Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-08-15
The Radical Confession of Radical
Wfong-Doing.

gance, on the part of the State officials
contained in the Columbia dispatches Of
this paper, are neither new nor strange.
These identical charges have been set
forth, week after week, by tie opposition
press. Yet there is distinction with a
difference between the two sets Of chnrges
the one came from the representative
taxuayers: the other comes from Office
holders of the Radical party, men who
stand high in power, and were trus ed i'm
plicitly BY the very officials who are now
arraigned before their party. 1t was easy
enough to pooh pooh. or fatty deny, what
The Charleston News might say; but the
whole complexion of the accusation is
changed, in Radical leyes, when Senator and
District Attorney ,Corbin, Secretary of
State Cardozo, Judge Orr and Superinten-
dent Stolbrand are the public prosecutors.
These officers have been led on step by
step, and the revelations which they make,
as men who know of that they. speak,
shall condemn the culprits to lasting shame,
even !! they 90 no not cause the portals
Of the penitentiary to yawn for their re-
teption. Whatever difficulty Superintend-
ent Stolbrand may have in eeuipping and
provisioning his wards, it is not to be
doubted that he would contsivs to find a
ration of bread and fat bacon, as well as a
penitential cell, for such convicted public
servants as the courts might commit to
his keeping. Great would be the fall
from the diamonds, the FAST horses, the
ripe wines the Turkish carpets, the Ven
etian mirrors, the whole pride and pomp
of successful jobbery, to the close-cropped
hair, coarse garb, hard pallet ard harder
labor of the State prison. To this COM
pltx;vTT nifty rtTvr vvrrro uu ioev-'
The principal allegations of fraud have
been made BY Senator Corbin, in a public
speech at Greenville, and in the course OF
the Blue Ridge suit. He charges that
the Land Commission and the Sinking
Fund Commission were huge cheats. He
charges that six million dollars Of State
bonds were unconstitutionally issued. He
charges that about seven millions OF con-
version bonds were issued, while only one
million dollars were actually converted.
lie charges that Speaker Moses, the prom
inent Radical candidate for Governor, is
corrupt, to the core, and has been brlbed
to support nearly srery measure OF I'M
portance which the Legislature have pass
ed. Judge Orr is equally 8eyere in his
denunciation of the State officials. and de-
clares that the accused persons should be
prosecuted at once. Secretary of State
Cardozo, an educated colored man OF cx-
cellent reputation, charges that the pre-
tended conversion bonds, now in suit, are
not issued pursuant to law He pronounees
the Validating law and the Conversion
law null and void. Besides these, there
are hosts of other allegations amongst
them are the statements that S5O,eO0 Oh
the Blue Ridge scrip were paid 10 Treas
urer Parker, $4,000 to General Worth
ington, and $4,000 TO Mr.. Hardy Solo
mon. This scrip, recently decided by Mr'
Justice Willard tobc unconstitutional, was
issued for The exclusive purpose Of liquid
ating the debts of the Blne Ridge Rail
road. No one believes that the persons
named as xeciving the sums before men
toned had amy legitimate claim against
the company. As to the charges against
Speaker Moses, it is believed in Columbia
that he received $4,000 for'his influence
IN passing the Blue Ridge BILL and like
amount for the Nalidation bill, for the
Greenville consolidation till aad for de-
feating the impeachment of GcvernorScott
The man. lives like Syhante; the Uni
ted States Treasury 'Depaftniept. couid.noi
print gleenbaeks faster tusn slr Speaker
Moses, our next Governor could spend
them
The taxpayers have now the cohsola-
ton, such as it is, Of knowing that the
leading Radicals confess the internal ras-
calitv and wholesale swindling OF the State
officials. What next? The thieves de-
serve punishment. They have, doub ubtless,
slowed away their ill-gotten gains in safe
places. 1t may be impossible to make
them disgorge. But this is only an addi-
tional 'reason why the hands Of their accu-
n'slpuld be upheld, and why the tax
payers should be ready to Cooperate with
them. There are young and active law
yers, in Columbia who stsnd ready to
prosecute the accused officials They be-
iieve that there is abundant Radical testl'
mony to Insure conviction. The expense
will be triling, and some hundred dollars
have already been subscribed IN COlunlbia
to the prosecution fund.- 1t rests With
the Charleston public to.say whether they
will Join their fellow citizens in the effort
to bring to justice, at this auspjcious time
the scoundrels who have stolen. and squan'
dered the hard-won money Of the people
Charleston News.