Year: 1874

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| ing 90 common as actually to destroy, IN some
neighborhoods the entire profits Of planting Ishal
show at another time how dishonesty has been en-
couraged by Republican legislation in this State.
| Universal negro suffrage also made carpet bag
| gism possible. / use the words carpet-baggism
and carpet-bagger" as general terms to describe
an element In the politics Of this and other South
ern States, and not because would intimate that
ALL or even q majority of those especially in Ala
bama, who have stolen the Republican name under
which to rob, misgoyern, and oppress the people,
are Northern men. The Confederate Republi-
cans" of whom Mr.. Dawes never heard. have out
done the baggers here in rascality. The rule
Of the petbagger in the South has been the rule
| OF ignorance and poverty-a rule that by the very
nature OF things. all history demonstrates must
| be dishonest and profigate. The old proverb,
Put beggar on horseback and he will ride to the
devil" is as true in politics as anywhere else The
intelligence and wealth Of community are its chief
| conservative elements, and whereverland whenever
these are OutvOted by an ignorant and penness mob
there is sure to be extravaganza and corruption.
This proposition needs no proof the truth of it is


illustrated in the history Of every large city in the
country, from New-York with its Tammany Ring
down, aud has become so generally acknowledged
by all thinking men that some of our profoundest



any large city is actually capable of governing itself
| honestly and economically.


DARK FUTURE FOR NEGRO-RIDDEN COMMUNITIES.
say therefore, that arpe-baggism is the natural
and legitimate result of universal suffrage In the
South. 1t was not brought here from the North; 1T
would have been just bad If lot single Northern
man had settled in the South after the war; 1t was
| the natural Outgrowth of certain conditions which
have indicated and will continue as long as those
conditions continue. In those sections OF the South
where the white people are in majority-where so
long as there is no interference from without, the
intelligence and wealth of the country are able to
retain the political ascendency-the problem OF Sc
curing honest and economical government will solve
itself. In any State, part of State. where the
negroes are i'll hopeless minority, you Will never
again hear that the legal political rights OF the
black man are trampled upon with impunity. Dis
honest men may and probably will sometimes get
into Office as they do everywhere else, but when they
are discovered they will be driven from power and
perhaps punished The carpet-baggers, Union and
Confederate, have seemed to grow stronger with
the negroes the more crimes they accused of and
| the more overwhelming the proof against them.
| For those parts of the South where the negroes
predomnate it must be confessed that the future
looks dark. see no hope of permanent reform eX-
cep IN division of the negro vote, and that under
present circumstances, is hardly among the posi-
| bities. The absolute political control which the
men who are power by virtue of negro votes
have over the blacks is something which the people
of the North.will find it very difficult to understand
The colored man knows that he owes his freedom 10
| the Republican party, and that is enough for him.
He is suspicious of every other political organiza-
tion and his suspicious fostered and cultivated
| by the men who at present control his vote. lie
| may have the utmost confidence in his old master
| who reared him, who never deceived him. and who
has always treated him with the greatest Kindness
| and yet he implicitly believes the carpet-bagger,
| who never did him personal favor III the world
and never would, when he tells him that if the
| Democratic party should get into power his Old
master would put him and his family back into
! slavery.


GROUNDS FOR HOPE.


have said that the future of those portions of the
| South where the white people are in a hopeless
| minority is a dark one l think there Is no reason
| to look for permanent peace or prosperity there
| while the present state of affairs continues Men
will not submit forever to waste OF their substance
by dishonest or incompetent onclas; ttey Wv woud n
| not do il in the North and they VIII not here ana
| while the better judgment OF the people anu the
kindly feeling toward the negro persoDaiLy may
prevent violence as hope 1t WILL there must IN the
end be a revolution or emigration. Ignorance and
poverty could not be trusted TO govern New orK
CITY, and the Legislature came to rs rescue during
| the Tammany regime by the establishment OF com
| missions which the people were not allowed 10
select; fraudulent voting and fraudulent canVasshg
| of votes became so common that Congress steDped
in and passed act to insure honest elections How
TO insure good government in those portions OF tle
South where the negroes prcdOmlnate Is. believe
problem that ought to be left to the States to solve,
but it is one worthy the conslderati0n OF onr
| abest state ,men, North as well as South. If 1t IS
! not solved, of these things is sure to occur
First the better class of the white people Will emf
CRATE and leave the country 10 the blacks and the
low-dOwh' whites, who are scarcely their supc-
riors or secondly a portion of the blacks Will emi,
! crate or unite with the whites so that wealth ana
Intelligence will rule or thirdly, these sections
will lapse into semi-barbarOus condition, and the


lives and property of either Will be safe only aS
! they are safe upon the Plains Ill the presence OF
physical force strong enough to protect them. FOR
tunatey these sections form very small proportion
of the entire South if they did its condition would
| be deplorable indeed. If the Republican statesmen
who are so anxious to legisate for the South would
give half the thought to the real questions which
must he solved here as they do to devisng means OF
keeping in power the men in the South VINO are dis
gracng the party and running the country the pros
| poets here would be brighter.


In what have said in this letter, do not wish TO
be understood as failing to see anything hopeful in
the future of the negro believe that IN spite OF
his moral and physical deterloration there are signs
on which TO base hope for his future. HIS present
condition is the natural result of the sudden change


in his relations to the white people, ana TO every
| thing else about him. With proper guidance there
need be no fear for the freedman is d0ce, weldls-
| posed, and, in his place. indispensable in the South


But it is favor 10 him to saddle him with the du-
| ties of government. which he cannot understand or
inteligently perform, and the potical guidance he
has thus far had has not been of the proper char
acter. T. l. ".
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF FERTIIIzERs.-In the
| chemical examination of commercial fertilizers
variations have often been found between the