The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-11-28
THE GOVEREMEST, THE BULL
DOZERS AND lIR. AElARY \
EXARTS.

ington last Tuesday, SAID:
There is no use denying the fact tha
the Southern people have suffered
grcatIy-the Southern whites, l mean
from the sudden revcrs6meut of thei
social system or fabric-the sudden in
;eriection into their voting aggregat
of an element Of ignorance and tn
const quent domination of uneiucate
and inexperienced powers in their po
litical aiT4irs. Ii was perhaps a mis-
take that this was done by the Repub
lican party of the North. But all thi
does rot justify murders and wholesal
disregard Of existing law.
In this MI. Evarts has repeated al
most the very words often used in thes,
pages. While there is no defense o
the craftsmanship of those who inject
ed this potent force of ignorance ant
incapacity into the governments o
the South, that Southern stupidity anG
ignorance is even less defensible whIcl
proposes to discover 4 remedy by re
sorting TO violence. Those gopher dig
gers of the pine barrens of Florida
who have undertaken to control result!
of elections by bloody deeds, deserve
Southern eXecration as we'll as Fedora
punishment. They are the worst enemies
of the South who assume to be the
worst enemies Of the hapless negro. The
negro is inolfensive and unoffending.
AS voter he was, for years, the mere
agent of those who proposed to main
tain supremacy in Congress through
the intervention OF Radical or negro
Congressman elected by blacks. When
there were fifty negro chosen Senators
and Representatives sent up by blacks
from the South, fifty votes were
added to those cast by Conkling and
Thad Stevens, and Conkling and Ben
Butler ale outraged that by one and
another device of local legislation and
ingenuity in managing elections New
England receives no delegation, of re-
cent years, from the Gulf States. The
negroes are not to be blamed that New
England has lost power and the grow
Ing feeling in New England that suf-
frage should be restricted to capacity
in all elections and to taxpayers in
corporations arises from this alleged
treason of Southern Africans to New
England's representative agents in the
South. But New England wrongs the
negro. Sambo is the victim of Southern
as well as Northern party-leaders and
managers. Chalmers, of Mississippi,
an original secessionist and able general
of the Southern army,is escorted to his
seat in Congress by $4,000 blacks.
They followed circas hired by Jhal-
mers, over Chalmers's district, and
believe that Chalmers will make the
Freedmen's bank disgorge. The
North should not lose faith in Sambo
for these things. lie is the North's
victim to-day and ours tomorrow and
at all times the dupe of men shrewder
than himself. Therefore the enormity
of the outrages said to have been done
in Florida, where the negroes were
fired upon Dy malevolent brutes and
assassIns.
Mr.. Evarts talks most nationally and
justly. He says the President, admin
istering the government as directed
by the Constitution and country's
laws, can have no policy. An
honest and worthy president
can have none. The cOuntry's codes
are the only guide he can have, and
the president who accepts another is
perjured and unworthy of his place,
and yet every Establishment that
power, place, honor and prejudice
could proffer have been thrust before
Mr.. Hayes to seduce him from the
path of duty, even as Conkling
5OuSuG W OlINO ulul W JllS CACCuGlOu
of his mslevolent, sectional, selfish
purposes. What ConkIing failed to
do it was thought that the Southern
bulldozers had accomplished, but the
Secretary of State says:
The idea of force to repress vic
lence in the South, however empty it
may have been, was repugnant to our
people IN the North and the whole
country. OF course we have our
trouble, like the Southern question we
have been talking about, and the sill
yer question, but that is about all,
and we shall survive them. A small
disturbance in a remote corner of a
great ant-hill may arouse and excite
the entire colony of ants. They may
rush out of their holes and 90 crazy
over trife, and they may destroy
themselves to greater or less extent
before peace and quiet are fully re-
stored. But the American people are
not pismlres.
They may not be pismires, end sure
ly are not, but in conduct are very
like the little insects. Even now does
the whole North go mad because of
those little personal and local disturb
ances in Florida and elsewhere, which
Federal commissioners are investigat-
ing, as in this city, with painstaking
assiduity. 1t is to be regretted that
the exponent of Mr.. Hayes is forced
to say that
The President trusted the Southern
leaders, believing that they were In
earnest IN their professions of deter
mination to preserve the integrity of
American citizenship in their respect
i've States. But the first election has
passed and he discovers that his trust
has been betrayed-that is to say, that
these Southern leaders have not OBJ
served or have not been able to keep
their pledges. They were the natural
and legal representatives of the South
ern people here at the capital, and the
proper persons, officially and other
wise, with whom he should have cor
suited regarding Southern affairs. So
you see, even his consultations with
them were not in the nature of an ex-
pertinent.
It is a pity that Mr.. Evarts thinks
that the promises OF our conservative
have not been kept. It
is a PITY that there are ignorant, pas
sionate, impulsive Idiots in tie South
who esteem 1t their duty to show their