The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-05
Beauties or Radical Rule In South Caro-.
lima.

The government here may be properly
defined as compact organization of
thoroughbred scoundrels, banded together
for the sole purpose OF plundering the
people. Ii i enought To make the wise
man mad. and Is steadily running many
of the best people out OF the State. The
| ill-gotten gains OF these interruptions Of
iicials strike the eve on every hand I'm
costly residences. elegant eQuipages, fast
horses, and peculiar women; and many
of the spacious chambers once occupied
by the fairest and purest OF Cardinals
daughters are now the scenes of wretched
debauchery, In which the degraded add
venturer .rd some white or black para
mour hold high wassail. Taxes beyond
all precedent are mercilessly exacted, AMI
If not paid the property of the delinquent
Is forthwith (eo INSTANTLY coniiscated. A
sum Is annually appropriated for public
printing alone fully equal to what form
erly was sufficient for all purposes. This
is literally wasted in publishing in OBJ
scene Radical sheets mass of matter
which nobody r, ads and no one Is ex-
pected 10 read, and in substituting so many
of the otherwise conservative journals as
can be induced 10 accept the brioe. A sum
is annually raised for school purposes Tin
GLIDING the special school 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 yer the school sys-
tenn is a farce and huge swindle. There
are neither school-house. nor competent
teachers, but ignorant negroes and whites
are employed for a few months only as
teachers C), and their pay certificates are
never cashed at par. but are shaved by
their employers (all Of the same party at
nothing short of fifty cents on the dollar.
In every county these sharpers are 10 be
found. Many of them attend 10 no
other business and yet make more
money than any man can make
i'm this section in an honest pur-
suit. 1t may be confidently said that
the school fund for the past three years if
honestly applied could have reared in ev-
cry county school-houses as substantial
and elegant as any which grace the vii
lagos of New England. and placed and
retained in each one of them flrst-class
teacher all the year round. But with one
or two exceptions the traveller will look
in vain, either among the hills or in the
lowlands, for any such healthy signs of
progress, the nearest approach TOT being
a rented negro cabin and teacher who
can neither read nor write as we under
stand those arts. Such teachers and
schools are worse than none as every edu-
Gated person knows, and this item alone
shows how utterly the Radicals have
failed TO redeem their promises 10 the ne
gro race. They claim 10 be progressive,
but IL Is the disastrous progress of an un-
controlled train down a heavy grade
faciie descensis.
Many of the counties are and have been
for many years without any courts of SUI
perior jurisdiction. as the jury law has
been so misapplied and perverted by the
Radicals for partisan purposes that no
lawful juries can be drawn. The conse-
luence Is that no crimes ola higher grade
than misdemeanors can be tried, and felons
of the worst sort are az large on straw bail,
on the ground that no courts are or can
be until next year held TO dispose OF their
cases. And such as have been sent 10 the
penitentiary are soon allowed 10 escape.
this plan having apparently been adopted
as substitute for the pardoning power.
The planters have had more difficulty this
year than ever before in securing labor,
the negroes preferring 10 plant for them
selves small patches Of land, which they
rent or purchase, and on which they gen.
orally succeed in raisinga bale or two OF
cotton and provisions enough 10 meet
their plain mode Of living. The seasons
have been unusually propitious, and there
il every prospect now of abundant crops
throughout the Columbia IS. CO.
Cor. ". y. World.