Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-10-10
Turning The LunatiCs In,O The
Streets.

Impovcri she'd South Carolina, held
under the heel of Grants military adj
ministraton, has been bankrupted by
the plnnderers who are placed over that
helpless State because no amount Of
votes, honestly poled, to overthrow eli
Their Gen. Grant, or his hcnchmen there,
would be of any avail in South Carol
ina. They have a law there, enacted
to promote fraud and preserve the Grant
clrpc,-bag plundcrers in power, by
which the ballot-boX is taken home, in
every voting precinct, by the irrcspon.
siblc rad cal runners, whites and ne
grocs, who are appointed to see to this
business and these fellows have full
swing at the boxes and their contents,
for several days before returning the
statement of the vote. That statement
is made after the ballots have been duly
manipulated -(iSnt that the polite
phrase for it3)-and after due ConsuIta-
ton over adviCeS of the actual state OF
the vote in other parts Of the State shall
have given the Grant managers their
cue and a hint Of about how many
white votes must be taken out and how
many negroes votes put in, to make the
general result in the State sure and
decisive for Grant and his head thief
Moses, the candidate for Governor.
Of course such a proceeding is a
moCkery of the very name and iunda-
mental principle of an election, 1t is
an atrocious piece Of machinery devised
for the perpetual cnslavement of the un-
happy white people whose substance
these harpies are wasting in riotous liy.
ing 1t is monstrouS, that such state
of things should exist in the United
States. 1t would cause an armed re-
belion in Turkey. Secretary Boutwell,
sardonically proclaimed Radical ascend,
ency to mean Southern prosperity y
COOL commentary on this heartes5 jes
is furnished in the South Carolina pa
pers, which publish two letters from
Mr.. Ehson, the superintendent of the
lunatic asylum of that State, begging
for a loan Of IS, 900 to carry on the in
stiution. In one ofthem i. says -
Owing to the hghtness the moneymarket
am unable to borrow money with which to buy
provisions, and unless we can obtain furthe
credit for supplies, the inmates of the institu
ton must suif 81 for want Of the necesseries o
life, or be turned ont into Tie streets dependent
upon individual charity, as The State has pro
zen utterly Incompetent TO pr0Uide for them. w
have now but one days supplies on hand, an,
unless relief is affordad, day after tomorrow
will find nearly 400 human beings in this asy
lum suffering for something to eat. In til
name Of God and humanity beg you to he'll
them if you can"
The Columbia Is. c. Phan,r, com
menting on this extraordinary appea
from the superintendent Of a State in
stitu'ion, says:
s"Not single dollar for this years apprc
priation for the Asylum has been paid. TIL
taxes from which the appropriation was de
l signed to be drawn ,rere collected last fall an
winter, but they were all squandered in legit
lative expenses, meeting drafts upon the bogu
| armed~force fund. and such like swindles. TIL
:, asylum, the penitentiary, the public schools
and all other projects OF governmental cate an
, support hare suffered terribly in consequence
The asylum has been kept going up to this tim
simply through tho personal exertions Of tn
: superintendent, and the assistance rendere
him By private Individuals