The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-26
COLL. EDWIN DUDLEY.
A Carpet-Baeger Who Followed the
Union Army to Virginia After the
Downfall Of the Confederacy.

A Carpet-Baeger Who Followed the
Union Army to Virginia After the
Downfall Of the Confederacy.
EDITOR REGISTER: see by the papers
that Col. l.. Edwin Dudley of The New
Massachusetts, --Hendrix-McLane- -Tnde-
pendent Republican Party of South Caro-
lima" is figuring rather prominently just
now before the President and the people
of this State, and is happen to know
some little of Col. Dudley's career, l
thought it might be interesting to.tne
good people OF this State to know some
thing of the gentleman Mr. L. Edwin
Dudley is a carpet-baggcr, who followed
the army to Virginia after the downfall
of the Confederacy
A fellow from Massachusetts,, by the
name of PierpOnt, who claimed to have
been elected Governor Of Virginia by
the ''loyal" citizens of Alexandria, was
first placed in the Governors mansion
and office by Federal bayonctS, and re-
manned there for about two years. Dur
ing his reign Mr. Dudley succeeded in
getting himself elected chairman of tho
executive committee of the National
Republican Party Of Virginia" which
position he held until he left the State.
When PjeIpont's term expired, another
carpet-bagger, by the name of Wells,
from Michigan, was appointed by the
military, who were then engaged in turn
ing decent men on Of office and putting
ignorant negroes, carpet-baggerS and
low. mean Scalawags in their places, be-
cause they could not take the ''iron-clad
oath" This fellow Wells stated on the
stump afterwards when before the peo-
pie as candidate for Governor against
the Democratic candidate, Gilbert L.
Walker, that he ''llved IN Michigan
but that he was dropped" in New York
dropped" Ikea pig. While Wells was
acting us Governor he appointed Mr.. L.
Edwin Dudley on his staff with the rank
of Lieutenant-Co!onel, and it was from
this source that he got his title as "Col-
onel" Dudley, but the gallant Colonel was
not hunting glory alone, he was after
the shekels, so he get the military to
give him the clerkship OF the Richmond
Chancery Court, which was then and
had been before filed by Mr.. Pollard.
a splendid officer and a gentleman. This
position he held for some months hoping
for something to turn up. Now 1t so
happened that the Chancery Courts
Office was necessarily what might be
termed ''credit" Office, as the fees were
rarely paid until the termination of the
suits brought therein. This did
not suit the gallant Colonel:s
ideas exactly (althoush the office was
worth between three and four thousand
dollars a year,, and when the Demo-
cracy, with Gilbert c. Walker as their
candidate Ga New York man, by the way,
swept the State by nearly twenty thou
sand majority, Colonel Dudley resigned,
and, in his own language, grabbed his
carpet bag and broke for Chicago"
where he had some days before sent his
WIFE This brief page in the history of
the Colonel's life he will most likely
verify, as it is known of all men in
Richmond. What the Colonel has been
doing in all these years since he got Mr..
Pollard's place up to the time he was
sent to South Carolina as 5GGz1zzzG1a 5GzzG1a -
0r ambassador, or emiSsary, or what
ever his Office is, can't say. He is
druggist by profession, and married,
have heard, the daughter Of a wealthy
man in Boston. At all events, he left
Virginia, to the regret of no one; and
think it can be safely said that the de-
cent people of South. Carolina have no
use for him here, as he is 'dyed in the
wool, inscriptions fanatic.
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