The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-19
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ital, has been very efectualIy knocked IN Tn
head. Ever since that section of the coun
try was relieved from the incubus of corrup
carpet-bag rule the improvement in its agri
cultural and business interests, and in its SC
cal condition has been The plan
tations which, under the old regime, were al
lowed to remain uncultivated, either on &C
count of exorbitant taxation or threatened vic
lence have, under a free aud fair government
by the people, been once more made to yiel'
profitable returns, the cotton and tobacco
crops this year being larger than were eve
known before, and furnishing an imnens,
revenue to the general government. The an
omalous and unhappy social condition which
existed under carpet-bag sway, and the race
preiudices ~engendered and kept alive by the
invading cormorants and d~isreputable Pc
litical tricksters of the north have been done
away with, and the south is now experienc.
ing a season of prosperity and peace which
1t has not been permitted to enjoy since ante
war times. In South Carolina, where the
Patterson gang did all in their power to an
tagonize the races and to stir up the fires OF
sectional hate, the improvement in the indus
trial and social condition Of the people is par
t~icularly noticeable. A significant fact, ten.
ding to prove the correctness of this con-
cluslon, is afforded in the statement that the
average attendance at the public schools of
South Carolina for the past three years has
been 52,977, white and 60,722 colored nearly
double the average attendance during the
preceding eight years. If the intimidation,
violence and injustice which the northern
stalwarts would have us believe the whites
of the south are practicing toward
the colored population had any found
alton in truth, it is highly improbable
that the latter would be accorded
the benefit of the state educational institu-
tions, it being we'll understood that the more
enlightened the colored people become the
greater will be their ability and desire to as
sert their equality in a political sense, and the
more improved will be their opportunity to
avenge themselves for past wrongs if any have
been committed against them.
But it would never do to allow the demo-
cratic party to assert the peace and prosperity
of the south without emphatic contradiction
from republican sources, for if it were once
demonstrated that that much-maligned Sec
ion of country, under wise and economic
local self-government is fourishing; that the
arts of peace, now that the people nave been
freed from the infamous domination of car
pet baggers, arc being successfully cultivated,
and that besides the augmentation of proper
ty interests, the population even is rapidly IN
creasing, then the danger arising from the
sssolid south" that shallowest of party hum
hugs, would no longer be voiced all over the
land to frighten timid voters into support of
the republican ticket, for no voter possessing
the common sense Of an oyster could be
scared into the belief that the solid Hsouth
means anything but a desire on the part of its
people to be let alone, to be accorded immu-
nifty from carpet bag rule, to build up happy
homes and to resurrect their shattered for
tunes.
the stalwarts to allow the facts to be
known relative to the true condition of the
south, and this being the case, the late census
has proved particularly hurtful, fer it has
shown the existing condition of things to be
the very opposite to what the stalwarts have so
loudly proclaimed. This first became appar.
ent when the census returns were completed
and sent to Washington, the figures abun-
dainty proving the prosperity, the existence
of which had so long been denied by the
stalwart element of the north. 1t therefore
became necessary for the republicans to rem.
der someplausible expla nation ofthe improve
ment without being forced to admit that il
was directly traceable to the suppression OF
carpet bag rule. This being beyondthe range
of possibility, they next resorted to theil
t%hreadbare cry of fraud, claiming that the
census returns were falsifed, that the popula
ton had in fact decreased rather than increas
ed, and that the increase in the property
interests and the improvement in matters
educational, was wllfully misrepresented in
order to secure heavier congressional delega
tons for the south han it was entitled to ant
to create false impressions concerning TIT
advancement of the materal interests of itha
section. These charges were made with ref
erence to nearly every southern state, blu
were directed particularly to South Carolina
whose prosperity has been excessively aggra
waiting to the stalwarts. As will be seen in tn
subjoined dispatch however, there is YER
frequently a wide difference between figure
and a certain class of republicans whic
consists in the fact that figures don't lie
When the official reports of the South Care
proper authorities, an investigation as tothei
correctness was at once begun by Super
visor Walker, the result being a c0mplet