The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-12
Tricks of Trade.

The recent pronunciamcnto Of the thrifty
squattcr who has dumped himself into tho
Gubernatorinl chair of South Carolina, is as
cxplicable us it is atrocious. TO set the poor
against the rich has over been the expedicnt
of demagogues. Thoy know that the man
who bears privations is especially accessible
to this appeal; that He feels moro than he
reasons; thnt he may bo scduced into the be-
lief that capital is not public blessing, but %
socinl wrong; that, inflamcd and maddened
against what is represented rs the tyranny of
riches, he may resign himself blindfold to
the guidance Of designing, selfish knaves;
| that, by the dexterous use of the arts of in
| triguc, he may even be persuaded that no
has redeemed his class or his ncc. wkcn ho
has made seedy doctor O Governor o iail
biri q representative, snorting exhorter
senator, brieaess barrister judge, and u
renegade politician chief justice.
But this thing may bo carried little too
far, as the lnte squntter-noticc shows Many
people, who think at second hand, may
readily suppose that all the conditions for a
political and social millennium have boon Sc
turers are our hopo for tho future. Thoy
may believe that tho public moaics aro safest
when lodged i'll hands to..which no prudent
man would confdo 'sahglo dollar. They
ffhHy believe TINT Justice is moro secure when
lawyers OF the Impractical or tho "shystor"
sort occupy the bench. Thoy may believe
that tho resources Of the State will bo most
rapidly developed by changing the laborer
into the politician. But who will persuade
them that tho property-holders aro them-
selves burning up tho property of tho State
According to Governor Scott, South Caro-
linn is new Moscow, but with difference.
Tae Russians fired their sacred city TO smoke
out lis valers-we arc initiating TINT his
toric example just for fun.
The Governor intends that this business
shall be stopped. He will fight fire with
fire. If the ownors of gin-houses don't
stop burning up their own cotton, if the
planters don't stop tearing down their own
fences, if tho stock raisers don't stop killing
their own pigs and cattle surreptitiously in
the woods, if husbands and fathers don't
stop setting their houses on FIRE, and then
going to bed with their families Us quietly as
if there woro no danger in the funny expert
ment, or as if thoy wanted everything thoy
had in the world to be oonsumed-thon be it
known TINT tho example will become conta-
glous, and it will become tho official duty of
those who control the State to order and incite
universal honfire. Let Rome burn There
shall not bc wanting Nero to enjoy tho
spectacle and to fiddle to tho dancing
flames
Perhaps tho author of this psstilent mani
festo feels no blush of shame when he thinks
of tho contempt which it awakens in tho
breast Of eyery right-minded man under
whose notice it may fall Perhaps no may
have steelod himself against ridiculo and in
dgnation; for some mon have the hido of n
rhinoceroB, and conscience scared as with
hot Iron. But oven he will not be insonsiblo
to tho retribution which such record nocossi-
tatcs. The public may onduro the pitiable
spectacle OF canting denagogue in Office
1t cannot perpotnnte his sway when he plain
ly shows (as Governor Scott has done) that
his private ends and his official influence arc
inim;cal to tho good order, the prosperity,
nnd oven tho existence OF tho commonwealth
The spongy, blonted won upon tho boly
polite mus. bo removed whom it devclopn
into IN eating cancor.
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MIR. BoINRsr, Tho r..dent Of tho Now
borry nmis a'ion Soci ,ty, reports that tho
opportuniti of letting German f.. m hands
this soason is unusuallv nromisn,