Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-01-08

should 3 sbeable to give every trial the
lace of the sympathizing press the
country, have the full sympathy of
the whole press ofall parties In ssery
Northern State in the Union, md I
believe that the sympathy ofthe adIhinis-
tration of the Federal Government Mould
be with us in an honest movement far re-
form of this kind, conducted, as it Should
pc, free of purity bias. The example of
the fCitysof New Yolle< should endonr-
age us. The penitentiary can I'D as
surely the end of the public robEessof
this Statcas that Of tile wealthy and pSpu-
lar Tweed. We havs rs phtriotie mud
ast,iteg glhwycrs to Volunteer their services
as they had in New Fork, and no Judge
here can be more corrupt than Barnard,
who fixed the ball Of The .fiFst culbirt
brought Befote' him 'ati9i, GOO, 900.
The 'first arrest s6fh b leading thief, and
and an earnest sxatiihation ooff iS WitnSss.
ses,y ttlscFeeveh documentary evidences,
are SO accessible, Will 4'1ead to deyclop.
mehts which will dive these men outof|
the Strte. and prodnee as "a Eli III II n IN p
York, CONSERVATION iimohg the robbers
who will hasten, ds they did there, 10 turn
States evidence, resignation Of offices,
and an immense accession of confidence
on the part of the people to pursue thess
frauds tillit will be unsafe tn fraudulent
ly touch public Stmoncy. 1t is the want
Of practical measures against fraud which
has so fear.ully developed it. A want Of
cooperation withothat stern persistence
which evidences public duty even at the
expense of somelpersohal Inconvenience.
Shalla set Of thieves deprive honest citi-
zens of their rights and property for want
of cooperation III the simple remedies
which all civilized people have through
their criminal courts? YDu have found
political remedies unsuccessful, because.
suffrage is not the cure Cor fraud. Let
us Try the remedy which 'cnuuteracts the
disease. Thieves arclnnt to ht punished
by merely excluding then, from Gfiice,,
but by ctihrts tosend llemto the pchitcn.
tiary,l;ind by wrestling from them their
ill-go,ton LAIN. They have protected
their friends and themselves by party
supremacy. Let us try to overthrow
them by an appeal to the justice ofthe
State and the underlying honesty which
1 be clieve will respond, when that issuci is
made pure and simple. and supported
with alby every honestnan who loves
the privileges which an llonest admins.
tration would insure them in the Iasal, 4,
metto State. sssaS - #
single meeting of Taxpayers in
Columbia, in 1871, saved the Sta.e from
an issue of s6,000,0OO, virtually compell-
ing the Legislature to burn the sterling
bonds, saving the State from fraudulent
issue OF that amount. Now let us Try
what avigorous co-orporation crn do in
the way ofprosecuting the fraudulent In
dividuals, and an attempt to compel them
to restore the money of the people. II
we do not succeed in getting back the
stolen propcrty, we may send them 10 the
penitentiary, as the New York taxpayers
have succeeded in doing with Tweed, and
we shall certainly make it dangerous for
the future practice Of frauds by the oili-
Gals who have hitherto regarded the
people Of the State asleep, or too much.
engaged i'll abstract political theories to
descend to the practical grievances which
is fast destroying the best interest Of thci
State and seriously impairing our success
as people. If every ellortinil within the
law, and fraud and misrule is to mark
the public counsels and the adnlinistra-
tion of the State, then the unalieuable
rights of ffrecmen, SO we'll expressed in
the declaration of our independence,
forces upon us thcyrighAts ghAs Of E srrev revolution.
And what freeman dare controvcrt this
last remedy ofnn oppressed people?
California, many years ago, was infested
with Il band ofrolbcrs, and the law failed
totally to vindicatc public justice a COM
mittce of safety was at last organized,
and public justice was vindicated by