Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-07


GENERAL MsG BUTLER, Of Charles
ton, s. O., one Of the best men Of the
State, whose truth and manhood was
never doubted, and who would never
bring an accusation against another
without the strongest reasons, not
only to justify it, but also to COM
mand II as a duty due to justice and
the public interest, has brought an in
dictment against Robert X Scott, the
present Governor Of the State, which,
If proved and well founded, viii rem
der Scott forever detestable and infa-
nous in the eyes of all honest men OF
all parties whatsoever. 1t Is well,
after all, that in the public senti-
ment Of the country there Is a
moral tribunal which malfessance and
dishonesty in public officials cannot
escape. 1t is the anchor and hope of
the country, without which, In the
midst Of the present and prevailing
corruption, there would remain no
| hope of reformation. The Charleston
Courier, a journal Of high standing
for ability and discreet and fair deal
ing, says of the statement Of General
Butler, that no man can doubt he IS
prepared to prove it is founded on
fact, and that not even Scott himself
will dare deny that General Butler
believes, and has odcause to believe,
every word in the indictment which.
he has framed.p It is as follows:
L charge that B. X. Scott has violated
That well-establIshed and acknowledged
principle of law which prohibits a trustee
| from Specializing with the funds OF his
trust estate for his own personal aggran-
dizement.
| State with paid spies ron abroad, reeking
with hatred to our people, and established
I a system OF espionage dangeroust to pubic
liberty and free institutions.
8. charge that he pays these spies with
your money, under the p~retense that they
are peace officers, when they are simply
his political partisans, and engaged In
stirring mp strife among our people.
4. / charge that he has attempted to de-
morslize the public virtue and prostitute
the public morals, by introducing into
his house, as Governor OF South Carolina,
| persons of ill-fRme, he knowing them TO
be such, thereby Offering a reward for
prostitution.
s I charge that he conniyed at, If he is
not implicated in the murder of citizens
OF South Carolina for political effect.
l(Tide the Randolph murder and its his
8. / charge that he has violated the law
OF his own creation, or the law of the
creation Of his wi party, by not requlr-
ing the Land Commissioner TO make a re-
port of his operations, and in not requlr-
ing a report from his financial agent.
z. 1 charge that be has defrauded the
state of large sums of money as one of the
Advisory Board of the Land Commission,
by converting to his own use money APP
| propriated to buy homesteads for the
homeless. -
s. charge that under his administra-
ton the public debt has been trebled; tax
alton become burdensome beyond suffer
ance; immigration prevented the re-
sources Of the State dormant, and public
education neglected.
9. / charge that he has encouraged vio-
lence (uide his Winchester Rifle Iaw
speechl, fomented discord between the
| whites and colored people for political eff
feet, and defeated the ends Of Justice in
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10. 1 charge that he has discharged the
duties of his high office, not for the good
OF the whole people, but with an eye sin
gle to his own preferment, political and
peeuniary. That he has misrepresented
abroad the good people OF the
wealth, n attempted 10 bring odlum
upon their fair name.
II. 1 charge that, shortly precedent to
the last Presidential election, Governor
Scott said to General Hampton, and two
other gentlemen, that he not only wished
the State to vote Democratic, but would
nse his influence TO that end M that ne
was tired Of the negroes, and would make
enough of them resign their seats in the
Legislature, so as to give the white men a
majority in that body.
With a Governor such as this, cadet
selling members Of Congress, a Legis-
lature Of nOn-taXpayers squandering
the public revenues Gd l6itaDa, carpet
bag officials holding the offices, to
batten on the spoils as vultures hold
their prey, and a constituency of
voters the majority of which is as ig-
norant and INSCRIPTIONS as it is black,
the condition of things in our sister
State is sufficiently appalling. We can
have no word Of censure, no objection
to make to anything our friends there
may believe or find it their interest to
do. We are disarmed of criticism as
to their platforms, or sayings or doings
in their deadly struggle for existence
and self-preservatiOn. We would give
them aid and counsel and cOmfortifwe
could. Facts so dishonoring to hui
man nature should arouse the body OF
the Prussians in behalf Of the French
people, even in time Of war, should
move the sympathies of every honor
able enemy, and should stir the souls
of all respectable men Of the northern
States to mutiny and rescue. a gov
eminent responsible for Republican
liberty, and at the same time capable
Of permitting abuses so vile, should be
Ioathed by all mankind. How is it
possible that a picture such as this can
be looked upon with calmness by men
Of any section, and how is it to be ex-
pected that anything but hate, deep,
abiding and fiendish, should be the
outgrowth of such souLsiekening in
iquity? 1t is a school in which an
oppressed people will be swift to
learn.