The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-24
Ex-GOHERNOR r. x. SCOTT.
Two Views OF His Political Career, His
Spsculntions and His retirement.
nAa A1a- Uo.l. xu,-la honiLo f,lla-I.a.
ESPECIAL TBLKaRAM TO THE NEws

The New York World has the following:
Carpet.bagger Scott, of South Carolina,
sends in bis parting message to the Legisla-
ture and returns to Napoleon, O., with the
frugal gains CT his four years' buccaneering
South. Ia terminating his; official relations
he attempts to wbitewash bis administration,
but discloses two fatal facts. When he came
into power he says ''there was az outstanding
bonded debt of SIS. 623, 000," and the debt on
the 18th Of March last he reports as $15, $751;
327 IS, an Increase of over ten millions In
that the Issues OF bonds made by bis
precious. government were limited only
by the amount of net cash required. Thus, II
81, 200, 900 In greenbacks were wanted and the
| State bonds stood at so they ground out
81, 000, 900 In bonds, aud If when half a million
had been sold and One-fourth OF the required
cash obtained the securities fell to rs 30 That
the whole issue. would only bring 1925 600
from first 10 last, they merrlly ground out an.
$S75, 900 deficit. This hnanclering was admi-
rably adapted to the minimum of income at
the maximum OF outgo, and yet the creature
who relates 1t says /: II desire, however, to
| say In conclusion, fellow.citizens, that I shall
| always esteem It matter of high pride and
| profound qualification that l have been
| prominently associated with the rise and pro-
Rr6eS OI lE6e ROVeTuu6uG III SOuLu OaCOllud
during the past seven years."
Commenting IN the ABOVE, the Toledo (0hIo)
Democrat takes up the cudgel for the e1-Gov.
ernor in this fashion:
Governor Scott has Just been defeated In his
candidacy for the United States Senate, and
with that defeat ends his political career in
| South Carolina. 1t Is fashionable With the
Democratic press of the country, to assign 70
all Northern men who have since the war held
representative elective positions In The South,
the vices Of the characterless adventures
who invented, or caused the invention, Of the
| word carpet-bagger. We believe South Caro-.
lima permitted immigration at the close OF the
| war; we believe that 1t was polite to encourage
immigration, and We know that we lost one
| CT our best and most houored citizens In this
section of Ohio when Robert K. Scott lmmi.
grated with an appointment from the Federal
Government In MS pocket, to q State that
had been saved by Northern soldiers from bel
Mr.. Greeley said, carpet-bagism Is q mournlu
fact, but we must discriminate between the
| carpet.bagger of character, brains and 30
| clal position at home, and the fellows whe
| went South In the wake OF the army with
| neither antecedents nor worldly goods. and
who ran state governments upon the old Ro'
man maxim, that "where vice is useful II is 0
crime 10 be virtuous.n
Governor Scott, 1t Is said, has made a mil
lion of dollars In South Carolina. When The
credit of the State was almost gone, he did
what every mar was at liberty TO do, he
bought the deprecated promises to pay OF the
| State and sold ct a handsome advance. 1t II
true, there was a time In the purer days oil the
/ republic, when speculation of this Kind
was discountenanced, but in politics In thi:
day and generation we unite to the purity o
| the dove Q bit of the wisdom of the serpent
| and Governor Scott will be welcomed home
as a carpet-bagger sans peur ct sans reproche