Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-18
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Her Last Chance TO Recover Supremacl
Over Scott aud his Blacks.
Republican Bolt, and Eject Of Fusion Of
the Boilers with the Democrats.



OF Congress. The Republicans have Ii
Held all TO themselves, but are divide
into the DOmlinsOn and Moses faction
running entirely different tickets f
State and county officers and for th
Legislature. Tomlinson is a Pennsy
Nania Quaker, a decent and honOrabl
man, which Is that much against h
chances with the majority of voters !
this State. Moses Is B native of sun
ner, South Carolina, and is decided
one Of the lowest men which the in
measunbly degraded Radical ring her
has produced, which IL so much IN fave
os his chances. The Tomlinson ticket
vast improvement on the other, an
affords in the character Ofits nominees
reliable guarantee Of better governmen
than these people have had since tn
war Moses has scrupled at nothing {
secure his ends, and has indeed an im
mense amount Of fraudulent paper in th
form Of pay certificates drafts on th
state Treasurer, signed by nim q
Speaker Of the House,, with which h
has bought up Jealous supporters al
over the state. These men have q per
sonal interest in securing his election
for If the Domlinson party wins all thi
paper will be repudiated. The amount
stolen. the frauds perpetrated, are al
duly ventilated here in the papers anC
on the stump, and would shock thi
people anywhere else, but among th,
blacks it is neither understood nor careC
for. Moses knows full well that a bras,
band and q barbecue ''cOver a multituds
of sins with these ignorant aud semi
DarbarOus masses. As 3 specimen Of the
canvass, L will mention an incident
which 1 personally witnessed. At s
large negro gathering which was ad-
dressed by speakers on both sides, Sen
atOr sawyer was advocating the claims
OF Mr.. Tomliuson, and said that Tom
inson could not be bribed; that when
approached in this way on one
occasion he had resented the in.
dignity, and declared that one
million dollars could not induce
him TO vote against his convictions
Of right; and the Senator wound up the
statement by affirming that "TOmlin.
son Is an honest man, The crv wa
Immediately raised: Den dat man
won't do for Us; we don't want no such
msn as dat" and a large part OF the
sable mob re-echOed il. When Senator
Sawyer spoke in explanation Of bis
votes on the Amnesty bill, and hap
pened TO name Mr.. Sumner, one Of the
Moses candidates called out; Z" You heal
that sumner was a Greeley MANI and
the savages yelled out, " We don't want
no Greeley man." These meetings are
more like pandemonium than paradise,
I assure YOU, and much more like Cen
Jrl Africa than America. The sur
roundings and adjuncts are often ex-
Uremely ludicroUs-bOys performing ac-
robauc feats, with shouts and wells; ne
grOes lying all about in the sun, mostly
IN rags, some half drunk and some
whole drunk, interrupting the speakers
often with the most obscene interpola-
lions OF questions, TO the great delight OF
the crowd. Daddy Cain black, Of
Charleston, is on the Moses tick
e. and yet just before he was
bought over, he declared in his own
paper that Moses, when he had nothing
else he could steal, would steal the State
house. Cardozo (mulatto jew is the
Moses man for State Treasurer, and vet
the Richmond County Convention in
sructed its delegates lCardoz0 being
one Of them 70 oppose Moses, whom
Cardozo denounced as bitterly as Ian
guage would allow. Melton is also on
The Moses ticket, and yet swOre the day
before the ignorant and bribed cOnven-
ton made the nomination that he would
not allow his name on the ticket if such
a - scOUndrel was selected for Gov
ernOr. And so with the rest. The very
second man (Lieutenant-G -GovernOr) on
the Moses ticket is a Beaufort mulatto,
who was convicted less than two years
ago in the United States Court, in
Charleston, Of stuffing the ballot-bOxes,
before jury nearly entirely negroes.
50 you can perceive what a sweet pros
pect is ahead for this State il the Moses
ticket is elected.
The whites indorse neither ticket.
Both are Republican and both are for
Grant If they would throw their vote
solid for the bolters (Tomlinson) they
could vastly improve their condition, for
Jhey would defeat Moses. But they
don't like Or and some Others who are
ofthe bolter wing, although not on their
ticket, and on this account many viii
not vote al all. In this they commit
huge blunGer, for which they viii suffer
terrihcolly in the next two years. In
some parts Of the State, however, the
whites viii be more sensible, and viii
give a hearty vote for the better ticket
II this shall be sufficient, with the ne
gro minority which Tomlinson viii Sc
cure, to make majority Of the whole
vote the State may once more begin to
feel that a turn in the tide has come at
last. Many Of the counties are using
the opportunity OF a fusion with the
bolters 10 secure better county
officers and a better Legislature,
and some Of these, at least,
viii succeed. Senator Sawyer, who has
cauvassed the State, says that ''if thirty
thousand white votes less than one
half are given to the bolters, the Tom
lusOn ticket viii be elected Noman,
by SO voting, commits himself on the
Presidential question. That is an affair
reserved for November, and there is
entirely too much rOttenness penned up
within our State lines to allow the ghost
81 a chance for "honest Horace Gree
ley the prefix Of honest" being
enough TO settle the hash of any candi-
date with the mass Of more Ignorant
blacks; and besides that the leaders
here have described Horace Greeley as
"a monster Of such hideOus mien that to
be hated needs but to be seen," and
without waiting to see and refusing TO
learn from true men, they hate and re-
vile him.
y
have uniformly maintained in my let
ters 10 the World It is useless to az y
the question Of honesty 70 enter int ~
canvass in the State. The me you
talk honesty the more YOU sca.ser the
crowd. Prove a man a thief, a great
thief, a thief 70 the tune Of millions, and
it has no unfavorable effect whatever on
the mass Of the blacks. i have heard
the hrst men In be Republican ranks
address a crowd Of negroes for hours,
producing proofs unanswerable OF Mo-
ses's crime against the state, and il " =.
all ike sprinkling water on a ducks
back. Yet they have the vote and an
overwhelming majority, and have not
the sense 10 see in what way all this
plundering leads 10 their utter ruin.
They are far poorer to-day than they
were four years ago, and soon viii be q
ragged and GOd-fOrsaken people,
curse 10 themselves and the country.
Their schools as managed by these
rOgues are a farce-the teachers often
unable 10 read or write a line
correctly, closed up half the
time, and closed now, As they
have been for a long time past
and better closed than open with such
teachers as many j have met in the
country. The very considerable colOred
vote which the bolters may command
viii be drawn that way not by any
higher considerations than devotion to
such Of their leaders As have taken that
course. such men as Bowen, White
more, Whipper, etc, have a large negro
following, and now seem disposed 70 ex-
ert their influence IN favor Of a better
government And IL all the whites
could only see il and lay aside their
prejudices, they now have golden op-
portunity 70 put in their strength and
at least greatly mitigate the evils they
suffer II they choose 70 stand of now,
a. a great many will do, Moses viii in
two years rule take the last Of the sap
out Of the tree, and no set Of men viii
be fools enough again 20 undertake %
revive it. Scott himself, long consid-
cred a rogue Of the first water, Is para
gon Of virtue compared with the spend
thrift who is trying TO succeed him.
The French authorities have suspen-
ded part Of the works at the Mont Gems
Tunnel, In consequence Of an official
notice received Indicating that the
French proposition To enforce the rail-
way service b one line has been sub
mitted 20 the government at Rome.
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