The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-18
A HINT TO THE POWERS THAT BE
"The Office We Want"
IFrom the winnsboro' News.l


In advocating new party in South Caro-
lima, which, in Federal affairs. will support, at
least passively, the administration, and, In
State affairs, will run mixed black and white
tickets, and thus abandon the "limc-honored
principle of being thoroughly whipped every
time, and with 1t, the heroism OF ''scornlng
the pelf of Office" We confess frankly to nav
ing an eye to patriotic personal service OF
"Our beloved State" We are q candidate, put
not for the Office of commissioner Of aSricul-
ture. 'VThe well-kn0wn hostility OF our plant
ers to the purposes of his commission as mi.
Sparnick truthfully puts 1t, deters us from de.
string it. "The purposes Of his commission"
any one can discover, by o little observation,
were to put s2500 into Mr.. Sparnicks pocket,
and Mr.. Sparnick has certainly discharged the
duties of his commission, In the face OF the
.taforesaid hostility of our planters with re-
markable tOrLitnde, and. we acknowledge,
with considerable zeal The duties of the cod
flying commission are much too arduous to
attract us. To be paid $4500 each, for direct
ing clerk, with salary OF $1,000, TO trans
cribe the code Of the State of New York, but
to substitute the words Sonh Cdroand
wherever the words Ne,o York might happen
to occur in the original, requires the varied
learning of Montgomery, the legal acumen
of that political severalty, d. T. COrbin, and
the aspiring genius ofW. J. Whipper, our NOM
inee against Bowen for Congress The fish
commission may 80 to somebody else TOO,
though we feel certain Of its success; for,
though s'the well-known hostility OF our plan
tersn black to crabs and catfish, and OF our
planters white to shad and oysters, may pre-
vent the Increase of those varieties Of fish. we
are sure that one good-sized land shark will DC
fed and tattened by the commission, and two
or three small ones. Nor can we consent TO
serve on Crews election investigation COM
mittee. Not that we object, politically, to ly-
;pr n k N
insane proposition, woulG ruin our chances
with our own, and every other political party.
But we do object being paid tor compulsory
perjury, even as much as thirteen thousand
dollars. We advocate o free press, free
speech, free trade, free schools, free ballot
such Crews committee. Political lying may
be very wrong-that is great moral
question, far above us, which we leave to
the clergy-but we insist that man should
be left free to lie or not, as he pleases. anu
that compulsory perjury is quite different
that Of mulecommissioner No. We advo-
cate, as against the "Hon. George washington
Barber" who has grossly neglected the inter
ests Of this constituency, the establishment of
mule commission, but we nominate prince
Rivers" for the office. We knqH Prince; He
is an excellent Judge of horse, and Will not
palm 81 upon the freedmen an unsound AMI
NAL. He was our uncle's coachman in Beau
fort, and many ride have we taken. when
small boy, in front Of his saddle If Prince ice
will vote for US, we will nominate and vote Tor
him. What Office Is II, then? Well, it is one
that none of the politicians are now thinking
of, and is due to US for our public services.
It involves much unselfisf and disinterest-
ed labor, for it necessitates expatration
from our home and from the State. The office
we want, and which VIC now speak for, is
sHhat is-the Office Of Financial Agent for the
State of South Carolina in the City Of Neao
York The main reason we desire IL Is, that
we are the only man we are willing to trust
with s2,7OO, 900 of State bonds, without any
security whatever. Those who have not
thought of this Office, and who cannot now
come in between rs and our choice, may sus-
pect another motive, and may ctriously in
quire-what do you intend TO charge no com
missions To such We reply, 1t is religious
principle with us, that the "laborcr is worthy
of his hire" and therefore, and not because We
are particularly attached to filthy lucre, we
certainly will charge, but only the ordinary
brokers' commission Of five per cent. upon
money handled, that is but sl35,ooO.