The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-26
seA Matter of Money"

enfranchisement and disfranciliScment, OF
office creating and office vacating for mo-
ney, they have codilied the science and the
art of making money When a Radical
union is formed, or q Radical council or
legislature meets, you have no need to ask
what are they seeking for. Whether they
present pistol or produce paper, the de-
mand is the same: 'Stand and deliver,
and YOU have just nothing to do but thrust
your hands in your pockets and bring out
your purse.
We have often called attention to the nefa-
rious schemes Of public plumber which have
been devised at Columbia, and by which
certain newly made citizens. who dearly love
our Statc-and with just reason-have been
gorged nigh to bursting. And we shall
have frequent occasion to pursue the duty
of exposure until the Augean stable at CO.
lumbia is cleansed. Tie public burdens
will be multiplied every month while the
obscene rout now swarming in the suber-
material mansion and legislative halls OF
South Carolina remain in indisturbed pos
session of the purse and sword OF the
State.
Nor is it only in this or that State that the
shameless venality Of the Radicals has
stamped them with infamy. Washington is
utterly corrupt. Lobbyisn for the purchase
of Congressional votes has become pro-
fessionai business. When the presidential
impeachment trial was going on, money
was freely used ir the interest OF the prose-
cution, and it is now publicly stated that
the high natioral tribunal which decided
upon the case was not inaccessible to the
appeal
Recently new method has now been de-
visetl by the Radicals of the national metro
polls for the purpose OF raising the wind.
4 Lincoln monument is to be erected for the
purpose, we suppose, Of keeping the South
in wholesome awe and dependence, and
of thus removing after novel fashion. the
asperities OF the late war. Groups, figures
and bas-reliefs relating to the abolition OF
slavery, the Confederate surrender and the
Congressional amendments will adorn the
pedestal; and or the summit the illustrious
Abraham will be perched, seated and sigh
ing the proclamation which he and his
counsellors thought would involve the South
in all the horrors OF seryile war. Around
the middle member of the monument will
stand twenty-one bronze stltues OF the
chief civilians, and at the base will rear
and ramp six equestrian statues OF the lead
ing generals, who contributed to the sue
cess of the Union. This monumental pile,
which South Carolinian, Clark Mills, has
devised, will Of course conciliate the ailec-
tions of the Southern people to the Union
wonderfully. 1t is the consummation and
crown OF ''the magnanimous policy" Of which
we have heard and enjoyed so much!
But the most admirable feature OF the
plan is its financial policy. The Radical
Hub, if we may speak so irreverently OF
immaculate New England, is not 10 bear
the burden, but will shift it upon other sec
tions OF the country. Of course the poor
South, as usual, will be expected to play the
IIelot's part. The materials OF the monu-
ment that commentaries our suhjugation,
we will furnish in the shape of 100000
worth of cannon voted for this purpose by
Congress.
$50 the struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
s.No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
'.Sees his own feather on the fatal dart.
sand winged the shaft that quivcrs at his
heart
The West must do her part in c0ntribu-
ting money Hence every officer OF the as
sociation except General Spinner, of New
York. is Il Western man; and Dr. Bellows.
who engineers the enterprise, in the first
number of "Ou and Nec," llatters the West
ex,rayagant1y. Radical New England will,
we suppose, furnish the speakers when the
monument is finished!
Nor is this the only fine stroke Of policy.
1t is far exceeded in shrcwdncss by another
arrangement, which DR.. Bellows innocently
betrays. and which is nothing more or less
than this: that tine great civilians and gene
rails who are to be grouped around Lincoln
to repose, so to speak, in Abrahams bo-
som-must pay for that honor! There is
something wonderfully amusing in the apol-
ogy given by the patriotic Doctor. Ger
'.tainly there is something" he says, ''not
"wholly delicate in the way in which the
committee, by its energetic agent, has op-
''1,roachedMe gentlemen MusJ far hoaorea (D
s',ciM the sufirages Of the commHtee-eren
soliciting Mei' o,cn cooperation, to the
s:extent, at least. of naming the persons
''likely TO be most interested in their honor
'sand fame. But this is one of the vulgari-
cites inherent in republics" II he had said
one of the vulgarities OF Radicalisnl, he
would, perhaps, have been nearer the mark.
For the first time in the history OF the
country, fame and honor are put up to the
highest bidder, as in the last days Of the
Roman Empire, and are publicly bought and
sold. We hope that under the statue OF
each civilian and general will be inscribed
the amount he has given for his elevation,
so that posterity may know, as exactly as
we do, just what Radical fame and honor is
worth. 1t is all money, money, money, from
beginning to end.