The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-11-16
HOW TO FIGHT THE RING.
Not q Difficult Task--Deiays are DAN
gerous.

A citizen Of New York makes the following
suggestions In letter to the Phoenix:
You no doubt read with much interest from
the New York papers the doings and wander
Ings of the magnates Of the State Of South
Carolina In and about New York. see by my
last Phoenix that you treat your readers to
dish from the New York World and the blazing
little Sun, about the millions which your peo-
Pile have been, and still are, being robbed OF.
Now, all this has been heralded and reiterated
over and over again, and I shall be pardoned
for SAYING that no one except dam phool"
dIsbelieves 1t. Now, why In the name OF
common sense don't your people seek q
remedy? Do you, or they, hope for any relief
through legislative committee I! And do you
suppose that any respectable and responsible
trust company or bank is agoing to take the
financial agency from the present incumbent,
without knowing how the accounts stand !?
Why didn't your taxpaying convention raise
committee Of three, with power TO call for per-
sons and papers, and demand OF the Executive
OF the State full examination Of all the books,
both In Columbia and elSeUhere, wherever the
taxpayers of South Carolina had Ian interest
They would then have got the pulse ol Cover
nor Scott and his amlable attorney general.
They would never have dared to refuse 30
reasonable request. Did they refuse, they
stood convicted before the country Of such
outrages as would have consigned them
out Of hand to the same bourne where
Tweed and the Tammany twineth. Now,
undertake to say that with one good man-ac-
couutant-and one good lawyer, both from
South Carolina, and In the real interest of the
State. and one man that will name, who is
now In the City Of New York, will blow all
those financial manipuators, OF whom you 80
loudly complain, so high that they would not
come down 10 torment the people of South
Carolina again this side Of the final resurrec-
tlop. 1t Is not difficult task by any means,
and If l could see few of your men OF brains
could point out the road. Now is the time
for action; delays are dangerous. Ihave writ
ten to my old counsel In Charleston upon this
subject, In confidential way, and desire
that you will treat this communication the
same. South Carolina to-day. with all her
mistortunes of Ku.klux, martial law, and
wholesale robbery, can, If she will make an
effort In the direction Indicated, relieve her
self at once OF score Of abominations, and,
In good time, raise herself to the dignity and
credit OF any State In the nation. There is
nothing vague or illusory In these suggestions.
mean business, and II your people desire re-
lief, they must attend to business. It will not
do to fight such wlnd.mis as the Union, and
carpetbaggeas. and Grant, and thieves, on
paper. Facts and legal tribunal Is what Is
wanted to Immediately secure the sympathy
of sill good men, and ultimately equal and eX.
act Justice. That was the chute that done the
business for Tweed and his men last Tuesday
in New York, aud a similar course, by your
people, will place South Carolina on high
ground.