The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-02
the equities both of the people and of the

the equities both of the people and of the
creditors.
Again, this unknown critic shows an
ignorance of the position assumed by us
in our speech on this subject, for our ar
gument was based in part on the failure
to obtain Kimpton's testimony, which
rendered the States case incomplete, and
it was therefore the Legislatures busi-
ness TO prevent a decree from going
against the State on insufficient evidence.
The editorials to which this correspon-
dent, who wishes to SANDER without CIV
ing his name, refers, were published on
or before the first day of August, while
the failure to secure Kimpton did not
occur until some time in September, and
whatever might have been our views
about the Bond Court before that time,
this occurrence was of itself sufficient to
induce us to vote against the Court, for
we believe that q combination OF bond
holders was formed to keep kimpton's
testimony from being had, because they
feared the effect which the production OF
the documentary evidence in his posses
sion would have on their claims. But
whether he was kept away in this man.
ner or not, the fact is his testimony was
absent, and the State could not safely
rest her case without it. 1t is true the
acknowledgements in the decision of the
Bond Court have been favorable to the
people, but the decision rests upon law
and not upon the facts; or in other
words, the decision is based upon the
legal rights of the parties, and not upon
the absolute merits of the case. The
decision does not 60 into the character
of any bond, but only decides that the
State has the right to investigate it, and
we only fear that before the case gets
through the Supreme Court of the State
and of the United States, the people
will see that those of US who advocated
the abolition of the Court were right.
The charge of inconsistency, as based
on the position we occupy, is trivial,
even if the two foregoing reasons did not
justify us, for men frequently change
their opinions upon public measures in
all sincerity, and with very great advan-
tage to all concerned; and in this par
ticular measure many Senators and Rep
resentatives who voted last year to estab-
lish this Court voted as we did in the
last session to abolish it, and they were
as good and pure men as any in the
Legislature.
1t is hardly necessary that we should
notice the mean insinuations at the close
of the article quoted, for the readers of
/ the INTELLIGENcER are too we'll ac-
quainted with its Editors record for any
charges like these to be believed. We
are content to let the action of the Dem
ocratic party of the County in making
the Editor of this paper its County
Chairman, and in electing him to the
Legislature by the highest vote in the
primary election, say whether he ha,
been inconsistent in his political princi-
Piles. And now in conclusion We will
say that We pronounce the insinuations
at the close of this article as false as
they are malicious and uncalled for, and
at the same time we ask this unknown
writer to unmask himself, and over his
own signature in the INTELLIGENcER,
to point cut to the people of this County,
whose representative we are, the particu-
lars wherein we have been derelict to
any public trust, or false to any political
principle. 1t is easy enough to make
charges where one can do so without be.
ing known, and We invite this writer, il
he be gentleman, to place his state
ments concerning our political course
before the people with the influence Of
his name in support thereof.