The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-05
HoYT & CO., Proprietors.
Address Of the True Republicans to the Peo-
Dle of South Carolina.

Dle of South Carolina.
On the 18th day of October next, you will b,
called on to elect the various men who shall
ELL the various Offices in the State Government
for the next official term.
The condition of the affairs of the State a
this time causes the gravest concern and mos
serious anxiety in the minds of all good citi
zens Taxation unprecedented in amount II
the history of this State weighs upon the .peo
pie. No man but feels the burden; but how
ever and by whatever channels the taxes react
the Treasury, they come finally, in great part
from those who till the soil, in the form OF re
duced wages, and the increased cost OF 1000
clothing and other necessary expenses OF 8
comfortable existence The hard hand of toi
largely pays the expenses Of the State, though
the money may be deposited in the Treasury BY
those who own the capital and the land. Lei
no man hatter himself, therefore, that his pov'
erty renders this subject of taxation one OF In
difference to him.
Besides the vast sums which have been drawn
from the people by direct taxation, our rulers
have been heaping other burdens upon US and
our posterity, by enormous, and In many cases
fraudulent, issues of bonds, the very interest
upon which is sum so large that it seems I'm.
possible to pay it. Concealrnent of the real
State of our affairs has been practiced to
criminal extent; report after report statement
after statement, has been made by the financial
officers of the State, making false exhibits OF
our public debt and it was only when an out.
RACED public opinion demanded and compelled
ADMINISTRATION, that our real situation was de-
veloped, and was found to justify the worst ap-
,prehensions which had been felt.
The public mind is too familiar with the
facts to require more to be said concerning the
bond frauds; but it is worth while to consider
here the question, what has become OF the
money SO lavishly poured into the Treasury i?
To what objects have we seen it appropriated
by those who, under the law, are appointed to
,disburse it.? Have the rights of person and
property, which it is the special function OF
good government to guard, beer secured? Have
the children of the people been furnished with
the means of that education which alone can
fit them worthily to perform the duties of citi-
zenship? Have the humane institutions in
charge of the State been cared for? Have the
resources of the State been developed, its in
dustries fostered, its present and future welfare
provided for with reasonable prudence?
The answers to these questions are in the
mouths of all the people. We are ashamed to
be compelled to confess that the State Govern
ment has failed to protect the citizens, not only
in the enjoyment of those rights and privileges
intended to be secured by the provisions of the
State and National Constitutions, but even in
those more limited rights which no respectable
civilized Government on earth allows to be vlo-
lated in the persons of its subjects; and 1T has
been the strong arm of the Federal Govern
nent which has released thousands of men,
women and children from terror with which
they could not fail TO be filled by countless out
RACES perpetrated apon their friends, relatives
and neighbors, by conspirators, whose deeds the
world reads of with horror.
The public schools have been crippled in
their work, and in many cases closed, because
their teachers applied in vain at the State
Treasury for the small salaries justly due them
and necessary to their daily support.
The inmates of the Lunatic Asylum must
have been turned loose upon the community,
but for the humane efforts Of its efficient Super
intendent, who pledged mis- private credit to
obtain food nobody would sell on that of this
great State The doors of the peuitentiaty
may be flung wide open any day, to allow the
exit of band of conyicts, whom the warden
cannot feed, because there is no money in the
State Treasury to purchase food The judges
of your courts have not been paid their salaries
for many months, and are compelled, in most
cases, to borrow money to supply the wants OF
themselves and their families, and to be SUBJ
iected to the temptations too often placed by
rich suitors before judiciary irregularly or in
adequately paid.
It would be easy to continue at almost any
length in enumerating what has been left un-
done which ought to have been done. 1t is
easier to say what has been done which ought
to have been left undone. Jobs of every con-
ceiyable description have been undertaken, the
interests of the State have been constantly and
systematically set aside to enrich those who
serupled at no kind of bribery or corruption to
secure such legislation as the jobbers required.
Public money has been squandered for OBJ
jects of no public moment. The expenses of
some branches of the Government have been
so enormously increased as to astonish all who
are not familiar with the character of many OF
those who fill important positions in the State
Government.
"Pay certificates" drawn by the Speaker of
the House of Representatives purporting to be
for expenses of the late session, to the amount
of over 81 100000, have already appeared at
the Treasury and been paid or exchanged for
the notes of the Treasurer, and it is estimated
by those in a position to judge wisely, that
S2500O0 in "pay certificates" is still afoat in
the community, to be presented whenever there
is any probability of their being allowed. This
will make the expenses of a single session of
the General Assembly over 81 $50, 900, or more
than 1000 per cent of the sum which was for
merly considered sufficient to pay them.
Enormous sums have been lavished in pre-
tended support of an EARNED force" which is
VIGOROUSLY non-existent.
The most corrupt practices have obtained in
the making of contracts by State officials. The
contract with the Roberts and other arms COM
panics of New York, under which there was
drawn from the State Treasury over 100000,
while said arms company received less than
100000, is type Of the manner in which the
State Treasury has been depleted. The public
are familiar with the enormous extent of the
bills for State printing. Formerly this item ol
expense for session of the Legislature was
not one-fftieth, certainly not one-fortieth, ol
what it has been during she year past But to
catalogue the abuses existing in the executive
and legislative branches of the State Govern
1nent, would not only weary our patience and
sicken your hearts, but one who should attempt