The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-08
Ex-LAND CoMM1ss1oN,El,1n,; LESLIE HEARD .

Ex-LAND COMMISSIONER LESLIE HEARD
FRoM.-Representative C. P. Leslie, of
Barnwell, is 'riled." Like General
Boum. he cries out, ".Bring me to the
enemy" The following characteristic
letter hns been received from tho ire
pfessible:
. FAIR HAVEN, n. j. JUNE 3, 1875.
I EDITOR OF THE DAILY PHOENIX, CoLuM-
B1A, S. c.: Just about the time I fairly
got set down here in Jersey, trying to
say my prayers and thanking God that
things were no worse, hero came an AS
! socinted Press despatch, saying had
dbScondel to avoid arrest, &C., &C., and
that I defrauded the State out of the
Lord only knows how much. Bail just
s44O, 900, (why didn't he make it eyen-.say
one-half million?) Only think of it. I
ncvor knew I was 80 bad. expected to
500 further along in the despatch where
majority of the Advisory Board were
already in custody, for you know with
ont they ordered the purchase it was no
GO; they were boss-and yet, / defrauded
the State. Now that's the man I have
been looking for all these five years
have been out of Office. Who is the
man that should Arst throttle the great
land commission swindle, and Leslie
the great swindler? say, who is the
man? There is n trifing rascal down in
Barnwell; he don't pny for the whiskey
he drinks; rather of theatrical gentle
man, rather light wasted; perfectly dis
gusted with me, and out of patience
with nll Radicals except himself Can it
be he? Can it be? think it cnn; for it
reads just like he wrote it. I am sorry
for the State, because it is bad enough to
beat and rob the dear old State out of
about the last cent, and perhaps never
recover it back, without being made n
fool of. Everything fnils he touches; if
he advises you to go this way, then the
history of the last ten years OF his life is,
you should have gone the other way,
certain; If he tells you he is sure to do
certain thing, depend upon it, he will
fail. think this be he that intends to
throttle me. Well, here you will find
no is wrong, at the very moment when
he thinks he is right. :.
They have got the bail SO high that I
nm afraid there is not men enough in the
whole State to qualify. Who fixed TINT
arc bail2 1 expect he, too, is IN earnest
and Jealous Republican. would like
to help elect few more of the same sort
that ID, would like to go all lengths to
do 30, providing he is respectable. I
suppose he was satisfied from the look of
the papers that about $40, 600 WAS about
the right thing. Now, MIR. Editor,
can't think took that much, for oil we
had WAS $780, in bonds, and then we
had to buy little land to keep for ap-
pearance sake. That took some money,
and you know it would be just little
unfair to say got all that was left. Per-
haps might have come close on it, if it
hadn't been for the advisory gentlemen;
and then I am caught now, for they
swear every one Of them they got not one
cent. I expect, after oil, got it. O
what bad man I am. Absconded-
cleared out-run away.
My dear Editor, will face the music
like man, and will clean out that
whole concern-lock, stock and barrel.
They must not lower the bail Keep it
up to high water mark Everybody that
eyer was Republican must be arrested.
That's the watch-word now; particularly
if they are in the way of some one else.
This learns us another lesson-stick n
pin in there.
When am there, they are not happy.
When am gone, they say I hnve nb-
seconded. am, respectfully, yours, at
present. G. p. LESLIE.
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There was grim humor in the reply