The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-09
Our Political War-Horse.

The martial speech of Governor Scott,
during his recent trip to Washington, IS be-
ING handled in a most disloyal and irreve-
rent temper by the New York press. Asy-
body can see, either that the Governor was
in fun. or that the speech was made after
dinner. Besides, he is a man in Office, and'
nowadays, Office, like charity, covers null
titude of sins.
What does that scurrilous. journal, 1he
World, mean by describing his spirited re-
marks as '"t the atrocious utterances attribu-
..ted to and not denied by the fellow who
sstvles himself the Governor OF South Carroll
sna:" II the Governor did say "that said
estate was one nest of assassination, that
sthere was no protection for loil men, and that
she only wanted the General Government to
"eive him Winchester rifles, with hundred
grounds of ammunition for each, 'as the best
sslaw that you can have there, ," is he the ,rst
man who has used the bottom OF tumbler
for field-gass, and who, as he gazed, has
seen visions and dreamed dreams?
We grieve to say that The World extends
no consideration whatever 10 the halucnated
Governor, but seriously, nay, fiercely, puts
him down by the counter testimony OF can
ssaeed and eminent citizen OF South Carolina,
':who," as we are told, "was prominent in
s'the councils Of the republic long before this
$50 called Governor started in life as Quack.
The venerable statesman has no mercy upon
the maudlin, yet bellicose doctor, but writes,
as The World pitilessly informs US, "to de-
''nounce the Governors charges as the most
'tgross and absolute falsities, and to declare
'that such fostering of orincitement to crime,
'sas there has been in the State, is due solely
''to this very man, who has notoriously par
':doned the greatest villains almost as fast as
'the courts convicted, and now seeks, by the
creation OF an armed negro force, to carry
''the next Congressional elections" We blush
to thinl. that our family affairs are so we'll
known. Let US have peace. Let our vener-
able statesman reflect that there is no dam
ger in those rifles which the Governor is
seeking to gain. They can be sold, as we'll
as the State. And let the panic stricken
Governor reflect that the sufTrages he needs
can be secured without any help from Wash
ington they can be manufactured as easily
as the Southern outrages.
We add with trembling hand the conclu
sion to which The World arrives, in regard
to the heart and head of our beloved Chief
Magistrate. 1t speaks of his Glow and base
"calibre;" it argues that the instincts OF such
q nature must 'normally develop them
ssselyes in the late SANDERS rotailed in Wash
''ingtoa;" and adding insult to injury, it de-
scribes him as "this particular specimen"
rs if he were q stuffed polecat. Pcrpetrat-
ING horrible climax, The Eoyld exclaims:
Equally natural is it that his stupidity
''should he as gross as his malevolcnce; for
"otherwise how would he assert state of
''alfairs in South Carolina which proves moth
Sing so much rs his own worthlessness? The
''hog, it is said, in swimming frequently cuts
'.its own throat; and so this Governor in
'.seeking to procure the extension OF his
.'term by the rafting of bloody bones, but
"proves that he is not fit TO be Governor
cat all.
We take issue with Tie World If tie
facts are so, Governor Scott is man OF the
greatest prudence and shrewdncss. If his
own people think so contemptuously of him,
happy for him was the day when he emigrat-
ed In certain disturbed states of society
penniless adventurer may become million
aire and Governor in South Carolina. He
is call right" beyond any question. But
as for us, we fear that we shall lose this ey-
cellent officer. His leading supporter in
Charleston was overthrown as soon as he re-
sorted to pistols. He himself incurs the same
danger from popular ingratitude when he
resorts to Winchester rifles. Indeed, we
greatly fear that he could not save himself
from defeat, through he should summon to
his aid torpcdoes, and columbiads, and ele.
mental thunders.