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Show CABPZT-BAGI3M- ' The carjjt't-bag gentry in tlm Suutli now have very few fricud.even among the original rli al reconstruction it. I Ttio-r rule l:an bet-n the moot scandal-j uiw and i..-.ive that any people have ever been cursed with. The i Htai- that tiiey have coutrolal, Ii through their negro aliits art- deeply,' involveil in dt-bt, until, in may case?, the property will not pay the exces-sivo exces-sivo taxation demanded, and repudia- i tion is ojn-nlj' urged at the only means ! of relief 'o the public. These carpet-1 1 baggeru have b.:cn for years upheld . , and sustain d by Northern politicians, , added to whatever support the au ! thoritiea at Washington could give, them. Having arrayed against the respectable conservative citizens ofl the Houtli a black man's p;irty and held all the machinery of several' Stale governments in their own' hands upon the plea that this suprein-I suprein-I aey was necessary to give the colored people protection against the former slave-holder;!, they organized speculative specula-tive ringu, manipulated legislation and ma:le themselves rich ot the expense ex-pense of the community. They enjoyed en-joyed for years tho profits of their iniquity, until at last the bubble burst, and bankrupt States and a ruined people peo-ple became the prominent scenes throughout tho .South. Many of the carpet-baggers then fl .xl from the country which they had disgraced and impoverished, loaviug their uegroi allies to their fato. 1 'riven almost to desperation, as a last effort to save something of their homes, the citiiens of several Southern Suites have organ-j ized a white mans' party, which ap pears to be sweeping all before it. Upon this organiiation some of the Northern politicians and presses have made a bitter onslaught.on the ground that it is the commeucement of a war against the negro, forgetting that the beat and only real friends of that race are the Southern people among whom they lire. But whatever may be the tendency of the movement, it should be recollected that it is but the natural offeboot of tho destructive teachings and practices of the radical politicians. When they forced upon the South as its rulera and legislators a gang of miserable adventurers, they paved the way for tho reaction now setting in. The whito man's party is simply a protest against the ignorant and unscrupulous carpet-bag and negro rule. In tha return of the respectable whites to power appears to rest the only hope of the South. r In many respects the condition of aflairs in U'.ah presents a parallel to that of tho South. Although the politicians il id not have the excuse to interfere in the affairs nf this Territory Terri-tory that existed in. the Southern States, Utah having boon noted as a peaceful aul law-abiding community, commu-nity, they have 'not for years ceased '.o use similar methods to force the majority of the people of this Terri-1 tory into the control and keeping of tho agents who have been t-cnt here on a mission similar to that of the Southern carpet-baggers. Owing to the integrity and manhood of our citizens, the growing sense of justice and fair play exhibited throughout the country, and to a Supreme CC' not influenced by the bad passions and motives of reckless politicians, our j carpet-baggers have as yet failed to ' realize ns full an harvest as their brethren, the Southern pilgrims, se-! cured, aud it is doubtful whether they j will ever achieve a great success in this direction. The tide of publicdis-honesty, publicdis-honesty, fraud and rapacity, it is to be hoped, has at last reached its turning point, and the reaction towards hon- esty and fair-dealing has apparently commenced. It is not likely that the revolution will pass by Utah and per-1 mit carpct-bagism still to flourish here; ' and in the natural order of events and 1 due process of time, the people of the Territory may expect a relief from some of the worst annoyances of their position. |