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warrants of tlie Comptroller - General ; and 

 also the enactment of a law compelling the 

 Treasurer and Comptroller-General to publish 

 daily reports of the receipts and disbursements 

 of their offices for the past twenty-four hours. 



7. The enforcement of law and order in the 

 State, and the protection of the rights of all 

 citizens. 



9. In full faith in the justice of principles, 

 and confessing errors of the past, they appeal 

 to all true Republicans to unite in proving to 

 the world that good government and Republi- 

 canism are not inconsistent with each other. 



8. " We pledge ourselves that the govern- 

 ment of the State shall be so administered, in 

 all of its departments, that neither the public 

 schools nor the asylums of charity shall be 

 closed for the want of proper maintenance by 

 the State." 



10. " We maintain the authority of the Gen- 

 eral Government to interpose for the preserva- 

 tion of domestic tranquillity in the several 

 States, and we acknowledge, with gratitude, 

 such interposition in this State, and, with the 

 hope that the example lately presented the 

 civilized world, from within our borders, will 

 avail to assure to our people the enjoyment 

 of free speech and human rights, we invoke 

 for such as were ignorant, undesigned viola- 

 tors of the enforcement act, the merciful ex- 

 ercise of executive clemency." 



Ex-Governor J. L. Orr and the other dele- 

 gates who were opposed to the action of the 

 convention met in another part of the city, 

 and organized, with Mr. Orr as president. 

 After a session of three days, they presented a 

 full ticket of candidates for State offices and 

 an address to the people of the State. The 

 ticket was as follows : For Governor, Reuben 

 Tomlinson; Lieutenant-Governor, James W. 

 Hayne (colored) ; Secretary of State, Macon D. 

 Allen (colored) ; Treasurer, Edwin F. Gary ; 

 Attorney - General, John S. Green; Comp- 

 troller - General, J. Scott Freeman ; Adju- 

 tant and Inspector General, Philip E. Ezekiel 

 (colored) ; Superintendent of Education, B. L. 

 Roberts (colored). It was determined not to 

 coSperate with Democrats, nor in any way to 

 abandon the Republican party. The address 

 to the people, which was published, contained 

 the following statements : 



The condition of the affairs of the State at this 

 time causes the gravest concern and most serious 

 anxiety in the minds of all good citizens. Taxation 

 unprecedented in amount in the history of this State 

 weighs upon the people. No man but feels the bur- 

 den ; but, however, and by whatever channels, the 

 taxes reach the Treasury, they come finally, in great 

 part, from those who till the soil, in the form of re- 

 duced wages, and the increased cost of food, cloth- 

 ing, and other necessary expenses of a comfortable 

 existence. The hard hand of toil largely pays the 

 expenses of the State, though the money may be de- 

 posited in the Treasury by those who own the capi- 

 tal and the land. Let no man natter himself, there- 

 fore, that his poverty renders this subject of taxation 

 one of indifference to him. 



Besides the vast sums which have been drawn 

 from the people by direct taxation, our rulers have 



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been heaping other burdens upon us and our poster- 

 ity, by enormous and, in many cases, fraudulent 

 issues of bonds, the very interest upon which is a 

 sum so large that it seems impossible to pay it. 

 Concealment of the real state of our affairs has been 

 practised to a criminal extent : report after report, 

 statement after statement, has been made by the 

 financial officers of the State, making false exhibits 

 of our public debt ; and it was only when an out- 

 raged public opinion demanded and compelled an 

 investigation, that our real situation was developed, 

 and was found to justify the worst apprehensions 

 that had been felt. 



The State government has failed to protect the 

 citizens, not only in the enjoyment of those rights 

 and privileges intended to be secured by the provi- 

 sions of the State and national Constitutions, but 

 even in those more limited rights which no respecta- 

 ble, civilized government on earth allows to be vio- 

 lated in the persons of its subjects ; and it has been 

 the strong arm of the Federal Government which has 

 released thousands of men, women, and children, 

 from a terror with which they could not fail to be 

 filled by countless outrages perpetrated upon their 

 friends, relatives, and neighbors, by conspirators 

 whose deeds the world reads of with horror. 



The public schools have been crippled in their 

 work, and, in many cases, closed, because their 

 teachers applied in vain at the State Treasury for the 

 small salaries justly due them and necessary to their 

 daily support. 



The inmates of the Lunatic Asylum must have 

 been turned loose upon the community, but for the 

 humane efforts of its efficient superintendent, who 

 pledged his private credit to obtain food nobody 

 would sell on that of this great State. The doors of 

 the penitentiary may be flung wide open any day, to 

 allow the exit of a band of convicts whom the warden 

 cannot feed, because there is no money in the State 

 Treasury to purchase food. The judges of our courts 

 have not been paid their salaries for many months, 

 and are compelled, in most cases, to borrow money, 

 to supply the wants of themselves and their families, 

 and to oe subjected to the temptations too often 

 placed by rich suitors before a judiciary irregularly 

 or inadequately paid. 



Jobs of every conceivable description have been 

 undertaken ; the interests of the State have been 

 constantly and systematically set aside to enrich 

 those who scrupled at no kind of bribery or corrup- 

 tion to secure such legislation as the jobbers re- 

 quired. 



Public money has been squandered for objects of 

 no public moment. The expenses of some branches 

 of the government have been so enormously in- 

 creased as to astonish all who are not familiar with 

 the character of many of those who fill important 

 positions in the State government. 



" Pay certificates," drawn by the Speaker of the 

 House of Kepresentatives, purporting to be for ex- 

 penses of the late session, to the amount of over 

 $1,000,000, have already appeared at the Treasury, 

 and been paid or exchanged for the notes of the 

 Treasurer, and it is estimated, by those in a position 

 to judge wisely, that $250,000 in " pay certificates " 

 are still afloat in the community, to be presented 

 whenever there is any probability of their being 

 allowed. This will make the expenses of a single 

 session of the General Assembly over $1,250,000, or 

 more than 4,000 per cent, of the sum which was for- 

 merly considered sufficient to pay them. Enormous 

 sums have been lavished in pretended support of an 

 "armed force," which is notoriously non-existent. 

 The most corrupt practices have obtained in the 

 making of contracts by State officials. The contract 

 with the Koberts and other arms companies, of JSew 

 York, under which there were drawn from the State 

 Treasury over $200,000, while said arms company 

 received less than $90,000, is a type of the manner m 

 which the State Treasury has been depleted. In 

 public are familiar with the enormous extent ot the 



