The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-08-29

for want of money to buy food. I
went back to South Carolina, whero
I saw field of opportunity spread
wide open to ambition. General
o. o. Howard, thon the head of tho
Frecdman's Bureau, appointed mo
to special agency"
HIS EXPERIENCE WITH TIE CHRISTIAN
"What was your experience with
General Howard 2"
"Well, I found him a high~toncd,
estimablo Christian gentleman.
els that tho general belief among
the colored people of the State 2"
"Not exactly-that is, you know
there arc always soreheads and
complainers. Well, 1 was elected
to q seat in the Constitutional Con-
yention and assisted to frame the
bow Constitution. I had to resign
my position rs special agent to
occupy my seat in the convention,
In 1868 / was elected State Senator
from the Beaufort district. In
1870 L was elected for the short
term Associate Justice of tho Su-
premo Court, end on the expiration
Of my term, in October Of the same
year, L was re elected for six years.
In October, 1876, I was re-clectod
for six years, and in December,
1877, l. resigned"
"Was there not Charge of
drunkenness against you 2"
"Just SO. It was persecution.
Charles S. Minort, q Democrat, was
buying witnesses to say they had
seen me drunk, and 1 resigned, not
knowing hoy far the purchase
might go. And Governor Hamp-
ton said, in accepting my rcsigna
ton, that he placed no belief in the
charges, and that rs a jurist I was
one of the purest."
So much for eX~Associate Justice
Wright's history, and it may
readily bo supposed that such an
experience gave him intimate
knowledge of the carpet-bag rule
in the afflicted State of his adoption.
If such is the case tho ex-Judge
is not making exposures, but he
does speak with remarkable
degree of freedom about some of
the corruption there, and about
Senator'S Patterson, Butler, ey-
Governors Scott, Chamberlain and
Moses, kimpton, the late financial
agent Parker, Owen and ex-State
Treasurer Cardozo. Speaking of tho
fraudulent issue Of tho $4,000, 900
of State bonds he said:
"Therc is no reason to doubt That
Cardozo and Owen carried the
State seal to New York, and the
share that Pauline Markham is said
to have had in affixing the State
seal has boen correctly related by
tho flannel ~mouthed son of Senator
Patterson-Silas, I mean."
"Have you any personal knowl-
odgo about the atfair?"
"No, ! have no personal lnowl-
edge, but it is an accepted fact in
the State, and I have heard it from
pretty direct sources. Oh, YOU
need not press me to tell m ything
more about that. I would only be
repeating what I heard, any way"
HIS VIEWS ON SENATOR PATTERSON.
"Of course you know Senator
Patterson ?"
eyes, sir; but I haven't soon him
since he left the State, and unless
he is brought back there to stand
trial don't expect to soc him thoro
again. Why he has no standing
at al], and his going back depends
worry much upon the arrangements
ho can mako with people there
SWith tho State government 2"
"Not much. Governor Hampton
is not the sort of man to mako
with anybody, al
though Patterson's relations with
Senator M. G. Butler are so init
mato that things look fshy for
justice in Patterson's case. Why,
because of his relations with
Patterson, don't stand any too we'll
with the Democracy Of tho State,
Carolinian though he is.
"Did Mnort have anything to do
with Patterson's election 2"
"Why, certainly. He was to re-
ceiye $4,000 for his vote. He was
in tho Legislature at tho time
Patterson was up for Senator and
he received $4,000 Of that amount.
TO this fact Minort made affidavit.
That's the way Patterson went 70