The Columbia State House

There can be no possible proof that all this increased indebtedness represented theft, nor is there any adequate reason for believing that most of it did. Between 18 68 and 18 72, the south carolina legislature approved 200 thousand dollars for furniture. Expenditure on champagne and whisky for the columbia state house was a hundred 25 million s in a single year. Other states such as louisiana, saw tenfold increases in their budget relative to pre pre war averages. Du boys suggest this money might have been spent carefully and honestly upon legitimate and necessary matters of restoration and government. No one at the time was so naive. We ameli honestly like we did not loot enough from the coffers of