Show SOUTH sauth CAROLINA ho erok sr jam JAN JAMES Es bike bire S SIKE rike PIKE i in hi liis his prostrate state 11 thus pictures the present situation of south caro lina T t the rule ruie of south carolina should nit nib nob not be dignified with the name of government it is the installation stal stai lation or of a huge system of brigandage gan dage the men who have had bad it in control and who now have bave it in control are the picked villains of the eom tom community they are the highwaymen of th eState they are professed legislative rou lou robbers bers they are men who have studied and practised practiced the tile art of legislative theft they are in no sense different from oi or better than the men who till fill the prisons and penitent tiarieas of the world they are in fact of precisely that class only more daring and audacious they pick your pocket by law they rob the poor and the rich alike by law They confiscate your estates by law the minority report of the U S house judiciary comal committee tee upon affairs in south carolina concludes as follows goth the i cr cry ery of that outraged b helpless 1 I 1 ae s and an suh bun ering people its has re reached ac elf ejr i our hearts as well as abour oui understanding that oneo prosperous I 1 and beautiful state is on the verge 0 of ruin she sher is indeed already pros proa alcordo Ali ril ordo orde of thieves si and robbers worse than any that ever infested an community on earth have her by the throat and are fast sucking her lifeblood three hundred thousand of her citizens descendants of those who fought and bonwith won with our fathers th the otles battles batties of american independence and liberty are crying to congress for redress for heli heip they have suffered red all that humanity can endure they have exhausted every resource and are utterly helpless of thern themselves selves to refuse their request is to drive them to despair and ruin the report further says it should never be lost sight of that for the condition of the things now ei existing bitin in south carolina the federal government is primarily responsible blink it look upon it as we may mayy horrible as the work of ita it bands may now appear congress set up and established the state of thins thin things 8 that makes the commonwealth of south carolina the foul fou I 1 stigma I 1 it t now is I 1 in n ou our r system after seven years of fraud dishonesty and unparalleled corruption and mr elliot 11 al M C from the state says he knows that instead of getting better it appears to be growing growling worse happy land As the new yo york rk tribune well my sa s the intent of the poland and other prescriptive ptiip utah bills bill was to reduce this territory to the pitiful and horrible condition of south carolina while a pack of official wolves devoured the entire subs subi substance tance of the people HOLT ard AND aid beeckler the wash wasl ington capital of june juno 21 has the following concerning two ties in ia their way in these the latter at days it is said that judge holt hoit judge advocate general to whom the president referred the findings in the howard court of inquiry for review has returned the same fairly riddled and destroyed by legal criticism and comment military law equals the grave diggers browner crowner quest law for argals argais A igals of the most extraordinary sort and military courts are as we have said only lynch courts legalized where certain gentlemen in epaulets quite innocent of the law of evidence return verdicts in accordance with their feelings or as the late chief justice once lalji said sald in amending our definition in accordance with the power that organized the tho court this time tile the stubborn generals in the court could not see it and so the judge advocate general comes comnes to the rescue henny henry ward beecher preached prea clied t the he baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of packer institute last monday ills ilia text was greet priscilla and aquilla 1 the rev bev Budd buddington lington accused the rev beecher of being too fond of priscilia and aquilla yet beecher was honorably acquitted enjoys an independent theology or of teaching whatever lie please pleases and a salary balany of t twenty enty thousand a year and further furt lier ller has declined an urgent invitation vi from his people to go to europe for six months at their expense were we not of the capital we would be of plymouth |