The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-23

purpose Of remitting half million or 80
OF the taxes sndYrepealing some Of the
csne.ious bond:creatihg laYs. Instead
from Governor.S Scott that lie will post
pone the collection Of the enormous
taxes, and q shnffitng equivocation on
the subject Of issuing tho bonds he is
now authorized to sign. A more accom-
plished trimmer in n amall, dirty way
than this man never lived. and to sus-
pect him Of meaning to fulfil any pledge
made to or understanding had with the
Convention, is to think him about to
change his skin. Suoh, at least, is the
view OF some here who know him we'll,
ana. i'll proof that he has only tempor-
'zed, some of lis past doublings are
mentioned. When III Washington, he
declared the Winchester rifle the only
law for the South on returning to
South Carolina. lis first message breath
ed nothing but the most amicable senti-
mcnts, the burial Of tho past. the growth
of n brothcrly feeling, peace, good order,
prosperity. and so on This lie kept up
until the Legislature demanded why he
did not call out tho militia, when his
note wns even more dovo like and serene.
There WAS no organized crime, he said !;
nothing but sporadic cHses, with which
the Inv could not deaI; and with this re-
sponse the Legislature adjourned on the
7lh OF March last. Hardly had its il!
savor begun to fade out of tho State
House, before this mild Governor disco
vered tremendous system Of organized
violence, orime in horrid abundance,
and forthwith called out to Grant for
troops, and had this State proclain med
fha g..
this Taxpayers Convention, and he
tells them in SO many words that much
Of the personal violence aud Indifference
to law was due to the fact that the peo-
pie hlve not the means of enforcing the
law within their reach Is q promise
from q man with such record to be re-
lied on? It is curious to know what
men say here of Governor Scott. One,
IL Republican, md intimately acquainted
with him-very intimately, in.leed-
says: If Governor Scott were to give
me his personal word aud honor to do
anything, would not rely on it. He is
not to be trusted" Another critic, De-
mocrat, says: He is q great coward.
He has no snnd in his gizzard. He will
10 anything to get out of scrnpe.' A
third, man of no party affiliations, but
a, eye solely to number one. says:
''That Governor is q soft thing. You
can't rely on him, and he is using his
Office to make money" In ono thing,
MI three agree. that he is slippery nun,
and slippery rs ever, it is to be feared,
he will be found in the matter Of this
Convention. So fur as it is snfe, lie will
drive on his bonds and taxes, and let
DAhomey rule. particularly rs danger
GUS feeling has been stirred mp against
him in the ranks of his party at what
are supposed to be hiu concessions to the
whites us represented in the Convention
Tho blacks are particularly exasperated,
knowing that any giving way of the
white faces which officer their lincs
would let the Democracy in, and as Scott
denied to the Legislature, for fear OF the
Ku Klux, thnt there was any violence, it
is quite likely he will, for fear of the
blacks, deny lie ever made any promises
to the Convention Mt oil. Such course,
by showing tho Convention failure,
would exasperate every evil now afflict-
ing the State ten-foid. Perhaps some
such idea was had in the body. since it
adjourned subject to recall. ono of the
best and wisest things done during the
session."
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