The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-02-11
What Thad Andrews has to say about
l.. CaSS Carpenter.

thAn9 moro III your columns III repl
to- the editorial Of Mr.. Carpenter. IL
seeks to advertise his bastard sheet a
any sadridco. With no object exccp
personal gain and with no characte
orpsrsona! responsibility, he socks t.
force his paper into circulation by
system of brazen cfl'rontcry and false
hood, which is only equallod by tho
oownrdioe of tho bastard, and tho
cunning of tho sneak thief. feel
therefore, that you publish this card
ut some loss, and l feel also.a natu.
raj loathing in coming before the
public in controversy with such q
man.
At warmly as I welcomc the Nor.
thern man, and as freely as / have
served him whenever | could, suoh n
man as Carpenter is disgrace to the
Bravo and honorable section from
which he escaped "a bane and snare
to an impoverished people, and
almost tho ruin OF our. struggling
Sttte."h Coming down horo as poor as
church mouse, and by no means as
respectable, he distinguished him.
self as a Republican. and wormcd
himself into the deceucy of the Char
lesion Daily Republican.
have NOT cared 70 examine his
caroor any moro than I would care to
follow tho trail of u snake, but if my
recollection is right he crawclcd into
tho favor of the then administration,
aud into tho Printing Company, of
which have heard Mr.. Denny was
the chief, and merged with the Daily
Union, (which was built upon The ruins
of the Daily Republican. The viper
has stunX the hosom That nursed it.
Hc has. now returned to tho same
building, as the dog returns to his
yomit, the hog to his wallow. The
Union tiourishcd in. the days of the
armed force fund ,, when men could
drag an innocent people through tho
slime Of corruption and public
wrong, which has outraged the high
tono Of the Republican admiuistrn.
ton ut Washington, broken the
credit of our people and iusultod her
proud name all over tho American
continent. No man did moro than
Carpen ter to deceive the loyalty of
the Republicans of the State to
plunge his Iobber hand iuto the pub.
lio funds up to the armpits to en-
bitter and Influence the passions and
prejudices of tho races, first to in
creusc tho brutal aud horrible OUT
RACES Of the Internal ku klux, and
then to cry out for the just vengeance
of the United Statos. The files of
the defunct Union in your Office will
show that Carpenter supported every
measure that has since boen rcproba-
tod by the party, and corrected, in
great part, ,hy'the present Legislature.
No man is moro responsible than he,
for the trouble in which We are to.
day, from which hope, in due time,
our glorious party Will be delivered.
Whatever Of wrong there is, was done
while. no, urged, and sustained it. ms
editor and proprietor Of the only Re.
publican daily in the State. lie
suld his paper because he was, as he
admitted, losing money every day,
for the. good sense of tho people had
spowed it out Of their mouths. The
best proof Of his public robbery is ito
evident results. Emigrating here
without a dollar, and, without an &C.
cupatiop, he staFtedv n newspaper,
without, scarcely, a subscription list,
aud with very little bona fide adver-
tisements. In q short while he own
ed II fine house, nagniicently fur.
nishel, fine carriage and horses,
kept open house every Saturday
Knight in order TO manufacture. ii so.
cial position among those" who aro at
once the orn ln,cnt and guard Of the
Erepublic, scattered his campaigne and
wines in profusion, and went off trav'
cling to Europe, while the poor ,peo-
pie, whom he had betrayed and plum.
lcred, we're walking in rags about his
splendid house, or begging bread for
I,their wives and childron in the streets.
No Legitimate newspaper. business
could make that mouey. During tho
last election, he. failed to get tho
nomination for congressman at largo
in the Boiling Convention, and took
the last dollar out OF the treasury of
tho regular Republicans before he
would put tho ticket at tho head Of
bis columns. lie tneaked, by the
mere scoidcnt Of ono vote, into the
City Council, and AZ chairman of the
committee Of ways and means, his
record is yet to be written. Before
he went to Europe, hs counted among
his otl&r ill~gotten gains, as he told
me, some $4,000 of State papers
He has now returned, and attempted
to steal property, which my bill oI
sale will show, distinctly and. ex-
pressly bought. He has done So for
the purpose of running for tho mayor.
! atty, and swindlihg somebody with
tho idea that the support Of tho
Union for Governor is Of. any value.
He cannot get. a nomination oven for
alderman Of his own ward. No lon.
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