The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1875-07-16
s6er Gorgeous Flower Of RAD
4 Reeonstruotion!

pUfsc OF our late very dull sale
an event worthy Of notice, it was
Coroner Carroll as Sheriff of Edge
S. This official made his appearance
fdst n week ago, and, as provided by
bred upon the duties lately discharged
.Sherf Wall, resigned. He comes, we
Te, from the mountain Businesses of Saludn.
n negro, quite black, apparently about
years, OF. age, is decidedly rustic in gait
and raiment, and has good countenance. 1t
is said that he is as unlcttcrcd any lIottentot
that ever brought beads into Cape Town. As
Sheriff, Of course he must conduct the Sheriff s
sales. At twelve NJ, therefore, he mounts the
court house steps and, in strange tone and par
lance, summons an audiepcc. The audience is
not slow to gather, fo<4t6is scented upon the
tainted breeze. issfS knows that tainted lie
the word, Whites and 6egrocs rush to the
spot. And now Sheriff Carroll waves an Ad-
vertser with graceful semi-circular flourish
and says: "Genilemuns, how much am offered
for dis fifty acres ob land?' Here MIR. John
j.. Addison modcstly explains from the foot of
the steps that the defendant wishes further time,
and that he rs plaintiffs attorney, is willing
and requests that the sale be discont nued. of
this, the acting High Sheriff understands not a
single syllable, and, raising his voice higher,
again says: "Gcntcmuns, how much is offered
fur dis fifty acres oh land ?" The crowd smiles
A voice says: Twenty-Five cents.
The High Sheriff again says: "Gentcmuns,
how much is offered for dis fifty oh lanl?''
a voice says Fifty cents. The crowd snggers
and wags hs head. The yellow boy from Ohio,
who stands behind the Sheriff, on the topmost
step, with an open account book and pencils
reminds one of the ambitious but unfortunate e
youth Of Longfcllow's Excelsior" Again the
High Sheriff says: "Gentlcmuns, How much is
offered fur dis fifty acres ob land How much?
How littlc?' The crowd explodcs, with loud
report, right and left. The High Shcriffs eyes
become two saucers, and his good naturcd face
assumes the expression of q scared rabbit. lie
casts an expiring look upon John Jones, the
little yellow boy who is Clerk of the Court, his
prcceptor, and wrings the Advertiser into lean
wisp. We feel deeply humiliated to see what a
lean and dirty wisp it can be wrung into =
Jesse has taught him according to his light
Jessc's lights and of course the tuition is
feeble and unavailing. The crowd shricks
screams, kicks Nothing SO ludicrous has been
seen in Edgefcld within The memory of man =
And now stage fright seizes upon the High Shcr-
iff, and he plunges madly down the lofty stone
steps and is quickly hid i'm the lower bowels OF
the court house. Oh, those bowels. What dc
they not Hide in these days! Oh that dirty
and incXorable NAV of Radical reconstruction
The yellow boy from Ohio plungcs after the
High Sheriff, and is also received into those
screening and plying bowels. Jesse enters into
the NAV and is swallowed up. The myrmidons
all enter into the maw and play with corruption
And the crowd continues to shrek, scream and
kick
But under this irresistible hilarity--amona
the white people-thcrc is a deep feeling of in,
dgnatiop and disgust-of unspeakablc humilia
tion-of very intense shame-that We have
come to this, and must put up with it, Scott
Chamberlain, Moses, Carpenter, Runkle, Ell al
CT Al. ad intinitum, high and low, small and great
in the past and in tho present. Out upon the
whole set of dirty and alien thieves Out upon
the disgusting and sycophantic twaddlc that is
now marking great part of the press of South
Carolina. Out upon everybody and everything
in the rernotcst connection with such an Internal
state Of dcvitry