Middletown transcript., 1874-04-11
South Carolina and the President.

South Carolina and the President.
On our first page. this morning, We pub
K-h an account Of The interview of the
= uth Cxroliua Taxpayers with President
Grant, asd the address delivered by Mr..
purser. The chairman Of the committee. to
which ws referred last Saturday and. al
20, the very courteous and statesmanlike
We call tho attention Of our readers to
NJ. Porscr's address as portraying the
condition Of the people Of South Carolina
upder the management Of the Republican
psrty. That party s,ylcs itself the party
II reform and with 4 loud voice and trum-
pst flourish preclaims that its deeds are
good and all its aims just South Carroll
NJ. Louisiana. Mississippi and Arkansas
are living rcfatations Of their arrogant
clairns
Influenced BY a prejudice and hatred
akin to fendishncss, and by an Unsuitable
desire to keep political power in their own
hsnds. the Republican leaders conferred
suffrage upon class totally unfit for it,
srd have thereby placed the absolute con-
'esl af the governments Of those unfortu-
Late States, where such people are in
msjurity, in the hands Of men who, being
~holIy without property as they are with
cnt intelligence, education and principle,
garhey tngethor in the Legislative Halls
anil make enaetments robbing the treasu-
y and misappropriating the funds. which
they seek to recuperate by a system Of
grinding taxation which is taking away
the property Of thousands Of citizens who,
unable to pay the enormous taxes laid
up1n them, aro forced to see their home
sreads sold beneath the tax -gatherer's ham
mer aud themselves powerless to prevent
it The address of the Taxpayers of
South Carolina shows an existing condi-
tion Of affairs in that State perfectly appal-
ling, and this the Radicals call reform. +"
We call attention to South Carolina be-
cause VIC regard her condition as fair
specimen of the "reform' which the Rae
icaIs seek to inaugurate in all the Old
Slave States. Not that soch state of
things would he established in Delaware,
slrukl the Republicans gain power, for
the material Of which that party is COM
posed at the South, and which forms a
large part Of the strength here, is not suf-
ficient to enable them to bring it about.
But the disposition is the same, and, once
III power. there would be no limit at which
they would stop and no step which they
would decline to take provided they coulG
thereby retain control Of the government
Men, or a political party, who will de
liberately, in order to crafty an inhumar
malice, give over one Of the States of tn
Union to the control of ignorance and vice
arc not the men with whom to cntrust po
li.iral power.
The lime is rapidly approaching whe1
The people Of Delaware will again be calle
upon 10 make choice Of rulers. With th
picture Of South Carolina held up befor
their. eyes there is but little to induce ther
70 trust their State in the hands of the Sc
called :. reformers. The Radicals. {
course. disavow all intentions Of introduc
ing such state Of ''reform' here as exist
at tho South. So they once bitterly an
solemnly protested that they had no in
,en.ion OF couferring suffrage upon negroe
aud Of doing many other things which the
have since done, but when the power wa
placed IN their hands. how speedily the
forgot their promises and declarations.
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