The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-14
GOLUMBIA. S. G.
Tuesday Morning. August l3. 1879.
For President of the United States.
.aAORACE GREELEY. OF New York.
For Vice President
h. GNATZ BROWN, of Missouri.
Tho Prosecutions.

South Carolina have submitted, almost
without protest, and certainly without
struggle. save once at the ballot-box,
to leavesaeir State prey to the avarice
and theft of the most shameless and un,
scrupulous set of jobbers, schemers and
public plunderers. which have ever
cursed any country under the sun. No
free people, in normal condition OF
affairs, would ever submit to be wropged,
robbed and oppressed as we have been,
and that. too, by crew of contemplate
poltroons.
Citizens of the North have time and
,Sgain expressed their utter astonishment
etthe patience and fOrbearnnce of our
people, and that we did not lynch the
'thieving scoundrels who have been pock-
citing and squandering millions of dol
lars annually. from an already impove.
rished community. It is our peculiar
relations to the General Government
and only this, which prevonts our resort
ing to such method of relief. ANY
action of that kind by the people of one
.of the Southern States would at once be
trumpeted about, through the length
and breadth of the North, as fresh at
'semYt at rebellion, and with an Admins
tre4ioC at Washington like Grants, in
sympathy with the thieves here and hos
tile to any effort ut good government, as
he has been till here of late, perhaps,
would doubtless result in still more
firmly rivetting the fetters upon us
which now cramp our movements.
If all things else fail, We may yet be
forced to such o high handed measure.
But We should, at any rate, endeavor
4rst so exhaust every peaceable and legal
lmeans'in our power. We have tried the
ballot'box and failed, and there is but
little prospect, if any, of better result
an n.thetdirection. We have not yet tested
the courts, the only other source of sue
cor left. This we now propose to do,
and We believe it will be effective. The
slap of the sheriff's hand will send
thrill of terror to the hearts of the
guilty rascals, which the boldest of them
cannot Withstand, and they will sink be-
fore the frowns of the law, as nave the
Tweods and Connollys of Tammany.
For long time the frauds and thefts,
though we'll known. were incapable of
legal proof. Now the case is different.
Republicans themselves, disguised with
and ashamed of their guilty associates,
have turned at last and made O clean
breast OF the crimes Of the ring.
$4,000 600 of fraudulent bonds have been
Issued. and the fact can be substantiated; !;
hundreds upon hundreds of thousands
Of dollars of bogus claims have been
palmed of against the State, and this
can now be proven; millions of the pub
lic funds have been feloniously misnp-
piled by Parker, with the Governor and
other officials as accessories, and for this
the proof is not wanting; officials, high
in Office. have been guilty of open bribe-
~ and corruption, and for this the wit
nesses will be forthcoming. In short,
the crimes are patent, the evidence is
ample. and it only remains, as we have
before said, to fad q prosecutor and the
means for maintaining the suits. We
received, yesterday, private letters from
Gen. James Chestnut and Judge A. p.
Aldrich of the most encouraging charac.
Ter, and we feel assured in saying that
the ball will be opened in earnest in O
Tery short while. These gentlemen are
Of the Executive Committee of the Tax
Payers Convention, and are duly au-
thorized to take action for the citizens in
. this matter. They have, for long time,
been ready and anxious to proceed, but
have been baked from want of neces.
sary funds. This difficulty, we take it
from the earnest and liberal spirit already
manifested by the people of Columbia,
will not much longer exist. Judge AL
drioh concludes his letter as follows:
1.-The matter is in the hands of the
sax- x-payers, the people most interested,
and when they enable Us to move, I do
not think there will be eny comrlaint of