Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-11-15
Under The Harrow.

All farmers know what is meant by this
expression. The very idea is suggestive
of extreme difficulty and pain.
Ben Wood, editor of the New York Dali
ty Ne0s, thinks ''the contest between the
two sets of carpet baggers in South Caro-
lima has resulted in the success of the Mo-
ses gang. There was no choice between
them tor honest voters. Moses, one ofthe
most corrupt men thrown to the surface in
this age of corruption led motley crew
OF scalawags and negroes, and Represented
the Scott regime, under which the State
has been reduced to beggary and desola-
ton. On the other hand, the boilers were
championed by such choice banditti as
Bowen, the bigamist; Whittemore, the
cadetship pedler, and the notorious Mack
ey family. Their fgure-head was a car
pet-bagger named Tomlinson, a weak
man, who was to be tool in their hands.
The decent people of South Carolina gaz-
ed with Indifference upon the furious
struggle of these factions, and folded their
hands in mute despair. If they had nom
mated ticket of their own, the thieves,
from the instinct of self preservation,
would have come together again. They
cannot afford to let the books get into the
hands of the opposition. Thanks to the
servile support of the negro population,
they count, when united, 10000 majority
in the State. AS they have control of the
election machinery, they can make it So
600 or 100000, if necessary to their pur-
pose. However, without interference from
the taxpayers, they have fought out their
quarrels, and the Scott Moses gang have
triumphed. The responsibility of South
Carolina has one sad consolation. There
is very little left for the victors to steal.
Property is taxed beyond what it would
bring at the auction block, and the bot
tom, therefore, is reached.
"The American people have, in the his
tory and fate of South Carolina, COM
plete exposition of the logical results of
Radicalism. What they see to-day in
that PROSTATE State they will feel in their
own homes if Radicalism goes unchecked.
This is no mere partisan assertion. The
most brazen Radical cannot deny that the
plunderers of South Carolina have been
and are still members of the Radical par
ty. They cannot show that the admins
tration of Grant has ever rebuked their
villainy or refused to support them with
bayonets, when the ruined people have
shown rest1veness under their Affections.
The Radical party and the present admin
lstratlon are wholly responsible for the
present condition of things in South Car
DINA. This condition will continue until
there is change of the national admins
tration."
We shall, therefore, hope for this change
at the earliest possible period.
Not only South Carolina, but every
Southern State has, with her, to greater
or less degree, been "under the harrow"
of Radical usurpation and oppression for
twelve years past. Come what may, it
seems to us impossible as it is unjust, for
a much longer continuance of such a hate
full system. Our States are all sisters in
the same family, and for portion OF them
to be thus oppressed is like disaffection
at the very neucleus and threshold of
home 1t is INSTRUMENTATION which can
not exist it a republic without endanger-
ing tSaUOS ITatructure ~