Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-12-13
A Dark Picture.

An intelligent correspondence of the New
York World writing from Columbia, South
Carolina, on the 26th ult, gives the follow
ing dark and gloomy picture of the pres
ent condition of that noble little State
once the home of the great Calhoun, now
the stamping grounds ola vile set ofthieves
and carpet-baggers, who are preying upon
her vitals, and who have reduced her to a
glorious "nigger heaven"
1.-THE name of commonwealth is passed
and gone" The Palmetto is shorn of its
glory and strength, and South Carolina,
once among the proudest of States, lies
bleeding and Inundated. If any one can
take pleasure in contemplating State en-
tirely given up to negro government,
and almost completely amasculated of its
intelligence, enterprise, energy and wealth,
let him look here and take his fill of sucn
wretched satisfaction. The recent cleo
ton has driven the State at least hun
dred fathoms deeper into financial ruin
and political degradation than before
Every representative in Congress negro
except Wallace, and he lower in the esti-
nation of the whites than any of his ne
gro colleagues. The Legislature made up
of negroes and white renegades, with here
and there decent man from some Demo
cratic county, who feels when he comes
here like cat in strange garrett, and will
be laughed ct for his pains if he opposes
the tide of corruption. The State Offices
filed with the worst of the ring, and Mo-
SEES, covered from head to heel with fraud
and corruption, placed in the Governors
chair.
That matters here are worse than ever
no wideawake observer can for moment
doubt. There is really no law but the will
and pleasure of the Radical ring. The ju-
ries are more largely made up of negroes
than ever before. Of thirty-six petit jul
rors recently drawn for a common pleas
term in Charleston there were only three
white men, and those of the lowest class.
So in other counties, the jury-box are filled
with negros, and the verdicts are ridicu-
lousy at variance with the law and the
facts. Negroes commit all the crimes in
the calendar and are turned loose on straw
bail, and if tried and convicted are par
doned as soon as they reach Columbia
The Legislature is largely made up of their
comrades, and there is scarcely a man in
any of the departments who is not in sym
pathy with them. The only class who
stand no chance in this State are the whites.
On the slightest complaint they are ar
rested and the utmost rigor applied to
their bail requirements. In this way
they are time and again tortured by the
lowest scoundrels in official position
Even refined and sensitive ladies are often
subjected to this species of annoyance,
and however wrongfully disturbed and
mortified they have no redress. In some
counties Ku-Klux arrests continue to be
made, and in others threats of such arrests
are held in terrorem over the whites. The
taxes are enormous, closely verging on
confscation, and property already assess
ed four or five times beyond its value is
certain to be rated several thousand dol
lars higher if the slightest repairs or i'm
provements are made upon it. Hence tor
por and a general deadlock affect the
people at large and the white people in
large numbers are leaving the State, the
most of them making their way to Texas,
although many of them have gone or are
going to other distant localities. This is
by no means a hegira of choice, for never
did Scotch or Pole or child of Erin turn
the exile's last look upon his country
with more sadness in the eye or deeper
sorrow in the heart. Daily they go, they
go; and those who are to have to remain