The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-28
POOR SOUTH CAROLINA /!

The New York Times has been about the
1nly enc of the great Eastern dalies that has
show of permanent loyalty to
Grant and the republican party. Yet that
naDrr is Obliged 10 cave on the southern
nrcstion, and to admit that radical recon |
s,ruction in the south has been a miserable
and disgraceful failure. \ system under
,yhich the present condition Of Louisiana has |
been made possible; under which Mississippi
has lust elected steamboat porter to the L.
: Senate because his skin is black; and un
der which the scandalous scenes IN the present
South Carolina legislature are permitted TOT
occur; mus; in its aggregate and detail Del
wholly bad Says the Times;
The Leg, stature of South Carolina is ap-I
narcntlv a gang of thieves, intent only upon
nlundering the people whom it is supposed
10 serve Long practice has made the iegls-
laturc Of She state perfected system OF OH,
randage. Ignorant negroes, Nnhsnlhh'ea
from the cotton fields to the halls OF the CAPT
toll, whcCc they have been drilled by uhSciu'
pulous white adventures, have NATURALLY
made 3 mOclIcrv of government, and bank
rupted The state II is not surprising that
such LEGISLATORS, representing constituencies
drbssed by a long period of vassalage, and
under such tutcagc, should have displayed
an ingenuity in fraud which has no parallel
in history
BIZ way of illustrating the character OF the
"brigands" by whom South Carolina is now
ruled, the following literal report of a debate
on the salary appropriation bill in the house
lis given. The speakers are tie leading mem
bers of the house of representatives, and the
question was whether the house appropria-
ton bill or the senate bill should be passed;
Bowley. Uhe colored chairman Of the com
Inittee on ways and means) Every year the
senate has managed to get the house under
their control, by holding the salary approprl
alton bill in their hands. AS matters stand
the house rather has the senate at dlsadvan.
tage, and propose to keep them so.
Green (colorcd) The members OF the house
are needy and can't 20 into fight with the
senate, which is composed Of men of means,
and who could afford to fight it out on this
line if it took all summer.
! lIumbcrt (cOlorrd:) | dcspsc such WiShy-
washy way of doing things.
| Smith (ColOrcd0 / rant aug m0aeN and am
ready to compromise with the senate IN order
/ TO get it at once.
| Mackey: What is the cause of the wonder
! full change in the opinion of ccrtain members
! 1t can be readily understood, when it is re-
/ mcmbered that the senate bill provides tor
nearly $4,000 for jacjdeRtGl expenses. The
bill is nothing more than a grand larceny
scheme.
After some further debate the house took
up the appropriation fer The penltentlary
which Mackcy moved to reduce from 500, 0OL
l., The lpal n ,rnnprul iptul ppnr
| in biliingsgate:
! Minort (colored:) The proposed approprl
alton is not a whit toe large.
| Humbert (colOred) The institution ough
to be self-sustaining. The member only
,rdatS 4 graf at the money.
! Hurley Coming to Minort's relict) Mr.
Speaker, rise
Humbert 60 Hurley3 You shd goor u,oqt
SAT-! LRoars of laughter
! Green (colored:) That thief from Darling
ton CA delicate allusion to lIumbcrt)
Iumbert: IF have robbed anything | eX
pect to be kukluxcd by just such highlcd.
robbers as the member (Green) from Beaufort
| If | get in the pGnitcntiGsy, | won't ask 70
$6j,000 to support me.
! Green Ito Hurlcy) You know as mucl
about it as You do about the governor
contingent fund.
Hurley: At least no one has been able q
ever attempted to retute my charges againS
THE governor, and his eNcCllency will no
dare deny them.
Green (colored3 No, Bat if the GOverno
were not such coward he would have COW
lided you before this, or got somebody els
10 do it,
Hurley: If the gentleman from Bcaufor
Green would dll0o tie GedP0A named to b
isljced from his c1riclc, | might submit to tn
castigation.
on Thursday, Green, Who had probabl.
seen his excellency in the interval, proceed
e ed TO explain that he did not mean TO say tina
s Moses was a coward, thus:
Green (rislng to a question Of privilege
. 1t was not the governor to whom referred
| but his aid, What | said was, that If tn
4 governors aids were not towards they woul'
L have Cowhid"l Hurley, and ii | were mem
{ Der OF the goN ornOr's staff | would have don
it betora this
! Hurley rising To a counterquestion o
l. privilege Nobody on the governors staff
nobody he could put ON there, not tn
doughty gentleman from Beaufort, nor tn
I valiant governor himself, dare undertake I,
, cOwhidc me.
This is The usual style in which the bust
ness Of iaWmaking and money grabbing i
conducted in the South Carolina legislature
f The radical members call each other thieves
liars and rascals, without any provocatiOn
: and do not appear to have any idea that they
are insulting anybody or that they are no
telling the gospel truth. Roars of laughte
= on the part of the house, and IN increased
assumption of peanuts follow these oul
pourlngs of iSh-fag rhetoric; but for ia,
honest citizens OF the state the farce threatens
to have tragic ending.
The Times meekly concludes that il is th'
} duty of the radical party to root out tines,
, evils rs fast as il can The negroes" 1t says
: seem to be convinced that their proceeding
have the sympathy and support of the Re
+ publican party and of the administration. TIT
! first thiDg 10 be done is to urdeceive them Oh
this point" II will take a good many year
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