, 1872-11-02
SOUTH CAROLINA,
The Past Aristocracy---Ther
Folly and Fall.


WASHINGTON, Oct. o. 1870
The most unhappy State in the Union has iusi
passed its second centennial anniversary. In
the year 1911, the first permanent colonists Of
South Carolina settled upon the Ashley River,
near Charleston.
The first centennial, in 1771, Witnessed popu-
lation Of above 100000, with middle Carolina
settled nearly thrty-tiyo years before, and noun
famous Carolina already twenty years inhabited,
and population increasing at tho reta Of per
cent per AMMAN.
The year 1871 dawned upon anarchical and
brutal licenses led and controlled. by dema-
gogues; upon State debt Of $23, ,000, 900, legal
and illegal, and tho legal indistinguishable from
the Illegal; upon party terrorism, and tile will OF
that party the purchase of the thieves who had
robbed the taz-payers.
THE OLD CAROLINA EVILS.
South Carolina has earned and obtained rore
misfortune than any other State in tho Union.
Having the least Democratic character and the
greatest proportion Of slaves, at the end Of the
war every boast Of the Commonwealth tumblod
into the hire, and the hollowness of the whole
fabric WIS exposed.
1t was Protestant Louisiana, touchened by
Scotch and Irish Will and by German peasantry;
over the whole, the State Church Of England
prevailed with all the bigotry Of the parish sys-
tenn, where the yestry coniscated all the politics
to themselves.
In this State, slavery was indeed the corner
stone; and. as the next colony, Georgia, dis
couraged slayeholding, Carolina received her
elave-seeking planters. The competition for
slaves led to the enslayement even of Indians,
and, as these we're surly at home they were
shipped to the West Indies in exchange for more,
and thus the rowing pirates of the West India
waters became traders, refugees, and even plant
ers in Carolina. Land WAS the passion Of the
gentry, and it wss the prize OF consider
alton even more than tLe test Of
wealth. The colony became coveted by
the Southern European races for its
mildness and the laxity OF it's morals, aud during
the border-troubles Of Pennsy1vania and Virginia
with the French and Indians, a sou1bre importa~
tion Of North Irish at secondhand was adled,
men Of prodiglous force snd no civilization
The social pretensions Of the few who possess
ed the land ruled the many who despised refine
1nent and the laws Of the rich shareholders and
fhe prejudices Of the poor whites satisfied both
classes, although they never grew nearer togeth-
er. Despielng the negro, the poor white re-
Hpected the great proprietor, aud voted his
ticket without murmur and If, out OF
the poorer rank, g. man like CAL
Ro~n sometimes grew up, he catered to the
prevailing class, and span intricate feudal theories
in the name of q Democracy which was never the
aim Of either planter or politician in Carolina.
TIE LAYESG-UP or WRATH,
jhe he views entertained by the dominant class
n 4e6O we're not widely different from those Of
the French nobility seventy years before.
crafty politics prevailed toward other States aud
circular-1etters we're constantly being sent to
the nei6nporanS states, ASKING cooperation and
secession: Fire-sixths OF the whole white pop
1esentahves, because, IN their counties, slaves
were few, and property qualification prevailed.
Ihe democratic prlnciple Eas hated by the
!a".g7Fers; . wholesale reactlon existed
against American equality and p1ac-
ticA ll-tTeatnent OF slaves was
60 notable IN Carolina that the
ether alaTe States "eFo mortified at TIE fact.
As late as looS, Two negroes we're publcly and
1udcaauy burned awe, oFef s4oT IRE, IN the
Eltr OF Charleston. Nlshln cur OWN period, the
tngAeh VIE OF one OF tne ~ea4tnaest s1aVehoio-
efe IN tne state {eaateo ~ 1nngnanE peflods tue
anhunan ontraSes committed upon her husbands
estate. A. the ssme time. the immense
poor White poPulasaon we're often What
they remain to-day -sand-hlleIs; c1ay-eatera,
Eaunt, cadaTerous, and H1naN, and their skin the
color OF the SOL they uved upon. white girl
Tho Wou1a Mo1k haa m no Esnt to pc pc cnaste ana
no oasPos11on pas8aIoy was 1ne poPuIaslng
oislnlty OF whole c3stf1cts hog-stealing was the
only path to animal-food:: The poor mans in
frequent DISH Was Hopping John, Or
'hacon, peas, and red pepper, steWed
together; and the poorer carollniane child
Vas commonly SAID to lack comparison with the
Hlspano-ludlan races. With al this background
ot Aeathen1em ana slavery, the carolina poll
tlcian came down to the footllShts, and chal-
1enged mankind tor ms. Ike N refinement,
.scholarshp, and war. ne worked to preeipatate
ms OWL sepulture WITH the energy OF a maniac,
ana no" ne iles IN the hldeous con1uslon and
run, 1nslgnlhcant IN numbers, ana hardly dis-
nngushaDle. Inc anarchy around on nm ,s ne
fabric. He was the elevation thereof, and fair
and shallow he used to be to look upon But all
0f Carolina ls there remaining still, and what
Frederick Law Olmstead wrote twenty years ago
has come to pass:
South Carolina must meet her destiny" eald
oimstead in 1858; "either to be Democratized
or barbarized. One hundred years hence, the
men whose talent and wealth will rule South
Carolina will be the descendants of those now
living in poverty, Ignorance, and tho vices OF
etupi2 and imbecile minds
THE EVILS or THE NEW LIBERTY
Terrible indeed has been the e1piation OF the