Year: 1874

The negroes will 60 nf0r de nolnl'
nee' if "de nominee" was the
Prince of Darkness himself, pitch
fork and all. So Moses works
for nomination, and plays1ihis
cards SO adroitly that he will be
apt to succeed. sr@iT


Meanwhile the Democrats stand
off like poor boys at a frollc.-
There is no telling what they will
do, for they don't know themselves.
Those of them with whom | have
talked express the hope that Mo
ses will be nominated that Grant
and the dissatisfied Republic ms
will throw their strength for some
other Republican that there. viii
be a big split, row, a contest
something like that in Arkansas,
and that it may all result in throw
ing the State into the hands of the
properly holders and tax-p2yers,or
a military government. As you
may believe, the property owners
of South Carolina are we'll nigh
desperate, and would hail a militia


ry government with thanksgiving
and joy. From the Democratic
party as party nothing can be
expected, it is SO weak. The par
ty of ignorance and plunder out
number it thirty.fve thousand
Thousands of Democrats have
fallen by the wayside in .his une-
quail contest, become discouraged,
heart-sick, and left the State, or


joined the party of plunder, that
they might share in the spoil-in
other words get some while it was
going. By thus means the Demo-
Gratis have been growing weaker
and the robbers stronger each year.
The temptation of weak NOR
tails to leave hopeless and op-
pressed minority and join the ma
.iority, where they can share the
spoils OF victory is very great.
Like Pickwick, they thiakit is sat
fest and most profitable TO yell
with the largest crowd. The men
of this day, who, since the war
have abandoned their white friends
and gone over to the robbers, is
larger than you would suppose
But they are weak in principle, |
wanting in honesty, and only actu-
ated in their conduct by the hope
or promise of spoil. The carpet,
baggers, Il emselves a hard set.
know this, and they will not trust
native South Carolina white
Radical further than they can see
lin. One of the South Carolina pol
iticans told me that he had never
known a native South Carolinan
to come into the Radical party un-
less he was rotten at the heart and
con the make" His experience
with all Of them was the same.


On the other hand, the native
white Radicals have just as poor
opinion Of the carpet-baegers,-
They ere both correct in their es-
Inmates. It's dog steal from dog
all around. The negroes are 10
sing confidence in the whites of
their party, whether native or i'm
ported, which is the first gleam Of
intelligence that they manifested
since emancipation. But there IS
one white man whom they still
cling to; that is Moses they be
lieve in him as deyoutly as the
children Of Israel did in the other
Moses. Z


Why the colored people should
cling SO closely to this man ]
can not tell. OF course those
whom he has pardoned out Of
the penitentinry, ,and those whom
he has kept from going there,
have reason for the love which
abidcs within them, but why
the masses should regard this
Moses as the only man who can
lead them to the promised land,
| am at a loss to determine,


Moses was an original rebel,
and his father now Judge of
the Supreme Court, fired the
first gun upon Fort Sumter that
opened the rebellion. Young
Moses was for a long time
Speaker of the Senate, and was
one of that distinguished den
of thieves who passed the law
compelling the Treasurer to pay
warrants signed by the Speaker
OF the Senate and of the House.


Under this law, in one session,
they drew from the Treasury, in
cash and by certificates, over
fourteen hundred thousand dol-
lars for legislative expenses
Such corruption in Government
affairs has never been seen since
the world was hung in its orbit.
And such stealing, too, from the
poverty-strieken peopleof South