Browsing named entities in William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2. You can also browse the collection for Carolinian or search for Carolinian in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 14: Charleston. (search)
they aspire to fill the highest offices in the Government. The Secretary of State is a Negro. Offices which demand some aptitude in reading and writing, such as those of Attorney-general and Superintendent of Education, are left to White men, but those of higher pay and wider patronage are taken by the Blacks. The State Treasurer is a Negro; the Adjutant and Inspector-general is a Negro. Chief-Justice Moses is a White, but his Associate-Judge, Wright of Beaufort, is a coloured man. Carolinian judges used to be named for life, like English judges, and were as rarely deposed from the bench as judges in the parent State; but this Conservative way of dealing with the higher magistracy has been set aside under the Reconstruction Act. A judge is now appointed for four years only, and is seldom named a second time. His day is short, and he must make it pay. Some of the judges (I am told, on good authority) deal in cotton, rice, and other produce, and not unfrequently appear as partie