An article from Defending The Heritage
It seems some things never change !
ONE OF THE MANY FRAUDS COMMITTED BY CARPETBAGGERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA:
There were many frauds perpetrated against South Carolina's tax-payers during the Carpetbaggers’ Regime, leaving the state in debt until 1939. One such fraud had to do with the publication of the acts and joint resolution of the General Assembly. The Republican Printing Company was an organization owned by clerks of the two houses, A.C. Jones, a black man, and Jospehus Woodruff, a Charleston and Columbia journalist turned Scalawag. Through bribery, they patched together enough support to secure the contract for state printing material. To put into prospective, the cost to the state for doing business with the Republican Printing Company rose from $17,446 (pre-Carpetbagger government) to $331,945 in 1873.
There were at least six Carpetbagger Senators who were guilty of bribery and therefore perjury. One of these men was Senator from Beaufort, by the name of Robert Smalls, who according to John S. Reynolds in his book published in 1905, “Reconstruction in South Carolina” was always affiliated with the corrupt leaders of the Republican Party. Smalls was convicted in 1873 of taking a bribe to vote for a bill in the interest of the Republican Printing Company. He took his case to the Supreme Court and was pardoned before his trial. Was Smalls guilty? It’s hard to say. Newspapers of the day were more politically charged then they are today. But guilty or innocent, the fact remains… $331,945 in costs suggests multiple people were getting rich at the tax payers’ expense…
Today Robert Smalls is celebrated as being a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement. Interesting leap… hum?
Sources: “After Slavery, The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction” by Joel Williamson, page: 388 and “The Reconstruction in South Carolina” by John S Reynolds, pages 261-262.
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There were many frauds perpetrated against South Carolina's tax-payers during the Carpetbaggers’ Regime, leaving the state in debt until 1939. One such fraud had to do with the publication of the acts and joint resolution of the General Assembly. The Republican Printing Company was an organization owned by clerks of the two houses, A.C. Jones, a black man, and Jospehus Woodruff, a Charleston and Columbia journalist turned Scalawag. Through bribery, they patched together enough support to secure the contract for state printing material. To put into prospective, the cost to the state for doing business with the Republican Printing Company rose from $17,446 (pre-Carpetbagger government) to $331,945 in 1873.
There were at least six Carpetbagger Senators who were guilty of bribery and therefore perjury. One of these men was Senator from Beaufort, by the name of Robert Smalls, who according to John S. Reynolds in his book published in 1905, “Reconstruction in South Carolina” was always affiliated with the corrupt leaders of the Republican Party. Smalls was convicted in 1873 of taking a bribe to vote for a bill in the interest of the Republican Printing Company. He took his case to the Supreme Court and was pardoned before his trial. Was Smalls guilty? It’s hard to say. Newspapers of the day were more politically charged then they are today. But guilty or innocent, the fact remains… $331,945 in costs suggests multiple people were getting rich at the tax payers’ expense…
Today Robert Smalls is celebrated as being a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement. Interesting leap… hum?
Sources: “After Slavery, The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction” by Joel Williamson, page: 388 and “The Reconstruction in South Carolina” by John S Reynolds, pages 261-262.
Travis [><]
![ONE OF THE MANY FRAUDS COMMITTED BY CARPETBAGGERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA:
There were many frauds perpetrated against South Carolina’s tax-payers during the Carpetbaggers’ Regime, leaving the state in debt until 1939. One such fraud had to do with the publication of the acts and joint resolution of the General Assembly. The Republican Printing Company was an organization owned by clerks of the two houses, A.C. Jones, a black man, and Jospehus Woodruff, a Charleston and Columbia journalist turned Scalawag. Through bribery, they patched together enough support to secure the contract for state printing material. To put into prospective, the cost to the state for doing business with the Republican Printing Company rose from $17,446 (pre-Carpetbagger government) to $331,945 in 1873.
There were at least six Carpetbagger Senators who were guilty of bribery and therefore perjury. One of these men was Senator from Beaufort, by the name of Robert Smalls, who according to John S. Reynolds in his book published in 1905, “Reconstruction in South Carolina” was always affiliated with the corrupt leaders of the Republican Party. Smalls was convicted in 1873 of taking a bribe to vote for a bill in the interest of the Republican Printing Company. He took his case to the Supreme Court and was pardoned before his trial. Was Smalls guilty? It’s hard to say. Newspapers of the day were more politically charged then they are today. But guilty or innocent, the fact remains… $331,945 in costs suggests multiple people were getting rich at the tax payers’ expense…
Today Robert Smalls is celebrated as being a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement. Interesting leap… hum?
Sources: “After Slavery, The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction” by Joel Williamson, page: 388 and “The Reconstruction in South Carolina” by John S Reynolds, pages 261-262.
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