The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-06
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Sunday Morning, July 6. 1873.
The Hare and the Hounds.


propositions have issued from our neigh
Dor, the Union Herald. It evidently has
clear conception of the situation Of
things in this State. It knows as we'll
as any one, the causes of the almost uni
versal lowering of tone and OF that de-
plorable condition of things which stig-
matizes and excludes from positions OF
responsibility and trust. talent, integrity
illness and character, and exalts to the
head OF affairs the basest and foulest
scum of the foul political cauldrion. But
tho Herald, while it knows good deal,
and even induless in outspoken denun-
Citations of frauds, rings and rascalities,
yet seldom ventures to point its finger at
the guilty. It's censures are delivered in
the abstract, not the concrete. It is thus
compelled by position to run with. the
+ hare, and by its instincts and convictions
to follow the hounds. It vaunts the
Radical party in this State, with which
it acts, as the party of progress, of liberal
ideas, the champion of human rights,
&c. But it takes it's satisfaction out of
it for this undeserved praise, in COCA.
sional wholesome digs into its fostering
oarcaas. To tickle the ears OF the ground
lings, it speaks in one breath OF the Gin
,incible flag Of the Union. and the Re-
publican honor of the. State;" while in
another, there escape from its laboring
and heaving breast such passages as fol-
low: ''''
"WhAt1 then, is. all this great talk
about Morton. Bliss 6 Co.? It is plain
.ttThe men elected to ofioe, some years
ago wanted a great deal more money than
they dared to hope for from the drag net
OF the taxes all OF once, 30 they went to
the rich men in New York and elsewhere
10 borrow: all they could. They asked
the Legislature to appoint financial
board. and the Legislature appointed
three Of these very officials. This board
ttenappointed q financial agent in New
York, who was to do all their lending,
borrowing, buying and selling, and any
other favor. he could render them. He
was to7gat paid 30 much on every dollar
he took in or paid ont; and, although the
the peoples. money has to give bond,
this agent. who handled millions, gave,
it is said, no bond but his own. Well,
he vent to borrowing, and when he could
not get It, out of, the street he went into
the highways and byways and he bor-
rowed froE, morn to dewy eve They.
could calculate on about one million and
half every year from taxes. but they
wanted three million two hundred thou
sand dollars at once. Nearly all of these
elect wanted to lay up something for
rainy day. and they did not know when
it might rain, and, moreover, they all
had lot of poor kin from the st. Law
renee to the Rio Grande,' and borrow,
borrow, borrow, wee the order Of the
day, They were 80 anxious about it
that the men who lent them money be-
came suspioious, and they had to print
and pledge their bonds By. Wholesale. It
took about BE. .O00, 900. Of bonds to fool
these bankers out ot GO. 200, O0O-that is,
they pledged the honor of this State to
pay SIS. 600, 600 in q few years, in order
that they could pocket that money at
once. That's just what's the matter"
That's it, is it? We thank you for so
much. although brighter light let in
upon the frauds would be acceptable.
And yon think such party lenders have
honor. do you. and financial integrity
and capacity. and are fit to govern
State and give tone to its people? Our
contemporary ought to know that only
men, "high- minded men," can DO this.
By the way, if our contemporary were
little moro pointed and specific, and
would tell its renders who are ''the men
elected to Office some years ago." aud
who constituted the "Financial Board"
if it gave the names Of the 'elect," who
"wanted to lay up something for rainy
day" it would do its Radical rank and
file essential service, for they do not
know. But We will not press it any fur
ther this morning, seeing that it is under
pressure in ita own ranks. We com mend
it for the CLEANS Of good doctrine, the
admission now and then which it makes
OF the existence OF ugly facts in it's
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