The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-03
Joined to Their Idols-Let Them Alone.

the creatures who, through the weakness or
corruption of the black voters and the bayonets
of the central power, complacently fill the Of
fees of power and trust in South Carolina. 1t
is our duty to leave no stone unturned to oust
them from their positions. We should gather
up and husband every influence, should hoard
every resource, which may be used against
them, and when the right moment arrives, de-
liver them such telling blows as, in their salts
faction with themselves, and with the fat livings
and steahngs they enjoy, they do Dot expect,
and win not be prepared for. r They taint the
very air by their presence 1t is lamentable,
too. that their balefu1 influence Is extending,
and Invoking in its folds the weak and Thought
less. The comforts which their villainy brings
them and the rotten -splendor in which they
shine. are captivating to the unwary and the
unsteady. The moral standard is manifestly
lowered amongst us. a vile expediency, a
readiness to wink at successful proaigacy, are
becoming the order of the day; and men now
embrace as an excuse for their participation IN
or connivance at wrong, that IL is the fashion,
that when in, Rome, one must do as Rome does.
It is the old corrupt plea Of the age the usage
;dignant pen of Taeitus as marking the worst
coTrruptions of the times of the later Roman
emperors. There is q downward tendency, q
manifest inclination to swim with the tide to
catch the favoring ,hreezes which will wait us
smoothly along, albeit moral shipwreck may
ensue. or we only gain port where ,pestilence
RACES. and death holds carnival. Is it not q
significant fact, that with its corruption thor
oughly developed and .matured, its prohigacy
so rank, its conduct and tone SO low and otfen-
sive, that every fool may know it, and even the
blind see it, accessions are made to the ranks OF
the dominant party in South Carolina from
among the intelligent and cultivated cIassesY
Men Of party who 60 into such company pro:
claim their own dishonesty and confess that
they have. been bought with q price, present or
they are made to experience, that, when once
fairly entered into their corrupt society, they
travel down an inclined plane and soon reach
the bottom: The greater absorbs the less
They are swallowed down.. assimilated and
speedily digested. The facility of temper, the
moral obliguity, the want of balance, the lack
of grounding in q sense of right and wrong,
which led them thither, now become SO many
weights around their necks and drag them to
the deepest depths, where no plummet Line can
ever reach them again. Their alacrity in sink
ing is aided by the kicks and cuffs Of their new
associates, who naturally wish them 10 be 80
committed that they can no more escape.
They compel them to prove their faith by
their works, and such, degraded creed can only
be yindicated by dirty work. The fends Of
party, like the fends of hell, rejoice over the
arrival of every fresh recruit, and Immediately
set about moulding him into confo NIFTY with
themselves. :-aiz.. :,
:, For many, months the .Lunatic Asylum, the
Penitentiary, the public schools, the school Tor
the education of the deaf and dumb and the
blind, have exhibited signals of Distress
HE- od for thair
regularly collected from taxes and paid into
the treasury, have not been available for their
use. They live on charity and hope and the in
diligence of their creditors. The. Professors in
the University, the Judges on the Bench, all
State employees, not belonging 70 favored rings,
have been placed in straits from lack of their
salaries. During all this time of distress and
pressure Radical rascals have rolled in wealth
and splendor driving in elegant carriages,
robed in purple and fine linen, with diamonds
on their fingers, and enjoy themselves travelling
up and down. At this very time the Treasurer
has paid Moses pay certificates to the amount
of $4,000 or, more to the mythical MoyerS,
Emmingers, Kipples, Markles, snd the like
He has met drafts upon the armed force fund
in favor of another set of mythical and myste-
rious beings, the Leggetts, Wilson's, MONEYS,
and Heaven only knows who else. BY the
open. fagrant and admitted use of money, and
amid scenes such as only pandemonium could
equal, but not surpass, we have had nomina-
ton of candidates made which has already
brought heavier opprebrium upon the State
and general protest outside its borders. Just
at this iuncture men born on the soil of South
Carolina, bred and trained In her schools, who
have breathed q pure moral atmosphere, to say
the least, and who, ought, from the mere force
of contract, il nothing else, with some OF her
scholars and statesmen, to be found on the side
of honesty and virtue, are seen to sneak into
the rascally, thieying party of our oppEessors.
IF they know anything, they know that this
Moses party is false to the core, and that Its
protestations of reform are all q lie, a sham
and an impossibility. They know that they
were in favor of the passage of the Blue Ridge
swirdle, and are largely interested in the re-
demption Of the scrip. If placed in power
purpose. They will just as infallibly attempt
bonded debt of $4,000 900, so urgently called
for q short time since by Neagle, Scott and
Parker. With new lease of power, all dis
tinction between legal and illegal bonds will
VANISH. The validating bill was passed for a
purpose which will not be abandoned. 1t is a
measure after the heart of Moses and his sup
porters. 1t is fraudulent and tricky. 1t e1-
presses falsehood, and hence is congenial to
them, and will afford a large field and a golden
opportunity for their manipulating hands
Now, the new recruits know all this to be true,
Just as we'll as the old stagers. They know
that they 60 to the vilest set of men who ever
filched or grasped the control of a State. Go
ing with their eyes open, they go with guilt in
their hearts. No man can join rogues, knowing
them to be such, and at the same time retain
the good opinion of honest men. No man can
roll in filth without becoming soiled. Men of
Stare pride, of character for honor and truth,
for bare honesty even, cannot tolerate the rene
gades who have turned their backs upon decen-
cy and principle, and, with their associations,
cast away their integrity as a burden no longer
necessary to be borne. Excuses, and pretexts,
and protestations will not avail them. They
l>axzo ol,onar tl,o;e bod Lot than lie or, it