Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-14
WHAT GRANT ENDORSES.

Gen. Grant was reported In South Caro-
lima as opposing the reelection of Gov.
Scott, and letter has been drawn from
him on the subject as follows:
Inever opposed the collection of Gov.
Scott, nor spoke disparagingly of him.
On the contrary, only look upon the So
called "RCform" movement in South
CAROLINA as a device to give the control of
the State TO the enemies of the party
which has supported me, and which sup
ported our armies and maintained the
Union. L. S. GRANT.
LONG BRANCH, n. j., Aug. %, 1870.
This letter is characteristic of the man.
Gov. SCOTS has been the most corrupt
administration that has ever cursed South
Carolina; as corrupt as that of Holden,
in North Carolina, or that of Reed,
in Florida, and Grant must be aware of
the fact When he is spoken to private
ly on the subject he processes TO be OPP
posed to the scheme of public plumber
which has been inaugurated in South
Carolina, but as soon as this fact is stated
publicly, he backs square down as he has
with regard to every promise he has made
to the Southern people. Scott leads the
extreme wing of the party that elected
Grant, and the latter is willing that he
shall revel in the corruption by which he
has enriched himself and brought the
State heavily in debt. 1t is no secret that
the members of the Legislature and the
Governor have been bribed, the former
to pass a bill for The benefit of jobbers
and spectators, and the latter to approve
the same. Gov. Scott went to South
Carolina poor man. The first year of
his residence there he did not pay
taxes on property of the value of $500,
and now he is worth considerably over
800, 600, notwithstanding his salary dur
ing his term of Office did not yield him
$4,000. But he is only one of ring
who have accumulated large fortunes in
two or three years by means of the of
fetal positions they occupy, and all this at
the expense of debt ridden and heavily
taxed people. A correspondent of the
New York World, writing from Charles
ton on the 9Th inst, gives some facts and
figures bearing on what the Scott admin
istration has done for South Carolina,
from which we copy as follows:
l. The public debt has been run up
since 1860 as follows, according to the re-
ports of the Comptroller General:
September, 1860, it was......S 4,O46, $40 16
November, 1866, it vas. 4,426, 446 46
October, 1869, it was......... 6, 183, 349 II
To-day i is...................... A. $50, $40 II
Upon these separate items, observe that
the report of 1866 excludes the war debt,
and that is excluded from the subsequent
reports. The message of Gov. Orr, in
1866, made the public debt to be, princi-
| pal and interest, Excluding the war debt
also), So, POS, 227 "A, but have given the
Comptroller's report. The debt of to-day
is found by adding to that of 1869 the ap-
preparations of the Legislature, which are
not embodied in the Comptroller's report,
as follows:
| l, Blue Ridge Railroad bonds...$4, 00O,0
3 To Land Commission. 700, 900
3. Bank of the State bills......... 100000
4. State Bonds pawned ............ 100000
Total SIS, $50, 900
Add this total to the debt of 1869, aid
Won get Sl4, 1913, $40 II. The Blue Ridge
| Railroad bonds have not been expended
yet, it is true, but the State Treasurer has
Endorsed them, Tor most of theml, and
parties are now in New York trying to
negotiate them. The State bonds pawned
were negotiated bv the financial agent of
the State, b. H. KimptOn, of this city.
3. The use made of the increased out
lay-the way the money goes-wiIl ap-.
/ near from the following comparison Of