Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1872-08-30
The south Carolina MuddIe.

The south Carolina Middle.
The Republican party in our neighbOr-
Ing State has gotten up a refreshing family
fuss. 1t is to be hoped that in this instance
when thieves fall on! honest men will get
their dues.
1t is refreshing that Judge Orr has found
ont somebody i'll the Radical party too
d,sreputaLle for his support. 1t would
have gratilied the old soldieT-friends OF
Judge Melton if his stomach could have
been also turned against the plundcrcr of
his States treasury and the deflers of her
honor.
We publish, elsewhere, some account Of
the proceedings of the two Conventions.
IT is said that our 1" virtuous' President,
/" growing circumspect,' has informed
Judge Orr that the South Carolina conUp-
tionists must be defeated, or at least his
friends must no longer be responsible for
their crimes, for they will bring disgrace
upon the party and defeat upon
the Administration. Orr was prom
iscd Federal patronage if lie should make
war upon both the Moses and Scott wings
of the party, even if lie could not succeed
in defeating them.
The real quarrel between Moses, the
scallawag, aud Chamberlain, the carpet
BAG successor and political administrator
of the expiring Governor Scott, is probably
better explained in The speech Of the Rev.
Cain, of Charleston, i'll which he acknoWl-
edged that Moses, as Speaker Of the House,
had illegally issued from five to ten millions
ofdonars Of certificates, but asserted thatthe
money had gone into the hands of the
sspoor people" of South Carolina, while
the many more millions Of over-issue of
funds by Scott and Chamberlain had been
invested by the carpet-bag ring in the
North.
Between the two we pity the good peo-
pie of South Carolina.
Judge Orr and his fellow boilers take
great pains to tell the Democrats that they
do not proprose to conciliate them in any
way whatever. They intend to get up d
little reform party within themselves and
will have nothing to do with outsiders.
In the meantime, Moses for Governor;
Gleaves, colored, for Lieutenant-G Governor;
Hayne, colored, for Secretary of State;
Judge Melton (Heaven save the mark,)
for Attorney-General, and, we suppose,
Cardozo, colored, for Ire asurer, having
the prestige of a &c regular" nomination,
will break down all barriers and control
the destinies of South Carolina for the next
four years.
Moses, doubtless the future Governor of
the State, is thus described by the minOri-
ty of the Congressional Committee, who
went to South Carolina to investigate the
alleged Ku-kluS Outrages:
One +. j. Moses, Jr., little Jew carpet
Dagger from Brooklyn, n. Y, was the
Speaker of the House. He had made his
pile under the cabaliSuc process of ''seeing
light" which was the cant phrase used at
the Capitol tC denote the presence of |
greenbacks, and no small item of which |
grew out of his operations in the purchase |
of arms for the negro militia, hereafter to
be noticed. lie was ''fast' man on fast
horses, like his master Grant.-ED.,l and
fast on every other fast thing of these mod |
ern days. There was negro member of
the House by the name OF Whipper, who !
had also made his pile, doubtless, in the /
passage of well-known phosphate bills"
''Greenville railroad" SWindleS, and the /
fast horses. Moses and Whpper had made |
up match race for 81, 200 a side. The ,
race was fixed to come off on the said 4th |
day of March: and the explanation of the !
recess on that day is, that the House ad-
burned to attend this horse race. The |
ace was run, and the Jew carpet Dagger
Ost the bet of 81 900.
Three days afterward, on the day of
final adjournment, and the very last thing
done in the House, as shown by the journal,
was motion made by this same negro |
member, Whipper, ''that gratuity of
$1,000 be voted to the Speaker of this |
House for the dignity and ability with
which he has presided over its delibera-
tions." The motion was regularly dis |
cussed, and was passed by a large MAORI |
y, upon call, by Democratic member,
II the yeas and nays; and thus the impov-
erished, oppressed, and down-stricken peo-
pie of South Carolina were made to pay
the lost bet of Speaker Moses.