Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-13
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, D. e., Aug. s

himself revolving in his mind this
question "What can the South
expect the near future to bring her
wealth and prosperity" Last
week we read an account how the
Democratic party got mad at an IN
dependent Democrat in 1azoo
county, Miss, who was running tor
| Sheriff. and mobbed him OF the
track. The party has followed the
mob business until it has become a
mania with them, and now they pro-
pose to regulate everything by mob
violence. They have driven Re-
publican leaders out of the South
| by mob violence. This party
knows no method Of reform except
by fighting. Seeing they could not
induce the colored voters to join
them, they instituted the "red
shirt" reform. But it won't work,
and away goes the poor
black man in the s tracks of
the red man, hunted down.
Because the steamboats, on the
Mississippi carried these poor
American citizens pshaw away from
the red-handed' ,murderers, who
lurked about their poor cabin homes,
the citizens Of the South have tied
up these same boats on technical
ity-i. e., from the fact that the
boats carried more deck passengers
on these trips than the law said
they should carry. These indict.
ments were only the expressions Of
puny spite. This appears to be
true, from the fact that no one ever
before made complaint about the
number of deck passengers carried
by any boat and it is notorious that
at almost every trip during seasons
of great travel epidemics, ETC.,
more deck passengers are carried
than the law allows. These indict-
ments also are intended as lesson
Tor steamboat captains who may in
the future be tempted to carry q
body of citizens oh, pshaw, ex-
cuse me, slaves I meant
from one State to another. I have
just read sketch how General
Swails, eelered citizen 20, don't
mention it, of Kingstree, South
Carolina, and a commander of the
State troops, was driven from the
State. He~published a letter re-
citing the treatment he had received,
and for this ,offense was sued in the
courts for libel, his property taken,
and this American cit 20, y
rendered homeless, That's the
way they defeat the Radicals down
South. They have peculiar
method Of paying their debts in
nearly all portions of the South
that is about as peculiar us their
political tactics. Omnipotent L!
You shall or you shan't! We will
or We won't Then the South has
peculiar method of showing its
public spirit. If legislator votes
for common sense law levying
tax on real estate to keep public
roads in good condition, or a bill to
work convicts on turnpikes, or a
bill favoring sheep-husbandry, or a
law expanding and Strengthening
the public schools, he will in many
counties be retired as an ass never
to flop his ears or bray in the halls
of legislation again.
If any member of a County
Court vote to pay a County Super
intendent of Public Instruction as
much as six or eight hundred dollars
a year, that man will catch it next
election at least, in some counties
in the South. If School Director
proposes to pay teacher over,
$25, 90 or $40. 90 aynonth. woe unto
that School Director. Or if the
Directors of a county spend public,
money placing suitable furnishings
in the school rooms, or paying the
expenses of a Normal School, then
howl comes up from the citizens.
If man from the North or else
where drops in, preaching new doc
trines of agriculture, stock raising,
building school houses, conducting
the social world, ETC., he will not
meet with much favor, not now.
Now, want you to lay down this
paper long enough to study up and
count over all the new corners YOU
have in your community. Very few
are coming to the South. Live, &C.
tive men don't want to locate
in such q country. I. know
this sounds plain, and perhaps
harsh. Bat when we hit the spot
it always makes people open their
eyes. It is not all on account of
the South's illiberal politics that
men stay away and let her fields
grow in briars and wash full Of
gullies. A man who has grit
enough to move around in this
world generally has progressive
ideas and don't like to live among a
set Of old fogy neighbors, who be.