Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — Carpet-Bag Rule in South Carolina. [ARTICLE]

Carpet-Bag Rule in South Carolina.

The investigation which is now going on in South Carolina, and is intended not only to expose the thieves who pillaged the treasury of the State during the period of carpet-bag rule, but to make those who are able to do so disgorge their illgotten gains, has created a panic among the ring chiefs and Republican leaders who controlled the legislation and the Government of the State. Many have fled beyond the reach of process, thus

virtually confessing their guilt. Others who went off in disguise have been found and carried back. A noble band of these patriots is gathered at Washington, to avoid giving testimony and to escape the consequences of evidence given by others. Patterson is at the head of this crowd, seeking pfotection under the wing of the fraudulent administration. There is hardly a doubt but conclusive proofs will be furnished to establish the complicity of Scott, Chamberlain, and others of even better repute, in the issue of bonds, jobbery in railroads, venal legislation, and a variety of rascally transactions. The revelations of Mose*, wlro was an integral part of this organized robbery, who was in the confidence of all the parties implicated, and who was discreet enough to preserve a mass of original papers showing their guilt, are astounding, and, when published, must make a stir.— New York Sun,