The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-09
The Radical Attacks upon Judge Car

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i party, 1.-THE present time, isl plsateous sup
plg;of innuendo' and abuse sThey dare not
condemn the principles of the Union Beform
tpartyA They cannot impugn the sincerity of
1the eminent men who, in private life as in
4 public, champion its. cause. All that re-
mains is a blind confidence in reiterated cal-
umny, and Observation-Disclosures for
with the Scott Ring and its adherents, a lie
twice told counts as half truth. In aban-
doning, however, the attempt to give false
coloring to the broad verities of the Union
Reform platform, the public enemy pays an
unconscious tribute to its harmony and
strength. And in seeking to defeat the Re-
1 form party by vilifSing its nominee for Gov
ernor, the adherents of the Ring confess
| their own impotency and avow their growing
4 despair. If the Reform movement could be
coughed down, or sneezed into silence, the
i Radicals would not waste breath in SANDER
\ and defamation; but the wave of outraged
public opinion rolls with resistless force over
the State, and the Radical revilers, fleeing to
the hill-tops, shrek faster and more furious
ly,their discordant chorus OF hatred and re-
j proach. .la.
Here in Charleston, Judge Carpenter needs
neither vindication nor defence. He has been
tried and proved as Judge and as a citizen,
and the public, knowing the unscrupuous
character of the common foe and the ex,
tremity to which it is reduced, expected
nothing less than never-ending storm of
acrimonious untruth. The Charleston pub
lie were prepared for all this, and they heed
the falsehoods uttered against Judge Carpen-
ter no more than they do the rippling Of the
waters which lave the Battery, or the breath
ing Of the summer wind But in the coun
| try districts the candidate of the Reform par
ty is not known as be is known in this city,
and it may be thought due to the State at
large that we should, after due investiga-
tion, reply to the. more important Of the
many onslaughts which, in the cause of the
people. Judge Carpenter is expected to en-
dure. Once and for all, then, we will meet
Che calumnious statements which have been
made against Judge Carpenter. But we
cannot again allow ourselves to be diverted,
BY personal SANDER and ingenious mendaci-
ty, from the great object of the Reform
movement the obtaining OF an honest, able
and economical government which shall'res,
present faithfully and Aonorably all classes
Of the people. le ee,.zst
Among other things, it is charged against
Judge Carpenter that 'therc has been no
measure OF Importance passed by the Gen.
i'eral Assembly, or secured through its in
''flueuce, in which he has not had q. full
''share of the proceeds" and that she had .
''hand in all the leading bills in which he
..'would charge corruption" To this
charge We reply that Judge Carpenter
has not used his influence to secure the
passage OF any measure whatsoever; and
chat he has had no share, large or small, in
the profits Of any Bill passed by any Legis-
lature Of South Carolina. ,5.g,
1t is charged, furthermore, that Judge Car
penter delayed his decree in the matter OF
the Bank of the State in order that he might
make speculationin the bills of that insti-
tuition To this charge we reply, that Judge
Carpenter announced In substance, nt tho
close Of the arguments what his decision
would be, and that Judge. Carpenter has
never owned, or had an interest in, single
dollar of the bills OF the Bank OF the State.
1t is charged, furthermore, that Judge
Carpenter made alarge sum OF money, (some
$50, ,OOO,) by the passage of the Phosphate
Bill. To this charge we reply, that Judge
Carpenter approached no member OF the
Legislature upon the subject OF the Phos-
phate Bill, and never paid, directly or indi-
tectly, one cent for its passage. Judge Car
penter did have al interest in the Phosphate
company. This fact, which he never denied,
Has we'll known to the business community
long before the meeting OF the Reform Con-
tention.. And Judge Carpenter, as much as
any other citizen, had the unqucstionable
right to become stockholder in any CON-
pany, SO long as his position as o stockhold-
or did not. conflict with the duties and re-
sponsibllities Of his judicial Office. Upon
this point Judge Carpenter was properly
sensitive, aud as soon as it became probable
that litigation would grow out OF the Phos.
phate Bill, he promptly disposed OF his en-
tire interest in the Phosphate Company.
1t is further charged that Judge Carpen-
ter, when he sold his phosphate stock, or at
some other time, promised, as condition OF
the sale, that he would make decision IN
his Court favorable to the Phosphate COM
pany. To this We reply, that the charge is
utterly and absurdly false.
The minor charges against Judge Carpen-
ter come, like their follows, from the camp
Of the enemy, and are too frivolous for no.
tice. '
We believe that we have now answered, in
plain words, the general charges which the
Ring and its Paid Liar have circulated
against Judge Carpenter, and we point, be-
sides; to the proceedings of the Charleston
Bar upon the occasion of the retirement of
Judge Carpenter from the Bench, as, in
themselves a sufficient answer to calumny