The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-04
Tho Littlo aame OF Scott, Moses & Co.

Tho Littlo Game OF Scott, Moses & Co.
| Nothing that their Radical lords and
masters Tcan do-whether tragedy,
mild surprise in.'the minds of the peo.
pie Of South Carolina The political
and social leaders Of the dominant party
have exhausted the Grimes of the deoa-
logue, and, unless they suddenly become
unselfish, magnanimous and pure, none
of their antics will cause this people
either astonishment or modification.
We know they are busily engaged in
adding to their ill-gotten gains. We
know that-they desire TO stand as an in
snrmouptable barrier between the whites
and the honest blacks. We know That
what they have won by fraud they are
eager to retain by force. But mono of
these things, whether as inchoate ideas
or as accomplishing facts, can create a
sensation here, whatever their effects
upon the tender susceptibilities Of the
North. We would not oompare upright
Republican leaders in the North uud
West. with the unsavory knaves who
hold dominion in the South. Whatever
their political idiosyncracies, Mr.. Gree
ley and Mr.. Fish and their like are high
minded, conscientious and pure. AS
|
Mackeys aud the Hoges who hold cor
States. Nny, we could not, with justice.
place any one Of the graceless looms who
now control our public and private for
tunes. upon u moral equality with the
hnmbiest negro who picks cotton on the
coast, or hoes corn under the shadows Of
the azure mountain range. Yet it is
SCOTT, and Moses, and Hoge, Gnd their
companions who contrive to hoodwink
respectable people in the North, who
| assure Northern and Western Republi-
cans that South Carolina needs o second
baptism Of fro, who. are ready to per-
| form in this State the second act of the
ghastly tragedy, that burlesquo of JUS
| tice aud truth. whose first brutal socne
was played last week in Raleigh. For n
month or more, the Columbia Union,
Governor SCOTS organ, has preached
the wrath to come. It hos striven, by
malicious fabrications and by perver-
sions OF the truth, to fire the Radical
heart. And ut last the order of pro
ceeding. then shadowed forth. is do
termined on in council and emphatically
and authoritatively announced.
A meeting of the Republican State
Central Com mittee Was held in Colum-
bia on Thursday, the principal subject
for consideration being the making of
arrangements for the National Colored
Convention, which assemblies in TINT
city next month. AS this convention is
to be exclusively composed of colored
men, the colored Lieutenant-Go Governor
of the State, with the colored Judge of
the State Supreme Court, the colored
Congressman and members of the State
| 1ak hou tal -
do what was necessary in the way of ap-
pointing delegates. But it was thought
proper to bring the State Central Com
mittee together, and to call in as sin
vited visitors" those eminent personages,
Governor Scott, Mr.. Speaker Moses,
General Worthington and Judge Hoge.
What had they to do with the Colored
Convention? Nothingl That Conven-
tion was the pretext for new departure,
for restoration of mutual confidence
between the arch intriguers, for q bold
denunciation Of the Feder i Court and
of the white people of the State. Mr..
Ransier. whose vigorous protest against
martial law WAS still warm on his lips,
opened the ball. What he said is not
fully known, but he probably vibrated
dexterously between the poles of con-
tending opinions, and declared emphati-
cally that ''somethiDg must be done. !"
We do not regard Lieutenant Governor
Ransier as by any means the most sin
oere and trustworthy man in the Radical
party. but his color is as much in his fa-
vor as that of Scott and Moses is their
shame and reproaoh. Governor Scott
now addressed the meeting ''by invita-
tion," and expressed his determination
to suppress the Ku Klux organization.
He assured the committee That "mea-
sures had been taken" to make the next
session of the United States Court in
Columbia ''as memorable to the mid
night assassin" as was the late session of
the court presided over by Judge Bond
in Raleigh. He said that "every pledge
of the Democratic lenders i'm the up
country. and the pledges Of the same
party i'll the Taxpayers Convention.
had been broken and TINT he had no
longer my faith in anything but the
strong arm of power. What, We would
ask. are ''the measures" which have
been taken? Does Governor Scott pro-
pose to bribe witnesses and pack juries,
US his party bribe voters aud pack cleo
ton boards? Are his paid agents al
ready manufacturing fresh supply of
Ku Klnx ontrages for the columns Of
! the Union or 5ooa l,a opcn N, ora propooa