The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 26, 1876, Image 1
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The War iz South CaroHus.
A Herald correspondent, gives the
first careful, succinct, and evidently
correct account of the so called "war
of race&" in South Carolina which
has been published, with a complete
list of the killed and wounded. The
Ellenton riot, in its different phases,
was undoubtedly an exciting affair;
but it is over, and we do not see any
thing in its history to warrant the
charges which Governor Chamber
lain, .candidate for re electi -n, pub
lishes against the, white people of the
State. There was disorder on Oboth
sides, but -it is clear from our corres
poodent's account that while the ne
groes, ignorant, suispicio.us, under
the leadership of men of their own
race, who prefer mischief to peace,
and, wrongly alarmed, brought on
the strife, and throughout acted with
out authority or warrant of law, the
Whi es acted as a sheriff's posse, had
with them the white Sheriff, who
was wounded by the fire otilie n.
grces, and it is clear that the white
men conducted themselves with ors
der and self-restraint.
What we chiefly notice in the
whole matter is that the Governor ot
theStato appears to have taken no
part in it or notice of it. le seems
'to have turned it over to the Federal
powers; and it remained for United
States troops to step in between the
combatants and 'stop the struggle,
which was done at oice, the whites
disbanding and going home witlhot.t
P.mihute's hesitation, as soon as the
Federal Captain appeared and prom
ised that the negroes should also die
bqnd and cease hostili ies.
Now, there is 11( hope of any com
iiunity where the local authorities
are thins abject and inactive. It
Governor Chaiberlain had in any
other way shown his tinfitnes8 for the
oflico to which lie aims to ie-elect
him-qJ conduct in this Ellenton
at air ought to cause every man,
white and black, in the State, to vote
aginist hiim,. The colored man, in
p)artlcular ought to vote against him,
because they above all others need a
State government prompt to put
down lawlessness, whether it arises
i'n thieir own ranks or among the
whites. All experience since the
war proves that the negroes cannot
make a successful stand against the
-whites, in these irregular and inter
necine conflicts. They have', as at
YVksburg and elsewhere, been ready
enough to begin a fight; but they
always get the worst of it, because
they are badly led, by designing
knaves who lead them into trouble
onlly to desert them in the moment
of action. General Hampton has, on
every stump in the State, promised
equal and complete protect ion to the
blacks. We advise them to take him
at his word and vote for him solidl3,
Jie is a man of character and cannot
afford to forfeit his word; nor does
he want to.
The colored men of the South have
no more zealous friend than Senator
JRoutwell. Let themn act tipon the
advise which he thuis past summer,
on a full view of the situnation in~
Miississippi, gave to the leading col
ored men in that State. He advised
them to nominate for every office in
the State prominent honest white
mn, natives or old residents-of the
SState and filly identified with it; tc
trust themselves to these and vote
for them in a body. Under this ad
.vice the colored voters of South Car
olina should not hesitate to support
G~eneraIl Hampton and the Demo
IgratkeState and local ticket. If they
do this they cannot fare worse in any
eveant than they have under Oharp
. berjaiu, and they are very sure tc
fore betr. Governor Chamnberlain
Aas not lkre.ght peace or prosperity
to t,heitate or to the negroes. Ilis
urititues for theo .pAce be holds, and
sbitsbly hobemnes to retain, is mnanr
feat: HIeL annaht Lh,a neora
nomination, and, failing to get it, he
now tries to plunge the State into
disorder to secure his re,elebtit) as
a Republican. Respectable colored
men can have no interest in making
themselves the tail to Mr. Chamher
lain's kite. Their interest lies in
trood government, and that expe
rience has shown them Mr. Chain
berlain lacks either the capacity or
the desire to give them.-New York
Herald.
From Washington.
WAsmNGTON, Oct. 17.--The Pren
sident has issued his proclamation.
After a long preamble, referring to
tue state of affairs in South Carulina,
the proclamation commands all per
sons engaged in said unlawful and
insurrectionary proceedings, to dis
perse and retire peacefully to their
respective homes within three -la3s
from this date, and hereaf Eer to aoan
don said combinations, and submit
themselves to the laws and constitu~
tional authorities of said State, and,
"I invoke the aid and co-operation
of all good citizens thereof to uphold
thu jaws and preserve the public
peace."
The following order has been is
sued:
WAR DEPARTME\T,
Washington, D C., Oct. 17,'76.
Gen. W. T. Sherman, Commanding
United States Arn3:
Sir-In view of the existing con
dition of aiffairs in South Carolina,
there is h posibility that the procla
mation of the President, of this date,
may be disregardel. To provide
aga.inst such a coitingency, you will
immediately'order all tie available
'orce in the nilitary division of the
Atlantic to report to General RMger,
comm111andiig at Celoumia, S. C., and
instruct that otficer to station his
troops in such localities that they may
most speedily and effectually be u6ed
in case of resistance to the authority
of the United States. It is ho,)ed
' hat a collision may thus be avoided,
but you will instruct General Ruger
to let it be known that it is the fixed
purpose oh the government to carry
out fully the spir it of the proclama,
tion, and to sustain it by the military
force of the general government, sup,
plimuented, if necessary, by the
militia of the various State.
Very respectfully, your obedient
ser'vaniit.
[Signedl] G. D. CAMER N,
Secretary of War.
The proclamation is regarded as a
mere formality, and no further steps
are contemplated. There is not the
most remote intimation of any intens
tion on the part of the Federal Gov
ment to assist Governor Chamber-.
lain in dep'rivinmg the 'citizens oh
South Carolina of their private arms
The Sumter correspondent of the
Charleston Journal of Comimerce,
writing of the grand display there
on Saturday, narrates the following
beau tiful instance of the sentiment it.
the State canvass: A large crowd hac
collected at the stand early in th(
morning. On the seats provided fot
the ladies there were grotuped thirty
eight little girls, representing th<
thirty eight States, who strewed flow
era in Governor hampton's pathwa)
as he approached. A t the fr'ont 01
the stand a beautiful little girl stood
clad in mouirning habiliments, an(]
with chains hmumng about her. At
Governor Hlampton's approaich, hea
chatins and sable robes dropped fron:
bor, with a clank, and left her' stand
ing bright and beautiful, clothed Ir
pure white.
'In the presence of the people oh
South Carolina, and in the psreseuet
of my God, I pledge mysetf that il
elected I shall know no party, nc
race, no color or condition ini thme ad
anmistrationi of the laws. I shall be
Governor of the entire people oi
South Carolina."-W VAD n a
it SoaA Carolina or Itexloo.
Arbitary illegal arrests by Federal
soldiers, under th.e orders of ped
eral deputy marshals, have begun iha
South Carolina. Governor Charn
berlain, candidate for re-election, op%
posed not only by the Detoorats, but
by a considerable and Increasing fae
tion of his own party, fears that be
will be beaten. Accordingly he ap
peals to the Federal admiuistration.
for the loan of soldiers to help him to
intiuidate the recalcitrant voters.
Laving arranged a board of State
canvassers of election and a returning
board, the majority of whose mem
bers are candidates on the same ticks
et with him, and are thus by a mon
sterous perversion of justice entitled
to decide the vote in their own favor;
having further manafged that of the
ninety-six commissioners of election
in the counties seventy should be his
declared partisans and forty office
holders who hold their places by his
appointment; having thus prearran
ged the c'-uut in his own favor, Mr.
Chamberlain now summons Federal
troops and Federal marsbals to ar
rest citizens known to be opposed to
him in politics. And all this in the
United States, and under the auspi
ces of a party which once called it
self the pre-eminent friends of liberty
and some of whose leading mem
bers held the fugitive slave law to be
unconstitutional becauso it interfer,
ed with the rights of the States.
Mr. Charles Francis Adams, in a
recently published letter, warned the
people against the revolutionary ten
doticivs of the Republican leaders.
Was he far wrong? A multitude of
respectable citize. s, among them all
the Republican members of the Su
pi eme Bench of the State, assert pub
licly that there is no trouble, no po
litica! violence or lawlessnes in South
Carolima. The citizens who have
been arrested have submitted quiet-.
ly 'The Governor himself has made
no pretense even of an efIrt to subs
due lawvlessness; he has done nothing
but issue a violent and incendiary
proclamation and sent for Federal
troops, like his prototype, Perrin, in
Alabama, who shot a hole through
his own hat and then called for sol
diers. .Does the Repulican party
North consent to such revolutionary
acts as this? Is this a sample of
what it proposes to do if it is con
tinued in power another four years?
If so, then the safest, the only safe
course for the Northern voters, is to
turn it out. Thefa can be no doubt 0on
that subject. Thi3 is not Mexico; but
the acts of Govrnor Ch amberlain, th is
misuse of Federal troops and Feder
al power, would if continued four
years longer, set us a long way to
ward Mexico. It is granted that the
political party which happens to pos
sess the Federal government may
marchL its soldiers in.to the States for
political purposes, the we have pay
ed the way broadly for general civil
disorder. If these proceediLgs in
South Carolina are not promptly
disowned by the Republican caundi
date, every Northern citizen who has
a stake in the country ought to vote
atgainst himx.-Newv Yorm Herald.
The entire vote of Ohio this year
will not lall short of 625,000, and
Barnes majority, when the official re.
turns are opened and compared, will
undoubtedly be something less than
5,000. A change of one halt per
cent. tromn the Rep)ublican) ranks to
the Democrats, will give us the State.
One mbain in every hundred who vo
ted for Bairnes, coming over to Til'
den, will make his majority as large
as Barnes' now is. T1his is not a
state of affairs to discourage anybody
in tho Democratic ranks.
A TLANTA, OA., October 17.-"Blume
Jeans" WVilhmams' mnajotily in Indi
ana is 5,494. The rest of the ticket
runs to higher figures.
A Fight-in. Oa spaoUnty.
TWO MICit" kIit,EtJ AND THIRTEEN
A jointdiscussion bad been agreed
on between.Mrp WCounor on part
of the-Dinoe"tdj add Mr. Bowen of
the Repuboans, tt Oaibb6y, about
twenty miles fi:' bbarleston. It
had been agreed early ill the convass,
that-no gune should be taken to the
meeting. On boa'rd the staanear, the
young ruen. had amaused themselves
firing their pistols at objecis in the
water; and w1hen they reached the
place of meeting, their pistols were
empty.
It seems the negroes had loaded
muskets bid out in the bushes, and
when a quarrel, followed by some
blows, occurred on the outskirts of
the crowd, a musket was fired by a
colored man ft the whites. At this
moment the negroes edged down to
wards the edge of the swamp, and a
few seconds later, a volley was fired
at the whites from the swamp.
Immediately other vegroes rushed
to the bushes where their muskets
were Lid and fired at the whites. It
is noted that not a Democrat had a
rifle, musket or shot gun on the
ground.
In the coinfusic)n that followed the
Democrats got possession of some of
the guns secreted as reported by the
negroes, but not more than one third
of the whites had even pistols, while
the negroes were firing from the ra
vine some fifty yards off.
The casualties were confined al
most exclusively to the Democrats.
Wounded : Alexander McNeil,
Thomas Whitaker, Charlie White,
Hampton Smith, St. Julien Jervey,
S. L. Bennett, (colored.) Angus Bern
nlett,(colored,) E: P. Cronets, William
Sm1ith, Lewis Jones, E. A. Cobia,
Elmore Dt'kes, and -- Larissay.
These were all Democrats. It is not
known if any Republican were hit,
except one killed by a shot aimed at
Mr. Sande,'s. "The whites returned
as faist As they ciuld to the boats. It
seems to have. b.een a preconcerted
thing on the part-of the negroes of the
colored militia.
AN ILLUSTR jlN.I is announced
that the Democrats if'successful, will
sacrifice the rights of the freedmen.
The facts of history are in contradic
tion to this theory. Mr. Tarbox,
Congressional Representative of
Masachneette, truly declared in a
late speedh that in every Democratic
State, except in the narrow limits of
Republican misrule, the rights of the
black meun are as yell protected and
their interests as sate as in Massa
chusetts, and he points his hearers
to the action of the trustees of the
Peabody trust fund if they doubt it.
They have recently decided it to be
useless to devote.any of that trust
fund to South Carolina and Louisiana
because there is no decent govern
went there.
IMAGINARY 01rraAOIs.- Gov. Chain
berlain diligeAtly grinds the South
Carolina outrage mill and has just
reported that 800 "men in buckrami"
recently broke open a building whereo
arms were kept and carried them
away. It was so dark that nobody
satw them, but the Governor is surte
they were white men and rebels. A
story of this kind needs confir mation.
I'be absence of any details is enough
to make it suspected.-New York
LHeraId.
We are of the condition of some
great men in office that desire execu
tion of the laws, niot bo rrpech to cor
rect offenses and reform the common
weailthi, as to thrive by their piunlish
men, and grow rich and fat with a
clear conscience.
Governor Tilden expects to do ten
times better in New York thena Guy.
Hayna has done in ()hio-B.ay 70,000.
Republion Secret Agencies.
Another secret society, formed in
the interests of Hayes and Wheeler, 1a
[as been exposed in the North. It b
is called the "Grand Sentinels, of
Freedom." When it originated, or
where, we are not informed. It has Mn
just come to light in St. Louis, Mis
3ouri.
This new fangled and nefarious
3oncern is anti Catholic. Only thor
Dughbread Americans are admitted. D
I'he candidate is sworn before the
ikeletons of the traitors to the urder; ]
and he signs the roll book with a pen
lipped in his own blood. D
The oath binds its member to drive
all Catholics from this country, un- D
less they submit to such restrictions
is this society dictates; to use all his a
influence to keep Roman Catholics, or
the friends of Roman Catholics, from P1
holding offics in the United States;
to labor to elect men who pass such a
laws as will render the Catholic
tI
Dhurch so unpopular that it will do no
harm, and gradually disappear from
Dur land; to vote for no man who is
not in favor of compelling catholics a
to read Protestant bibles; and to sup
port no foreigner for any office, from a
the smallest to the greatest.
This is a brief outline of the main I
features of the oath. It embraces
other objects, such as the breaking
up of convents, disrobing of priests,
reading of the mass in English, forc
ing the Sisters of Charity to dress as
other ladies, and so forth. To ac- C
complish these purposes, the mein
bers of the order are expected, when
called upon, 'to wade through blood,'
it necessary.
This wicked, s*nguinary society is
said to be now exerting its guilty enK e
ergies in the cause of Hayes and I
Wheeler. The expose comes from
J. 1:. Jagger, of St. Louis, Missouri, 1
a recent member of the order, who C
has made oath before a notary pub- i
lic of the truth of his statements; and r
declares that, in all human proba- -
bility, he will pay with his life the I
forfeit of his betrayal of the secrets I
of' the inifamnous conspiracy. C
This organization is but one among v
many of the secret agencies which a
the Republicans, in their despera- v
tn,are employing to carry this r
election. While the "Boys in Blue" c
fan the fires of hatred against the s
South, and the "Never Meets" are e
endeavoring to keep the negroes con-- 5
solidated for the Republicans, the a
"Grand Sentinels of Fr eedom'' are e
tfying to arouse the country against i
the Roman Catholics. t
These are not the only secret so- e
cieties in league with .the Republi-- e
cans. In the trials of the Molly Ma. r
guires, which is nrow going on at r
Pottsville, Pa., the testimnorey will, C
it is said, make the startling rev ela-- p
tion that the society was chartered ti
by the State, and "that the highest a
Republican officials in Pennsylvania V
have approached the murderers now t,
under' sentence of death, and those e
other muriderers yet to be tried, and ti
have, by bribing them with money, t
secured by their influence and the
iufluence of all the MoIly Magnires
to further their political schemes."
It is well for all the independent.
voters of this country to know of
thbeso secret agencies---these evil,
dangerous comnbinations, employed
by the Republicans; that they may
know the true character and pur
poses of the party wyhich, in seeking
to obtain a naew lease of power over
the national government, would ar
ray the Protestants against the Oath.
olics-the negroes against the whites
-anid the boys in blue against the
boys ini gray.4
Is this the way to that peace and
harmoney dfor which the people
long? ________
The ricleet treasure God ever left
on earth is the heart of the one we
love best of alt.
Preferenwe-katNt PrNoition
-
The Charleston News and' Cout4er
ys down the folfowing good rulles to
observed in the ordinary avopi
)As of life:
If you wanf a porter, employ a De,
Ocrat.
If you want a driver, em0oy a
emocrat.
It you want a waitot, emptfdt a
emocrat.
If you want a tailor, employ a
emocrat.4
It you want a plasterer, employ a
omocrat.
If you want wood out, employ a
emocrat.
If you want a gardener, employ a
emocrht..
If you want a shoemaker, employ
Democrat.
If you want beef, pork, mutton, etc.,
tronize a Democrat.
If you want a whitewasher, employ
democrat.
If yotu want a servant girl, employ
o daughter of a Democrat.
If you want a tinker, employ a Do
oeraxt.
If you want drayage done, employ
Democrat.
If you want a blacksmith, employ
Democrat.
If you want a bricklayer, employ a
eOmocrat.
If you want a carpenter, employ a
lenocrat.
if you want painting done, employ
Democrat.
It you want shaving done or huir
utting done, go to a Democratic
arber.
If you want a cook or washer wo..
nan, employ the wife, daughter o
ister of a Democrat.
A Cows INTELLIGENoE.-The Car.
on Appeal is responsible for the fol
owin z "true story."
"There is a young man residing
iereabout who became interested, re
ently, in a discussion about animal
natinct". He said he had been wit
iess of several wonderful evidences
'f these instincts, one0 of which ho
ad refrained from relating for fear (
e would not be believed. Back i'
no of the Eastern States, where b
vas born, he said, among his father's
took wau one remarkable cow. She 1
vas a-gr eat pet, and would leave the
est of the herd for the society of alL-'
r any one of th)e family, to whom
he would listen as if she understood
xactly what wats said. His father
old the farm and bought another
bout three miles distant, and this
ow would listen to the story about
and their p)roposed removal to
beir new home a certain time. This
ow was expected to become a moth-.
r shortly, or about the time of-tbeir
emoval; but when the time came to
emove, the cow could nowhere be
>und. So the family took their de..
arture from their old home regret-a
ing the loss of their pet cow; but on
rriving at their new home they
rere equally surprised and delight ed
r> find that their old pet had preced
d them three days, where she had
aken up her home and given birth
a fine calf."
The Irish citizens of Richmond,
(a., are raising funds for a monu
rent to the late ex-Governor Wise,
n recognit ion of the stand wvhich he
ook against thbe Know-.Nothuing
>arty when he was a leader in
Virginia politics.
It is sad to see a man who has
waded throngh gore to rescue his
sountry from the grasp of the tyrant
o subdued after marriage that even
he flies take advantage of him.
Love of truth shows itself in dis
~overing and appreciating what is
ood wherever it may exist.
The bloody shirt in Indiana has
een somewhat blued.
The Palmetto Rifle Club of Ander,
on has disbanded.