Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-11-24
From The NeV York Tribune, (Radical.y
Thievng aud Misgovsrum ,Dt
in the Reconstructed States.


in the Reconstructed States.
For months the developments Of rascality in
the management of the reconstructed govern.
ments of several Southern States have been
growing more and more conclusive No in.
tcliigeDt man longer doubts that those govern.
mcuts have been A.grantly expensive and cofss
rupt-thlt! they have increased taxation, in.
CURED debt, aud Issued bouds to an enormous
extent. The facts are in part concealed or
obscurcd, but cauuos long rcnl,in so ; cnouyn
is aIrcady known to justify the very g"avest
upprehcnSions. In the two Cnrolinas espo.
cnlly tho robbcries appear to have been qnito
as gigantic, when the relative wealth of tho
respective communities is considered, as in
this city. Yet meu whom wc have esteemed
honest talk as though all exposure and rcpre.
hcnsion Of these villunies should to left-to
Democratic journals that wo ought to ig.
more, or betuy, or belittlc them They ropro.
sent such exposure as calculated to damage
the Republican party generally. We hold
that, even it this be 80, that party will elfar
worse damaged by seeking to cover up those
iniquities, and thus making them to sole cx-
tcntits own Let it promptly and tearlessly
expose aud denouuce tho criminals, lift would
vindicate itself from all completely in their
crimes. We have received communications
from Leading Republicans in Texas insisting
that we have regarded their legislation and
rule with greater disfavor than the facts will
warrant. 10 this we answer that the peoples
of Texas seem to take substantially the samaN
view of the matter that we do, Two years. :
ago they elected Republican Govcrnori Leg
islature, and three cut of four Congressman
now, they have chosen Democrats to Congress
from all four districts, by an aggregate major.
ity Of at least ten thousand. Yet there are
far moro Republican journals printed in the
State to-day than there were two years ago,
with all the Federal and State patronage in
tho hands of the party which has just been 50
signally defeated While in Texas last May,
VIC could not fail to sec that the old Texans
who stood fire for the Union and organized
the Republican party-GoveYnor Hamilton,
Governor Pcasc, Judge Hancock, Judge Sa-
binc, &c.-werc out in the cold, while the
Republican machine WAS in tho hands Of
younger and less eminent politicians, mainly
new to the State, and enjoying no considcra-
ton outside of the ranks Of their followers
Had the legislation OF the last twu years COM
mandcd public confidence aud had Rcpubli-
cans who we're favorably known to the whole
people irrespective of politics been nominated,
we believe the State would haYo gone as
strongly Republican in 1877 as it did in 1869.
The State constitution, framed in 1860 by
Republicans plainly provides for the election
OF ~ Legislature in evory sccond year. The
present Legislature, chosen two years ago, has
held ut lca~t two long sessions, and is now
holding third. 1t ought to have provided
fur the choice of its successor at the recent
election it did just the opposite of this it
put OFT that election to future day. ''Tha
fact is We are not prepared for an election"
sud a leading manager Of tie ruling cliuuc
last May. So there vii! have to be a special
election, or this morhnnd Legislature nl,lSs
hold over for another year But why nof
prepared Z" "'fhc wicked fee whom no.
man pnrSucth. but the righteous 'nre as bold
as lion," says the sacred prnycrb. Don't
you believe that the inspired pcnman. had
Bullock of Georgia, in his eyes when ho
made that observation And he didn't
class him under the head Of "the righteous"
either. Here is Clayton, Of Arkansas, charg-
cd by his ncighbors with crimes thnt if prov
cd should send him to the State Prison in
stead OF the Senate Now, VIC dnn't know
that the charges against him arc true though
tho poape Of Little Rock seem to believe
them, If VIC may Judge from the result of
their recent election But, if they are true
If Clayton counted ont and countc] in leg
slAtorS, and ever congressman, to secure his
own election to the Scnatc-thcn he onght to
be hurled from his scat before the close of
next January.
COLUMBIA, November 17.-Thcre are ru-
mors on the street that unolcr every oct um-
Morisi"g the issme of .&otc bands there has
been an 0ce' iSsnc. Runor states that under
the act funding the bills cf the Bank of the
State there was an over.issuo of half a mil
lion. It is rumored that under tho act of
1868 for the relief Of the treasury, there were
duplicntc issues, making an amount double
that anticipated by tho people The act for
the conversion of securities, run,or says,,' 'iis
even worse. The first issue was from one to
two thousand bonds numbered in rcd ink-
The second issue, of like amount was num-
bored in Jlnc inh and SO on. ,.4
1t is asserted that parties hero are propar-
ing aidavits looking to suits against tile per-
sons implicated.
The stockholders Of tho Blue Ridge Rail-
| road met again today, and the reports of the
officers we're rcndcpsd. They entered ipto q
detailed account of the condition ofIthe road,
especially of its financial embnrrassmcnts.
President Harrison stated thet the nego-
tiaions with Henry Clcws T. Co., had not.
been satisfactory, aud had retarded pro.
grcsa lie also stated that six hundred
| thousand dollars Of tho bonds Of the road
were hypothecatcd and were held by II. H..
kmrton, inanoinl agent of the State, as Sc