The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-09
REPUBLICAN vIND1crrvENEss.

From Maine to oregon, wherever there Is
to be found a Republican organ, a stream of
vile and vulgar vituperation of the South is
ceaselessly flowing. These Republican news
paper establishments are political pest
houses, to which Republican lepers
are forever focking, going in
for scab or drop of poisonous pus, and go
ing out with the virus to spread far and wide
political diseases. They are sink-holes
filled with death-dealing damps, I'M
covered vaults from which proceed
noisome stencils which DEFY classifca-
ton. and which can not be named;
filled with the filth of Republicanism,
into which Republican conspirators wsllow
and wriggle like reptiles, for vitalizing
pabulum to come forth at short intervals for
the purpose of spewing the contents of their
swollen stomachs upon the South and the
Democratic party. The New York
Tribune has gained for itself an
infamous notoriety for all that is mean
and yindicnve IN politics, and is all the
more despicable from the fact that It often
seeks to obscure its hates by mock sympathy
for those whom it stabs. In a recent issue
the Tribune captions an article Southern
Poverty" and proceeds with evident
gusto to depict the ruined condition of
portions of our common country, where for
years Republican hate had full play, and
where its only monuments are desolation. 1t
says:
All observant travellers in the Cotton states
are impressed with the appearance of thrift.
lessness that characterizes the whole country,
IN FAR lin tn ia ay.
ceptions the towns have evidently seen better
days; the planters houses sadly in need OF
paint and repairs; new dwellings are rarely
met with the negroes live in the old cabins
constructed in the days of slavery, now much
dilapidated by age and want of care, or
have built for themselves wretcned huts less
spacious and comfortable than their old
quarters. There are few bridges
across the rivers, and almost none
across the creeks, 'branches" and
mailer streams. The wagon roads are in q
shocking condition, and the railroads, save a
few through lines operated by Northern CAPT
talists. are barely passable for trains running
10 or Is miles an hour. No important new
manufacturing enterprises have been under
taken in recent years. The old cotton
mills at Augusta, Graniteville and Column
bus are doing well, but there seems to be no
disposition to establish others. Com
merce at the seaports is not increasing, and
at some places mas fallen of. Charles
ton has not rebuilt the district in the
heart of the city burned over at the close of
the war; Mobile has gone backward, and Gal
weston is said to have lost 5000 of her popula-
ton. Trade IN town and country has largely
passed out OF the hands of natives into those
of Jews from Northern cities. Everywhere
the people show by their dress and manner OF
living that they are poor. Even the owners OF
large plantations wear coarse clothing, live on
palmer fare than ordinary mechanics in the
North. and are oppressed with debts accumu-
lated from year to year to meet their living
expenses.
Here is picture of desolation, in the con-
temptation of which Republican conspirators
and fends, only can take pleasure.
If true, every word Is q terrible arraignment
of the Republican party. Its darkest lines
map the roads which Republican hates have
travelled ON their errands of vengeance.
Desolated homes, plantations going back to
the wilderness, dilapidated and deserted
towns, tell not only where armies foushtand