The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-12-18
s. e,
Thursday Morning. December "a, as73.
The aovsrnor,s M sc.

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performances Of the Governor impress
the reader with the conviction that he
lis uneasy about his relations and stand.
ing with the colored people If the State.
He never let's slip an opportunity to de.
preOiate the old regime. He,improves
every occasion to beslobber the new
with fulsome eulogy. always laying it
on thick. He knows that the former.
whom he has betrayed, have no conf
dence in him; he vainly hopes that by
hattery he can permanently conciliate
the credulous blacks to his support. a
dirty thread Of comment OF this sort
runs throughout the document before
,us, and stamps the author as one who
aspires TO the Office and emoluments of
The demagogue. As literary produc-
tion. no doubt he thinks this paper
choice aud elegant, abounding in ex-
tracts from poets, and fables from an
,cient writer's. We concede that bis &C.
tions are better and truer than his facts.
We End nothing in his recommends
pen. he falls back upon previous mes
Isages for his views on the bonded debt.
The General Assembly has incubated
over them for nee " two months with
o1t result. SO. also, as to his ideas of
taxation, which were very lofty. and
grand in October. We suppose they
have not changed, for he gives hint
that it must be high, ip his self.satisfied
reference to increase of values in the
State, and in the assessment of property.
The Governor literally commends his
colleagues in the executive departments
for zeal. knowledge, assidnity and other
virtues. yet he has to regret that he has
not been able to analyze the report of
the Comptroller General. because not
in his hands. Nor has the report OF the
Board OF Trustees Of the State Uni
versity yet reached him. nor any from
the late officers Of the Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
We have the strange information rem
dered to the Legislature. that the volume
known as 1.-THE Revised Statutes of
South Carolina" is only myth, was
never legally enacted, and has not the
force of law. We have not had the
courage to follow him in his ''notes on
the revised statutes" in which are con-
tained corrections of grammar, style
and sense. This 6onns 6ouche we re.
serve for rainy day in the country.
The Governor never forgets that
money is needed, as an old writer said,
(whom lie ought to have quoied,)
might and day." Although it ia all
clean gone and spent. he goes through
the old delightful formula OF recon-
mending numerous appropriations.
The Secretary of State. he says. wants
s5. 600 for the purpose o, rebinding
many volumes OF records; also, $4,000
for the purpose Of classifying the plats
and manuscripts in his Office. The Su.
.perinteudent OF Education would be
pleased to have euch legislation as will
secure appropriations to cover past in
debtedness. The Governor trusts that
"the necessary appropriation" will be
made to secure the success Of the mill
tary system; that one be annually made
to purchase books for the State Library,
and that "a small anount OF money" be
applied to repair the State House and
tho fence which once surrounded it,
and likewise that on appropriation be
ma'c : furnish tho school apparatus
for the Sta, Orphan Asylum. He also
advises the al continent of steno-
graphic reporter for (. II of the Circuit
Courts; for which, of coui.e, money will
be needed.
The Treasurer's report is referred to,
t, show the deficiencies of the past fs-
cal year. They amount to $40, 1928, the
difference between tho amount appro-
priated, $2.4lS,S72. and that received,
81, 7l0,72S. We would impress upon
his Excellency that he may here learn
valuable lesson. which is to stay his de.
vouring band. This deficiency ;s what