The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-27

no doubt the Ku-Klux had done wrong, bu
the Republicans had not been free from fault
We should, he said, forgive what they have
done, and ask them to forgive US for what VIZ
have done. have myself done wrong, but Il
+ do wrong again, hope that God will remove
me from the face of the earth. The so-calle6
Boilers have stolen more, In proportion tt
their numbers, than the rest OF the party
Tim Hurley boasts that he has handled us fel
lows successfully. If he did, it was when the
Republican Legislature was new and Its mem
bers were honest. He Is no better than one
who prostitutes yonng girl and then brands
her as strumpet. One of those Boilers has
signed as many pay certificates as Moses has
They say their candidate, F. Gary, has been
like one In hornets nest If so, he ought to
sting that crew to death. II these so-called
Reformers had not helped us we should moi
have been half 30 bad. Anderson will give
her usual majority against them. l do moi
charge Tomlinson with dishonesty, but his
conduct as auditor proves him incompetent,
for when he resigned, his office was In hopeless
i
To the Ku Klux we must sag, we have done
wrong and you have done wrong, 80 we VIII
shake hands and say no more about It. -
Congressman Elliott made strong speech
supporting the resolution. He Claimed that
the colored people. even those who had been
beaten and MANNED BY the Ku-KluX had the
kindest feeling towards tho whites, and, he
| hon haf y
sire to keep up disorder but desire all the pee
pie of South Carolina 10 enjoy the blessings OF
peace. We must be magnanimous and forgive
as we hope to be forgiven.
T. ]. Mackey also supported the resolution.
He said he had traversed the Ku-Klux region,
and he had also seen them In the courts. Out
of the eishty.fve who had been convicted, no!
more than three or four we're men of ordinary
culture. The rest were OF the humblest class
of white worklngmen. In April last, Presl-
dent Grant had told him that he would within
brief psrlod exercise executive clemeacy
towards theIgaorant prisoners.
The resolution was then adopted BY vote
ot seventy.four to eighteen, and the platform
was adopted as whole.
The platform, as whole, was then adopted.
White, colored,deiegate from Union Coun-
ty, on the Nsagle ticket, explained tnas he had
gone into the B,lters' Convention, but could
not stand it, aud had come back to his old
| love, with which to live or die.
Comptroller-Gsneral Neagle followed, show
| ing tine peculiar position of York County, and
Enthusiastically advocated Moses, to whom he
pledged all his influence aud power.
T. J. Mackey rose to u privileged question,
aud said propose to reply now to the attacks
of the Reform or B)ters' Convention. My
first assailautis D. T. C1roln, and / shrink from
touching hlm with the lolthing of a surgeon
! who dissects putrld corpse. He Is an index
OF the measure Of reform proposed. On the
banks of the Nile stands columu, the Ellom-
eter, which marks the rise aud fail OF the
waters of that river by the mud line. Corbn
is the Nilometer of the rise of corruption In
South Carolina. His first appearances was as
provost Judge on Wadmslaw Island, 10 1865.
His chief confederate there, as now, was @. G.
Bowen His conduct there was 30 Infamous
that an investigation was demanded. Bowen,
who leas gniity, hat more unfortunate.
was sent to prison for stealing The funds of
the freedmen; but Corbin escaped. He
next appeared as State senator. when
his first act was to champion the bill to fund
the bills of the Iank of the State, the courts
having decided that these bills were not re-
ceivable for taxes. Corbln worked the bill
through, thus beginning a new debt lor which
the people of the State had absolutely no
benefit. Senator F. A. Sawyer Is registered
as having torly-six thousand dollars of these
bank bills, Tor which he paid ten cents on the
dollar, AMI, through Corbin, those bills and
hundreds OF thousands of like bills were fund
ed at par. Next he appeared as the manager
OF the phosphate bill, which gave an immense
source of Stats revenue to private corpora
ton. By system of debuuchery heretofore
unknown, he succeeded in getting the bill
through the Legislature. Scott vetoed the
bill, and Corbln telegraphed, Damn The veto.
have money enough 10 pass the bill over his
head" Aud he did pass It, Others have
dallled with Corruption, but Corbln has clasped
her naked form to his bosom. When Corrup-
ton staked through the legislative halls, she
leaned on the stout arm OF D. I. Corbin, and
her diamonds shone with the tears of an out
ragged people. As soon as the bill passed,
Corbin was registered as the owner OF
forty thousand dollars worth of stock of
the phosphate company. He next cham
ploned the general railroad bill, for
which he received as senator, not
as an attorney, the sum of three thousand dol
lars. He next figures In connection With the
sinking fund commission, receiving seven thou
sand dollars as senator for the services he Fen
dered. Like certain miracles of vegetation,
which grow forty feet In one night, Corbln
sprang from poverty TO opulence in The fash
of an eye. deal with his public record, and
will not raise The veil which covers his private
life. 1t Is sufficient to say that he and Bowen
might well be appointed the TWO superinten-
dents OF marital relations in this Stale.
now pass to G. w. Clark, who endorses
Reuben Tomlinson's political paper, and vows
that Corbin Is the soul OF truth. For the sake of
argument will admit that Corbln is truthful.
and here Is Corbn's opinion oil Clark.
Judge Mackey here read and exhibited the
following autograph letter, written and signed
hv Mr. Corbn unless the signature be very