Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-31
NEAGLE'S WAY.
A Bold CarPet.Ba=ger Comes 80 Grief

A Bold CarPet.Basger Comes so Grief
Chicago Tribune, (Administration.)
1t is not often that anything good
comes out of South Carolina, the Naza-
reth of American politics, but that re-
gion has at last sent some glad tidings.
There is a person by thenameof Neagle,
who was Comptroller General of the
State in the days when every intruder
filed his carpet-bag with bonds, and
stocks, and brides, and things. This
especial intruder, unless he has been
most sadly beEed, improved all his OPP
portunities with such zeal that it be.
came grave matter of doubt whether
his pocket book or his conscience was
most heavily burdened. While Moses
was Governor, Neagle, who was Just
then taking care of the Richland Coun-
ty Treasury, got great many faTors
from the State administration. This
excited a good deal of wonder,
for the Governor and the ex-Comp-
troller General were scarcely on speak
ing terms. 1t turnedout, however, that
Neagle was In the habit OF exhibiting
a knife to Moses and expressing an ar
dent desire to carve certain designated
organs, as the heart, the lungs, or the
liver, out of the Gubernatorial body.
Moses, unlike his great namesake in
this as In all other points, was cow
ard. So when Neagle said: eff you
refuse me this, you'd better write an
order for frst-class coffin to your IN
dertaker,'' Moses would reply: MY
dear Neagle, nothing is further from
my thoughts than a refusal; take any
thing you want" This foible Of the
Governor became known, and other
men played upon his pitiable fears In
the same way There is a story current
in South Carolina of a creditor who
chased Moses from Charleston to Column
bia, forced his way into the Executive
Mansion, and got note for SIS 900 paid
bysimply laying his pistolon the table be-
fore the quivering Gubernorial nose and
saying: "Do you see that? Well"
The frightful ellipsis after well" pro-
duced the cash at once. When Cham
berlain became Governor, he found
Neagle still Treasurer of r chland
county. Thereupon, without much
ado, he removed bin, giving hun there
by gratifying proof of the sincerity
of his promise to atone for the faults
of his past career. Neagle transform
ed himself into a walking arsenal. pam
oplied with reyolvers and begirt with
knives, and called upon Chamberlain.
Before he had had time to half get
through the stock of threats before
which the craven Moses had been wont
to wilt, the Governor put him, not into
the Office from which he had ousted
him, but into jail 1t was some time
before he could get the $4,000 bond to
keep the peace which the law exacted.
Neagle is forlorn now. His hopes of
future peeulation are gone. He has
come to grief. There is a delightful
chance of his emigrating to one of the
Southern Reprblics. 1t is understood
that a man with his wits about him can
steal comfortable iing there, but
then the residents have an ugly habit
of occasionally DIR piping their rulers
from church towers or boiling them in
oil. Neither of these methods of be-
coming an angel appeals strongly to
Neagle's tastes. He ought not, how
ever, to be too fastidious. IL French
man has made himself King Of Pata-
gonis and sold a lot of Patagonian
bonds on the Paris Bourse, an Ameri-
can, and especially a Neagle, ought to
be able to absorb all South America
and construct a second range of the
Andes with the unpaid coupons of the
Government bonds he sells to his dupes.
Let Neagle leave his country for his
country's good.