The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-08-25

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use or prof, to the people or the State
Not one. 1t is all dead loss. Judy
ing thc future by the past; what will b
the condition Of affairs, after two year
more of such rule aud ruin policy?
A letter has Ills. morning appcarc'
| 10 one Of our Columbia dailics: writer
by a distinguished statesman and jurist
have no personal &nmity to Judge Or
! We arc friends. :3ut must look Il
his letter as Il pu1lic paper. Juds'
Orr says the way to reform the Hadica
party, which he also admits to be cor
rupt, is to 90 into il; for the good mcr
of the State to 20 into it. Who is tt
do this? To 90 into the Radical party
| know of only tive who have triec
that-one fat gentleman in the Eas
tern part Of State, SIX months ago, ant
my learned legal friend, Judge Orr
two months ago. I5-does not seem tt
be much improved yet, Who made W
tthe Radical convention? The scum o.
the Garth, led on by Whittemore, who
has been twice kicked out of Congress
and is dc6led BY all the vices that have
disgraced the most ahapdaned of .thcil
vile crew. WhitIcmorc was their lea,
der, and ought to have been. laugh
ter and applause His two cadetship
sales cost him somewhat heavily, in
comparison; but in fact, very lightly.
His fellows should rejoice if they could
get off as light. Go into the Radical
party to break it up! Nobody is going
iutoit for that purpose; any more than
the Georgia Judge wspt into some gam
bling hclls to bleak chem up, by fight.
ing the tiger. Everybody can easily
see why they 80 in. Such explanations
arc lacking in that honesty which
Hurley throws into his explanation of
this management Of parties. Hurley
says, what fools people are to talk about
honesty; the negro has got no sense;
'cc make no prctcnsc Of honesty; We
stuff his puckct and feed him with all
sorts of promies and pet his vote.
After giving some telling hits at tl.is
sinking. fund style Of breaking up the
Radical party, which Orr AID Graham
have adopted, tic Jalge was farming
to another subject, when voice cried
out, "Hurrah for CaF9cntcrR" He re-
5licd: Never mind hurrahiug fnr me;
Scott needs that. Tic slashing that
the Pru.>i1ns have recently given the
French is nothing like that shiehzthe-
s8iisswillg assl Qctpbyr Governor
ssqsstf god men aid piit.
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divide and foia te iaofiicess Tie Judge
replied that that was certainly fair; 55al
that the Scott Ring divided in all un-
equal wny-thcy give til" country p"o:
pie all the voting, while they take all
the n.opcy and the Offices. That is
what they crll ''lair divide" 1t is
the old story Of the turkey and the
brzzard, that the hunter and the In
dian hal to divide. FORMERLY the Ju-
,liciary of South Carcl;na WAS pure.
low is it now? All over Tie State.
! The Courts of the Trial Ju' tices arc
pandemnuiums Of wickedness and in
/ Justice. -. -.
Of the removals Of good men from
nAiccc, that Of DR.. J. ". Parker from
the charge of the State Lunatic Asylum
was enc of the most recent as well as
INC Of the worst. DR.. p. was peculiar
| iy fitted for this place. Miss Dix, who
has visited the ASylums of Europe and
America, said that she had never seen
man better suited for his peculiar du'
ties IN the cure OF the insane than Dr.
! p This lady, when she heard, two
! years ago, Of project to remove him
for political reasons, wrote latter to
cx .Govcru"r Orr, supposing him still
TO be the Governor, bc"gins that pr
p. should not he removed. Gov. o.
endorsed this lelter-and forwarded it tt
Gov. Scott. DR.. =. had been thirty
| three years connected with the Asylum
h ID skill, education, ability, energy
love of the work, ard everything else tc
recomcnd HIM lie was like Luke, OF
old, the beloved physician. Yet, in the
face of all these facts and considerations
Governor Scott removes him, in order
to make a place for DR.. Ensor. VIII.
was this? 1t comes Of the fact tha
Purvis finds that Lexington is going
for tie Rciormers; so that lis occupa
4ion is certainly gone. Ensor is re
moved to make place for Purvl<; ano
, DIR. Parker must be removed to make ;
place for Ensor. - -.
Judge Carpcnterthcn, in. answer t.
the false charse'0f dcfalcation made a
gainst DR.. p.,. detailed the fnancla
history Of the institution under hi
J.argc; showing that he expended hi
own funds III its support, then 'by sub
scription managed to keep it going, ant
finally that he begged to supply funds
Gov. Scott has not. only involved tn
State in debt, has not Only remove!
good officers to put in the vilest of hi
creatures; has not only inaueuratcd an
kept up y system of utter corruption i
all the BRANCHES of the State. Govern
mcnt and inferior qficcs-but he h'
Systematically endoavored to excite a
antagonism between the two race
This | regard as the gravest charge
, all, for it renders impossible the tru
1....l...annt &C tho Sintn lInM Ii;