Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-16
What SoIidified the South.

Public sentiment throughout the
North has singularly failed to take
adequate account of the causes
which have resulted in the solid
South, yet the same causes would
have produced the same effect in
any other section of the Union.
The Republican masses of the
North appear to regard Southern
solidity as indicative of the totally
depraved condition of the Southern
whites, when, in fact, 1t simply
shows that they are more fit to
claim a common lineage and share
o common destiny with their breth-
rem in the North. We undertake
to say in truth and solidness, and
not only to say, but to show SO
clearly and forcibly as to convince
any honest, unprejudiced mind,
that the white people of the South
were driven into their present po-
litical unity by forces of Northern
Republican origin, and such forces
as could not possibly have produced
any other effect without q suspen-
sion of natural laws. There can be
no honest, intelligent man in any
portion of the North who, if he will
camly review the facts in the case,
and will judge others by himself,
will not admit that the solidifica-
ton of Southern brains, manhood,
character, social influence and pros
perity was a simple and unavoida'
ble act of obedience to the first law
of nature-the fiat of the Creator.
The reasonable limits of a news
paper article prohibit the citation
of evidence in detail, and we can
only give aggregated results of in
vestigations. This we propose to
do to show how South Carolina was
made solid, and We present South
Carolina as sample, for the same
kind of work was prosecuted, to a
greater or less extent, all over the
South. Rascally adventures from
the North, in alliance with the
worst class Of negroes, seized the
machinery of State government
and welded it as an instrument oi
wholesale robbery and intolerable
oppression. Legislatures, com.
posed of few white scoundrels
and O mass of ignorant and vicious
negroes, turned State capitols into
dens of thieves and prostitutes. In
a single year the gang who held
South Carolina By the throat,
while Grant held bayonets at hei
heart, ran up bill for Legislative
expenses" only, amounting TO moIs
than million and half of dollars
The negroes and their white asso.
ciates-as shown by official records
now before us-bought furniture,
clothing, dry goods, groceries. pro-
visions, wines, millinery, jewelry-
In short, all that their rude natures
prompted them to call for, and the
State paid the bills.
We will give few footings from
the official accounts of single ses-
sion OF that assemblage of states.
men-that Infamous, seething, fes-
tering mass of bestial villainy, OF
which the black prostitute was the
ruling element. And we want Re.
publicans to look at these figures
Before condemning the Southern
Democrat for advocating solid
South 'put yourself in his place"
This british crew, calling itself the
Legislature of South Carolina, in O
sample session, expended $262. 1885,
so for wines, liquors, groceries, etc
IT any similar assemblage in any
Northern State had attempted such
rascality the people would have
risen in their righteous wrath, and
hurled them out of the capitol, and
most of them would have gone ou,
dead, and all the decent men and
women in the State would have
said "well done ~
But there are other Items ol
Legislative expenses" for that
sample session that are as bad as
the grocery and liquor bill. They
paid for stationery, although few
of them could read or write, $685.
400. 80; for newspapers, SIS, 767; fol
furniture, mostly for private use,
$116,578. Think Of it! More money
than all the legitimate bills OF a
session should amount to, stolen to
buy furniture and carpets for the
wives and mistresses of those black
and white thieves! For printing,
this illiterate mob paid just $780,
000-enough to defray all the ex-
penses of legislature for four or
| five years! They had on their rolls
SS8 employees, including ITO porters,
124 pages and three chaplains, and
they paid those black loafers and
pimps $3.50, 1897. The entire expense
of the session was ST ,533. .574. .78. The
total cost OF session under Demo-
cratic rule, after solidification oc-
Cured, was $84,096.
We have given these accurate
statements OF fact to show by what
means the Southern people are
forced to throw off their oppressors
by uniting in political antagonism
to organized robbery. No people
worthy of liberty could have done
otherwise. There il nothing in
modern history of civilized nations
more cruel than the wrongs infilct-
ed on the South during the era OF
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