The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-04

| couo the easy prey OF tue WOrst elements
OF the more intelligent white race and made
to serve their villainous schemes of plunder
and spoliation Th, story of how their su.
perstitious nature was appealed to how
their passions were aroused aud their preiu.
dices excited how the "leprous poison" of
hate was poured into their ears by the
northern adventurer and southern renegade
until they were made to believe that their
former owners aud the whole southern
people were their worst enemies, and only
waited for an opportunity to re. enslave them,
has turdened the press, wearied the ear,
and made the heart, sick fer years past
3Eottk skoisna, 6y reason of the large
uumerical msjority'of its black voters Of.
people, the most inviting field for the en-
terprising operations Of these twin villains
in crime aud in infamy.
WHOLESALE PLUMBER AND ROBBERY.
How they "improved each shining hour"
to pluudcr aud to rob her citizens "without
regard to race, color, or previous condition."
strange to say is most graphically told in
the stenographic diary of one of tho chief
plunderers which recent investigations has
brought Co light. To mention even the
salient points of tho gigantic and shameless
schemes of spoliation which they conceived
and carried into effect while they held the
rcins of power would gil up my hour and
leave the half untold. How, under Scott,
not content with robbing the treasury of
all it contained and the taxpayer of his
last dollar, they attempted with scrip aud
bonds, issued by tho millions, to put gen.
erations unborn under tribute to their
cupdity and to insert their long, lank, lar.
larcenous fingers into the pockets of poster.
ity; how, under the "native young governor"
who has attained not only national but
an international reputation as thief, they
held high carnival and reveled in drunk
en- debaucheries in the halls of the State
capitol, wasting for what they called
Refreshments" during one session of the
Legislature, the enormous sum of $780,.
900, while the poor lunatics in the asy-
lum, whose unfortunate and helpless
condition would have moved heart of stone
were left to starve or to find support at
the hands of private citizens whose own
resources were almost exhausted how the
learned, the cultured, and polished leader
of the plunderers, Daniel II. Chamberlain,
chief architect Of the miserable thing mis-.
called government, becoming its chief ex-
ecutive officer, attempted to gloss over its de-
formities and yet how Intelligence and virtue
and honestly were still thrust aside to make
room for ignorance, incompetence aud vice,
until the poishep carpet-bagger himself,
atfrighted by the monster he had created,
cried out that "the civilization of the Puri-
tan and the Cavalier, the Round-head and
the Huguenot," is in danger of being sup
planted by the barbarism of the negro
Thus for eight years did the people of this
poor, down-trodden, and oppressed State,
with patience that was heroic, bear their
sufferings and their wrongs. Promctheus
bound to the rock, while the ravenous vul-
lures tear at his vitals, presents not too
strong picture of the "prostrate State"
during these sad and trying years.
STRIKING ILLUSTRATION.
Who, while wandering through the beau
tiful art gallery at the other end Of the
Avenue, which tho munifcence of a
distinguished resident Of this city has ded-
icated to the public, has not felt his steps
arrested as his eye fell upon the brave words,
1.-The crime makes the shame and not the
scaffold," has not felt his heart to throb
with inexpressible emotion as he boxed
through window. gratings of prison cell
into that face 80 sad and weary with troub-
led thoughts, and into those mournful eyes
with their touching expression of quiet,
patient endurance, which the genius Of the
artist has made to speak so eloquently from
the canvass? AS gazed upon the picture
with deepest interest it suddenly became
to me no longer the face of Charlotte Corday,
but the impersonation of the genius of my
own Palmetto State, prosecuted, insulted,
and incarcerat,d by the mercenary and
heartless stranger and the fales and traitor
GUS renegade; thus she stood, peerng
through her prison bars during all those
dark days of which have just spoken, pure
and undefiled, without the ''crime" which
"makes the shame" waiting with calm en-
durance her hour Of crucifxion while still
hoping almost against hope, for the hour OF
her deliverance. With grateful and joy,
full heart turned away, remembering that
the prison bars had already been broken
and the sceptre of pure and honest govern.
ment already restored to her hands.
Thus much l have felt it my duty to say
in vindication of the honest white people
whom | have the honor in part to represent
upon this floor and in vindication of the
motives and purposes with which in August
1876, they refused any longer to cooperate
with any wing or faction of the republican
party and declared for a straightout demo
cratic ticket.
INlUaUR ATJoN OF Tur crp .,o,ror,