The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-01

to crush their spirit, tax their industry
and hinder their progress Tor an hun
dred years to come.
Iu this great work much has yet to
be done. Indeed. it is not yet half
done. 1t is idle to say that the officers
whom we have named, who have in
the past two years done their duty
against every temptation, would de.
sire now to procure the opportunity
TO betray the people. Their treason
could easily have been accomplished,
if they had meditated treason. That
they have, against so much opposi-
tion at home and abroad, Effected so
much. should, in all fairness, be 40
credited to them as an earnest Of their
purpose in the fotnre.
These officers, and the others OF the
Executive Department, Except the
Governor, who have sympathizcd
with them, with one voice declare for
Mr.. Chamberlain. Indeed, they are
responsible for his nomination; and
they not only pronounced their oon-
viction that he is not implicated in
the frauds which they have combatted
and overthrown, but, out of his own
mouth, they assure the people that he
sympathizes with them in their efforts
in behalf Of honest government, and
will carry ont the measures of reform
already happily inauguratel. What
more do the people ask of Republi-
can administration? These officers
have proved their faith by their ac-
tions. The fiction of their party
which opposes them have neither the
faith to prove, nor the action by
which to prove it.
Let Us dee: Where stands Judge
Green? lie has made no sign. It is
stated that. early in tho year, when
Mr.. Chamberlain had peremptoriIy
declined, leading Republicans en-
deavored 10 induce Judge Green to
enter the canvass; but that, especially
on account OF his pecaniary condition,
he declined to entertain the PROPOSE
ton. What is there, now, in his pc.
cuniary condition which permits him
to engage in an almost hopeless con.
test, when it forbode him to accept a
nomination which he knew was cqui.
valeEt to election? Let the people
ponder! We know that Judge Greene
has been, and is, extremely i'll; but he
had opportunity, in his speech in
Charleston. to declare his purposes in
reference to the public debt, and he
was silent.
The bolt, 80 called. has been inau.
gurated aud engineered by Senator
Dunn. It is Ills funeral. We know of
Judge Green's purposes by his. Mr..
Dunn has not denied that, in the Sc.
nate, he resisted the scheme OF the
settlement OF tho public debt; and it
Is fact, that when it was sought to
scale the debt at forty cents ou the
dollar, the opposition Of Mr.. Dunn
compelled the friends of the measure
to con 'ent to scale of fifty cents on
the dollar, thereby preventing the de-
crease of the debt of the State by
moro than 100000.
Men familiar with passing events
declare that Mr.. Damn has been close
~ associated with Mr.. Wesley, the
holder of the revenue bond scrip. In
relation to this paper, he hns fought
the Executive Department step by
step. Mr.. Chamberlain will bear wit
ness that whatever has bocn done in
the courts in the interest Of this fraud,
has been done at the instance Of Mr..
Dunn, or the agent of Wesley. Judge
Magrath, G. D. Melton. Mr.. Rion aud
others. distinguished lawyers. with
whom the Attorney General has had
to contend, will, We are assured, bear
the same testimony.
In the tour through the up coun-
try, Judge Melton charged that the
purpose of the opposition to Mr..
Chamberlain was to inaugurate an al.
ministration which would disturb tho
settlement Of the nnhIio Jaht no MO