Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-07-11
Orr and Corbin at Greenyille.


At the Grant Republican ratification
meeting at Greenville on the 4th, Judge
Orr and District Attorney D. T. Corbin
were the speakers, and concerning their
crusade against the Columbiathieves, lat
the bidding of their master, Grant, a
correspondent of the Charleston Ne'cs
furnishes the following:
Orr spoke first, and-well, he is always
sensible. His speech was very much
such as he delivered in Columbia, advo
eating Grants reelection, and attacking
the Ring in Columbia in no measured
terms.
But it is Corbin's speech wish to re-
port. Now, mark: It is Corbin, the State
senator; it is Corbin, the United States
district attorney; it is Corbin, the city
attorney it is Corbin, the codifier 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 readers. AT
ter advocating Grants reelection, &c.,
he attacked the Ring in Columbia. l
had heard Carpenter and Butler in their
indictments 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
Corbins artillery Columbiads. He NAM
cd Scott, Parker Chamberlain, Neagie,
F. J.-Moses, Jr. He pronounced them
all scoundrels, thieves Villains, the very
worst and meanest of men. Insisted 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, land
you know: whab Corbin is OIL the Ku-
KluX.) He asserted that, without au-
th9rtY, State af b5ndsss ds1l l9at they had to lis
certain knowledge bribed the last Legis-
lature, and bought them up to vote the
Blue Ridge Railroad scrip, Sl,S00,0OO,
with Sl75, 200. That Moses had exceeded
everything ho had ever conceived III viii
lany and rascality That he had issued
as the speaker of the House S100,COO OF
pay bills To peopleall over the State rs
bribea 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 the Ring must nc expelled
from office ut all hazards; that the Re
publican party must perish il they did
not. lie cxclScd tardozo. Ilc said that
the financial boart-Scott. Parker and
Chambcrlaili-noww wished to issue moro
conversion bonds; that they wished Car
dozo to sign them !. That the law required
Cardozo to do so; that he, Corbin, ahvis-
ed Cardozo not to di so, but die rather
to throw himself onthe people, and they
would support him, and chat Cardozo de-
tcrmined to rot in jdl before he would
sign any more.
This is but a tithoof what he said. So
You sec the Republican party i'll this
State is divided-Scttt and Moses head
one portion, Orr ant Corbin the other.
MANY think Moses il so aslute, cunning
and deceitful, and SC plausible and elo.
ouent, that with constituents so igno-
rant and vicious ant indifferent to the
merits of the question, it will be hard to
battle him. Some ofus thought we saw
the Reform Party"rediuiuus in Orr and
Corbin. It would M easy to defeat the
ring with other constituents but with
those they have, What shall we say?
The darkness is Egotian-the stolidity
is the ban. We sllallsee.
SOMERS