The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-29
A Voice from the Country.
SRARTANBUka, November 26. 1871

Voice from the Country.
sRARTANBUkq. November 25, 1871.
Coz. r.. X. Sco0:-S1R:. II has now
been nearly four years since you became
Governor Of South. Carolina. If, in
that tine,syou cen point to one act Of
kindness or consideration for the people
OF the State. you will greatly disappoint
your enemies and crafty your friends.
lou set out with fair promises: Won
have never fulfilled them, You have en-.
conraged hopes; you have taken plea.
sure ip blightipg them. Yon corId M.
have been insensible to the honnr anJ I
high trust that were imposed IN vnn !.
you must have felt some pride in ~,
welfare of the State which had given Won
its highest Office; yet, with these faai.
ings, which would prompt a man n
nonor ana common honesty TO do what
ne could for his country, you, and IL
must have cost you some effort, have
disgraoed your high position ana sought
TO degrade the State which you repre-.
sent: DO you ask for particulars? Your
whole administration has been one suo.
oession OF crimes, which, If high officials
were subject to the punishment thew
ought to be, would consign you and your
co'yreres to eternal infamy and dis
grace. You are the steward of the peo-
PIE. what account can you give OF your
talent? Have you improved it? Do
you leave the State, and that you are
ABOUT to leave, no one denies, in better
condition than you found it? IT waa
Dad enough when you came from Ohio
Gan you say it is any better now? With
an opportunity rarely afforded to officials
OF !mproving.and ameliorating the con-
dltlon of their constituents, YOU have
not only unimproved. but have retarded
the growth and prosperity OF your State.
10 the misfortune OF poverty, you have
added the disgrace Of bankruptcy; to the
feeling OF pity aud commiseration for
our people, you have supplied that of
scorn and conenmely. But how about
your own condition? It is true you have
the satisfaction OF knowing your pockets
are MED. They are lined with gold,
WHO'D should have gone to sustain the
credIt OF yonr State. When you return
TO Ohio, no doubt you will look with
oomplacenoy on your wealth. You will
soon forget the people you have robbed.
In the enjoyment OF ease and afiuenoe.
you will forget their poverty; but can
you easily forget their affiictions? Oan
you dismiss from your mind the picture
OF deserted homes, OF fields with their
wealth OF harvest left to rot, and of the
CRY OF women and children for breadP
More than this. You will remember
now. In profound peace, in the enioy-
ment OF home. and in the expectancy of
better day to come. you and your
minions sent ruthless bands of soldierv
TO destroy all this. to tear the father
from the bosom OF his family. and.
where once was peace and quiet, to sub.
stitute the horrors of war.
II in the enjoyment Of present pros.
perity, or in the hope of future good.
You caa find q solace for the miseries
you have wrought, you are welcome to it:
for, In the reflection and infirmities ri
age. You will need oil this to sustain Won.
and even history has lied if these alone
are suffi"ient to keep you from the fate
OF Judas or Pilate, whose example Won
have 30 closely initiated; and az thew
have proven your models in life, it is to
be hoped you will have the courage to
initiate them in death.
You know you have been uuwelcomed
ny the people of South Carolina. They
have never concealed their hatred for
you and your government, but when Won
60 you carry no ill-will with you. They
will not dignity you with their hatred.
They rather cast You off as an old gar.
ment, ill.titting and uncomfortable.
thrown with disgust in the dust bin and
forgotten. II you have some ambition
to be remembered. even your own impu-
dence will not tell you it will be as a be-
n4efaotor; nor will we remember you as
Nero or Caliguln. for they-though they
desplsed iiie-sometimes respected pro.
perty, and rather than have an empty
treasury. robbed the people: while yon
neither respect life or property, and rob
the people in order better to rob the
treasury. With this we leave you. Go
oack to OEio and your patients, and, in
all oharlty, may you prove Of greater be.
ne6t to them than you ever did to South
Carolina. STYLUS.