Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-06-28
ss9, $50. Virginia received S2O.O5O

North Carolina, So, 3O0; South Carolina,
81, 900; Georgia. $3.50; Florida $751;
700; Alabama, $500; Mississippi, SILL
| 800; Louisiana, $4,000; Texas. $4,000
Arkansas, $4,000; Tennessee, $14, 500
West Virginia, 1 1900. The amounts
paid South Carolina, Florida and Lou
isiana are proportlonately small, because
of their failure to foster public educa'
ton, the idea of the trustees being to
help them who help themselves" These
were the states which still remained un'
der the control OF the republicans through
bayonet rule, and it is to be remarked
that these three states, avoided by the
Peabody trustees, were the ones only IN
which the conspiracy was possible which
resulted in defrauding the people OF the
| United States OF the president whom
they had elected. Mr.. George Peabody
Russell, of England. who had spent the
previous winter in the south expressed
to the meeting above alluded to, the
opinion that nothing could be expected
from those states (South Carolina, Flor
ida and Louisiana) in the way of advan'
cling their educational interests until
there was an entire change in their state
governments. These statements need
no comment. They come from disinter'
ested and intelligent sources. and will
be seriously questioned by no one.
The miserable plea that republicanism
gave the south immigration is also here
set up. Yes, such immigration as was
the descent of the Goths into Europe in
the third century. An immigration OF
vampires who came to suck the life
blood of the people. Men sent by re-
publlcans to republicanize the south. but
who resorted to such d~espicable means
to accomplish their ends that their own
political brethren in the north were teign
to disown and spew them out as unclean
things. "Massacre, insecurity. DEATH
came in the wake of the lncendiarY
teachings of the ignorant blacks by the
alien robber, and the whites suffered
the dire consequences which resulted
the flight OF capital and the prostration
of their country. And what keeps cap
ital now from the south? The accursed
enmity and Misrepresentation of such
miserable creatures as the n of whom
we write. who abuses his rare opportu-
nifty for good. and who would rather see
the south a bowling wilderness than to
acknowledge that there is any virtue in
the land of Washington, and Jefferson,
and Madison, and Light Horse Harry,
and Marion, and Pinckney, and Carroll,
and the Jacksons, and the Lees, the
Johnstons and the Hamptons.
That there is more brutality and crime
in the south than in the north, as this
Puritan charges, is not true, and that the
negro is oppressed is none the less false.
Where removed from the influence of
the republican politician, as he has been
in Georgia for q longer time than in the
other states, he is prosperous, and is be-
coming a property holder and a better
and better citizen. The south is poor
because she was ravaged by the war.
robbed by the carpet-bagger and is now
beng daily maligned IN thousands of
northern papers, which, in 1njuring her
are also doing harm to their OWL Sec
ton, as it must be clear that a prosper
u south would greatly assist in making
a prosperous north. That the north car
boast of her prosperity, however. will be
news to most persons, as her W press
has assured US for some years past OF
her languishing commerce, her failing
banks, her idle factories and her army
of tramps. Far be it from US to impute
these, however, to the lack of intelli-
geRce or virtue in her people, but rather
let us attribute it to the public policy
which has in this country for some
years been all for the rich and against
the poor, caring more for the capitalist,
able to protect himself. than for the Las
borer, who needed the protective agis OF
the government.
Let us trust that the vindictive writings
of such persons as we have criticized
may be repudiated by the great, gener-
u heart of the north. and that they will
only find a Judgment in the souls of
that kind of patriots who, during the
war, chopped up southern pianos with
axes, burned libraries and lnsulted
women-all countries have their igno-
rant, their vicious and their ruffian
classes. We have a grand. a glorious
aud a common country. Our fathers to-
gether suffered that it might be free
and it should be the effort of every true
American to foster between the sections
that fraternal regard which must be the
precursor OF any substantial return to
prosperity.
The Sedalians seem to be in earnest
in their effort to build the Sedalia, War
saw and Southern, narrow gauge, rail-
road. On last Saturday the directors
accepted a proposition from Henry Nc
Pherson s. Co., of Boonville, well-known
contractors, to complete the road to
Warsaw for $4,000 and part of the
capital stock; the work to begin thirty
days after notification of the acceptance,
and cars to u through in six months.
The road is AZ miles in length and
passes through Cole Camp and Lincoln.
OF the $4,000, $685. 900 will come from
private subscriptions in Pettis and $685.
700 from Benton county. Three miles
south of Cole Camp the survey strikes
the old road-bed of the o. V. and S. X.
road, continuing on it to Warsaw. This,
when first constructed, cost Benton
county $4,000 in bonds. The direc.
tors who were present were. Messrs.
VIM. Gentry. president, Cyrus New.
kirk. D. H. Smith, Jno. L. Hall, j. R.
Barrett, Albert Parker. G. R. Smith. j
H. Lay. R. H. Melton and A. Berens.
The New York Sun has this to saw O,
Mtssouri's new senator: s"The most in
teresting sequel of Mr.. Ingalls, speech
was a reply by Mr.. Vest, on the subject
OF the negro exodus. Mr.. Vest is a new
senator, He showed himself q roody