The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-12
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the otner h Carolina, appealing to all her sons,
a a. 1rords of England'S brave admiral, Eek
~ ractS .ne every man to do his duty" The incubus
IF Radical misvule Is weighing down ana
Crushing out the energies ofthe people. we
have borne, for three years, outrages IN gov
ernment without q parallel in the history oi
any civilized people. .,,,,
small faction who have harbored them,
selves within the State, aliens 10 tne SUI aha .h
adventures, by infiammatory appeaS ,1o,,.d W I'D
prejudices Of the ignorant, nave oa maui them,
The votes of majority, and elevatea onrie. o,r
selves to power upon the ruins OF tns ~ tbe
tors, the prostration OF the enteIISte ,act misery
WORKING classes. and the most aoleG' n;ry, ma;ry
of the Door. Race has been arraSe;u S;rosS ,,o
race, and the evils OF slavery Sho,,iS hore e
from the dreams of past that shouio nave
heen forever yelled, to keep up an unwlse, un-
eonal and unjust dominion IN South Carollna.
S5a oIass representing not more than one
twentIeth Of the entire estate OF the realm,
nor more than twentieth part OF 1ls lnteii-
gence have, BY false articles and means de-
structive OF all public morality, priced them
selves into all the offices of the State, and are
welding them to the injury of the
people. The Executive, restrained by
no compunctions or regard for the
rights OF the minority, has waged
war against their rights and privileges ana
jority; the Legislature outlawed from tne
cpales of common decency, and the JUDICIARY
:. giving the force and authority OF judicial sane
ton to the behesLs OF these TWO 1o-ort 'nate
spectacle South Carolina presents to-day to
her sister States OF this Union.
- The Governor has been arraigned ana
charged before the bar of public opinion with
hi III crimes and misdemeanors, and ne stands
mute. Hehas been charged With :encourag-
ing bribery and corruption, and exercising the
veto prerogatlve for his personal emolument.
Cognizant that bribery was publicly prac-
ticed in the Legislature. he has failed and re-
fused to execute the laws which he was sworn
to do for its punishment. and prevention. A
crime 30 disgraceful to the age, and SO COM
mon as 10 be admitted and justified by some Of
his followers, ne has daily witnessed in the
capitol over bis head, In the presence of The
people OF the State, without his gubernatorial
interpOsItion. -i,7S,5
he has approved bills Of supplies that were
= unequal and discriminating, and designedt TO
Oppress one portion Of the community for the
benefit Of few.
He has sanctioned the establishment of mo-
nopolies to enrich the rich at the expense OF
the poor-as, tor instance, the Phosphate bill.
He has been charged with abusing and pro-
noting the passage of a funding bill, whereby
large interests of the State have been placed
at his disposal, to be sacrificed at his pleasure.
The Greenville Railroad stock owned by the
State was sold to spectators TO control the
road.
: BY his Executive concurrence, over mill
lion and quarter of dollars has been added to
the State debt, without seeking the judgment
OF the judiciary, BY the passage Of the bill to
fund the bills Of the Bank Of the State, passed
In the interest of a few spectators.
He has overrun the State with swarms OF
officers, his own partisans and parasites, who
are eating out the substance Of the people.
He has executed laws enacted for the public
defence with discrimination by armlng one
class of the population to the exclusion Of the
other, and this he has done with an air of con-
tempt and defiance of public opinion in the
prosecution Of his Indecent threat, uttered in
the capital at Washington, that his people
should be coerced and held In subsection with
Winchester rifles.
Receiving salary of $500 a year, he has In
the short space oftwo years grown rich in Of
fee. And with what does the Legislature
stand charged 1t has passed all these odious
and disSraceful measures which received his
approval IN but tew. honest and unpurchased
votes. Attaching no consideration to the merit
OF any measure, they have determined their
vote BY the amount Of their reward.
These facts are too notorious to require spe-
cifcation and detailed proof. Some Of the
authors OF. these misdeeds confess them, and
prowess. The Office Of Governor and Legis |
iator Of South Carolina have been degraded In |
the estimation Of honest men, and its dignities |
are dragging in the dust And, notwithstand- |
ing all these wrongs and iniquities perpetrated |
against the good people OF this State, we are
assured, with selfsaLisaed and very comDla- ]
cent air, by the very few VINO pass around the |
Late ana Consume the small earnings Of the |
moor, that South Carolina was never more free,
her people never more happy, and her taxa.
tion never 30 small Poor Charleston-tnat
now in her ashes and her ruins mas wrung
from her exhausted and Impoverished people
over four hundred thousand dollars OF the en-
- <hoC tofa fODr-HffhG 0f tlo
entire State tax before the war-Charleston,
The assessed value Of whose property, IN the
days of her greatest prosperity, was not over
twenty millions, is now, in the days OF her ad-
yersity, valued at over forty million dollars
Our State government which. from Oeeem0er,
1865 to 1866, lring the administration OF Gov
ernor Orr, only cost fraction over FIVE hun
dred thousand dollars to maintain, now, under
the auspices of these we'll tried restidigtateurs
In money and finance, IS depleted annually 10
the tune of nearly o million and nan uolars.
And when the people raise their voices from
their desoated hearths, amid the rags OF starv-
ing children, against the perpetrators OF these
wrongs and enOrmities, they are presented, by
sleek and well-paid official (afecting great
politeness, and assuming. an air OF superior
genlility TO his fellows with long array ol
figures to show how much II cost The
State to govern one man before the 1oar,
and how much it costs now. He WoIld
have rendered greater service to history and
to truth had he chosen for his comparison two
periods since the war, when all men were free
and EQUAL when it only took Governor OFT
little more than half million TO carry on the
government; and when, later, We We're Vouch-
safed the blessings Of exotic rulers, under the
benign influence of constitution set to type
in Washington, under the inspiration OF Lew
England. Oh, how idle and puerle Is all this
parade! What sham it is. As II good gov
ernmeut were not identified by the content
ment and happiness Of those who live under
TIA thing not to be hunted for, but mani
tested in, the popular eye, glowing In the
nopular cheek, and making itself heard TItn
The popular breath. And what an aIoraaly In
government does the State of South Carolina
5resent. a people owning nineteen-twen-
fieths of the property, and representing the
same ratio OF the intelligence of the
State, governed by thosea representing
one-lwentielh. What a farce But we
are told they have the majority, ana
the majority 7+must rule, provided the
majority are free; but it Is en- enslaved majo-
rity, 30 Eastern despot holds his subjects in
more abiect servitude than do these petty ty-
rants, Of the Union League sway the minds
and The wills OF their simple and deluded fol.
lowers. Nor has this majority been used and
directed to promote the interests OF the color
ed man. Of the $4,000 native colored people