The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-23

TIE EFERoTs OF SBADICAIisM IN 'PHR-
FICTION. Tho Edgeheld u. O.) iAdper-
t,ser draws gloomy picture OF affairS In
South Cnrolina, but gloomy and dismal
as the pictute il, the reality is far worse.
Tie Aduertiser says:
''The session just ended lasted Tires
months and q half, with q per diem If
six dollars, and cost the State $3.50, 900
actual outlay, in two appropriations. for
the pay of per diem. mileage and en-
ployees of tho two Houses, to say no.
thing of the printing and State House
swindIes, and ull the other numerous and
nameless rascalities which were perpe-
trated on less extensive scale. The
members drew oil the time, even during
the holidays, their six dollars a dny, and
did nothing in the way of useful legisIa-
ton. They displaced two of sheir own
Judges, whose bad hublts-if they were
bad, and We are inclined to think they
were-they knew before they elected
them; and by impeachments. aud free
fights, aud wranglings, and threntenings,
and bogus Investigations of former Radi-
cal stealings, and burying colored mur-
tyrs with civic and military honors, and
erecting monuments to dead negroes,
aud adjourning now and then to attend
horse races, and various other useless
and shameless doinga. they managed to
indefinitely prot ract tue session aud de-
plete the State Treasury.
''Last year, when the opposition party
vas urging the necessity for reduced
taxation and economy, th. Radicals ud-
mitted it all and declared their purpose
to secure these results to the State.
Aud what is the upshot? They have
been Infinitely more lavish with the pub
lie money than ever before. aud their
tax bill for the current year has been
much heavier than the last, although it
Is well known that the people of the
State are woefnlly Impoverished and
that every industry is parulyzed. This
ls the way these gentry redeem their
promises.
''Aud all this villainy and nll this
plnndering; does it help the negro race?
No. It is undeniable that the masses of
these people are annually becoming
poorer aud poorer. And there is hardly
nn official, high or low, who does not
use them for his own purposes aud then
pluck them to the last feather.
''If the blacks Of San Domingo arc
sensible. they will steer clear Of Grants
commission and Grants Government.
for they may judg. from the condition of
this State what their own fate will be- if
ever taken under the Radical wing. A
select number of the saints' will make
fortunes but the poor devils who inhubit
the land will be nude to mourn.
'Aud amidst all this ruin and corrup-
ton the white population is powerless to
interfere, aud looks on and suffers in
silence. No word, even, of remon-
STRANGE or protest in now heard; but the
State stnggers and reels under the crush
ing wrong. Emigration of the better
clusses to other States steadily increases.
and those who cannot get away submit
with resignation, but show q mentnl aud
financial depression which promises little
for the future. Nor, as we have said
above. will the negroes escnpe the penal
ties of such wretched misrule. Every
planter driven from the State makes one
employer less. Aud driving away capi
tai intensities the poverty of the blacks.
"The Commonwealth of South CAROL.
na is much poorer today than at the
close of the war. and this year will be
ono Of greater suffering and trial to the
people, white and black, than any since
the surrender. Business is dull to stag
nation, and the future which looms ur
under snch regime is not one to invite
or encourage enterprise OF any kinl."
The Vicksh ig Herald thus disposes
of the effort CO bring about Negro