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

The recent pronunciamento Of the thrifty
sauatter who has dumped himself into the
Gubernatorial chair of South Carolina, is as
expicable as it is atrocious- To set the poor
against the rich has ever been the expedient
Fof demagogues. They know that the man
who bears privations is especially accessible
to this appeal; that he feels more than he
reasons; that he may be seduced into the be-
lief that capital is not public blessing but q
social wrong; that, inhamed and maddened
against what Is represented as the tyranny OF
riches, he may resign himself bindfold to
the guidance of designing, selfish knaves;
that, by the dexterous use of the arts of in
trigue, he may even be persuaded that he
has redeemed his class or his race, when he
has made seedy doctor Governor, o jail
bird q representative, q snorting exho1ter
SENATOR brieAess barrister Judge and q
renegade politician a chief justice.
But this thing may be carried little too
far as the late squatter-notice shows. Many
people, who think at second hand, may
readily suppose that ell the conditions for
political and social millennium have been Sc
cured They msy believe that broken adven-
turers are our hope for the future. They
may believe that the public monies are safest
when lodged in hands to which no prudent
man would confde single dollar. Thoy
may believe that justice is more secure when
lawyers Of the unpracticed or the ''shyster"
sort occupy tLo bench. They may believe
that the resources of tha State will be most
rapidly developed by changing the laborer
into the politician. But who will persuade
them that the proporty-holdcrs are them
selves burning up the property Of the State
According to Governor Scott, South Caro-
lima is o new Moscow, but with o difference.
TIE Russians fired their sacred city to smoke
out is inya lers-we are initiating that his
toric example just for fun.
The Governor Intends that this business
shall be stopped. He will fight fire with
fire. If the owners of gin-houses don't
stop burning up their own cotton, if the
planters don't stop tearing down their own
fences, if the 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 as quietly as
if there were no danger in the funny expert
ment, or as if they wanted everything they
had in the world to be consumed be it
known that the example will become conta-
gious AMI it will become the official duty OF
those who control the State to order and incite
universal honire. Let Rome burn! There
shall not be wanting Nero to enjoy the
spectacle and to fddlo to the dancing
flames.
Perhaps the author of this pestilent mani
festo feels no blush of shame when he thiuks
of the contempt which it awakens in tho
breast of every right-minded man under
whose notice it may fall. Perhaps he may
have sseelcd himself against rldicule and Ill
di ynation; for somo men har, the hide OF 6
rlin0Cefo5, and IL conscience scared US Will
hot iron But ovon he '5ill not be insensible
to the rctnbution wnich such q record neces5i-
tatas. TIE pablic may endure the pitia5i,
spectacle OF q cantin9 dc,nago8ue in office
Il canot perpetrmto lis sway when he plair
ly shows (as Governor Scot has donel tina
his privlte oads anl s official influence AZ
inimical to III good ordcr thes prosperity
AMI oyon tho cxis nc of tilo comm onwea.th
The spo.gy, bl1atsl wen upon the body
polite mus b, reno ed wh9a it develop
into IN eating alcsr.
s>-D~>S-
Mr.. BoNZSr ,.u dclt Of tho New
berry l nmi a;or = iy, reports that th'
opportunit of attia; German f m hands
tnis season is unusually prom ng.