The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-11
From the Sauannah Republican.
Disgraoeful Condition of Affairs in Flor
ida.

Down in Florida they have Governor
for whom even decent Radicals appear to
have most superlative contempt. Some
of the carpet-baggers who helped to folst
this miserable imposter and landshark up
on the people are the loudest in their exc
crations of the "man and brother who
spends his time chiefly in New York con-
cocting schemes of pluuder, and comes
back to Florida to pocket the stealings.
We publish to-day an exposdre of this
man. 1t will shock the senses of all re-
spectacle Radicals, while it inficts stig-
ma upon Radical administration from
which we have no wcnder some of the
better sort of rpet-baggers desire to cut
loose. Governor, though his title be, it
is little consoling to feel that it is so on
" by the grace of Radical reconstruction,
and not by the sanction of honest and fair
voting, even among the Radicals them
selves. The honest people of Florida have
no share or lot in the scoundrel, and are
in nowise responsible for his crime. Some
of the Florida carpet-baggers seem to
have sense of honor and decency, and
would be rid of the pestiferous incubus
upon their own party il they could sue
ceed against the terrible power Of patron
age which they, themselves have put IN
to tho hands of their own Executive
We deeply sympathize with our Florida
neighbors and trust that they will find
some way of driving the fellow from their
State, or, what is better, getting him in
the States prison, where he pr pery be-
longs.
This charge upon "His ExcellencJ" of
Florida, is not of Democratic origin. We
cannot be abused for "rebcl calumDy"
against him. We have often denounced
tie immortality and corruption Of the
carpct-bag governments generally, from
our Conservative standpoint; but now the
Radicals have given us ammunition out OF
their own cartridge boxes, and come to
the rescue of their own reputation when
they can no longer tolerate the infamy OF
their own chosen leaders.
The following affidavit is substantiated
by others, that we have neither room for
nor patience to publish Twelue thousand
fve hundred dollars in cash, for ,0hich re.
ceipts can be produced, is worry cheap price
for the conscience of Il Chief Magistrate
of an American State:
IN THE CASE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERs OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, VS.. GEORGE
w. swEpsoN, HARRISON REED, GOVERNOR,
AND OTHERS. IN CHANCERf:
STATE OF FLORIDA,
| Duval County.
eaOn this 9th day of October A. D. 1869,
before me, Charles l.. Mathor, Cfeff Of
the Circuit Court in and for said county,
appeared Sherman Conant, citizen of
the State of Florida, who, being duly
sworn, says: That on or about the 18th
day of June, A. D. 1869, during the ses-
sion OF the Legislature, at its special term
in June, deponent read letter written by
George W. Swepson, and addressed to
Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida; that
deponent knows the handwriting of said
Swepson, and his signature was OF the
said Swepson; that said letter stated that
it would be delivered to said Reed, Gov
ernor, by Milton S. Littlefeld, or by Mr..
Littlofeld, and further stated that Swep'
son had paid the said Reed, Governor, five
thousand dollars in New York city, some
time before, for which he the said Swep-
son, had taken q mortgage on the said
Reeds property in Tallahassee; that said
Littlefield would return to him the mort
gage and would pay said Reed seven thou
sand dollars on his approval OF the Bill or
Act which the said Littlefeld would have
introduced into and passed by the Legis-
lature; that according to this deponenrs
best remembrance and belief, the contents
of said letter were as follows: "You re.
member, Governor, on agreement in New
York, was to give you fourteen thousand
dollars for calling the Legislature togeth-
er and using your influence to secure the
passage of the bill. Five thousand l paid
YOU in Now York, for which | hold mort
gage on your property in Tallahassee
Two thousand Mr.. Littlefeld will hand
YOU when he reaches Tallahassee, When
you have signed the bill he Will give you
seven thousand dollars and return to you
your mortgage"
That there is mortgages ON. record in
Leon county ofthe property in Tallahassee,
mortgaged by the said Reed to said Swep-
son and that shortly before the recent
departure of said Reed to the North,
according to the best knowledge and
belief of aepouent, the said Reed inquired
of the Clerk OF the Circuit Court Of said
county if the said Swepson had not sent a
release of said mortgage for record, stating
that it had been paid, and that be, the said
Swepson, had promised to send the Clerk
o release Of the same for record that a
true and correct copy of said Letter from
said Swepson to said Reed was at the time
hereinbefore mentioned made, and the
sama WIS sworn to before o duly appoip.