The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-05-17
MORAL NEW ENGLAND.
Govornor Perry Gives Few Comparative
Facts that Tell a story.

Govornor Perry Gives Few Comparative
Facts that Tell a story.
The recent debate III the Senate Of
tho United States has been q terrible
exposure of tho boosted lind of moral
ideas and free suffrage. In Massa.
chusetts there are 10000 adult males
diefrancliised on account of illtteracy,
1ailure TO pay taxes, pauperism and
crimes! There are, in prisons of Mas.
| sachusetts 1850 convicts for every
variety ofcrime--adulery As males and
2s females; drunkenness $50 males and
24l females idle and disord erly con.
duct rs males and 100 females, ,larcc.
ny, 1853 males and 76 females robbery,
123 males and 2 females; vagrancv,
200 males and s females; arson, S.
males and females; murde,', 21 males
and 8 females; rape 16; forgery AZ
males; and some ofevery other crime
known to the law. .
South Carolina has nesr enough the
same population as Connecticut for
comparison, (the population of this
State being whites 39l ,224, colorcd
GOA ,275; md that Of Connecticut
whites 6lO, 1881; colorcd 11,428,) and
has only ] ,413 males over twenty-one
years who are not voters bv law.
while Connecticut has 22,9l6 who are
not voters. And yet Northern Sena-
tors are talking about free ballot and
fair count. In Rhode Island about
one-half Of the adult males are dis.
tranchiacd on account of foreign birth,
want of property, illiteracv and other
causes. In all of the Southern. States
there are few adults who are not en-
titled to vote; whilst In all of the
Northern States there from 10000 to
$4,000 in each State, disfranchised
citi2ons over twenty-one years old.
Not one half Of the voters in South
Carolina would be allowed to vote in
the Northern States.: And, yet their
Senators are traducing and abusing
the Southern States for not having a
free ballot: and a fair r'coiiKt:: = They are
sla1deyipg tho South. TOO, on account
of the tlilles and outpaaas COMMITTED
lore, whilst they have in their own
States three times as snany epimipals
as we have. 80 -. -. ':-
There is another beautiful specimen
of free ballot and fair: count in the Re.
publican States, by means of gerry
wandering their election districts. In
the city Of Philadelphiait is arranged
SO that 1t takes $4,000 Democrats to
elect one member Of Congress, and o.
600 Republicans are allowed to elect
four members Of Congress. In the
whole State Of Pennsylvania 4O7 ,428
Democrats are represented in Con-
gress by eight members, and 444 ,704
Republicans are represented Gy nine
teen members. In Connecticut Demo-
cratic towns with a population Of 3d.
OoO inhabitants elect two members of
the Legislature and Republican towns
with.a popoulation of 1000 inhabitants
elect also two members of the Legis-
lature. This Is all fair with the Re-
publicans, and is "a free ballot aud a
fair count.
Nothing can I've more disgraceful
In politics that the fraudulent and COR
rupt bargain made by the Republicans
In the Senate with the renegade Demo-
crat Malone. 1t is to be hoped that
Senator Butler will prove to the
American people this corrupt bargain,
as he has pledged himself to do. The
Republican party have professcd to be
mortified at the reputation of public
debts, and yet they have sold out the
! offices Of the United States Senate to
repudiatiohist, q rebel brigadier and
renegade Democrat, to make Virgin
Ia repudiate her public debt, and elect
a Republican Senator, Will. the :peo-
pie OF the United States tolerate such
barefaced corruption and fraud III their
Sehators2 And will they continue to
support the Republican PARTY? 1t is
70 De hoped not, by every honest, re-
tlecting man. And it Is also to be
hoped that "the deadlock" in tho. SEN
ate may continue till December, rath.
er than deliver as Senator said "the
stolen goods" bargained for by Ma.
hone. =. f. PERRY.