The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-16
A GRAVE CHARGE ANswERlaD.

says:
Tho Ners and Courier argues from this
that the whole system Of leasing conyicts
Ia wrong, cruel and blot on civilization.
usual habit, the wrong conclusion from o
correct statement of fhcts. The truth Is,
Gere Is nothing wrong about the existing
convict system or lawe. The fault Is with
our executive, Judicial and legislative Off.
GERS. If The Law should be enforced and
the neck of some one influential brute
should be legally cracked there would be
no more trouble with convicts for many
years. The able statesmen who in 1870
engineered the whitewashing Of the muir
ders on the Augusta and Greenwood road
are responsible for every murder and out
rage committed on conyicts since
We agree with our contemporary that
the punishment by the Courts Of one or
two of the brutes who miBtreat prisoners
would stop the trouble, and SO expressed
ourselves o few weeks since. It is COW.
ardly; cruel and mean to abuse poor
creature while In the clutches Of the law,
and the men who do 1t should be pun.
iahed criminalIy in proportion to the
crimes they commit against these poor
creatures. The Ne,cs, however, makes
Z an unfounded and unsustainable charge
I OF grave import when 1t declares that
the men who engineered tho whitewash.
y ing of the murders on the Greenwood &
Augusta Road are responsible for every
murder and outrage committed on con.
.yicts since. AS one member of the Com
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s. s3st'. ".e law .' ",oA' "o
arc surprised at this assertion. We were
no. aware ibat any whitewashipg hpd
been dcne. On the contrary, the COM.
! mit.ee took the testimony nf eyery
..,.i.,..a
Wisiiass N.l.iiss Hnose l halie was iufpishea ny
( either party to the matter, and of every
\ mn. man that we had any intimat;on might
I know anything about the matter, even to
tl,e eonvicta Themselves. The testimonv
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II witnesses:
.A Is 10 ihe Honorable tho Senate aad Hou,e of
T,.r,rsiratafrss of t6s Sfnfe Of Souih Gnroj;,,g
JsrsTrrsirT s = The Joint = Committeo ] @ '' an.
a poi,,ted by Concurrent Resolution of tie
4 tant c;enerol a ssembIv to ;nvegt;cnfa chm.
fsea t,r 5crI,eltv. 3 rtr-leSt or inhnman;tv IN
) Sesongiets of the South Carolina Peniten}iarv
anusta :Ra;Jsaad. and directed to roport 10
& the sprsssTis General xssambiy. ber leave
Scs,ecfff,IIv n renort. That they have nor.
a formsil the finty aasianad them to the hest
: NJ thfir abijity. md 'berawjth snbmit The
4 tertiinon; taken by them upon the subject
dsad hS Sn nqgITy ss tedious Ies,drnd and
In CcirImbiny md from Greenwood Ia tho
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Il mil ,gblu1nrinors, much OF IL beinr cu.
mriative. and a ] srrSat isal ar IL Of i,eea
s tive character. In conducting tho exnmi-
and oibar po;nta f,ionp fl,a route syhero the tI,s
siwitnesses reside. In order to save the CT.
ma,,s'ss AZ brinriI,w iiiena To Columbia, mud
ior fhe Th,pther n,irnnsa ~ insnectinp The
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