The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-10
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OUR MoiIEY LEG1sLAT0Rs.
How Hhey Appear To a eseors lam
To rHaEp1roR OF THE NEWS.


TO THREDIToR OF TIE NEWS.
AUGUSTA, GA, March 8.
have Just. returned from Columbia, ire
Capital Of your State. This was my second VlsF.
Ny first brief sojoagn happened during the eafe-
ler stages OF the "late uapleasantness," but
when Columbia was indeed O. thing OF beauty
In spite OF sherman'svandalism and the horrible
mockeries superyening. Columbia, from want OF
actual observation, remained in my memory
fancy vision preserved by that great fsculrg Of
tne soul whioh time and torture and the marcn ol
demons could never quite impair. Rut the tre-
mendous change between. 1862 and 1871, has be.
come at Iass only 100 apparent by close CONTACT
wIth.the "loeicor events,n have beheld the aeso'
lation made all the more absolute by the usufpa-
ton OF several smart.looking buil lings, and more
especially by the absuTG carleature presented oy
"Hon.n gentlemen ofblasS and yellow complex
ions whose singular anh palns.taklng barlesque
Of craftsmanship oeavinces me'thas Dsrwin's
theory, as to q portion OF the human race az
least. is very plausible indeed
I viii not dwell upon the material ruins OF &C.
lumbla; for the decay which comes upon brick
and-mor; ar is small matter after all IN the MS
tory OF a proud people. But, with your perms'
sion, would be pleased to make brief comment
upon the Statehouse and-its extraordinary con-
tents:
Even In its Unfinished condition your State
house-is one of the nooiest ediaces in America,
without being among the most beautiful. It's
great perfecttons are massiveness and amplitude.
In these respects 1t WIN, doubt not take a-1ore-
most rank, especialy when compared with the
shoddy, insincefe and cramped architecture -ol
the North. Its serious faults are wantof grace
to relieve the majesty and austerisy Of the gene
raj design, and neglect OF minor details incom.
mensurate with thegrandeur OF the pile. Take,
for example, the entrance way. How meany
these three martin boxes, called doors, cuS-
respond with the aunifcent roomlness within
the building proper. It may be that an
original intention OF having splendid portf'
co and tight ofgiaut steps has been thwarted by
the .calamities OF Federal invasion. If so, con-
slider my criticism unspoken. Be this as it may,
your Statehouse, as public edi6ce, Is something
to be proud Of, unfinished as It is, and stands as
Hyperion to aSatyr, as Hercules to the Eat
Boy,' n Pickw;ck, when compared With that ex'
halation Of brick, that himsy and mushroom gilt
terlng generality, tbs Kmbali 0perahouse at
Atlanta. now the property OF the State Of Georgia.
utwhat shall f-say OF the contents. the human
contents, OF your statehduse2 lam glad to have
wisnpssed the scene once, but never care to loes
upon it again whileI live. The widest imagining
had not pictured half the iideous reality. Ny
first approach was TO me Senate. It was evident.
from the starr tnat the ruling spirits there are
whittenore, the cgastshlp swindlet, and Leslie,
the cute chafneleonI Yankees both. Whitfemofe'
is burlesque Representation sof Governor Bull
lock Of Georgia, anu Leslie is Scion Shlngle, de-
moralfzs6 by bu7hmfng during the war. Ranking
second to these in point Of Gltbness' and power,
would place the bob talsd xhlte men like R2n,
sler and Hayne. Nash make; desperate >e1ortSto
assert the ttue negro element in antsgonism 70
the white and moRgrel elsments, but his poor
plantation. manners are no match for the impu-
dent aggressiyeness Of the white Yankees and
the uuadroons, and. he seldom rose IN bis ssst
save to be snubbad most numerically By theoue
or the other. It struck me forcitly that right
here was the entering wedge for destroying the
Radical party In. yonr State. 1t ls as plain as
MONDAY that the blacks who really constitute
nlne.tenths OF the Radical voting power Of lhe'
State, are res,ive under this combined mulasto
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