The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-03-09
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E4 DoudieiDistialed Essence Of Edito-
rial Aqua Fftis-Prepare for tie Begin-
hing Of the End
The sickening apprehension felt by the
people, to which we referred last week, that
the Supreme Court would be found as rot
ten as the other powers of our unhappy gov
ernment, has been realized.
The swift decay that in the last ten years
has made our selfgovernment a sham and
mockery, aud in the executive and legisa-
tive branches shamed us before the world,
has been silently working its way through
the lS.S.claiE pptill nov, in lie fret tgialxie
'cnes9zssN VIM 9ts stencil the nostrils of all
horest citizens.
The appeal made to judges of the Su-
prcme Court from the people, sorey dis
tressed and pcrplexed, was to save them
from the wicked conspiracy of men they
had repudiated at the polls. They saw
their taithless agents for years robbing the
treasury of their hardearned taxes; they
saw their highest officials indicted for the
meancst crimes; they Saw President,
coarse, brutal and ignorant, appointing syco-
phantic rimps to tho highest positions they
saw him the associate of roughs and the
commissioner of thieves; they saw carpet
baggers, sustained by bay onets, manipula-
ting the polls, that ignorance and rascality
might tyrannze over thesSouth; they saw
rings, organized iu the lobby, control their
Congress; they saw huge monopolics, cre-
ated by their government, eating out their
substance; they saw themselves reduced to
want, trade paralyzed and labor without en-
ploy, AMI they made a desperate effort to
right their wrongs through the ballot.
With a subsidized press against them,
with an army of hungry otfice-holdcrs, that,
counting those Of the General Government
with those Of the States, make horde of
treasuary caters greater than any standing
army of Europe; with all the accumulated
capital in the hands of mouopolies arraycd
cn the side Of their opprcssors--they made
one dcspair:ng effort, aud came up from the
poll with majority of over half II million
in their behalf And Of what avail
Through a dishonest returning board.
'ufduc up .. 5IlpaB B-wHo navc eSvnpcd
conviction and punishment under the pros
tccting arm ola corrupt government, enough
votes are thrown out to render all their ct-
forts vain aud saddle upon them the old
corruption and old horde for another term
of years-perhaps forever.
From this an appeal was taken to five
justices Of the Supreme Court-for that, nc
more and no less, was the Commission ere
ated. 1t was believed that by such process
the question at issue, being charge of con
spiracy against certain corrupt men, could
be lifted from the political arena to a tribu
nal of hiSh-toned, impartial judges, wnc
would decide in accordance with law auC
justice.
To the amazcmcnt and disgust of al
thoughtful minds, these Justices divided, al
the partisans had, on political line, ant
three indecent old men joined with til,
enemies cf the people in fixing corruption
upon us, and destroying all confidence il
the very foundation of our political struc
turc, the ballot. They decide that fraut
does not vitiate, and beyond this, that the,
have nothing to decide, and SO send tn
question to the people.
We have not the patience to argue wha
the people in their broad common sense will
not consider; the ine-spun legal technical
ties under which these aged scoundrels seel
to hide their shame. Their real brief is t
be found in the utterance of one of thci
Commission, James A. Garfield, who said
boastingly: you'll have to grin and bea
it; we hold the cards and intend to pla
them."o.s ..-
Poor political gambler The stakes 70
which he plays are the rights of forty mil
lions Of people, the peace and prosperity q
the only Republic known to humanity
For all that frecnien hold most dear thes
hands, stained with plunder, gamble, as tn
soldiers of Plate severed in division tn
garment of the crucifed Christ.
AS we said week since, this is not law
it is revolution; and if the people tamel
submit We may bid long farewell to col
! stitutional government. Fraud no longe
! vitiates. A corrupt administration has OF
Ely, by its bayonets to.hold State usurp
tion long enough in power for corruI
returning bosrd to do its vile task, and I'll
work is done.