Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-07

FOt&TtkAAT OE "A CAEkKEhsHAG
GOVERNOR.
Gen. Butler, of South Carolina, a
man of character, standing and integrity,
has preferred certain charges against
Robert K. Scott, the Radical Governor of
that State, which that functionary must
meet and refute, or he will become utterly
infamous. Here is the indictment:
81 charge that R. K. Scott has violated
that well established and acknowledged
principle of law which prohibits trustee
from specializing with the funds of his
trust estate for his own personal aggran-
dizement.
81 charge that he has infested this
State with paid spies from abroad, reek-
ing with hatred to our people, and estab-
lished system of espionage dangerous to
public liberty and free institutions.
81 charge that he pays these spies with
your money, under the pretence that they
are peace officers, when they are simply
his political partisans, and engaged in STIR
ring up strife among our people.
81 charge that he connived at, If he is
not implicated in, the murder of citizens
of South Carolina for political effect.
I charge that he has violated the law
of his own creation, or of the creation of
his own party, by not requiring the Land
Commissioner to make report of his
operations, and in not requiring q report
from his Financial Agent.
81 charge that he has defrauded the
State of large sums of money as one OF
the Advisory Board of the Land Com
mission, by converting to his own use
money appropriated to buy homesteads
| for the homeless. s-s-
81 charge that under his administra-
ton the public debt has been trebled
taxation become burdensome beyond suf
ferance; immigration prevented; the re-
sources of the State dormant, and public
education neglected. ,-
81 charge that he has encouraged vio-
lence, fomented discord between the
whites and colored people fer political
effect, and defeated the ends of justice in
his improper exercise of the pardoning
power.
"I charge that he has discharged the
duties of his high office, not for the good
of the whole people, but with an eye
singly to his own preferment, political
and pecuniary. That he has misrepre-
scented abroad the good people of the COM
monwealth, and attempted to bring odium
upon their fair name. -. +. e.
al charge, that shortly precedent to
the last Presidential election, Gov.
Scott said to General Hampton, and two
other gentlemen, that he not only wished
the State to vote Democratic, but would
use his influence to that end; and that he
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"
There was time in the history of this
country when public officer would have
been compelled to meet and refute
charges of SO grave nature as these or
he would have been forever disgraced.
But Gov. Scott does not feel this neces-
sity. He appears to rest secure in the
conviction that the new voters of South
Carolina are not made of that stuff
which would stop to inquire as to can
didate, 'Is he honest is he faithful r.
and hence he can afford to treat these
serious allegations with contempt. This
man Scott, thus covered with crimes
from head to foot, has been nominated
by a convention of negroes and carpet
baggers for reelection, and if the great
| body of the voters of that State were not
the most ignorant to be found in any civ
ilized government, there would be no diff
ficulty in defeating him. Their ignorance
makes them pliable tools in the hands of
such bold, bad men as Gov. Scott.