The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-19

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what is best for him to do. In order
to support these schools, poll tax
of one dollar per head is to be le,ied,
which might raise 100000. This
would leave $900,O 600 to be paid by
taxation OF property. .F T'['
;. Sec. S-Provides for the establish
ment Of State reform schools for
Juvenile offenders. This is a new
system to ibe introduced in South
Carolina, and of very doubtful policy.
It will certainly add hundreds Of
thousar is of dollars to our taxation.
ALL the public schools, colleges and
universities in the State are by sec
tion 10 to be free and open to all the
children, without regard to race or
color. There seems to be studied
design throughout all the provisions
of this mostinfamous Constitution to
degrade the white race and elevate
the black race, to force upon us social
as well as political equality and bring
about al amalgamation of Traces.
SEQ. 8 Of ART, 11--Forces each
County to provide for the support of
the aged, infirm and unfortunate. It
does not require children to support
their aged, infirm or unfortunate
parents, nor parents TO provide for
their children, but this heavy and
most enormous burden is to be thrown
on the public and provided for by
taxation.
Heretofore South Carolina has pur-
sued wise policy in refusing all
divorces. The marriage contract is
not like that of any other, which the
! parties may resciud at pleasure, with
out injury to society. There is
children-who are deeply interested
in all divorces. Moreover, it tends to
dsmoralize every community where
it is allowed or tolerated. But Sec
ton 4 gives the Courts power to
grant divorces. This section was
intended, perhaps, for the especial
benefit of the negroes. 1t ought also
to have legalized polygamy, which
has likewise great favor with this
class Of people. ~ TX -.
The settlement of O wife's pro-
perty, provided for in Section 8,
might have been left to the disore-
tion and wisdom of the Legislature.
1t is an experiment, and if found
mischievous or unwise, the Legisla-
ture ought to have the power of
changing or altering the law. But
this ordinary act of legislation has
been incorporated in the Constitution
as fundamental law, not to be re-
pealed. .t.tt
Attached to this Constitution, are
several ordinances, and amongst
them one which repudiates all pledges
of faith and credit, on the part of the
State, to any corporation or private
individual, made since 1860. The
honor and credit of South Carolina,
her good faith and most solemn
pledges, are thus treated as of no
consideration whatever. But this
ordinance is on par with that dis
honor, despotism, and unscrupu-
lous extravagance, which pervade the
whole Constitution, and are worthy
of the Infamous source whence the
instrument has its origin.
The ordinance to create Board
of Land Commissioners, authorizes
the purchase of lands for the pur-
pose of selling them out in small
tracts to purchasers on credit This
wild and ruineus scheme is, likewise,
for the negroes, and is likely to bene-
fit no one, except the land commits
sioners and their friends. State
stocks are to be issued for the purpose
of purchasing these lands. They
may be sold, but the purchasers will
never pay for them, and the loss
will ultimately fall upon the State
Did any one over before hear of so
many effective provisions for squan-
dering public money, when the whole
State, and all the people in it, are
reduced to bankruptcy and poverty ?
Well may those, who have nothing
and pay no taxes, provide for these
vast expenditures of public funds,
" after appropriating to themselves
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