In Louisiana.
In the counties and municipalities of both "States" the corruption was equally rampant, shameless, and vulgar. It is impossible to obtain exact figures in regard to it, or to estimate with any degree of exactness, or even probability, the amounts stolen and made away with. In the other reconstructed "States" where the adventurers and the negroes held sway, the "State" governments worked along the same lines, though not to the same appalling extent.
It was the most soul-sickening spectacle that Americans had ever been called upon to behold. Every principle of the old American polity was here reversed. In place of government by the most intelligent and virtuous part of the people for the benefit of the governed, here was government by the most ignorant and vicious part of the population for the benefit, the vulgar, materialistic, brutal benefit of the governing set.
It is no subject of surprise or wonder that, confronted with these frightful results of radical Republican policy and administration in
The revolt in the
Republican party.
The Liberal Republicans were bolters, of course, from the regular organization, and there was no sufficient opportunity for them to
The Liberal Republican
convention of 1872.
The platform which it presented to the people demanded the removal, at once, of all political disabilities from the white men of the South,