The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-05-06

safety against the wholesale cor
ruptlons Of toe hour, and for the
security of the rights of the people
and Of the States under the Constr.
tuition, we must look to an ind9-
pendent Judiciary. l. is the house
of refuge, and that now being
ruthlessly assailcd, the people
should become alarmed for their
own safety, and that of our gov
ernment.
Negro Rule In South Carolina.
The State of South Carolina for
her political sins has been brought
under RrdIcal rule, and every de-
partment of the State Government
is controlled by negroes, scalawags
and carpet baggers." Those hold
lug the places of responsibility,
honor and profit arc now the least
intelligent meanest, and mere poz
litical adventures OF the State.
The Supreme bench consists of
three judges. One a negro, as
the ace of spades, n a scalawag.
and one a carpet Dagger. Wright,
the negro, represents Ignorance,
Mores, tee native, represents mean
ness and Willard, the New Yorker,
represents the political adventurer.
These fellows are selected to dis
pense justice and administer the
law In the highest court of the
State.
South Carolina, just ROW, feels
sadly Inundated over the specta-
Gle which her Supreme Court pre-
sents to the world. There WAS a
time, and that before the war when
the decisions of the Supreme Court
of South Carolina were held in the
highest esteem by The Judiciary of
the whole country, and her decis-
IONS had as much weight in the
courts of other states as was accred-
lied to New York, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania or any of the other
Northern States.
Look to her Judges ante belIum,
and a long line of able men that
have made her name illustrous IN
the past days, and Their contrast
her former glory with the present
imbecilIty now displayed by the
"uegro, scallawag and carpet-bag-
ger" upon her Supreme bench, AMI
no wonder the people mourn the
evil days that have come upon
them.
In the Legislature, the law making
department of the State Govern
ment. the negro element predOmi-
mates largely In both branches. To
look in and upon the ~congregated
ignorance OF the State in Lcglsla-
ture met, the likeness of a checker
board is wildly brought to the
mind of the visitors. Here and
there a white scalawag and carpet
Dagger i%ntervunes to make the as
sembly of white and black spirits
complete. In the State, the negro
voting population is largely in the
majarlty; they, therefore, take care
to send very many of their own
color to the Legislature 10 make
laws, and that too, without looking
to qualification or character The
State is. therefore completely in the
hands and under the CONTROL of the
negro.
A South CarolIniam, speaking o.
the negro law makers, said: "They
adjourned on the Isl. of March, bnt
some of them havn't got sense
enough to go home. They lay
around the streets all day and stay
IN some niger shanty at night
They don't know the way home
Before tee war they had never beer
off from the plantation wpon which
they worked. and now they have
been set down in Columbia, aDC
don't know which way they come
We suggest that it wrnld hav'
been "qvlte appropriate" to have
had the South Carolina Legislature
visit Washington City about tht
time the Ohio Legislature mad
their advent upon that place. Thu
TWO Honorable bodies might have
cordially and lovingly embraced
without any compromise of primer
pies whatever-though the one
was a negro naturally, yet the Other
was covered all over with Negro
antecedents, aud a loving politica
kindness for all people without dis
tinction on account of race, color
or former status. We mean thu
white Radical members of the OHIO
General Assembly.