The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-08-28
SOUTH CAROLINA'S CHARMING GOV
ERNOR.
judiciary

We gave ou1y OlIO NoS ~ IuC Ivy
rendezvous, called the 'Summer
Capital" by the salt sea, waves, and
returned to New York. On our way
back we fell in with Il gentleman from
South Carolina, who, although a carpet
Dagger, was very decent sort of IL
man. He gave us what would have
been an amusing account of affairs in
that State had it not been SO horrible.
This man Moses, the Governor of the
State, has committed every crime
known to the calendar except murder.
His reign is a carnival of crime. Rest
ing upon Il mass of ignorant,. brutal
blacks, elections have ceased to exist,
and offices are openly sold for money.
There is no part of Africa or the wiltls
of South America, no island in the
West Indies, where such Il beastiy state
of affairs exists. Moses has not only
his family in places where they can
plumber with impunity, but an army of
worthless, unprincipled retainers, who,
rs chiefs Of the negro league, march the
negroes out to vote as cattle are led to
water or labor. He does not hesitate,
however, to prey upon his own family
if occasion serves. lie hal made his
cousin Inspector of PhOsphates ut Il
heavy satary-an Office Of as much sig
niticance IT'S if he had made him high
custodian OF the Governors boot Jack,
and he bled the young man to such an
extent that One-half of his salary was
taken by his Excellency. Notwith-
stadding this, he called upon his cousin
for a thousand dollars. The Inspector
of Phosphntes hurried nround-wc
believe it is called s.shinning" in Wall
street-and, borrowing the thousand
dollars, duly paid over the same. The
<(.,xr to bic Ssttn Il
found himself removed from the lucr;t-
tive business of inspecting phosphatcs,
and n man put in who had paid twenty
five hundred dollars for the Office.
On another occasion he took a fancy
to Il likely mulatto girl, and although
| slavery has been, we are assured, abnl-
! ishcd, and the emancipation procl,ma-
ton Is celebrated with music and ban
ners, the Governor offered II thousand
dollars for the dusk y piece of loneliness,
and, horrible as it seems, the mother
accepted or rather agreed to the price
Subsequently this potcntatc either
repentcd of rendering SO large sum.
or probably not having it at the time,
he managed to make the girls acquaint-
ance, drove her about in his carriage,
and ended in saving the heavy eNpcndi-
ture. The fact coming to the knowl-
edge of the mother, there was Il South
Carolina Tiiton- Beecher scandal created
all the facts getting into the Journals of
the State. They did not seem to disturb
His EXcellency.
! Gov. Moses is Il gorgeous gentleman,
rather handsome in his personal APP
pearnnce, reminding one of Lester
Wallack-well, rather a corn-fed Wal
! lack, and resembling more the huge
col0rcd wood-cuts of that celebrated
actor than the actor himself. Like his
| ilIustrious chief, Gen. Grant, Moses
seeks relaxation from the cares of State
But instead of going to a Long Branch,
he comes to New York. There is great
excitement and rejoicing among the
ladies of the pave and the "gay gam
boilers" when it is known he is in town.
He generally takes Il suite Of rooms at
the Metropolitan, with n large rctinue
of humble followers, whose time is oc
cupied in procuring interviews with
their magnificent master and the fairest
of girls to be found in certain localities
of this great metropolis. On this oc-
casions he filings money about in the
most lavish manner. He has been
known to pay for entertainments at the
rate of Il thousand dollars 4 day.
| We could fill our journal with choice
stories of this sort concerning our South
Carolina Turk. And this is RECONSTRUCT
ton; and let us paint it an inch thick.
to this favor must it come ut last. Built