The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-13

6T5, whose case 1s now DeiOre t1e puoHc,
II presents the enormity Of the proceed
ibge In, relation to these prisoners in
strong oolors. We hope that the atten.
tibh of. the WHOLE State will be called TO
this mntter. The communication Of
'.Hamdeh.. is 2 plain, nnvarnished state.
melt Of the whole affair from it's begin.
ming to its present status.
II voaoe f,on, the Country:-yyords va.
-'!p) Decds. a.
To Ms eEsueellencg r. K. Scot, Gocernor
Of South Carolina.
SR: Ihave. carefully read your inau-
gural address and your annual message
to the present Legislature, and am free
to say, that;as far as words or promises
go, have little or no fault to find with
either; Yet there are some things. that
for ths credit Of Jour administration, Gf
you rTealk wiah TO conduct it as set
forth, which it would be we'll to ponder
upon right in the start. AS far apart as
you and I are, in political opinions, I
am not going to deal in abuse. or in the
use OF opprobrions epithets, yet I shall be
plain and straightforward in this. or
any subsequent article, stating nothing
but what 1 know to be facts, and I shall
do that regardless OF fear, affection or
favor.
In the two papers mentioned above,
you invoke the confidence of tho whole
people Of the State, Democrats and
Radicals, as to your future administra-
tion of the Government. Now, right
there looms up serious obstacle to the
realization of ycur oppressed wishes for
the present. All substantial, right
thinking men, land women, too, il you
pleaAei) always take the aots of apy
person, as TO their intentions, whenever
the elfwo Disagree. Now, how stands the
cage With you in the past? Two years
ago. yon expressed similar wishes, made
similar promises, and declared, in a very
earnest manner, that you wished for
peace. Ndw, what have you done to-.
ward Ps9dacing that peaceP What has
your aapiaiassation done, generally. but
prodnnal strife, engender bad feeling
betwaeh the whites and blacks, pro.
ducipg an inflated value upon the lands
or the State, that can never be sustained
unless the creditors of the State are
more lenient than creditors usually are,
allowing the ring by which you are
surrounded to speculate with the funds
of the State, appointed all over the State
to offices OF honor, trnst and profit, men
who were and are still as bankrupt in
honesty, responsibility and intelligence
as can be found in this or any other
State Of this Union? Did you eSpect to
have peace, when you allowed we'll
known radical agitators to run riot
through the country, making inoendiary
speeches to the negroes, telling them to
shoot, burn and steal among tho whites,
and perpetrate any other injury that
might come in their way; and then for
fear that their friends would not be able
to do their work effectively without. you
send them thousands upon thousands of
stands of arms, to be put into the hands
OF an ignorant, excitable race, mean
while inhaming their passions with bad
whiskey and worse advice, then parade
them up, down and over the streets and
squares Of our towns, teaching them to
contrive some plan to insult and annoy
every white person they met? You were
told of these things, and yet you never
put forth hand to stay them. IT'S
true, you onoe in while sent mon to
those places to investigate (?) tho COM
plants, but what were the Investigations
worth, or how were they made?
You sent men to make them that were
as vagabond in. character, whether you
knew it or not, as were the men whose
acts they came to look after. Where did
the investigators go to for information?
Why, nowhere else. but right to the au-
thors of mischief themselves, and these
latter would send for q few negroes that
could be hired to swear to anything that
aspresented to them for less than Ave
dollars each, to be their witnesses in the
case, and your agent would go nowhere
else for information.
might go on for week with like out
RACES upon the white inhabitants Of
South Carolina, but forbear for the pre-
sent to to do so, and as to tho simple,
plain Question, can you expect that tho
Democracy of the State, who are the
substantial inhabitants thereof, will,
upon your mere declaration, have conf
dence that your future administration
will be any better than the past? You
certainly cannot be SO obtuse. Make a
good administration of the affairs OF the
State, such as you and sOmo of your
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