Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1877-02-24
RING OF TIE TRUE HAN.
DoS plArr on TIE ,,orHyrr.oSs or
TIE HEruElIcAS PARTY y
l'I.A1N STATEMENT OF TIE VII
I.iANY OF RET TuESING BOARDS.

iLAfN cTATEMENT OF TIE VII
IiANY OF RET uESlNt; BOARDS.
For writing and publishing The
following truths, Don i'iatt, or the
Washington Capital, has been indie,
ted. Grant is going from bad TO
worse. For Il while he would not be.
licvc Il man who told the truth, but
now tic hydrophohiad hound wants
him who dared to speak it punished.
The Grand Jury found a true bill
against Piatt on Wednesday last and
he was held to answer in bond Of
$4,000, which was promptly furnished.
Here is the article.
"The sickening apprehension felt by
the people, to which we referred last
week, that the Supreme Court would
be found as rotton rs The other
powers of our unhappy government,
has been realized.
The swift decay that in the last ten
years has made our self-govcrnmont
Al sham AID Il mockcry, and in the
executive and legislative branches
sham,d us before the world, has been
silently working its way through the
judiciary. until now, III It's first trinl
il oficnds with lis stencil The nostriIs
of all honest citizens.
The appeal made to Judges Of the
Supreme Cour from Tie people, sore
~ distressed and pcrpleNcd, wcs to
save them from the wicked conspiracy
Of men they had rcpudiated at the
polls. They saw their iai,hless agents
for years robbing the treasury Of their
hard-carn taxes; they saw heir
highest officials indicted for the
meancst crimes: they saw PRESIDENT,
coarse, brutal and ignorant, appoint
ing sycophantic pinIps 10 the highest
positions; they saw him the associate
Of ruughs and the commissioner Of
thieves; they saw carpet baggers sus-
taincd by hayonets manipulating the
polls, that Ignorance and rascaity
might tyranize over the South they
saw rings organized in the lob by n
troll their Congress; they saw huge
monopolies created by their govern
mcnt eating out their substance; they
saw themselves reduced to want. trade
paralyzch and labor without employ,
and they made DESPERATE effort to
right Their wrongs tilreagh the ballot
With Il subsidized press against
them, with iii army ot' hungry Office
holders, that, counting those Of the
general government With those Of the
States, make horde Of treasury
eaters greater than any standing
army Of Europe withall til, nccumu.
lated capital in the hands Of mono
poles arraycd OH the side ofthcir op-
pressors--thcy made one dcspairing
effort, and came up from the polls
with n majority Of over half Il million
in their behalf And Of what avail?
Through dishonest returning
board. made up Of criminals who have
escaped conviction and punishment
under t e protecting arm Of Il cor
rupt government, enough votes ar c
thrown out to render all their efforts
vain and saddle upon them the Old
corruption and old horde for another
term Of years perhaps forever.
From this IN appeal was taken to
five Justices Of the Supreme Court
for that, no more and no less, was til c
con,ission created. 1t was believed
that by such process the question at
issue, being q charge Of conspiracy
against certain corrupt men, could be
lifted from the political arena to q
tribunal Of high.toned, impartial
judges, who would decide in accord
ancc with law and justice.
To the amazcmcnt and disgust Of