Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-04-20

| Of greed, leaf, blossom and. fruit Q.
agriculture, manufactures and, com.
merce. The pardoning power has
been prostituted tothe basest of pur.
poses; and the most degraded crimi
nals have been encouraged in theil
career BY Executive, .clemency and
subsequent elevation to official posi-
ton by Executive appointment
What crime has, not had the clemency
of this papMnciplsd, venal and profit
gate administration wasted upon it?
Has not larceny /? aldas not rape?
Has not arson ?>sHas not robbery =
Has not burglary? The two or three
hundred convicts turned out of the
penltentiary to prey upon the people
during last year, give afearful affirm
atiVei0to these questions. Did not
.one.of the Governor sintimatei fiieiids
and supporters receive from the State
Treasury a reward Of five thousand
dollars for homicide Z? Is not the
-proof''abundant that he employed a
bandi of desperadoes to come from
New York to murder citizens Of this
State, who had become obnoxious to
him because they had exposed his
corruptiohs?' But it is a waste ol
time to make specific charges against
Governor Scott. His single, object.
clearly discernable through all his
changes, falsehoods and tergiversa-
tlops, has been to rob while he in
splted ed the people. No oath has been
kept, no, promise has been sacred, no
law honestly enacted, or faithfully
executed, The State Government,
in q word, is a .robber, differing only
in the means employed and the names
by which it's ministers are known
from the .highwayman who presents
his pistol and says I" stand and deliv-I
er." Let no one think these state
ments'are exaggerations:
Look .' i, on ds the picture, deem it not Ger
There is no trait that might be enlarged"
In he portrait I have drawn Of
the Governor in this and the three
preceding communications, my only
motives have been to expose to the
public view "a great criminal, and
thus render the State substantial
serviceI;a personal antipathies have
had no p. rt or lot in the matter;
truth and jL +ice have been my only
and am inexpressedly
panied and deiec,,' when l reflect
how weak and powe. ass they are to
stem the tide Of corrup,. IN now flow
ing Increasingly over the 5, e.
Ihaye exposed the enormol 'rilnes
avery day perpetrated under the
forms Of law; but the motiues that
give such sweeping license to avarice,
and extortion, and have de
ivered our once noble State to be
".plundered by a legalized
oanditti,, are impregnable to exposure
IL refutation,p But time will cure
Ill this. AS sure as the great and
statesmen Of South Caro-
ina shall live In history, and be held
up to future generations as the men
;ors, guides and lights Of their race
md age, 50 sure, will this eesspool,
,uutrid with corruption, which We
Lightly by the name. of the State
Government. be ezecrated by the,
wise and good Of the future, and the.
:onduct Of its principal actor and his
nyrmidons will be regarded not only
IS foul wrongr."4against the peace
md dignityaof this State" but as a
ibell upon all government and a
oathsomeplague-spot humanity.
, ag "A negro after gazing at the I Chi.
lese exclaimed: "If de white folks is ais
lark as dat out dare 1 wonder what's de