The Republican journal., 1873-09-11
State Of Affairs in South Carolina.

| unhappy oIdue IHcN Stclll 10 DC WORST
than anything recorded in history since
subjugation and ruin of Poland-a state
of things that ought long since to have
stated the vengeance Of even the most ma
lignant enemy of the South.
Governor Moses, of South Carolina. IL
his message to the legislature of that state
bears the following testimony: The
face Of the emigrant," he says sis turned
away from our state; and capital, which
sets labor in motion and creates the man
ufactures which contribute to the comfort
| and elevation of man, shrinks back from
us as if the seals of pestilence were brok
Ell and the walls emptied out upon this
beautiful land Of ours Hence nearly
| three-fourths of our vast territorial area
containing not less than thirty-siN thous
and square miles, lie fallow to-day
The governor who gives this evidence is
one who would most willingly have testi
fed, if it had been possible, to the truth
of description the contrary to that which
| he has presented. He occupies what is
known as the ''Preston Mansion" in Col
umbia, one of the most magnificent dwell
linss in it, and presented to him by ''inter-
ested friends bankers and brokers,
anxious by all and every means to uphold
the credit of the state. They are holders
of seven millions of dollars of bonds,
issued by carpet-baggers and developers,
| and, intending a desperate effort to induce
the next Legislature Of South Carolina to
make valid these fraudulent bonds, are
distributing brides wherever they will
yield the most profitable returns, and
among others, to this Moses.
The State treasurer, a negro who is 4
disgrace to his race, has laid aside some
eighty thousand dollars since he held his
office His plan is, when claim against
the state is presented, to tell the owners of
it that there is no money in the treasury
but he knows some one who has money
and may perhaps buy the claim. There
upon some one of his confidential friends
purchase it at a heavy discount, and the
dupe soon after discovers that an appro-
priation had previously been made to pay
the claim
A correspondent Of the World, writing
from the capitol, gives an account, con-
tirmed from all other credible sources Of
the condition OF the state The govern
ment here" he says, may be properly
defined as Il compact organization of
thoroughbred scoundrels, banded together
for the sole purpose of plundering the
people. 1t is enough to make the wisest
men mad, and is steadily running many
Of the best people out Of the state. The
ill-gotten gains of these INSCRIPTIONS of
ficials strike the eye on every hand in
costly residences, elegant equipages, fast
horses and peculiar women; and many Of
the spacious chambers once occupied by
the tairest and purest of Carolina daugh-
tiers are now the scenes OF wretched
debauchery, in which the degraded adven-
turer and some white OF black paramour
hold high wassail. Taxes beyond all pre-
cedent are mercilessly eXacted and if not
paid the property of the delinquent is
forthwith leo lnstante) contiscated A sum
is annually appropriated for public print
ing alone fully equal to what formerly was
sufficient for all purposes of state govern
ment. This is literally wasted in publish
ing in obscure radical sheets a mas. Of
mattnr which nobody roads nnd no ono =
expected to read, and in Substituting as
many of the otherwise conservative jour
nails as can be induced to accept the bride.
A sum is annually raised for school pur-
poses-including the special schoo-taX in
the counties-exceeding largely the entire
amount formerly appropriated for all pur-
poses combined And this has been done
year after year, and yet the school system
is farce and huge swindle."
1t is stated on the same authority that
although SO enormous a sum is raised for
educational uses there are neither school
houses nor competent teachers in the
| state, but ignorant negroes and whites are
| employed for a few months in the year,
and the pay-certiticates of these people are
never cashed at par, but by their en-
| ployers, all of the same party, at nothing
| less than so cents on the dollar. 1t is
contidentially and credibly asserted that
the school fund for the past three years, if
honestly applied, could have reared in
every county school-houses as substantial
and elegantas any which grace the villages
of New England and place and retained
in each one Of them Il trst-class teacher
all the year round.
We learn from the same source that
many of the counties are and have been
for nearly a year without any courts of
superior jurisdiction, as the jury law has
been SO misapplied and perverted by the
radicals for partisan purposes that no law
full luries can be drawn. The consequence
is that no crimes Of higher grade than mis-
demeanors can be tried, and felons of the
worst sort are at large on straw bail, on
the ground that no courts are OF can be,
until next year, held to dispose Of their
cases. And such as have been sent to the
penitentiary are soon allowed to escape,
this plan having apparently been adopted
as substitute for the pardoning power.
In 1870-when South Carolina was so far
beggared by the results Of the war and the
carpet-bag system forced upon her by re
publican partisans that the valuation Of
her property was only 1888, 9l3,337, or
considerably less than one half of $473,319,
1913, the valuation in 1S6O-the taxes are
nearly four times as large as in 1860, when
she was prosperous and fourishing. 1t
was estimated two years ago that the tax
alton annually exceeded the interest on
the capital invested in agricultural and
manufacturing industries in the state.