The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-09

bivouacked, but where o4rpst bsegsn plum
dered and rioted and inaueuratsd anarchy !
and hell, in the interest Of the Republican,
party. After telling Of the Widespread ruin
and devastation, poverty and wretchedness
that affiicts the South, the Tribune says:
.Manifestly something is wrong. Economic
laws are violated in some way. Plant q new
community on the bare prairiss OF the West,
without resources, save a fertile soil and In
dustrious hands to till II, and In q few years
there will appear substantial evidence on
every hand of accumulated wealth. Yet here
are these old Southern communities Inherit
ing the advantages of railroads, seaports, nav
igable rivers and cities, and possessing viz
tual monopoly of product which all the
world wants and comes to their very doors to
seek, making no progress, and living in mere
hand to-mouth way
Undoubtedly something is wrong" and
the Democratic party has been trying for
years to remedy the wrongs. The South
has been crushed. wasted. robbed. plundered
and pillaged by Republican carpetbaggers,
knayes and thieves, and now when the
internal malevolence of the Republican
party has accomplished the largest measure
OF misfortune its policy could have antici-
pated, the Tribune and organs OF its ilk
point to the trophies of partisan
vindictiveness, and charge that the
poverty of the South is owing to the viola
ton of economic laws. Admitting that the
South is burdened with debt, and that its
industries are not as prosperous as could be
wished by men who, in the spirit of enlight-
ened craftsmanship, have sought to
remove every obstacle to South
ern prosperity, the charge or intimation
that the Southern people have not mani
tested from the first heroic spirit to i'm
every means at their command to rebuild
the prosperity of their section, is an afro
cious SANDER, which facts abundantly estab-
lish. Leaving out of the question such
Southern products as rice, sugar, tobacco,
naval stores and lumber, we find that in
1878 the raw cotton exported amounted TO
$1S2, 1881 1882, out of sum total of exports
amounting to $74s,6iS,622, about % per
cent. OF the whole; while this vast amount
| went abroad, the cotton product kept
the spindles of every factory in America
employed. During the same period the ex-
ports of Northern agricultural products, un.
manufactured, were: Barley, 81, 1I0, 900;
corn, $44.643, 900; oats, So, 3O3 900; rye, So,
325, 900; wheat, $50, 574, 900; bacon and hams,
| 50, S27, giving q sum total of $1S1 1882, 600,
| showing an excess in favor of cotton OF
| 81 ,09S, 900. In view of such official figures
it must be admitted by all fair minded men
that the South has been alive to its great
necessities, and has struggled with com.
as were never visited upon any country
under Heaven. Every consideration OF
public policy should have impelled the
Republican party, when in power,
to have aided the South to regain its pros
perity. Instead of this, Southern people
were pursued with the most implacable
hostility. We are glad to believe that the
| great heart of the North no longer responds
| to the devilish spirit of Rspublicanism, and
that the curse is well nigh played out.