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ttOTARY 1 1901 15 'i i 'r-- rv A' vv- WRITTEN SF OU THE BY JOHN REYNOLDS TIIE STATE: COLU'r represented The following officers were lted: Armlatead Burt or Abbe- ville of Cheater I McGowan (Dem) of Abbeville Wm 11 Perry (Dem) of Greenville The number of Democrats hue rhoeen la explained with mileage secretary of state that sum to Include clerk hire 'adjutant general 82600 comptroller general 82000 treasurer 82500 with a clerk At 81800 Attorney general 83000 with allowance of $1500 for clerical Msistance superintendent of education $2600 Tho legislature omlttsd to fix the pay of Its members these contenting themselves with tha constitutional allowance of $6 per day with mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile each way Tho members always took pay for Sundays -i This first session consumed 71 working days and the appropriation for tho wy of members and 1 tor other legislative expenses was $110000 were prosed 71 acta and nine Joint Muttons i 1 Ths regular Maslon commenced on l4it November 24 Ths following acts ate given a Indicating the character pf ths legislation V) By an act to amend thal criminal taw I'' the death penalty was removod from i-Y all crlmos except wilful murder fk An to enforca tho provisions bf 'd Wi tho civil rights MU of for- hado any common carrier and any person doing buslncH under a license (o make any discrimination on account of raco color or previous condition of tho violation punlahablo New York who was alleged to have helped to manufacture some of the so-railed evidence against Mrs Surratt and who was an unscrupulous hireling admirably suited far the dirty work for which he 'was the endeavor to Intimidate white people into quiet submission to negro domination Deputies were appointed where the Republican managers wanted them and received pay at the rate of $100 per day In the election of 1870 the armed constabulary managed by Hubbard waa flagrantly used to further the re-election of Uov Scott A chief constable" was appointed In every county thought to be doubtful and to each of them were assigned so many consts bless'' as were deemed necessary to embolden the negroes and discourage the whites The deputies weie men of low type suited to the work for which they were employed By "an act to supprosa Insurrection end the governor was authorised in his disci stlon to call out the militia to tho Insurgents to disperse" to take possession of railroads and telegraphs and smploy ah mnny persons as he may deem turn-essnry and proper far the suppression of Insurrection rebellion ar resistance to tbe laws" In furtherance of tho purposes of this act a Joint resolution waa afterwards passed authorising the governor to employ an tore" of luo men to be armed equipped and If necessary mounted This force of whom 20 were mounted was duly organised and was used to cooperate with the state constabulary for election purposes Fraudulent statements were freely used to procure payment for flo-tltloua service official acts was the recommendation of an Incompetent colored man to be postmaster at Columbia Them two ads together sufficed of themselves to widen the breach already existing between Mr Robertson and the white lieopte of the State Ills subsequent career the senate was Inconspicuous Frederick A Sawyer wss a Massachusetts teacher who waa engaged by the city school board of Charleston a few years before ths War of Secession to organise and superintend the Normal school as a branch of the system of graded schools Just previously started Ho wits a msn of considerable scholarship of good address and of rome ability as a speaker In contrast with Robertson's measure of amnesty must be noted Sawyer's previously substituting for the test oath of 1862 an oath simply obligating the affiant (not disqualified by the fourteenth amendment) to support and defend the constitution of the United States hear true faith and allegiance to the same and faithfully discharge official dutlea The bill waa defeated Sawyer had no part tn corrupting the State legislature deported himself with dignity and courtesy and seemed Inclined throughout to be conservative Ha was credited with having advised against the arming ef the negro militia and with having de-nounrod the corrupt practices of the Slate government lie ardently opposed the nomination of Frank Moses for governor and after the nomination made some very strong speeches at different points in the State denouncing Moses and urging the Republicans to repudiate him The Mew Jedleiary The new supreme court was orgsnls- with a fine not lose than 8706 and Imprisonment not less than six months By act to confirm and declare valid the recent election of mayor and aldermen in tha city of 'ix the general assembly into office" the first Radical council (mixed 'V of whited and negroes) In that city headed aa before stated by Gilbert A Pillsbury as mayor -Vv yy The county-seat of Beaufort wm Williamsburg -4' Pcttenelll white Scpit Jeff IYndergroas: colurni O'Connell John Nea-colored Whlle' John 'V Mead (The above list though prepared with much care may be liutccurnte The author will appreciate corrections) The number of whit representatives was 4 1 and of colored 77 The counties marked were Democratic On Joint ballot there were 88 whites and 87 13S Republicans and 30 Democrats The amount of taxes paid by the entire legislature was 882U3 of which the 20 Democrats paid The average tax of the Republican mem-here was therefore $212 and of those members 81 paid no tax whatever Tbe senators and Ives from 20 In paid a tax of 88485 of which all but one dollar (paid Moses Jr) was paid by Wm MeKInlay a colored msn Ths senate organised by the election Corbin president pro tern and Joeephua Woodruff clerk There were also a reading clerk and a sergeant-at-arms together with a tytll emim of attaches pages laborers etc Ths usual message were sent to "Governor" Scott and "Provisional Orr was Informed that the senate wee ready to receive any communication whloh he might be pleased to make Similar action was taken by the house The house organised by the election of Moses' Jr speaker and A Jones (a Northern mulatto who had corns to Charleston) rlerk A full corps of attaches waa provided There waa something of contest for the speakership between Mores nnd Elliott The latter was nominated by Whipper who took the ground that a colored man should be chosen as speaker of the first houra organised under government" In £ouih Carolina Mnoea won a decisive majority The governor-elect waa inaugurated on July 1 1888 and the hew lieutenant governor waa aworn In on that day Denny white Republican waa elected to the Slate" though the figures of his bid were manifestly higher than thoso of Mr Julian A Selby ths proprietor the Columbia Phoenix Both houses promptly ratified the fourteenth amendment to the United States the Democratic members all voting hi the negative In the senate Cain of Charleston offered the following resolution which on the motion of Wright of Beaufurt was tabled: That Committee of five be appointed to Inquire and report whether (he senators who voted in the negative on the rallficatlou of the amendment to tho United States constitution have 1 or' have' not violuiod their oaths and committed perjury and If so to recommend what course should be adopted by the house te vindicate the purity of its organisation" Cain was a Northern -negro preacher who got that soubriquet by his efforts to mlmlo the ways of the old-time Southern negro For some time by the scarcity of Republican lawyers The vou for electors Ucpubli-can 82800 Democratic 45137 Republican majority 17188 The Democrats carried Abbeville Anderson Chesterfield Greenville Horry Lancaster Laurens Lexington Marlon Newberry Oconee Pickens Spartanburg Union and York The Republicans carried Barnwell Beaufort Charleston Chester Clarendon Colleton Darlington Fairfield Georgetown Kershaw Marl-bore Orangeburg Richland Sumter and Williamsburg There was no election In this because the governor had not appointed election commissioners for that county On the day' of the voting for congressmen and electors there were municipal elections In ths several cities and towns These were without striking Incidents except In Charleston The white people or that city bad nominated a with Henry Lessens for mayor and with gentlemen for aldermen whose character and conservatism were thought such as to Invite the cooperation of the -colored people The canvass was a most exciting one To meet the efforts of the Lesesne managers to get negro votes the Radical leaders while and black resorted to disgraceful measures Colored men who Indicated a purpose to vote the were abused assaulted and subjected to other wrongs One instance was seen In the treatment of Btephny Riley a colored msn who had a livery stable in the city On the day of the election a mob of negroes assaulted Riley and would have done him serious Injury but for the vigorous Investigation of his white friends Radical negroes In bodies apparently organised for the purpose then proceeded to Injure (In one case to destroy) Rllcy'e vehicles After the election some of his friends among the white people raised a fund (considerably more than 88U0) and presented it to Riley to reimburse him fur the loeses he had suffered The Radical ticket headed by Gilbert Pllsbury an irreeponeible carpetbagger from Massachusetts was declared elected and he with a board of aider-men altogether unworthy very noon took control of the city government FIRST TERM -(Pursuant to the call of Gov Scott and the order of Gen Canby the general asrembly met In Columbia oh July 8 1888 The senate was composed os follows: i Valentine Young white (Mr Young was a Baptist clergyman a gentleman of character and standing who was elected against his wish and who declining to sepre never qualified Jamee 8 Cothran Democrat waa afterwards elected In bla place defeating Guffln white Republican but the Senate declared the election void) John Reid white Leslie white Wright colored EL Corbin white Cain Lewis Wlmbuah colored Donaldson white E'1 Dickson colored Wnv Hoyt colored Whlttemore white Frank Arnlm white Jas Rutland white changed from Gillisonvllle to' JBeaufort CY Tha county-neat of Barnwell was directed to changed from Bsrnwll to the change to take effect jil upon tha cession by the town of Black- (vT-A villa of a suitable site for court 4 house and a JalL The board of truatoes of the qnlver 'V Vr slty was made to consist of seven Wem- 3 here elected by the general assembly -if with the governor chairman ex- officio The salary of each professor vL li '3 was raised from 81009 to 820MT without' fees The trust ees were authorized to ''V-Vl establish a preparatory school and-tho Institution wm declared open to students without regard to color or r-'V" wrc iVa-si A commission of three members at an -4 1 annual salary of 88800 each tru pro- i vlded for revision and consollda- tlon of tho statute laws of tno thla commission tho legislature af- terwarda elected Corbin Ghas Montgomery (of Newberry) 'and villff Whipper The work wm done i almost entirely' by CorMn "who hod ifiM the use of a compilation previously mad by James 1 Pstlgru and jrho Jte YL CONTINUED FROM DECEMBER II 1 Feellog Amu IM WklOa Th action of congress In establish- Inc th negro government In South Carolina wm not In anjr eenae a die appointment to the white people of the State nor did It anywise cause' them to abate anything of their resolution to speak out for their rights their op-position to the new order of things or their feeling towards the men who had carried out here the wishes of the Radical majority in congress For the great mass of the negroes there was no feeling but kindness mixed with re-gret that they should have been made 1 the instruments of wrongs against which the white people rebelled The negro leaders as a rule very soon be traylng their corrupt character and purposes there was no tolerance tor them Of the carpetbaggers nothing had been expected but such things as might naturally proceed from un scrupulous adventurers Towards the few native whites who had Joined hands with negroes and aliens to place the State under black rule there was a feeling of bitter animosity That' feeling had an Illustration In the preamble and resolutions adopted on or about April I 168 by the- Eu- pnradlan society of the South Carolina university This paper after setting' forth In the preamble the principles to which the society had always been de- voted and Its hearty deprecation of any 1 net of any individual In disregard of the same proceeded as follows: whereas In the eyes of the pub He generally and more especially In the eyes of this society Thomas Wrnirn Moses Jr late regular members have la all these 'ivis Hmtiw tueir dignity 'and station as true gentlemen of Carolina and whereas- on this account the names of the said Thomas Robertson and Franklin Moses Jr are no longer an ornament to or a Jewel iq the honorary roll of this society but as It were two black stains upon that other wise unblemished' roll as yet of tooth era true and faithful to their vows therefore That Tho Robertson and Frank Moses Jr be now ex pelted from this society and that the Immunities of entering the hall during session or participating In the ex ere lees of the society be now and ever hereafter denied them That a committee of three he appointed to Inform the said Thos Robertson and Frank Moses Jr of their expulsion That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the' Columbia Phoenix and the Charleston Mercury for The single ground upon which the young gentlemen of the Euphradlan society thus proceeded consisted hi the active and uncompromising adherence of the obnoxious Individuals to ths Radical party of South Carolina No charge was even suggested against ths personal character of either What- ever the doubts felt as to the society's Jurisdiction of the particular matters upon which it thus strongly and public ly declared its Judgment it Is safe to my that in the then existing hthte Of sentiment among the white people of South Carolina quite ninety-nine per cent of these heartily shared the1 feel-log to which the paper gave expression At the same time it must now be stated in view-of the course of events in the eight years of hegro rule In this State that it would be very unfair to put 1 Robertson in 1 the same class with Moses "Robertson graduated from the col- lege In 1843 and Moses was honorably 1 dismissed from the freshman class In 1855 The Political Parties Jala Isaac The enforcement of the new con etltution and the establishment of the 1 state government thereunder caused the white people to strengthen and ex tend the organisation of the cratlc party so as to enable It to make the best possible light In the November election -There were considerable differences of opinion touching the wisdom of hold 'lug the April convention and Jts au- thorlty to speak or act for the Demo cratlc party was openly called In que tlon Jn response to an invitation ex tended by the Democratic citlsens of Edgefield district a convention of the party was held in Columbia on June 19 1868 the following "districts'' being re presented: Barnwell Berkeley Char leston Chesterfield Darlington Edge field Georgetown Orangeburg Sumter 'Williamsburg 1 The following officers were elected: Chas Sfmonton of Charleston 1 John 1 Manning Of Clarendon Thoe Glover of Orange 1 burg Chas Furman of Charleston Richardson of Berkeley i A of Edgefield Charles of Darlington Dr Mark Reynolds of Clarendon Alexander McQueen of Chesterfield 3 Pressley of Wll-' liamsburg 1 Secretaries A A Gilbert of Sumter Henry Spamick of Charleston i copied slmost llterally th New- York '5- ra opinion and that competent isiwyere It should hays boon dons for 6R660 rod of procedure' Gov Bcott his message in 1871 charged that thla work hod already cost 830606 whereMin hie A id A Aldrich of Barnwell' Harllee of Marlon John A Wagener of Charleston Gabriel Cannon of Spartanburg James Gtbbes of Columbia James A Hoyt of Anderson Wr McKerrall of Marion Days nt of Beaufort The convention adopted resolutions endorsing the action of the national Democratic body commending the course of the South Carolina delegates and declaring the purpose to rely upon peaceful agencies only to win the fight The following nominations were mads for presidential electors: State at ohn Thomas of Richland John Kennedy of Ken-shew First Robt Graham bf Marlon Second Rutledge o( Charleston Third A Haskell of Abbeville Fourth McLure of Chester-1 The national Democratic convention had assembled In New York on July 4 and had nominated for president Hor-atlq Seymour of New York and for vlce-preslderit Frank Blair Jr of Missouri 'The platform declared for universal amnesty and for the regulation of the suffrage by the States denounced the Reconstruction acta as unconstitutional revolutionary and end further denounced In detail the general policy of the Republican party In the meantime the Republican party In its convention at Philadelphia had nominated Ulysses 8 Grant for president and Schuyler Colfax for vice-president The platform embodied substantially an outright endorsement of the Reconstruction policy of congress The State Republican convention met In Columbia on September 8 and remained In session three days The following electoral ticket waa nominated: SUte at Chamberlain of Charleston Btolbrand of Besutort First 8 A Swells (colored) of Williamsburg Second district A 3 Rausler (colored) of Charleston Third Randolph (colored) of Orangeburg 1 1 Fourth AUen of Greenville -i Am Bidtlif CampelcM -The Democratic party -set promptly and vigorously to work to oppose the negro party In the fight for electors congressmen and solicitors Democratic clubs were formed In all the the number depending upon -population 'and upon--considerations of conveniences Meetings -were held all over the State at which speakers presented the Democratic cause and appealed to the colored people to break atvay from their already apparent slavery to their party organisation and party leaders Especial efforts were made to get the colored people Into Democratic clubs The small number of that race who declared themselves -Democrats suffered persecution at the hands Jbf jthcmen and Women alike bf their "bum face-extending to- abuse assault and grievous bodily harm In some cases the killing of colored men waa and fairly to the action of negroes who sought thus to dispose of obnoxious parties of their own race and to deter others from voting the Democratic ticket The determination of the white men to' protect negro Democrats from all harm was one thing that so affected the white Republican leaders that though evhjently In sympathy with the policy of abusing and frightening negro Democrats they yet counseled 'the utmost freedom of speech and actlon Uttle or no Impression could be made upon the colored this largely for tbe reason that their leaders had -warned them that their oath In the Union League bound them to vote the Republican ticket' The Republican managers evidently relied upon the power of the League to solidify the negroes against the whttea-though they made speeches whkfir frequently' contained passionate eppeals te the race feeling and sometimes language of a most Incendiary character The negroes had been secretly arming themselves and In some of the counties notably In Union were so demonstrative as to actual alarm for the safety of the white people In the country apparently at their mercy The coolness firm- nesa and wisdom of the whites with little or no help flrom the Radical leaders prevented race conflicts of a serious character The excited of feeling did give rise to the killing of some colored leaders among the Radical party and of one white man who was said to have used Incendiary language to his negro hearers This last mentioned person was 8 Dill oT Kershsw Vho was shot In his own house in the night time by unknown 'parties Randolph the colored preacher from Orangeburg made speeches In the up-country which were calculated to Inflamq tbe negroes and enaally calculated to cause a race conflict He waa shot to death In the day time at HodgeS depot In Abbeville county Jamee Martin a colored member of the legislature from Abbeville was shot to death by unknown part lea Wade Perrin a colored member from Laurens suffered a like fate after the October election There were other cases of homicide by unknown parties the victims being negroes but they were not really significant of the feeling aroused by the Incendiary speeches of many of the Radical speaker Gov Bcott offered rewards ranging from 12 GOO to 85000 for the arrest of the guilty parties Extraordinary measures were token Iq the -employment of the State constabulary organised under an act of the new legislature to arrest persons under suspicion Men of the highest char seter some at least selected solely because of their standing In ths were arrested taken to Columbia and after cause lees confinement In the common Jail released for failure of proof An te organise and govern tho established an elaborate system of military forces and forbade on pain of fine and Imprisonment or ganlslng drilling or parading by7 Any bodies other than the 'guard of South Carolina" thus provided lit 1870 permission wm sought for tho cadets o( King's Mountain Military -school Yorkvtlle to use guns tor drill 4 but ths proposed bill wse summarily killed In the house The organisation of tha negro militia cost tn aB certainly 1300000 besides A' i considerable -I sum frau ts udenly misapplied In procuriat end 7 altering curtain arms given by (he federal government1' An to provide for the enuthera- tlon of the Inhabitanta of this -d though Mtsnalbly passed In obedience te a direction In the constitution wm altogether useless in contemplation -of 1 the United States census to taken In 1870 Many If not most of the per- eons employed for this business (chiefs at 85 assistants at 84 a day) ware so grossly tncompatant that the accuracy -A of thslr figures wm never -sj A chief Justice with A S' circuit bench ef tbe law court by the legislature of 1886 and waa recognised throughout Houth Carolina aa a man of decided ability and of much learning In his 'profession He had enjoyed a large practice before his election to the circuit bench He waa an excellent writer his opinions taking rank among tha best In onr Btate this In the estimate of lawyers of high Blending and of no sympathy with Judge Mnees In his affiliations at the time of hta election to the bench of tho supreme court served uulU his death In March' 1877 Judge Willard was a New York lawyer who had In that Stats acquired considerable standing In the profession He esme to South Carolina as lieutenant colonel of a negro regiment served on the coast and waa honorably mentioned for gallant and officiant service In the battle of Honey In November 1884 one of the hottest and really most Important battles of the war Assigned to duty In Charleston ha served aa Judge advocate and was brought intb public notice by hi able though somewhat bitter prosecution of Keys and othera (already mentioned) for the alleged hilling of fed eral soldiers In Anderson Judge Wtl lard waa evidently a hard his opinions especially In more Important ease showing wide and close study His -stylo wow-obscured -by hi Stan-dency to metaphysical refinements and by unskilful sentential structure These qualities gave rise to ths generally unfavorable estimate In which many of his opinions were held by the profs' slon Hs served aa associate Justice till June 1877 when he was elected by the Democratic legislature to fill out tbe term of Chief Justice Moses Judge Hogs had come here from Ohio at a captain In a federal company of Infantry and won practically without experience as a lawyer except that he had acted as Judge advocate in Mime courts martial lie was evidently conscious of his utter for In his eighteen months on tho bench he nevpr wrote a single opinion won the extent of hlo analysis of the legal questions on which be passed Judgment He resigned from the bench to go to congress Mr Hutson Wlgg of Columbia wss appointed a position he held for two years without doing any of Its work For tha first circuit Corbin wns e'erted but he declined on the ground thst ths salary (85500) was Insufficient The Iralslature then elected Richard Carpenter who had turns from Kentucky and who was register In bankruptcy resident I11 Charleston He wes a 1 nan of Strong Intellect a lawyer of exceptional ability and a good writer but of rather rough exterior While on the bench he made such an Impre-Ninn that hs was the choice of the people of Charleston for the nmtti 1 Ion for governor on tho "Union He form'' ticket In 1870-whlch ticket as will hereafter be related was the re suit or an effort to bring together the people of the1 State without regard to race or politics In a movement for peaT order and honest government For the second circuit Zephanlah Plntt who had been appointed by Oen Canby when Judge Aldrich was moved was everted For ths third the choice fell upon John Green of Humter a lawyer of high standing and a gentleman of unimpeachable character For the fourth circuit the Judge elri '-d was James Rutland of Fair fli-lil a strong lawyer and an honest The Judge elected for the fifth circuit wo lmuel Newer of Lexington a good liiwyvr and a man to whose Integrity prominent citlsens of nil shades of politics! opinion united In bearing hearty testimony For the sixth-circuit Die choice first fell upon Mr George Williams of gentleman of the highest char He waa engaged In planting and In arer and a lawyer whom reputation that connection had been a slave I riiertHge and Jnfluence extended con-holder After Die war he was I mderabiy beyond his own county He In business In Columbia and was declined the proffered say-said to have operated extensively in(r that as his own people had not in tha buying and selling of se- tendered it he could not accept It miritlea Ho wss without much ex- from novices and strangers Wm perlence In deliberative bodies and Thom a native of Charleston and he edited In Charleston hti paper called The Missionary JteepriU me columns of which ofteir1' of most Incendiary sppeal to the passions of the negroes coupled with outrageous abuse of the white allowance wm something over 876000 Mr A Sawyer mentioned below wm of course Included among the beneficiaries of the provision stated For the term commencing March 4 1867 and ending March 2 1872 the contest wm much harder 1 There were eight ballots and on the last the vote stood ms follows: A Sawyer 78 A Mackey 88 Ja Campbell 5 On the previous ballots Mr Campbell bad received a vote ranging from 12 to 15 and Mr Mansfield French a vote tanging from 1 to 28 Ex-Gov Perry received one vote on the first ballot Thorruta Robert wm- already stated wm a graduate of the South Carolina college In the class of IMA socl Judge Moses had been elected to the Jos Rainey colored Jamee Allen white Buck white Jlllson white Sima white Owens white 8 Hayes white Maxwell colored Henry 75 Hayne colored 1 Montgomery white Blcmann white i Randolph colored succeeded by Jos A Greene colored A Rodgers white Naah colored Joel Foster white Coghlnn white Duncan colored Williamsburg 8 A Swells colored Wm Roue white The numher of white senators elected was 81 and of colored 10 The counties marked were Democratic The roll of the house of representatives wax as follows: George Duaenberry Milford James Martin white Valentine Lomax colored John Moore Frank Sloan John all white Berry Mlxeon white: Hayne James Hayne Julius Mayer 14 Elliot ts colored StnlhraiM Uhstles 8 Kuh white J-Whipper Er klel Robert SmaMs A Bennett Morrison colored Reuben Tomlinson Jos Jenks John 11 Dennis Moses Jr Jackson white: De-Large A Ransler Gray A Bosemon George Lee Wm McKinley Brodle Jolfii Wright Wm Jervey Abraham Smith Samuel Johnson Stephen Brown Edward Mick- service In the com of Robertson the people- For -some of the bloodshed In this State -during the Reconstruction period Calfl And his Missionary Record were triTart responsible Though sometimes denouncing the corrupt practices of his party his actual affiliation waa generally with the thieves He stumped the State In advocacy or the election of Frank Moses for governor The rase of Cain la thus referred to In order to point out the Influence In some degree once exerted Jsy the African Methodist Episcopal church on the tldio( dishonesty and dlacord In South Carolina Caln'a performance In the senate waa not Imitated In the house Elections la Joint Assembly Much Interest among the Republican members centered in the election of tbe two senators of the United States The most prominent candidates were Dr A Mackey lately the president of the constitutional convention Mansfield French a Northern mop who had been for some time connected with the Freedmen's Bureau Fredrick A Haw yer of Charleston And Thomas Robertson of Columbia z1- Robertson ran for tha short term (two years)- was sully elected on the first the vote standing: Robertson 130- Perry 18 Mackey Sawyer The ferm (or which Robertson wa chosen was stated In the proceedings to be the term commencing March 4 1885 and ending March 4 1871 For the period between March 4 1N86 and the date of election Robertson and some o(hcr senators elected by the different negro legislatures were by an act of congress passed In 1868 declared entitled to pay if they had actually served from the beginning of the term For thla Imaginary For the service of the conetabutar jr the fiscal year commencing) 1808 the sum of 810 uot) was apprapri- ated and tor the fiscal year commencing Nov 1 1888 the sum of )0i)00 waa allowed The actual expenditures of tho constabulary for the year last mentioned wm 85505880 By an act entitled "an act tojclose the operations of tho Hank of tha State of South It waa sought to selso tha assets of that Institution and distribute them among certain holdera of It bills (said to hava'beon bought up at 10 canta on tha dollar) amounting to tho exact achema being to fund tha bllla in lx par cent Btate bonds running 10 years 1 Attor nry General Chamberlain gave 1 an opinion sustaining tho validity of tho act The supreme court upon a proper case mode held the not to be void- because It imitalred the obligation of the State's contract with creditors other than the bill holders The scheme thus blocked wm manifestly a pise of Jobbery Whether corrupt means were used to the legislature to pasa tho act cannot be the parties ob-jnetlng to It having sought and obtained relief In the court Tho to authorise a Stale loan to pay Interest on the publlo approvod Aug 28 1868 directed the harrowing of sum not exceeding 1 Ko on coupon bonds of tho State sold at ths highest market price and not leas than a sum to be fixed by the governor the 1 attorney general and the treasurer who srS hereby authorised to appoint- under a commission signed by them' some re-apnnaiblo "bank orAbanlreg (utbe city of Naw York to act as financial agent of the State to be subject to their direction and By thla act wm Inaugurated 1 the series of Irregular unlawful and fran dulent acts committed In connection with the public debt of tho Blot The hoard thus Scott Chamberlain and selected the "financial one Hiram Klmp-Ion of Boston who was said to have been an intimate friend of the attorney general Klin Plan (apparently about 46) affected much style In drew and great elegance -of gold rimmed spectacles being among tbe acrcBssorles used to glvo him a distinguished appearance The Charleston News It wot that first called him so suave ana calm Snd leek did he always look He was es sentlally what would now tie cel laid a artlclf" From the time of his appointment to the end of his career he wm the Active agent th constant helper of the Bcott -Barker Chstnlwrlaln ring that operated under the name and style of the bourd In the first two years of his work Klmpton's for servlcas alleged to have been rendered under his contracts with the board amounted to something over I7SJM6 An to organise townships snd to define their powers snd wns Introduced In the senate by Corbin and duly became a Ixw It wm but a copy of tha statute of some Northern Stale-presumably Vermont as Corbin had coinn thence to South Carolina The tu (of 88 sections) embodied a most elaborate scheme of township government Every town hip was made a body corporate end provision was mode for meetings each to be presided over by Every town wm 1 qulred to choose a town clerk three selectmen one or more surveyor of highways and one constable Ths selectmen were mode overseer of tho poor register In town elections general supervisors of the affairs of the town and auditors of Its accounts They were charged with the repair and maintenance at highways and might levy taxes therefor The surveyors In addition to duties as such were the to call out the mad-working gangs and to those offleere the "elect-men were to depute that work Tha pay of the aelw-tman was fixed at I1M per day of the clerk the name and of ths surveyor 15 1 cents per hour This law was ao soon found to be utterly Inapplicable to conditions In Houth Carolina that It was summarily thla by the act of January 13 1870 The manifest object of the measure was to create a multitude of offices to be filled by for no groes would have controlled well-nigh every (or township) meeting By the to authorise additional aid to the Blue Ridge Railroad company" the comptroller-general wm authorised to pledge the "faith and funds" of Hie Btate to the payment of bonds of that corporation to the amount of SIAWOM and also to pledge such and to the punctual payment of any contracts which shall be made by Mid company to an additional amount not exceeding 83006006" Out of thla act grew the bums of the famous Bond transactions under thla art snd In the circulation of tho so-called scrip constituting one of the schemes of plunder Instituted by the Republican ring In South Carolina A concurrent resolution waa adopted which "requested tho governor to take such action as may be necessary to have the more Important towns In the fluto garrisoned by United fitates troops that pears and order may lie preserved and the rights of the people may he an early acknowledgment of tho inability of the negro government to sustain Itself without the old of federal bayonets The salaries of State officers were fixed a follows: Governor 13500 with a private secretary at 82600 lieutenant aovernor 810 a day during the session ed bylhe election of Fratclln Moses for wme years a resident of Greenville was afterwords elected Judge Thom was a lawyer of fair aMilty and good character and hs conscientiously labored to dlM hargs well the duties of his office He very soon aroused the op-pnnitlon of the Radicals The Judge of ths seventh circuit was he thla In January 1871 Ex-Gov James Orr wm without aoUrltatlon on his port elected for the eighth circuit The chief Justice's salary wm fixed at the other Justices and the circuit Judge to receive 83806 each Notable Legislation Some of tho mors Important acts passed at tho special session wlU serve to show somewhat the temper and the Ideas of the Mir lawmaker By an act to establish a State police wm organised 1 what was popularly known ths State constabulary The State constable appointed by tho governor at a salary of 81100 a year wm John Hubbard who camp loot from wm accounted a poor speaker He allied himself with the extremists of tbe Radical party In Washington In U68 he offered in the senate "a Mil to provide for tho removal of political which relieved the- person under disability from taking ths tut oath prescribed in the act of 1882 and O'l stt (V 'i -v 2 i Indeed tras not much claimed by tbe themselves The taking pf the census cost ths State 871624s The of taking the United States census of 1876 In this State (the tables Including much more than a mere enumeration mvIIS of Inhabitanta) cost 843J08J8 Pot counting- tabulation etc In the office at Washington It Is fair to conclude that the work done here eoat quite double what the same work cost under the management of federal officials The salary ths state auditor an official provided for In tho tax aasess- 3 ment law passed at the special session was fixed at 83500 with for M-a clerk at 11000 Reuben Tomlinson got this smv job -MR The sending or the acceptance of Sfe challenge -to fight sword1 -pistol rapier or -any other dangerous was npide punishable by bn- Srlsonment not exceeding (wo yars'4 -'tS's' nd the person so offending was to be Incapable of voting or of holding office Tho samo penalties were denounced upon those who should carry any tonga to fight a duel or 'who should bo present at such a second or did At this session there passed the act providing for1 the consisting of a commissioner at an annual salary of 83000 with fees and mileage in certain the governor the comptroller the treasurer the attorney general and the secretary of state constituting ths advisory board Ths sum of to raised" by tbe Issue of slx-per-cent bonds of the State running 20 waa provided for the purchase bf 1m- i- proved or unimproved land these to ey colored Barney Humphries Bancho Sanders Barney Burton colored Shrewsberry I Johnson colored Clarendon Wm Nelson Powell Smyth colored Geo McIntyre white Hoyt Thomas Wm Drlffie colored 1 () Holliman white: Jordan Lang John Boston Alfred Rush cokired Root white David Hams Sethi Lee John Woo ley Prinro Rivera John Gardner Law-renew Cain colored Duvall white Henry Jacob Henry Johnson colored Henry Webb white Miller Jonee colored Semi Tlneley John 1 Hyde white Wilson Cook A Blah 1 op colored Zadock Bullock Waller white fi Dill white: John A Chestnut 3 Nash colored Wank Clyburn Grant colored Collins white Evans Hayes A Thompson colored I New oseph Boston James Hutson- Janies Henderson colored Doyle WV Keith white 3 M' KInlay gasportas DeVftr 3 Cain 1 James Mays colored Field white Thompson William Simmons Wilder Aesop Good- vThe convention adopted a resolution expressing doubts of the propriety of the taking of any port by the white people of South Carolina In the nation-al Democratic convention this because they would have no efllective volet In the selection of presidential and submitting the matter to the ac-' tlun of that convention also a resolution In effiect declaring for white this without any statement as to the negro's exercise of the suffrage when he should become qualified therefor 1 Delegates to the national convention were chosen as follows: State at Wade Hampton of 1 Richland James Campbell of Charleston: alternates Furman of Charleston James Carroll of Richland First John Manning of Clarendon: alternate Richard Dosier of Georgetown Second district Charles Slmon- ton alternates John Hanckel Rhett Jr all of Charleston Third Gary of Edge-field alternate A Frederick of Orangeburg The fourth district being unrepresented in the convention no choice was made of a delegate therefrom The delegatee thus chosen united with those elected at the April conven lion to form the State's delegation In the national the April body having overlooked the fact that the delegation was of double the nnm her of our representatives In both branches of congress executive committee were the State elected: Wm Porter Then Barker John Corew Robt Adger Ckariaetofl Henry Mclver Cherter-fleld A A Gilbert Sumter Finley Marlboro By the action of this convention and the cooperation or the executive committee of the April convention harmony was established In the Democratic party of South Carolina On August 8 then was another meeting of the Democratic State convention In ell the counties being The constable was tn some cases at- Stewart white tended by a squad of United States 1 Joseph Crews whits Grif-soldiers under arms No one of thegn Johnson Wade Perrin Harry Mo-parties thus arrested was evenbrought Dnnlele colored to trial 1 3 A Lewie white The Republican electoral ticket cam- Purvis colored ed fbe day The Republican congress-1 Stubbs white: John be divided- Into parcels of not lees than 25 and not more than 100 acres and sold to actual settlers who should pay therefor In five annual Installments i- commencing at the end of tbe third 1 year of possession with annual lnter- est at six per cent reckoning from the date of purchase Thus was inaugurated a scheme which through- out Us workings constituted one of tho great frauds that helped to fix tho character of so-balled Republican rule A In Houth Carolina By a Joint resolution the governor was authorised to purchase stand of arms of the most Improved i pattern with (he usual complement 'of Oov Scott selected Winchester rifles 11 The fifteenth amendment to tho federal constitution was duly the Democrats In each house of course voting In the negative The tax levy for the fiscal year com- 1 menclng Nov 1 1888 wm five mills for Stats purposes and the levy for tlie several counties ranged from three to seven mills In ths house a 1 resolution wm 1 adopted January 18 1688 expelling and excluding from the hall John Bloan Jr the Columbia correspondent -of tho Charleston Courier The ground of this action was tho correspondent's denunciation of the course of Whipper one of the members from Beaufort towards the State that Mack Individual having shown a purpose to turn out tho Incumbent professors and put negroes In their places 1 At this session tho house voted the speaker a gratuity of 8588 Tho session of 1188-81 endtd llarch required one substantially similar to I Mr Vernon of Spartanburg the oath of office aa fixed in the South Kvod lawyer and an honest man Carolina constitution of UC8 adding -hne Independent course so soon of-this obligation to be taken by the af- fended the Radical legislature that ha flsttl: "I will demran myself aWM impeached upon trumped-up good cl II sen supporting gaud order rharg Acting on the advice of friends large were elected by about the samo vote but were not orated Tho Democrats sleeted 3 Reed of Anderson over Solomon I Hose of Richland in the third congressional district and Wm Simpson of Lour- ens defeated A Wallace of York In the fourth Upon a contest In congress I both of the Democratic members were unseated Bowcikwm elected from tbg second district defeating -Seymour of Charleston and a Whlttemore from the first defeating Harris Covington of Marlboro Poll cl tor were elected a fallows: First Chamberlain (Rep) of Charleston Wlrgln (Rea) of Beaufort 8 Atkinson (Dam) of Georgetown: fourth A 3 Shaw (DemA of Marian Wm Talley (Dem) of Richland Wm Brawler (Dem) tolerance of political opinions and free dotn of the elective Tbe Mil contained a proviso no perron shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of thla law who was educated at the military or naval academy of tho United States or who was '21 years of age or upwards on tho lot day of January Tho extent of the disfranchisement thus may be clearly seen from tho vary term of the proviso It wm said by a contemporary crltle Dat Thaddeue Stevens nor Charles Sumner nor even Butler ever proposed a disfranchisement so cruel so merciless so The Mil did not become a law Among Mr Robertson'! earliest son colored SamL Littlejohn Robt Smith Javan Bryant C- Turner white John II- Johnson white Jamee Smfiejr Burrell James colored Samuel Nacktes June Mobley Simon Farr colored i.