The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-13

Delegate Miller. of Beaufort, raising
! his ri ght hand: L hold up my right
! hapd and swear that I saw the flower
of Charleston society aud the lawyers
hobnobbing with Chamberlain in bis
car. If YOU want to swear me d.
so" still holding high his right hand.
Major Barker addressing himself to
Senator Tlliman) I would not have
risen to notice your remark but for the
fact that my silence would have been
accepted as an admission by me of its
truth. and l have no right by such 81
lence to aid in casting any such refec-
ton upon the society of Charleston"
Senator Tillman: ''lf I have done
the people of Charleston a wrong !
am sorry for it, but am not responsi-
bic for the impression created, and |
leave it to this convention if it has not
been the general belief throughout
this State by those who read those pa,
| pers that such was the fact.
The next steal to which I will direct
your attention briefly is what is called
the impeachment swindie" and again
John J Patterson shines out with an
immortal prominence as the prince OF
scoundrels.
He then read from the report Of the
committee the history of the attempted
impeachment of Gen. Scott
And then they 60 on and show
proof that the warrants were paid
! We notice here the name of w. J.
Whipper, another delegate on this
floor, whose pathetic appeal and elo-
quent portrayal of the consequence ot
our act has been sent broadcast. Whip.
per's name appears in good Light,
He was among those who were en-
deavoring to impeach Scott. He was
on the floor and the hour fer adjourn
ment was fixed by resolution. Moses
took him off the floor after he had re
ceived $4,000 for doing it and for tie
negroes who had been bribed in the
meantime. Patterson got enough OF
them, he bought them so cheap. E.e
paid the big ones more than he did the
small ones.
am sorry now that have to pay
my respects to the gentleman from
Beaufort in another aspect. l believe.
Judging from his speech which he
made extemporaneously, he is the
ablest man of color I have ever met,
but the proof lies here overwhelming
ly and undeniably that he too on di
vers occasions, was a bribe taker, and
that in addition to that, while secre
tary of the sinking fund commission,
he perpetrated a scheme to get some OF
the State money. He sold property for
$1,000, then he brought bill for ser
vice as attorney for SIS, 900 and pocket;
ed all he had sold the property for a,ac
brought the State out in debt 10 him.
l am sorry to have to bring this fact
out on a member of this body, but
that member stood here as a represent
ative of the negro race and threatened
us with direful consequences II we
pressed forward in our purpose to Sc
cure to our posterity immunity from
such danger I am forced in self-ie
fence to bring out the facts, and while
he was representative of the people
| ne participated in this wrong and rob
berry and stealage. and he must appear
in the eyes of the world as simply
wanting a possible return of John j:
Pattersons five years more OF good
stealing ~
There is the Blue Ridge steal. 7.he
State had a mortgage on the Blue
Ridge Road, having advanced large
| sums of money in the effort to reach
the Northwest By a railroad through
the Blue Ridge Mountains, and held
practically the titles to the road, /. e
tae State and Charleston jointly. We
have four millions, 81, zoe, 900, ! think.
But anyhow there is today law suit
pending in the United States Court to
force this State to pay the Blue Ridge
scrip, issued oy that Legislature in de-
fance of the law and now held as an
obligation by gentleman in New
York who claims that it was hgpo:he'
Gated with him as security for m)pey,
and it seems to me that we are never
to be rid Of the consequences OF this
misrule. The penitentiary down
here cost 100000. l pass on merely
mentioning that large sum. about
S5OO,OOO was spent for the militia, and
YOU all remem Der that during these
dark DAYS of '72, '73 and "a that there
was hardly a Saturday night of the
year that a drum beat Of some negro
militia regiment was not in the ear Of
each one of you, while threats were
made by these negro soldiery that they
intended to rise up and exterminate
these white men from the face OF the
earth and take this country, have
shown you by the records and the re-
poot of this committee tnat the scoun-
drels and thieves fastened their fingers
upon the throat Of this State and suck
ed its life blood.
What did they do for Patterson? He
bought enough of them to send him
to the United States Senate as a repre-
sentative in that august assemblage OF
this grand old State, to occupy the
chair that has been graced by Calhoun
and Hayne. Here is what the COM
mittee says about it:
I'm conclusion the undersigned re-
spectfully report that the election OF
the Hon. J. J. Patterson to the Senate
of the United States on December 10,
1872, was procured by corruption and
bribery.
They would further remark that
the Legislature of 1928 was largel y
composed Of new members, and that
they were most solemnly pledged to a
correction of past abuses and TO the
Inauguration of real reforms. Some
of the members, who may have been
unfit for the discharge of the import.
ant duties of legislation by reason Of
ignorance, yet came to Columbia With
a desire, in humble way, to do what
was right. John J. Patterson enjoys
the unenviable position OF having
been the first to place before them the
poisoned chalice of temptation and to
corrupt them with its enticing
draughts. Need we wonder that they
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