The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-02
The Little Game of Scott, Moses 6 Co.

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The Little Game Of Scott, Moses 8 Co.
! Nothing that their Radical lords and mas
ters can do-whether tragedy, comedy or
farce-excites other than mild surprise IN
the minds of the people OF South Carolina.
The political and social leaders OF The doml-
nant party have exhausted the crimes OF the
decalogue, and, unless they suddenly be-
come unselish, pagnanimous and pure
| none of their antfes4will cause this people
either astonishment or modification. we
know that they are busily engaged in add
ing to their ill-gotten gains. We know that
they desire to stand as an insurmountable
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 none Of these things, whether as in
choate ideas or as accomplishing facts, can
create sensation here, whatever their effects
upon the tender susceptibilities of the North.
We would not compare upright Republi-
can leaders in the North and West with the
uusavory knavea who hold dominion in the
South. Whatever their political idiosyn-
cracies, Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Fish and their
like are high-minded, conscientious and
pure. As much cannot be said for the
Scots, the Mackeys and the Hoges who
hold corresponding positions in the South
eru States. Nay, we ecould not, with justice,
place any one Of the graceless looms who
DOW control our public and private fortunes.
upon moral equality with the humblest
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,
and their companions who contrive to hood
wink respectable people in the North, who
assure Northern and Western Republicans
that South Carolina needs second baptism
Of fre, who are ready to perform in this
State the second act Of the ghastly tragedy,
that burlesque Of justice and truth, whose
frst brutal scene was played last week in
Raleigh. For a month or more the Colum-
bia Union, Governor Scott's organ, has
preached The wrath to come. Ithas striven,
by malicious fabrications and by perversions
OF The truth, 10 fire The Radical heart. And
at last the order Of proceeding, then shadow
ed forth, is determined on in council aad en-
pbaticaly aud authoritalively announced.
Ameeting OF the Republican State Central
Committee was held in Columbia on Thurs
day, the principal subject for consideration be-
ing the making OF arrangements for the Ma
ional Colored Convention, which assemblies in
that city next month. AS this convention
is to be exclusively composed OF colored men;
the colored Lieutenant Governor OF the
State, with the colored Judge OF the State
Supreme Court, the colored Congressman
and members Of the State Legislature,
might have been trusted 10 do what was
necessary in the way Disappointing delegates.
But i: was thought proper to bring the State
Central Committee together, and to call in
as 'invited visitors" those eminent person
ages, Governor Scott, Mr.. Speaker Moses,
General Worthington and Judge Hoge.
What had they 10 do with the Co!ored Con-
vention Nothing That Convention was
the pretext for new departure, for res
toration OF mutual confidence between the
arch intriguers, for bold denunclation OF
the Federal Court and of the white people of
the State. Mr. Ransier, whose vigorous pro-
test 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 contend
ing opinions, and decllred emphatically that
something must he done" We do not re-
gard Lieutenant Governor Ransier as by
any means The most sincere and trustworthy
man IN ,he Radical party, but his color is as
much il his favor Us that OF Scott and Moses
is their shame and reproacb. Governor Scott
now addressed the meeting 'by invitation,
and expressed his determination 10 suppress
the Ku-KluX organization. He assured the
committee that measures had been taken"
to make the next session OF the United
States Court in Columbia "as memorable TO
"the midnight assassin" as was the late ses.
sion OF the court presided over by Judge
Bond in Raleigh. He said that "every
'spledge OF the Democratic leaders ia the up
''coantry and the pledges OF the same party
sin the Taxpasers' Co9yeaAsn, had been
''broken. and that he had no longer any
''faith in anything but the strong arm OF
"power." What, we would ask, are "the
measures" which have beea taken? Does
Governor Scott propose to bribe witnesses
aud pack juries, as his party brbe voters
and pack election boards Are his paid
agents already manufacturing q fresh supply
of ku-Kux outrages for the columns OF
Tile Union, or does he once more propose
to remit the State to the tender mercies Of q
drum-head courl-martial More than q
year ago he declared in public speech at
Washington that "Winchester rifle law was
sthe only law for South Carolina" and he
showed his sincerity by bounding bis militia
men on to acts of violence, which would