The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-16
COLUMBIA, S. G..
Tuesday Morning. June l6. 1874.
Through Northern sp.ct.cI.s.

contains letter from q special cores
pondont in this State, in which the
whole Moses affair is presented to the
admiring gaze OF the Republicans
North. It is stated. that being de-
sirous Of controlling a newspaper in
his interest, he entered into communi.
cation with Mr. T. @. Andrews, one of
the then proprietors Of the Union
Herald, and made q written agree.
ment with him for the purchase of
q one-half interest and the entire poll
tiosl control Of The paper. This written
agreement. the correspondent states.
he saw in Charleston. It stipulates
that Moses is to pay $4,000 for the
interest sold to him, land that Sc, 900 of
this sum is to be taken from the State
OWL contingent fund. The rest was to
be paid in other State securities. He
appointed Humbert, colored boy,
under twenty-one years of ago. Trea-
surer of Orangeburg County he next
drew warrant on the contingent fund
for $4,000, and sent it by Andrews to
Humbert, with instructions to collect
taxes to that amount and hand over to
Andrews, assuring the boy that he
would make it all right. Humbert
obeyed orders; but when he came to
make mis- return and settle accounts
with the State. and presented the war
rant which he had cashed as a voucher
for the $4,000 paid for Moses, the
T.ssssa1sr sa:sIssa. &c &c receive -, io1 .his
reason that tue Governor had already,
and Immediately upon its being
passed, drawn the whole Of the 800, 900
contingent fund. Humbert became
alarmed. but was told by the Governor
that he weuld protect him. He told
him to buy school claims against the
State for forty cents on the dollar, to
cover the amount he was short. But,
upon presenting them. the claims
were refused at the treasury, and
Humbert arrested as defnulter. He
Was bailed by friend, and invited by
Moses tJ come and see him, in order
to induce him to give up the written
evidence he had of the transaction.
This he declined, and the facts becom.
ing known, the Solicitor indicted
Humbert for breach of trust and lar
ceny. and Moses for aiding and abet-
ting the crime. We all know the rest,
beginning with the warrant for the
arrest of the Governor and ending
with Judge Graham's opinion quash-
ing the indictment.
Until these statements are denied or
refuted. We have q right to assume
that they are correct. They illustrate
the peculiar freedom of the press that
We enjoy here, and the use certain
person thinks it ought TO be put to.
and the agreement of another person
connected with it with the other. that
it shall be put to that use. They
show the convenience of the appro.
priation known as the contingent
fund. Simple.minded folk think that
money is :sed in the service of The
State in some informal. unpublished
way. They will now lenrn better.
The Times, iu its comments, insists
upon a complete reputation of Moses
by the Republican party of the North.
But what will Moses care for that, if
the Republican party of the State take
him up even more warmly on that ac-
count2 The Times may be sure that
Moses is not better nor worse, and not
moro dangerous. than many other so.
called Republican leaders in South
Carolina. The degradation, or re.
moval. even, OF one suoh man, would
have no appreciable, wholesome influ-
ence on affairs here. Moses is the
representative man to-day; dispose OF
him. and the representative man who
succeeds him tomorrow will be no
better. What is to make him better?
Bad infaences are stronger now than
when Moses was elected. What is to
make him better. thenp There is no.
thing here. and the power of the
narfv North ypbsr cok l~,,