The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-08
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GREESFILLE, b. w July o.
Yesterday the Grant Republican ratification
meeting was held In beautiful grove near
this city. There were very few white persons
who attended, and about fifteen hundred col.
ored. It was not very enthusiastic, and the
colored people generally were slrolliDg about.
A hundred or more, near the stand, seemed to
listen and hear. There was some two or three
hundred dollars contributed, principally by the
whites, to get up dinner, and there was one;
but some Of the colored people told me there
was so much grabbing and scufiIng that they
could not get anything. To most of the col
ored people the dinner, not Grant, was the
event of the day.
Orr spoke first, ani-well, he is always SEN
sible. His speech was very much such as he
delivered in Columbia, advocating Grants re-
election, and attacking the Ring In Columbia
In no measured terms.
But 1t is Corbin's speech Wish TO report.
Now, mark: 1t Is CorbIn, the State senator;
1t Is Corbin, the United States district at
torney; it is Corbin, the city attorney; it Is
CorbiD; the codlaer of our laws; it is Corbin,
the Ajax lebanon Of the Republican party in
this State, whose speech am reporting. 1t
will surprise and astonish you and your read
ers. After advocating Grants reelection,
&C., he attacked the Ring In Columbia. had
heard Carpenter and Butler in their indice-
ments of Scott & Co., at the last election. I
thought they had exhausted the vocabulary Of
abuse against that Ring; but oh If you had
heard Corbin you would say theirs was
musketry, and Corbln's artillery Columbl-
ads. He named Scott, Parker Cham
berlain. Neagle, F. J. Moses, Jr. he pro-
nounced them all scoundrels, thieves, VII
lains, the very worst and meanest of men. In
sisted that they must be driven out of the
party; that they had deceived and betrayed
the party; that they were as bad as the Ku-
Klux, compared them with them, (and you
know what Corbin Is on the Ku-Kinx.) He
asserted that, Without authority o. law, they
had issued $1,000, 900 of State bonds; that they
had to his certain knowledge brioed,the last
Legislature, and bought them up to vote the
Blue Ridge Railroad scrip, sl,s0O,0O0, with
$4,000. Tbat Moses had exceeded every
thing :he had ever conceived in villany aud
rascalIty. That he had Issued as the skeaker OF
the House 100000 Of pay bills to people oil
over the State as bribes to support him and
enhance his popularity. Many of them had
never been to Columbia at all, and some were
paid as clerks who could not read. or write.
That ths Ring must be expelled from Office at
all hazards; that the Republican party must
perish If they did not. He excused Cardozo.
He said that The financial board-Scott, Parker
and Chamberlaln-now wished to issue more
conversion bonds; that they wished Cardozo
to sign them; that the law requireu Cardozo to
do so; that he, Corbln, advised Cardozo not to
DO go, but die rather-to throw himself on the
people, and they would support him, and that
Cardozo determined to rot in jail before be
would sign any more:
This Is but o 1.-THE of what he said. So you
see the Republican party In this State Is divl-
ded-Scott aad Moses head one portion, Orr
and Corbln the other. Many think Moses is 80
astute. cunning and deceitful, and so plausible
and eloquent, that with constituents 30 igno-
rant and vicious and Indifferent to the merits
of the question, II will be hard to battle him.
Some of us thought we saw the ''Reform Par
ty" redtutuua In Orr and Corbln. 1t would be
easy to defeat the ring With other constituents
but with those they have. What shall we say,
The darkness is Egyptlan-the stolldily ls the
ban. We shall see. soMERs.