The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-10-07
Our Danger and Duty.

Cur Danger and Duty.
The following spirited and echaractcris-
ticletter from Ex-Governor Perryis copied
from the Columbia Phenir of last Wed.
nesday:
Mr.. EDITOR: 1t is high time that the
press of South Carolina, and the public
speakers Of the State, had turned their at
tention from the usurpations, tyranny and
corruption of the radical Congress, to the
wild, extravagant, and atrocions legisla-
tion of that s'unlawful assembly," cam
posed OF carpet -baggers, negroes and seal
awags. now sitting in Coiumbia,. and
styling themselves "tbe General Assem-
bly, of South Carolina" !"
This heterogeneous and motley group
Of would-bc legislators, really seem dis
posed to bankrupt the State, and drive
the people to acts of violence, or goad
them on TO revolution Never before, in
the history Of civilized legislation, was
there spectacle so revolving and dis.
gusting, as we now have in South Care.
! lima. A greedy swarm of unprincipled.
adventurers from the North, without for
tune and without charactcr-many of
them escaped convicts from jails and pen
..itentiaries-have come here; under the
protection Of Federal bayoncts,- and by.
pandcring to the Ignorance, prejudice and
bad passions of our former slaves, have
had themselves elected to the Legislature.
so-called, and are filing all the high Offices
of the State.
1t is in vain to say that some of them
may be honest and worthy. No gentle
man, or honest man, with the instincts of
a gentleman, could be induced by any
earthly consideration, to come here as
they have, and occupy the places they do,
against the wishes of all honest and re-
spectacle citizens. Their sole purpose is
to get money, and TO get Office, and to
protect themselves against tho possible
and discried vengeance Of an outraged
and oppressed people. Whilst stealing
and plundering the public treasury. and
being bribcd for all theirprctcnded bogus
Legislation, they are trying, like cowards,-
with guilty conscicnces, to guard against
personal danger, by tyranny, oppression
and despolism.
Impoverished and ruined rs the people
of South Carolina are. this bogus 1lcgisla-
ture have not only increased salaries OF
all the State officers one.third, but have
created multitude Of Offices, before nn-
known and wholly unnecessary, with ex-
travagant salaries ard perqusites. for The
express purpose of providing fer their
hungry and worthless positions here and
at tile North For former years the most
illustrious men of the State, learned and
profound awyers, were wiling to accept
a scat on the BENCH. with a salary OF
S3,000 Now, parcel of ignorant. low
and groveling men, carpct.baggeis and
scalawags, have been elected to The bench,
with salaries of four and five thousand
dollars! So it is with all the other Offices
of tho States.
A batch IF County officers have been.
created, whose salaries will amountto two
or three hundred thousand dollars, whose
duties were formerly performed by gen
tlemen of Intelligence and public spirit,
without compensation These Offices are
now filed by the most ignorant and un-
prnciped men in the community, who
have declared themselves traitors to. their
race and their country. The salaries OF
the public officers Of the State and Coun-
ties, will amount to six or seven hundred
thousand dollars! This is two or three
hundred thousand dollars more than the
whole expenses of the State amounted to
in former years! The expenses OF the
/ Legislature, Penitentiary and ,JaflS, (wor-
thy associations } will cost the State five
or six hundred thousand more The free
school system, for the education at the
negroes, will require over one million OF
dollars annually, to put it in operation
and keep it up! The police of the State,
and tho malltainance of a negro force in
each County, provided for by Law, will re-
ouire over Il million of dollars! The pay
lot jurors, the support OF panpers, and
other incidental appropriations, will pro-
badly cost the State five or six hundred
thousand dollars more-making an. ag-
grepate of four millions OF dollars This
enormous sum cannot bo paid; and Should
not be paid by the impoverished people of
South Carolina. 1t is ten times the taxa
ton which we wcrc required to pay. in
our days of wealth andprosperity
But not satisfied with these enormously
extravagant and prodigal expenditures
and appropriations tor a poverty stricken
peoplo, this mongrcl, stupid and unprin
c!bled bogus Legislature, have issued
bonds and endorsed bonds for that body.
amounting to several millions of dollars.
Thev have likewise been bribed by the
bll.holders of the Bank OF the State, to
issue bonds for those bills, at their par
value, when they were purchased by the
holders for ten cents in Tho dollar!
The most alarming feature, howevqr,
of this wicked and stupid legislation, so.
called. is the bill recently introduced TO