The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-05-06
MORAL NEW ENGLAND.

The recent debate in the Senate Of the
United States has been 4 terrible exposure
of the boastcd land of moral ideas and free
suffrage. In Massachusetts t., ere are 139 ;.
0O6 adult males DISTINGUISHED on account of
illtcracy, failure to pay taxes, paupcrism
and crimes . There are, in the prisons of
Massachusetts t $50 convicts for every vari.
city Of crimc-adultcry 10 males and Is
females drunkenness, $50 males aud 24l
females; idle and disordcrly conduct Is
males and 100 females larceny, S53 males
and 7G females robbery, 123 males and
females; vagrancy, 2O5 males and females;
arson, 30 males and females murder, 81
males and } females; rape l6; forgery, II
males; and some Of every other crime
known to the law.
South Carolina has near enough the same
population as Connecticut for comparison
Che. populatiou of this State being whites
39f ,224;;S colored GOA 275 ; and that of Con.
nccticut whites Gl0. .SS4; colorcd IL ,.i2S, J
and has only lib males over twenty one
years who are not voters by law, while Con
nccticut has 22,9l6 who are not voters
Aud yet Northern Senators arc talking
about free ballot and fair count. In
Rhode Island about one half of the adult
males are disiranchiscd on account OF foreign
biith, want of property, illitcracy and other
causes In all Of the Southern States
there are few adult males who are Mt cnti.
tied u vote whilst in all of the Northern
States there are from 20 600 to l39 900 in
each State disfranchiscd citizens over TWEEN.
ty-onc years old
,t IN. hllf f,E In rnf S,,,, ], War;
olina would be allowed to vote in the North
crn States And yet their Senators arc
traducing and abusing the Southern States
for not having free ballot and a fair count
They arc slandcrng the South too, on ac
count of the crimes and outrages committed
here, whilst they have in their own States
three times as many criminals us we have
There is another beautiful specimen oil
free ballot and fair count in the Republican
States, by means of gcrrymandcring their
election districts. In the city Of Philadei
pha it Is arranged SO that it takes 20, ,00O
Democrats to elect one member Of Congress
and 1000 Republicans are allowed to elect
four members Of Congress. In the Who'll,
State of Pennsylvania lO7 ,.l2S Democrats
arc represented in Congress by eight mem
bcrS, aud ILL., ,70l Republicans are repre-
scntcd by nineteen members. In Conncc-
ticut Democratic towns with population
of 80, 900 inhabitants elect two members o
the Legislature and Republican towns with
| 900 inhabitants elect also two members o.
the Legislatures This is all fair with tn,
Republicans, and is IA free ballot and fail
count -
Nothing can be more disgraccful in pol
tiles than the fraudulent and corrupt bar
gain made by the Republicans in the Senate
with the renegade Democrat Malone. L
is to be hoped that Senator Butler vii
prove to the American people this corrupt
bargain, as he has pledged himself to do
The Republican party have prottSscd to bC
horrlticd at the rcpudlation Of pubic debts
and yet they have sold out the Offices Of the
United States Senate to n rcpudiationist,
rebel bri.adicr, and IA renegade Democrat
to make Virginia rcpudiatc her public debt
and elect Il Republican Senator. Will the
people Of the United States tolerate sucI
barciaccd corruption and fraud in their Sen
atOr'! And will they continue to supper
| the RcpuGllcan party! 1t is to be hopcC
not. by every honest, rejecting man An,
ii i. also to be hoped that "thc dead lock
in the Senate may continue till December
rather than deliver, rs a Senator said, "tht
stOlen goods bargaincd for by Malone. -
| b. !. PEHEY.--.n GrcCnUWc NcwS
Coop IN IT'S PLAcR.-WhiSkcy is gooc
i'll its own place. There is nothing in tn
world like whiSkcy for preserving MAJ
whrn he is dead. But it is one of th
worst things in the world for preserving
man When he is living If you want to keel
dead man put him in whiskcy. If yol
want to kill IA living man, put whiskoy int
! him.