doom
of infamy. And no Republicans, whether
President de jure or de tacto, or both, or
neither, could have remained in that Presi-
dental chair and kept those troops in the
South.
But wherefore all this? Where now are
the Southern outrages," and the 'snegro
killing" and the "barbarous treatment of
Union men?" Who hears of these things
now? There is no more peaceful country on
earth than the South, and never in the his
tory of mankind have we ever seen two
diverse races, different colors, formerly
master and slave, living SO peaceably together
as are the Southern people. The old ties of
affection appear to be welding them together
again.