Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-09
SOUTHERN MISRULE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE New YORK
TINES: No Southern reader of your paper
can fail to accord you sincere thanks for the
manly and direct exposures you have recent
ly made of the wrongs perpetrated by the po-
litical rings that are ruling and running South
Carolina. Although one.fourth of the truth
of that incredible crime e-the misgovernment
of South Carolina-has not yet been told, we
of the South are grateful for every one that
reaches the ear of the country, because we full
ly rely upon the humanity as we'll as the
equity or he country at large, if we can ever
get the testlm>uy Of our case before it. We
are grateful accordingly, to you for giving
your readers so many strong truths in your
case. l feel assured, then> that, you will
allow me to call attention to point or two
bearing upon the matter in the letter of YOUR
special correspondent from Columbia, WHICH
appeared in your Sunday issue of the 21st
instant. Pardon me for promising that I was
resident as citizen OF that State during the
period Of reconstruction-that [ know person
ally most of the actors on both sides, and have
carefully studied the issues made; 80 that
have at least enjoyed opportunities of know
ing something of the matters whereof speak
Your correspondent is stranger to the
State, and in seeking information about
it, went to Moses and Chamberlain-tw men
who have had active participation in the
government that has proved so disastrous and
oppressive. Both of these men have been in
the State ring from the Constitutional Con-
vention down to the present time. Your
readers hardly need to be told who Gov.
Moses is Mr.. Chamberlain helped to inaugu-
rate that government, and was tor four years
the Attorney General Of the State. AS At
torney- General, he was a member, and, of
course, legal adviser, Of the Financial Board,
which consisted of Governor Scott, Treasurer
Parker and himself Through the hands of
this board passed most of the financial opera
tions that have resulted in the ruin that now
astounds the country with its enormity and
infamy. If Mr.. Chamberlain was ignorant
of the frauds, what can be said of his intelli-
gence? If he was aware of them, what can
be said for his honesty? Being Attorney
General, it was his sworn duty to protect the
interests Of the State. Now, seeking informa-
ton about that misgovernment, your cores
poudent has gone to these men. Let me re-
spectfully submit that Messrs. Tweed and
Gennet are hardly the best persons to 60 to for
information about the ring frauds in the city
of New York.
Your correspondent has two leading ends
in view-the one to plead the cause Of the
carpetbaggers, and the other, to abuse the
Democrats. He is aware-for Mr.. Chamber
lain told him so-that the issue there is one
of race the blacks being called Republicans
and the whites being called Democrats. But
Republicansm and Democracy have had
nothing to do with the issue, which has been
one of public plunder under the prostituted
name of the Republican party. Injustice is
done to the whites of the State by your
correspondent when he charges that the
Democrats "are quite as responsible for the
present condition Of affairs as the Republl-
cans and attempts to prove it by showing
the infamy of Mcintyre and others, who have
been the most ultra Republicans in the State
from the beginning. The whites of South
Carolina have less respect for the scalawag-
native thief-than they have for the carpet
bagger-imported thief. And for your cor
respondent to say that, if Chamberlain were