Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-07-11
. Bah. 1t Makes me sick to Think of it,,

Sc Bah! 1t Makes me sick to Think of It."
On the 3rd inst, picket" a CORES
pondent of the Charleston Ne,os, "inter-
viewed" Judge Orr at his home in An
derson, and in the course of the CONVEX
sation, the correspondent asked Orr if
there was anything new. in the State
finances. To this Orr replied rs follows:
Judge Orr. Nothing that have heard.
Affairs appear to he at their worst. but
that. of course, all the readers of THE
News are familiar with. I only wish
that the great mass of our colored people
who cannot read could have it impressed
upon them as well. The institution for
the deaf and dumb and the hind at
Spartanbnrg has Just been closed, and
the inmates sent home because they can
get no money from the treasury. The
penitentiarv and lunatic asylum have to
resort to all sorts of shifts tn feed their
inmates. The public schools are shut
up and the teachers discharged un-
paid. 1t is threatened that the quaran-
tine along our coast will have tn DO
abandoned for want of funds. have
not received cent of paw for nine
months, and most of the State officers
whose paw is due quarterly are in the
same condition. Meanwhile the State
debt has been increased at least twelve
million dollars. and between four and
five million dollars have been collected
in taxes during the Dast four years. That
is to saw, the Columbia thieves have had
an income during four years of at least
sixteen million dollars, and now they
say they haven't got a dollar in the
treasury. And what have they to show
for it? Not single public improvement.
Not one mile of railroad or canal. not one
dollars worth Of legitimate expenditure
on the Statehouse-nothing at all except
few acres Of swamp lands and sand
hills bought by the land commissioner
at from two to ten times it's value, and
which are now going begging. for pur-
chasers at eight years time and six .ber
cent. interest. Bah It make me sick to
think of it.
Now, if the official robbery and plunder
of the South Carolina Radicals is suffi-
cient to make even Jas. L. Orr "sick to
think of it," what damaging effect it
must have on all good men-Republicans
as well as Observation-Disclosures the
length and breadth of the United States.
This corruption of the Republican Off
cials in this State has been duly ventila-
ted by the Democratic press for months
and years, whilst their own organs and
public men have tried to conceal the
villainy of their Ring and have in vain
endeavored to establish that, though DUR
public debt has been augmented over
five fold, yet the responsibility does not
rest on them, but with the Democratic
taxpayers. And now Orr, the long
headed fellow, seeing that his Scott Ring
allies are soon to be brought to grief,
unceremeniously withdraws from the
"Robber band," and is the most bitter
and blatant denouncer of the men and
party he has for the1ast few years done
so much to uphold and keep in power.
Verify, "Satan rebuking SIM" Orr and
Bowen and Corbin-a sweet-scented and
illustrious trio-are on the war path, and
the Scott Parker-N Neagle Ring will be
laid low in ignominious shame and
never-to-be forgotten scorn and con-
tempt. So let the fight go on-make a
Kilkenny affair of it-and in that event
South Carolina will be benefited. But
we are fearful that it will not be Kill
kenny fight-and that Orr and Bowen
and Corbin, having done our people all
the harm they possibly can, will find
themselves utterly impotent to anchor
ate our affairs or put better men in office.