The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-18
Is South Carolina to be Redeemed Z

The article published below is from the pen
of Rev. R. b. Cain, colored Republican, who
edits the Missionary Record, published in
Chaleston:
No question is so vital to the citizens of this
State as that of the future government that
shall be imposed by the election this fall. 1t
becomes the more so because of the bad admin
istration which has brought her to the brink
of financial ruin. Who ever will take the
trouble to examine the facts and figures cannot
but see the absolute necessity for change of
our masters for class who will serve us for the
proper remuneration given them by law. The
present financial embarrassments are to be trac-
ed to some responsible source, and it becomes
the duty of every intelligent citizen to enquire
where that responsibility rests and who are
guilty of so grave and damaging results as the
present condition presents. No State with a
class of men controlling it, who can expend the
taxes of hundred and fifty million of dollars
at twenty mills on the dollar-and then
leave the State bankrupt, with every officer
complaining that he cannot get his salary for
eight months-with no appropriations paid,
with every County Treasury empty, and every
school-house closed, every asylum crying for
help, and none offered, with every alrnshouse
demanding its appropriations, and answered
no money-is unworthy to be trusted. What
has become of the peoples taxes which have
been paid in? Where is the cash gone?
Nothing has been paid-where is the License
rung out of the people for not paying in time?
The interest has not been paid on the Bonds,
the Judges of our Courts have not received pay,
there are no extra expenses accruing to the
State. The Bill of $4,000 of State House fit
ting up has not been paid. The Orphans are
sent home-the quarantine is about to be sus-
pended for want of money to pay expenses OF
maintaining their men, and supplying materi-
als-a'l the Bonds are locked up in the vaults
of Wall Street, and still these gents want the
Secretary of State to seal million more, so
that all that have been sealed have been
pawned to meet their private peculations, and
hence the legitimate debts of the State are un-
paid. The property of the poor is being sold
at ruinious loss to them, many are deprived OF
their little homes which they have been accu-
mulating by their industry, by the relentless
ax-executioner-whiet these purse proud spec
ulators ride in fine carriages, and roll in luxu-
ry, while honest men cannot get their just dues
when they have given their labor to the State.
Will the people still tolerate these things?
1t is now time to change these rulers; it is
time to hurl them from place and power. Let
the people, black and white throughout the
length and breadth of this State, unite to de-
feat them this year. They are now holding
back the peoples money, to be used by them to
buy their way into Office again. They are
now boasting that they will be elected again,
and that they have enough money to buy the
Conventions Where did they get so much
money that they propose to spend fifty thou
sand, a hundred thousand dollars to secure
their re-election7 Answer. Stolen from the
poor people of this State by cheating the men
who have rendered honest service to the State,
holding back their money, and employing
their runners to buy up the Pay Certificates at
fifty cents on the dollar. When State officials
can stoop to those things, we nave descended
low indeed, when our credit is reduced to a
disgraceful refusal every where, it is time to
turn out these leeches, and highwaymen, and
substitute in their stead, men of honesty and
integrity.
We call on the colored men throughout the
length Of this State to rise up and repudiate,
these blood-suckcrs and purge our State OF
them and their corrupting influence, and re-
deem the State from their rule.