The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-11
THE RoBBERIEs OF THE ENG.
What an Inquisitive Individual would
Like TO Know.
rrRox OUR OWN coRREspoEDENT.]

POUR correspondent has been characterized
as having turn for inquiries" 1t may be So
and it may be his misfortune; but he doesn't
see it in that light. He Is fond of making in
quiries, and proposes 70 exercise his turn
bit, having several on hand
l. When everybody knows that q State
oficer-an adventurer from abroad-has filled
his private purse out of che State treasury
through land jobbing In 0conee County, (ano
otherwise and elsewhere,) is the main ques
ton In the matter whether the lands lie eight
miles or less from Poor Mountain
2. When a tool of such IN adventurer de-
grades himself by becoming the go-betweer
and catspaw In land swindle, has he as jus,
claim to our respect as even the adventurel
himself?
8. When scrlbbllng plck-thank and toady oi
that tool of that adventurer takes upon him
self to berate one who is exposing such land
jobbing frauds, isn't there some ground to
think that his rerilings should be taken with
some grains Of salt
4. And when he talks ofproving anything by
witnesses who are Ignorant, corrupt, dis
honest and unfit, by reason of their early
associations for decent society,"" las Mr.. Orr
said the leaders Of the. Republican party are,)
isn't it .ather amusing than otherwise
S. And when, as the mouthpiece and subor-
dinate of such men, he talks about "menda'
cious falsehoods,' isn't it atleast funny
6. When such authority arrays itself against
the statements of respectable residents OF the
country, ,oho haue no interests to su5serue BY
their testimong, doesn't it look little like
thief caught in the act trying to throw dis
credit upon the testimony of the witnesses
who saw him stealing?
7. When an editor of newspaper, speaking
of the witnesses by which he is able to prove
certain allegations, remarks that "these gen
tlemen may be unwilling to have their names
banded about in such company simply to sat.
isfy public curiosity isn't it rather funny to
hear the correspondent clamoring in the same
issue for the publication Of witnesses who
know something damaging to their pilfering
favorites?
s. When man has stolen money (or cheat
ed the State out of it, which Is the same thing
isn't 1t reasonable to expect him to try to cover
up the facts of his villany by telling ''menda-
cious falsehcods." or falsehoods of some kind ?
9. When such an authority has the efron-
terry to assert "that not foot Of land was pur-
chased In Oconee County, or any other coun-
directly, remotely or contingently interested"
at time when the truth of the contrary Is
known to q score of respectable witnesses,
(who are not Ignorant, corrupt, dishonest,
and unfit, by reason of their early associations,
ior decent society,") isn't the effrontery we'll
nigh sublime in its way
10. Why did Mr.. Dunbar, the attorney, have
to change the papers
II. Why were there three checks drawn on
the treasury instead Of one,-all in the name OF
John Cochran
u. Why where these three checks OF so
nearly the same value-s1OOO, $1,000 and SG2G2
l3 We're all these three drafts not drawn on
one and the same day-the Goth Of May, 1870
II. When your correspondent stated that the
papers were changed SO as to oJer the lands
not in the Governors name, did he not know
and did not everybody see-that that change
was made so that this ueyy technical tlenia!
might be made?
Is. Does the technical denial, when so made
deceive or impose upon any intelligent man in
South Carolina or out Of il?
l6. When your correspondent shall have
proven his points, will the statements to the
contrary be stn,endacions falsehoods, or jus
| common falsehoods CoRs!IR.