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

The recent debate 10 the Senate of the
United States has been terrible exposure
of the boasted land of moral ideas and free
suffrage. In Massachusetts th ere are 139..
OO0 adult males disfranchised on account of
i'l'teracy, failure to pay taxes, pauperism
and crimes There are, in the prisons of
Massachusetts, $50 convicts for every vari.
ETY. Of crime-adultery As males and Is
females; drunkenness, $50 males aud 241
females; idle and disorderly conduct rs
males and 100 females larceny, 853 males
and rs females; robbery, 123 males and 2
females; vagrancy, 205 mules and females;
arson, 30 males and females murder, 2l
males and 3 females; rape 16; forgery, AZ
males; and some of every other crime
known to the law.
South Carolina has near enough the same
population as Connecticut for comparison,
: E1fhG1 1en1llesion of this, State being whites
5ci.591, 00lored- -604. .ss4U and that Of Con.
necticut whites 610,894; colorcd IL ,428, )
and has only 1,413 males over twenty.on
years who are not voters by law, while Con.
nccticut has 22,916 who are not voters !!
And yet Northern Senators are talking
about free ballot and fair count. In
Rhode Island about one.half of the adult
males arc distranchised ON account of foreign
birth, want of property, illiteraoy and other
causes In all of. the Southern States
there are few adult males who are MT enti.
tied to vote whilst in all of the Northern
States there are from 10000 to 139, 900 in
each State disfranchised citizens over twcn.
ty-one years old
Not onehalf Of the voters in South Car
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 fair count
They are slandering the South too, on &C.
count OF the crimes and outrages committed
here, whilst they have in their own States
three times rs many criminals as we have
There is another beautiful specimen of
free ballot and fair count in the Republican
States, by means of gerrymandering their
election districts. In the city of Phladel-
phia 1t IS arranged so that it takes rs, 900
Democrats to elect one member of Congress,
and 81 900 Republicans are allowed to elect
four members Of Congress. In the whols
State Of Pennsylvania 407 ,42s Democrats
are represented in Congress by eight mem.
bers, aud 444,704 Republicans are repre-
sented by nineteen members. In Connec-
ticut Democratic towns with a population
OF 10000 inhabitants elect two members of
the Legislature and Republican towns with
l 900 inhabitants elect also two members of
the Legislature This is all fair with the
Republicans, and is "a free ballot and fair
count 70
Nothing can be moro disgraceful in pol
itics than the fraudulent and corrupt bar
gain made by the Republicans in the Senate
with the renegade Democrat 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 professed TO be
horritied at the reputation Of public debts,
and yet they have sold out the Offices of the
United States Senate to repudiationist. q
rebel brigadier, and renegade Democrat,
to make Virginia repudiate her public debt,
and elect Republican Senator Will the
people of the United States tolerate such
barefaced corruption and fraud in their Sen.
ators? And will they continue to support
the Republican party2 1t is to be hoped
not, by every honest, rejecting man. And
il u also to be hoped that "the dead lock"
in the Senate may continue till December,
rather than deliver, as Senator said, s'the
stolen goods" bargained for by Malone.
b. y. PERRY.--in GreenuiAe Neos.