The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-09-08

are Prlncipalty montionedin Tho act
passed Teferenoeto tho celebration
of the Nations Anniversary.
Now, while steam engines and
Sowing machines may tell foreign
tyisitorsJ bsY- wotrpu thugs on this
side Of tho Atlantic, yet the world at
large should be Informed how we have
maintained and practioed tho,prinoi.,
p'cs upon which our govern 'nent is
ffodndeds IA" platform, might /. be.
orcctcd for Morton, of Indiana, from
which to tell tho assembled multitude
what great things have been done id
America since tho nous tea was
thrown overheard SITo could tell
how a League, has become u Nation
how State rights areruo rights at, all,
how paper money, which Che Govern.
ment Gay her citizons must take as,a.
legal tender forf,aetStss,, tut,yhich She
oapnot afford to take for duties GU
fi:fports; oetcsii, as good ast gold and
silver. h"ooho, houm tva. ais z..,
rIhHs'oo IH' oosutrage mill, Attorney Genor-
al Williams, patoptos, could pe ex.
blbited rs an invention to catch tic
dreams ande thoughts of disloyaIty,
and convert them into overt acts. D..
Thifs, pioce Of machinery of govern.
ment would exotic tho attention of all
tho subjeots of Russia, Austria and, g,
Prussia, and they could tell, on thoir
oturn what a novel way they have
in America of finding out treason.
Stephens, Of Georgia, will doubtless
ba pro 'ent, and could we'll represent
the South and the Government as i.
was and should DO. But his idoas on
the nature of our political institu-
tions, so simply and oandidly display.
cd in his "War betweon tho States,"
would not probably suit the 90 ,asion
They would bo consigned to the
Revolutionary relic department to
keep company with Continental cooked
hats and knee pants
| Tho South could make no exhibition
Of political progress. Sho hos been
stationary in original principles of our
government. She is being reconstruct.
ed. The builders selected under the act
Of Congress have not 'yot Fashioned hor
for the national tcmplc---they aro not
skilled architects and would not wish
to show their unfinished handiwork.
She would do better to contine her.
solf to "thosc arts which," in a III ate.
! lial Yankee sense, "bonefit mankind. :"
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Tho People against the City of Co.
iubia
| Last Friday and Saturday Judge
Muokey heard in Chambers in Coz
iumbia a petition brought by Il. j.
Scott Esq, in bohalf of the taxpayers
against tho citycouucil of Columbia,
for an injunction to proven. the
council from increasing the indoLt-
odncss of the city. The complaint
shows that on tho 18th of March
1872 an act was passed authorizing
tho city council 70 issue bonds from
time to timoto an amount not OK.
cecding 100000, "it being thereby
Intended that the whole indebted.
nos thereof, whether by bonds or
otherwise shall DO at no time in.
creased beyond the said sum Of
100000" That Mt meeting Of
citizens on tho 30th November 1874
o committee was appointed to cx
amino into the affairs Of tho city
council, that by them sub-commi.-
tee were appointed who had accoss
to tho books, but that those books
f. were so badly kept that nothing
GOULD DO learned from them. =.
\ That tho plaintiff and other
citizens, mpdo 2 written domand on
| tho council nfor an exhibit Of tie
Gnanoial condition of Columbia, that
a promise Of auoh exhibit was
promised but that though several
mouths have elapsed, no such cxr
hibit has been made. That the
7 books and records in possession of the
said council show that sinco March
1872 tho debt has beon largely in-
creased that it had reached tho limit
prescribed in February 1874 and
| that on tho 3oth Of April 1874 had
reached the sun of $6l9,OoO, and
that on lst August 1875 it reached
The sum Of $70o,0OO. o..
That thcre are $4,000 Of isdgmen,s
against tho city and the treasury IA
empty, and that for thoso debts OK.
cceding tho limit, certificates of in.
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