The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-03-09
Too Much Moses.


The State of South Carolina IS too
much blessed with Moseses. The.
Moses family, though it may not have
entirely overwhelmed the State, seems,
to have very thoroughly inundated its
politics. There have been no bad
and ridiculous goings.on in that much,
governed State since the colorod le-
gislator brought his intellect and the
white philanthropist his carpetbag to
boar on reconstruction, that the head
of o Moses has not been bobbing
around on tho surface of. You couldn't
fire into any kind of o ring where
thieving was going on without bring
ing down q Moses. The family ap-
pears to have absorbed pretty much
everything it could lay hold Of It's
tentacles have dropped on everything
that had dollar or chance for q
dollar in it. You couldn't strike sud-
denly with club tho keyhole of
treasury safe anywhere in the State
without breaking two or three fingers
of some members of the Moses family,
Along at tho first of tho South Caro>
lima business, when they had ono of
the Moses family for Governor, wo
mistook him for the lot. IL is not
unlikely that undor this misapprehen-
sion we credited or debited him with
Righteousness and wick edness that
should have boon divided up and ap-
portioned among the rest of the family.
1t did sccm queer, too, that ono man
should exhibit SO much versatility in
stupidtics and doviltries, but VIC
thought hc might be skipjack sort of
creature, who, being just rs fit for one
Office rs another, was holding pretty
much all of them, and improving the
timc. We have since learned that
there arc sevoral Moscsos; how many
we do not know, but enough, enough
And tho whole family, so far as we
can judge from their several political
careers, arc of the direct line. Direct,
if not from the Moses of tho Deliver
ancc, at least from the Moses of Sinai,
who broke tho tables of tho law
These fellows have broken pretty
much all the commandments. What
they havn't broken they havo treated
as tho fellow did the grass he was
hired to now "Well," said he, when
asked if he had finished moving, "Pve
cut down the most ont, and the rost
I've beat and banged so't won't livo."
The South Carolica House of Re-
personalities impeachod ono of these
Moseses on Tuesday. This one is u
Judge of the Circuit Court, and is
described as the brother of Chief
Justice Moses and tho unclo of OK
Governor Moses. Look ye now, re-
spectacle connections arc uncommonly
handy things to have in tho house, !.
SEQ this now: they impeach tho Cir
cult Judge for applying trust funds
to his own use;" or some such thing;
that, wo believe, is the way it is de-
fined in tho Dispatch" convoy tho
wise it call-and tho Circuit Judge
says, "Why, Pm the brother of tho
Chief Justice and tho uncle of the OK
Governor" Whom they catch the
ox>Governor in q "conveyanco" ho
says, "Why, Pm the son of the Chief
Justice and tho nephew of tho Circuit
Judge" And go it goes. Woll, they
arc nice lot, thoso Mosesos. They
arc rcscuing race down thero, we
presume. Thoy seem to bo leaders,
lawgivors and ers-stand-and-
delivor~ers. They may make some
mistake in the matter OF loading and
lawgiving, but in tho business Of des,
polling the Egytians they moro than
filed the bill. We do not know that
the existence of the Moses family con-
ccrns anybody outside tho State of
South Carolina. We havo been n>
terestod somewhat in observing it's
ramifications as successive exposures
of political and personal rascality de>i
vclopod thom. Wo arc not quite sure
wo havo got tho family together yet.