The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-13
A Pen Picture OF the Radical Rulers
( 5ats ~, of south Cnrolinn,

lation can we'll be imagined than is
presented in the Palmetto capital
to-day. ENorthern travellers mot car
pet-baggers) who, have tarried here
long enough to look in ON the scene,
have said to me: "Sir, we are radi-
calls. We did intend to vote for
Grant, But this thing is disgusting,
unnatural, violative of all that is
dear to white man-an outrage on
American civilization; and we can
vote for no party that sustains it, +"
And, if every man North of the Po-
ton1ao could take one look at this
picture, either i'll the Senate or
House, no further effort would be
required to rout the radicals in
November, horse, foot and dragons.
The Reading Clerk of the House is
negro, whose blunders in the per-
formance Of his duty are frequent
and extremely ludicrous, and often
occasion the widest merriment, even
in this ignorant body.
a resolution has been adopted,
giving to each of the standing CON-
mittees clerk, with heavy per
diem, IL measure rendered necessary,
not by any press of business, but by
the ignorance of the members.
Another resolution, providing
clerk for each delegate, failel, al
though the propriety of such clerical
assistance was patent to all. And
one officer is authorized, by rcsolu-
ton. to employ two lawyers and six
clerks to help him with his work.
And the Governor is allowed pri-
vate secretary, with salary of 81, 800
per annum, to help him with his
writing.
Many of the members are of the
real plantation negro order, and
some Of both white and black dele
gates are actually on bail to stand
their trial for larceny, horse stealing
and other crimes. These indicted
felons have recently elected two
United States Senators and three
Judges of the Supreme Court, and
in n few days will ballot for eight
Circuit Judges! These are facts.
Do you need anything more?
Early in Jnly, the World contained
Il long letter from Charleston, de-
scribing q brace of carpet-baggers,
one of whom was Randolph, lustful
mulatto reverend. who assisted at
Chicag2 in nominating II. U. G..
That letter was republished in the
Charleston Daily Ne,rs, Columbia
PhRnir and other papers, copied
from the World. It was read to
Randolph, who is here as Senator
from Orangeburg-read to him in
the Senate Chamber, by one of his
brother Senators, and in the pre-
sence of IL number of other Senators,
and, SO far flom denying its horrible
exhibit of depravity and bestiality,
he laughed at it all as an evidence of
his smartness, and mercilessly re-
torted on his colleagues by charging
them with similar lewdness and vii
lainy, which they in turn were equally
unable to deny. Letters sent from
the South, describing the characters
and needs of the men who now rule
its noble but subdued white popula-
tion, might seem to your readers
almost fabulous; but, so far from
being exaggerated, there is really no
language which can do justice to the
theme. Aud the foregoing incident
is given as au evidence of the fidelity
of reports sent you.
The word "rebel'' should never
more be applied to the white men of
South Carolina. The great Demo
cratic ratification meeting which was
addressed here by Hampton. Ker-
shaw and Others, recently, was held
i'll the open air, in the very midst of
the ruins created by Sherman 8
army-an immense opening in the
very heart of the city-still covered
with fire-scarred walls and chimneys,
as the victorious army left it. It was
known that Blair commanded the
famous Seventeenth Corps, which
swept Columbia, and yet this vast
assemblage of Carolina's sons, includ-
ing Hampton, whose own home is
among the ruins, rent the air with
cheer after cheer for Seymour and
Blair, Why? Because Blair fought
for Constitutional Union, and not
for military negro government. He
is for the same Union still, and these
people having accepted the results of
the war, now stand on his platform,
and ask no more than constitutional
liberty. Will the American people
refuse TO restore them thiS2