Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-16
BY the Grace of God and Six Dollars


x. a Day.
By the grace of God and six dollars day, the
Legislature of South Carolina has, at last. ad-
journed. Anest of filthy cormorants, caring not
jotor title for the Interest of the State or peo
Pile SO long as their Unsuitable cravings for plum
der were gratifed. Under white mans governs
ment an annual session Of three weeks was com
sidered amply sufficient for a Legislature of
South Carolina, and the members were allowed
per diem of only three dollars. The session just
diem of six dollars, and cost the State S260,OOO,
actual outlay, in two appropriations, for the pay
of per diem, mileage and employees of tho two
Houses, to say nothing of the Printing and
State House swindles, and all tho other numerous
and nameless rascalities which were perpetratea
on less extensive scale. The members drew all
the time, even during the holidays, their six dol
lars day, and did nothing in the way of useful
legislation. They displaced two of their own
judges, whose bad habits-if they were bad, and
we are inclined to think they were-they knew
before they elected them and by impeachments,
and free fights, and wranglings, and threatenings,
and bogus Investigations of former Radical steal
ngs, and burying colored martyrs with civic and
military honors, and erecting monuments to dead
negroes, and adjourning now and then to attend
horse races, and various other useless and shame
less doings, they managed to indefinitely protract
tho session and depete the State treasury.
Last year when the opposition party was urg-
ing the necessity for reduced taxation and econo-
my, the Radicals admitted i. all, and declared
their purpose to secure these results to the State
And what is the upshot? They have been infin-
itely more lavish with the public money than
ever before, and their tax bill for the current
year is much heavier than the last, although it ii
we'll known that the people Of the State arc NO.
fully impoverished, and that every industry ii
paralyzed. This is tho way these gentry redeem
their promises. .,.,
And all this villany and all this plundering !
does it help the negro race? No. 1t is undenia
BILE that the masses of these people are annually
becoming poorer and poorer. And there is hard
ly an official, high or low, who does not use then
for his own purposes and then pluck them to tn
last feather.
If the blacks of San Domingo are sensible
they will steer clear of Grants commission ant
Grants government, for they may judge from
the condition of this State what their own fist
will be if ever taken under the Radical wing. A
select number of the saints" will make fortunes
but the poor devils who inhabit the land will b.
made to mourn.
Andamidst all this ruin and corruption, the whit
population is powerless TO- interfere, and looks OF
and suffers in silence. No word even of remun
STRANGE or protest is now heard, but the Stat
staggers and reels under the crushing wrong
Emigration of the better classes to other State
steadily increases, and those who cannot get ava.
submit with resignation, but show mental AM
financial depression which promises little fer tn
future. Nor, as We have said above, will the ne
groes escape the penalties of such wretched mis-
rule. Every planter driven from the State make
one employer less. And driving away capital in
tensiGes the poverty of the blacks.
The commonwealth of South Carolina is mucl
poorer L0-uay Luau dt LILO ClV5o VI lAO wal oH
this year will be one of greater suffering an
trial to the people, white and black, than an.
since the surrender. Business is dull to stagna
ton, and the future which looms up under sue
O. regime is not one to invite or encourage enter
prise of any kind.
It is not wcll for the people of South Carolin
to submit to all these wrongs too silently and to
gracefully.
History will pronounce the Radicals tho wors
enemies of their race.
Gov. Scott, in his application to Presiden
Grant for troops to send to the "rebelliouS dis
tricts," Gays that the members of the Legislature
just previous to their adjournment, oemploye
pickets to guard the roads and railroads leading
to their homes lest the Ku Klux should captur
them. And we'll might wrctches with such guilt
consciences take such precautions! for if ther
was erer gang of dirty thieves and robbers VIII
deserved to be caught and punished by the K
Klux, it was these same home returning law Civ
ers of South Carolina.
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