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TiiK PORT ltOVAL.
STANDARD and COMMERCIAL
A. < r. THOMAS
Kiliior, 9
Beaufort, S. C., August 3), 1876.
SMKt Itll'TIOXS.
Our Year. S i IM.
*1* Month*. 1 OO
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AdrriilwinmU will Ik Inserted nil In
rnfr of $1 SO |?rr square, 10 Nonpareil
liars for the first Insertion; subsequent
Insertions l?j' eoiitrnel.
Pi?rvTiv?: ?VT? STATIONERY.
We have one of the most complete JOB OFFICE"*
n the State, and do work as well and at as low prices
as in the cities. Our stock of?STATIONERY is large
and will be sold wholesale and retail, as low as in
Charleston and Savannah.
Deed* and law blanks in great variety.
O'Grial Paper of Beaufort Couiily.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS
FOR PRE8IDE1TT,
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
OFNKW YORK.
Honest Reformer THden
The greatest excitement prevails it
New York on account of the exposure oi
the manner in which the pseudo reform
er Samuel Tilden defrauded the govern
ment The stump orators who are sing
ing the praise of the honest reformer, de
light in tickling the ears of democratic
sympathizers with accounts of the corrup
tion under republican rule. They tell ui
of the whiskey riug, the credit mobiliei
and other corrupt schemes forgetful 01
iguorant of the fact that their belovec
Uncle Samuel, received $25,000 for ad
vice that led to the credit mobilier, thai
as a defrauder of revenue he would be
entitled to stand at the head of the class
-J - I1 h y* Uawa
compos:u ui inuse wuu uuvc uuuu v<?
whiskey nog defrauded the government.
In addition to being a defrauder of rev
enue he appears also in the role of 8
peijurer. We arc often told that Unclf
Samuel is a millionire, and that he will
therefore he above inducements to corruption,
but in spite of this in 1S6:;
he swore his income was but a trifle ovei
$7,000 and ODly paid fax on so much.
Prominent democratic newspapers of Net\
York are calling upon him to withdraw
from the canvess.
The N. Y. limes prints the following
article which has fallen like a bombshel]
on Tilden's chances :
" If a suit is. brought we can suggest
to the government where it will find
some conclusive testimony. On Dec. 26,
1863, Mr. Tilden swore to a return, under
oa h, in which he said: lT hereby certify
that the following is a true and faithful
statement of the gains, profits, or iu
come of Samuel J. Tilden, of the city d
New York, State of New York, whether
derived from any kind of property, rents,
interest, dividends, salary, or lrom any
profession, trade, employment, or vocation,
or from any other source whatever,
from 1st day of January to 31st day of
i _ _i i : i
UeoemDer, l?oz, Dom aayB inclusive, auu
subject to au iucome tax uuder excise
laws of the United States. Income from
all sources, $7,118.'
"In other words, in December, 1863,
Mr. Tilden swore that his entire income
liable to tax during the year 1862 was
$7 ,118, and upon that sum, and that sum
aloue, did he pay any tax. But in his
answer to the complaint in the Circuit
Court of the United States, in the suit of
the St Louis, Alton and Terre Haute
Railroad Company against himself and
others, which answer was filed a few days
ago, Mr. Tilden swore under oath as follows
: 4 That for such services the defendant
Tilden made a charge of $10,000
against said second mortgage bondholders
and the said charge was paid by or on
behalf of said second mortgage bondholders,
on the 17 th of October, 1862 * * *
that the defendant Tilden, for a part of
his services aforesaid, also made a charge
of the like sum of ten thousand dollar*
on account of professional services rendered
to the first mortgage bondholders
' and the receivers, which was paid to
Azariah C. Flagg, * * * and which
payment appears under date of November
7, 1862. in a statement annexed to
the first report aforesaid, as having been
receipted for by the said Tilden, 'on account
of professional services.'
In other words, having sworn, in
lhttf. that his entire income tor the year
Lv>2 from aii sources liable to taxation?
| counsel tees, dividends, rents, profits?
j was only s7,l's. lie, in I S7t>, swears that
! during the same year, 18t'?2. he received
, troui two sound's alone?his services to a
i
single company?By his <>w .
-worn admission, therefore, Mr. Tilden
stands indebted to the government in a
considerable snin for unpaid income tax
for 1 Sl?2, and we have two oaths by Mr.
Td lefl. utterly inconsistent with each other.
And yet' this man is the honest
man, the reformer of the country ! "
4^#
A correspondent sends us a communica"
' tioti headed '%the Combahee strike"
which we publish although disagreeing
with the deductions drawn. Fin t as to
it being a misnomer to call the trouble a
>trike. We think that taking Wcbstci
as an authority, the rice field embroglio
fills the bill, as hedefiaes "strike" to be
"the act of combining and demanding
higher wages ior work; cessation of labor
or neglect of duty, in a spirit of mutiny
or revolt."
Our correspondent goes, apparently, as
far as we go in opposition to the check
system, although his argument on the poliicy
of making these checks payable at a remote
period, controverts his statement of
fact, that checks were redeemable in money
etery Saturday, for if this was the
case the checks, if they passed out of the
hands of the original possessor to others
than their employers, could not have time
to circulate all over the country, and
other storekeepers knowing that they
would be redeemed every Saturday would
not bo likely to demand pay at inconveni
ient times, but would secure their cash
weekly. Then again the statement that
checks were redeemable in money every
Saturday, does not tally with his after as
( sertion, that the checks by agreement
r were eonvertable only into siypplies at the
. stores of the planters, and the natural in.
ferecce is that cash payments could only
be considered as a favor to the laborer
when "in an emergency."
? Then our correspondent mistakes an ef
- feet for a cause. Whatever violence was
: used was an eflect, a concomitant of the
strike, the casue of which must be looked
r for in dissatisfaction of the mode of pay[
meat of labor, and a demand for highci
wages, which was acceded to in part by
t the planters raising the price from fifty
? cents to a dollar per acre for cutting rice,
: the laborers demanding one dollar and fif
) ty cents. The reference to the action taken
by Mr. Robt. Smalls, must have evi"
dencly been written without having heard
i the advice of that gentleman to these lai
boreis. He deprecated in very plain
terms all violence or all attempts to coerc-c
by forcible means those who desired to
! work at any price, but defended them, as
' any fair minded man would do, in theii
individual capacity in their right to refuse
to work, and also in their fight to use all
' lawful means to combine all laborers in
one common cause. As far as the benefit
: of that "system sanctioned bylaw," we
I have nothing to say, as it does not properly
form any part in a discussion of the
: caufes of trouble, except it be a very in1
direct cause of such troubles, arisiug out
of the ignorance of the negro occasioned
. "under a system sanctioned by law" and
which the republican party have been at
* " o.nna nviAncfniKtinii
ICni pilll^ IU rcuicuy OlUV;^ I V/W UCVl UWIVIIi
i As to the chances of success of the de*
mooracy oqr views have already frequently
been stated, and we fail to see where
the enjoyment uuder such rule would
come in. As to the posse, they were informed
by the Sheriff that their services
were not required, and it is certainly due
to the influence of Congressman Smalls
and Lt Gov. Gleaves that the trouble at
Gardner's Corner was averted without
Woxished.
Augusta was excited yesterday by a
thousand reports and rumors in regard to
the labor troubles in South Carolina,
near Yemassee. About half-past twelve
o'clock the following telegram was received
by Capt. J. 0. Clarke, of Oglethorpe
Infantry, Company B., and Lieu*
temnt J. W. Clark of the Richmond
Hussars:
44 J)o come with your companies immediately.
"
W. R. Darlington,
Lieutenant Clark replied to the sender
of the dispafth to get Gov. ChamberIain
to request Gov. Smith to order the j
companies to assistance of the Beaufort I
sheriff; otherwise the companies could ^
not go.?Chronicle and Sentinel.
The report that telegrams had been
sent to Augusta was denied, but it will b"
seen from the above that there was a disposition
to get up a small war, and that
the good sense and judgement of Lieut.
Clark prevented a sorious riot which the
presence of Georgia men would have
caused.
The result of the strike shows how little
ueed there was for armed men of any
kind, and that the Sheriff was equal to
the emergeucy. We would advise our
Georgia friends to let us regulate our
own affairs, and oot pay so much attention
to men who are alarmed without
cause.
Life and property is more secure in
this county than in any county in the State.
The democratic party in their platform
arraign-* the republican legislature of this
State u with creatine a multiplicity of
J
i unnecees<arv and useless offices, ' hut
| strange after sotting forth this grievous
1 charge, they found democrats enough in
: their convention to fill every office, ttni
necessary and useless as they call them,
i '?in1 u-?> nntipp flint overv cnniilv thnt tins
' not been represented by having a nomi
i line for office awarded it is quarrelling
beemse the offices wore not multiplied to
such an extent as to gratify their desire
to fill theui. Truly "clap trap, clip
trap's the order of the day.
Of those from this county who will
place their names before the approaching
convention fo nouiin t on on the
State ticket is N. B. Myers, for the position
of Secretary of State. Mr. Myers
has represented this county in the legislature
for a number of years with considerable
tact and ability. Besides being
a man of education, he possesses
other qualifications requisite in one who
aspires to such a position, fie has
called upon his friends to support him
and will undoubtedly ruu strongly in
the convention, and the State would secure
a capable and vigilant officer by
his election.
"THE COMBAHEK STRIKE "
Yemassee, S. C., Aug. 28, 1876.'
Editor Standard & Commercial.
I desire to avail myself of your columns
to publish a reply to the communication
in the last issue of the "Standard and
Commercial" under the caption of "Combahee
Strike," in so tar as it relates to
the cause of the strike stated therein and
some facts growing out of it.
Iu the first place the word "strike" is
a misnomer as applied to the late disaffection
among the laborers, for it is a well
? - I .1 . A .
known tact that in tnis section or country
there has been no dissatisfaction whatever
among the resident laborers with the
wages paid them. On the contrary they
have worked steadily and well through
the past summer and have evinced no de!
sire to strike for higher wages. In fact
* they have been anxious to obtain work at
the usual prices, in order to supply their
, daily wants. They would have been ungrateful
to have exhibited any other spirit
for the writer of this can testify personal"
ly to the fact, that the laborers in this lo>
cality have been actually kept from stari
ration in the past season by the employI
ment given them and they have so expressed
themselves frequently. Not less
than fifteen thousand dollars has been
paid out to the laboring class in the present
year by the planters in this neighbour
- hood Further, there has never been
any reduction in the price of labor in this
county, although the reduced value of
rice warrants the same. The. price of labor
at the harvest season has been always
high and there can be no legitimate reason
for any dissatisfaction.
So far as the check system complained
of is concerned, I am free to say I am
opposed to the issue of checks redeemable
1 only in supplies from the employer's store.
The check should be convertible iuto
: rnoucy at the laborer^ frptfon and then
serves as a convenient substitute fcr mon
ey, for it is almost impossible for the
planter to supply himself with fractional
' currency sufficient to pay the laborer evei
ry day. *Now that silver is substituted for
fractional currency, it would be still more
difficult. During the past two years the
writer has*been interested in rice-planting
and made use of a check similar to the
one referred to in the communication of
Mr. Robert Smalls. Checks of this character
were issued daily, and redeemed in
money on Saturday of every week. There
could be no ground of objection to this
and the laborers were always satisfied.
The checks were made payable at a remote
period, not to force the laborer to
exchange it for supplies, (for I have said
they were redeemed every Saturday,) but
to prevent their circulation all over the
country and thus from being presented by
shop-keepers at inconvenient times. During
the present year, on account of the
stringency in the money market, by a
special agreement with the laborers they
consented to reoeive supplies for the
checks except where money was wanted
for an emergency, when it was always
furnished. The arrangemeut was only
temporary and recently the redemption
of the checks was resumed, and will be
continued. Evidently therefore the recent
troubles grew not out of the check
system here or from dissatisfaction with
the price of labor. Then what is their
prigin? It consisted in the determination
on the part of a band of lawless vagrants
to prevent industrious, contented laborers
from earning an honest and satisfactory
livelihood.
Tf the nlanters should have yielded to
the demand for an increase in the price
of wages, it would have been met by
a demand for a still higher price. Many
who apparently formed a part of the ri- J
oters were contented laborers, who were
forced to join their organization upon
threat of severe corporal punishment if
they refused. This was the true origin
of the recent trouble and its effect has
been to deprive the laborer of his freedom
and to make him a more degraded slave
than he could possibly have been under
1 a system sanctioned by law and established
by those who rescued the negro
from a savage condition and transformed
him into a subject for emancipation and
all the blessings and advantages of
Christianity and civilization.
When therefore the Sheriff and his
posse were most shamefully resisted by
the rioters when making a lawful arrest,
they committed an offence of a most aggravated
nature and hitherto unknown
in this State.
That a Sheriff and his posse should,
while in the faithful discharge of their ,
duties be resisted and even beaten by a
riotous mob as in the resent troubles and
] not have used the force which the law
j authorized, is a striking instance of
I their humane feelings to tlie negro and
of a forbearance unparalleled. I am truly '
I surprised therefore that Mr. Smalls, who
i has the influence with his race sufficient
j to guide them when erring, should so
1 slur over this recent outrage as to throw
th blame upon the whites, who by the
mandate of the law even protecting the
liberty of the colored laborers. That one
in his position and with his opportunities
should omit to denounce the recent outrageous
violation of the law and to encourage
the vindication of its offended majesty
by the punishment of its violators, is
a fit commentary upon the impossibility
of establishing a firm and just government
in this State through the age cy of those
composing the Republican party in it.
The day is not far distant when under
Democratic rule the colored man will
enjoy for the first time the advantages
of a well ordered, just and economical
government for all classes and conditions
of men.
C. J. C. Hctson.
+
A KISS FOK A BLOW
Brunson, S. C. Aug. 27th 1876.
Editor Standard & Commercial:
You will please correct that part of
your correspondent's letter, which states
that I was injured in the late " anditor
ial '* emeute, I received no injury nor
blow. I am glad to observe that your
organ recognizes the " good will " that
exists between "the races" as the flippant
term goes?in this community, and
I speak for the who'e country when I
say it now exists and always will as
long as the people are left free in the
exercise of their judgements and predelections.
Yours etc.
W. S. Tillinohast.
THE COUNTY CANYASS.
The Party Crysf alizing.?Wo Bolting under
any circumstances.?Chamberlain's
Actions, In several instances Disapproved
of.?Meetings at Grahamvlile,
Enstts Oaks, Glllisonvtlle, Hilton Head
and St. Helena.?A Correspondent for a
Democratic Organ takes it all back*
Grahamville, Aug. 25.?A rousing
mass meeting was held at Grahamville,
on Thursday last, at which Senator Green
and Auditor Langley were present and
addressed the meeting, arraigning the
democratic party as the party adverse to
liberty now as they had been in the past,
more especially the liberty of the colored
man, drawing their conclusions from the
record of the democratic party, in those
States that had been carried by force and
intimidation against large republican ma
Jorities. Mr. .Laogley illustrated this line
of reasoning by the manner in which public
schools were conducted. The nomination
of Hayes and Wheeler was endorsed
and delegates to the county convention
were elected.
J. D. L.
Sheldon Aug. 26?The meeting yestcr.
day at Eastis Oaks was a great success.
There could not have been fewer than
from ten to twelve hundred people on
the ground. The interest in this meet*
ing was increased by its being held in the
vicinity of the rice plantations the scene
of the late strike, and a large number of
those present were laborers in the rice
fields. The speakers from Beaufort were
accompanied by the Union Brass Band,
which added considerably to the enthusiasm
manifested. Mr. Devoe was elected
chairman and Mr. Geo. Reed secretary.
Jfrhe secretary read the following resolu'
*ons, which were carried unanimously .
Resolved, That we the citizens of Sheldon
township desire to explain ourselves.
That we meditate no resistance whatever
to the government of the United States
nor that of South Carolina, under its
present administration, and intend in respect
thereof to conduct ourselves as
peaceful, law abiding citizens.
We desire harmonious and mutual cooperation
in the support of the government,
and a mutual confidence between
employer and laborer.
Be it further resolved: That we desire
ing to be fully understood*by the public,
do consider it proper ana Decommg to
make this declaration, setting forth the
causes and reasons why we have refused
to labor any longer:
That we cannot live if the planters will
give us but forty or fifty cents a day
for our labor, and that on a little piece of
card board called a check. That these
cards or checks can only be used in the
planter's own store, and in n9 other
places. That wheu we take these cheeks
to them, they refuse to cash them, after
we have labored in the fields the whole
week, and this refusal has been made
continually since spring, and we have not
got a cent of money for our labor. We
are compelled to buy in their stores as we
cannot pass their checks elsewhere. They
charge extortionate prices for goods, for
instance, eighteen cents per 1 b. tor meat;
which is sometimes three ounces of dirt,
and nine ounces of meat; thirty cents a
peck for grist, of which only three quarts
is grist, and the balance husks and meal.
ni--.. ,.?i :c
| iimt wu are uiwkcu icn ccuio pci ias&. n
I not satisfactory; have to remain in the
fields until they turn ub out, and if we
come out without orders we get nothing.
This system prevents us from paying any
debts contracted outside the store of our
employers; prevents us from paying taxe
< or buying medicine for our families
when sick, the members of whom often
die for the want of it. We hereby express
our willingness to work but not for
checks.
A song oomposcd in the rice fields, with
a chorus "all that we waut is the greenbacks,"
was sung in a style of iudeseri'
bable enthusiasm for which, rice field
hands have been long noted.
Lieut. Gov. Gleaves, led off iu a speech
frequently interrupted by ringing
cheers, denouncing the check system as
the root of the trouble that had occasioned
the strike which tor political effect had
been heralded all 6ver the country as a
sample of the lawlessness of the colored
men in the South. lie gave them some
I calm and well timed advice, as to their
i righrs and freedom to refuse to work,
| but that they must not iu claiming this
freedom for themselves, interfere with
the liberties of their fellow laborer who
consented to work. He denied the charges
made by a correspondent of the A tics
and Courier that he had advised them at
Gardner's Corner, to disarm the whites,
and asked the meeting if he told them
anything of the kind, which was replied
to by a unanimous, "no " from huudreds
of voices. He had nothing to say as to
who should be their candidates at the
coming election, as that would be decided
by tlm convention, but advbed them
whoever they were to stick by the nomination
as a contrary c urse would result
in their political death.
Senator Green following in one of his
characteristic speeches commenting on
the importance of the campaign, rendered
so by the thorough organization of the
democracy, and touched on the Hamburg
matter as showing the spirit of opposition
that existed amongst a portion of
those who claimed to be representative
men of that part}'. He ridiculed the idea
of a colored man simply voting with the
democratic party on account of the claim
put forward by them that they were their
best friends, that they gave the colored
man bread, which he considered an insult,
and it would be so considered by a
democrat if a colored man asked them to
vote with the republicans on account of'
some favor that the colored man might
have done him. He advised a more independent
spirit amongst the laboring
classes in the State, and a truer spirit of
manhood, and greater self-reliance. He
showed whence came the cry of high taxation,
by the landholder expecting to realize
from a small area of cultivated land
sufficient to live upon and keep the inf?
mense tracts of land they owned intact,
which they refused to sell to the laborer.
His remarks on the rice field labor trouble
were similar in tenor to those of the pre
vious speaker, demanding that the planter
should keep his contract with his laborer,
but deprecating violence to compel
those who chose to work from doing so.
In conclusion he referred to the nomination
for Governor, which he was willing
to leave to the wisdom of the convention,
and although he would support the nouinee,
whoever he may be, and would advise
all of them to do so, yet he would
that a man truer to the party than Chamberlain
would be nominated.
Mr. N. B. Myers, followed in a spirited
speech on national affairs, showing
the contrast between the nominees of the
one party and those of the other, illustrating
them by the views of the democracy
iniopposition to the negro, and the amend
ments of the constitution that gave them
enfranchisement and freedom, and also
by the part they played in the war. That
while the republican candidate were in the
field the democratic candidate was a copperhead,
assisting in forming a democratic
platform, declaring the war a failure, |
and that negroes had no rights that the
white man was bound to respect He
thought that considerable of the .same
spirit was manifested now, in the Ham
burg matter, and the trouble in the nee
fields.
Hon. Robt. Smalls followed, and never
have we witnessed so much fervent enthusiasm
depicted on the countenance of
any class of men, as that exhibited by
those who gazed upon him, as a representative
man of their race,* whom they
had honored by assisting by their votes to
place in Congress. He exercis:s great influence,
and the peaceful solution of the
recent labor troubles are due to his efforts
seconded as they were by those of Lieut.
Gov. Gleavea. His words of advice were
well chosen and none but those who are
blinded by prejudice or political partisan
malice, could have taken exception thereto.
He regretted that the planters, sixty
of whom he had met on Wednesday, and
had invited to be present, were not there
to hear him. While on this subject he
spoke as to their rights individually to refuse
to work; and pursue all lawful
means to persuade their fellow-men not
to work for unsatisfactory pay, but impressed
upon them the wrong of using violence
towards those who were willing to
labor. Recounting the statements mad$
to him by Mr. Fuller and a foreman of
Mr. Bissel, that they demanded a dollar
and a half a task, a large number called
out "it is a lie, we asked one dollar and
a half an acre." He wished them in fu*
*.1 . t \ n .1 i
ture ro Keep witnin me paje or tne jaw.
They were free to work or not to work as
they chose, but if they prevented anyone
else from working by violence the sheriff
would arrest them, and if he was palled
upon he would assist in their arrest. He
then entered into a resume of the public
character of Tilden, Hendricks, and
Hampton, and contrasted it with that of
Hayes and Wheeler and the Republican
party, to whom he advised allegiance as
the party who gave them liberty, protected
and would still continue to protect them
in their rights, denouncing the campaign
of the opposition under Hampton, as exhibiting
a desire to carry the State, and
the entire south, where republicans were
in the majority, on the Mississippi plan
of force and intimidation. He called at- ,
tention to the approaching conventions,
at which they would be called upon to
make their choice for county officials, as
well as a State and congressional ticket, j
and urged them to suf port only those
who had been true to them, but at all
hazzard to cast their votes for the nomi- ,
nees of the party. He would not say, ]
however, nor did he think for a moment
that if they elected democrats they would
ever be made slaves, but if they did so
vote and elect them laws would be passed
that they would wish to God that they '
were slaves again, and illustrated such !
laws by the black code passed by demo j
crats in this State in 1865. At the conclusion
of his address three hearty cheers
were given for the national nominees.
Mr. Thos. Hamilton was the only
speaker, not in accord' with' the general
tone of the meeting. Being the champion
of the present Governor, he is
dragging him with a mercilessly hand before
even* meeting and pressing Ins
claims for a re-nomination, whilst others
who are stumping the county are willing I
to a'iow this question to be decided by
the convention. He thought some of the
speakers mis-stated the telegrams that
had been received in reference to the rice
field trouble. At the meeting in Beaufort
he had said that he would stick by
Chamberlain even if he was not nominated
but since the democracy had made their
nomination nothing could induce him to
bolt, but he would support the nominees
of the September convention, as political
safety demanded every republican to do.
He referred to the opposition manifested
in the party on account of the Governor's
action in regard to W. J. Whipper. He
voted for Whipper and would do so again
and if even now he had the casting vote
to decide as to his taking the seat he
would cast it for him. He thought
however, if the Governor believed what
those who opposed Whipper in his contest
for Senator against Robert Smalls,
said of him, the Governor wab right in
not commissioning him, although he
would stick by Whipper because he believed
he was legally elected Judge by the
legislature.
Mr. Smalls replied, regretting the
course taken by Mr. Hamilton which he
considered as insinuating that what he
had said in reference to the telegrams re
ceived from the Governor was incorrect*
He was sorry that the name of Chamber 1
lain had been mentioned, but he was not
responsible for the course a discussion on
this topic might take, but the responsibility
rested with the previous speaker
He had asked them to vote for Chamberi
lain two years ago but not until his name
was placed before the people by the
State convention, and he should pursue
the same course this year under similar
circumstances. The previous speaki.j
.t ?i??
er naa saia mat unamoenain
had done every thing to reform the party.
In this he was mistaken. They did not
want the republican party reformed by
cleaning out every republican in it. He
then read the dispatches calling upon him
to use the militia to arrest the mob and
those to other parties, from Chamberlaiu.
to arrest them if it took every man in the
county to do it. He then contrasted the
course pursued by Cha'mberlain in thi.*
trivial affair, and the course he, pursued
in the Hamburg matter, where six colo
red men were most bruta.ly slaughtered
in cold blood by white men. He enquired
it Chamberlain then issued any
such orders to arrest the parties if it took
every man, in the county, and received
a deafening " No ! no ! no I from his
hearers. On the contrary when Chamberlain
weut to Washington, and had an
interview with the President, who to'd
him to go back to South Carolina and do
his duty, he replied that he could do
nothing until he had received a report 01
the investigation. Although he te'e
graphed him to proceed to the disturbed
rice fields, he did'nt wait for a report, but
telegraphed to others, u arrest every
rioter, " meaning negroes, "ifit take*
every man in the county to do it.
We may perhaps have to take
Chamberlain, but do man must tell him,
that Chamberlain had done as they desired.
When colored men are murdered
he does nothing, but leaves it to the court,
but when colored men strike for wages
he sends to the Sheriff " go and arrest
every man of them, if it takes the last
man in the county to do it. He was sorry
that Hamilton (had not taken the same
course that they had. He ought to be satisfied
to leaye it to the convention. Although
Chamberlain has done enough to
make him a stench in the nostrils of
every republican yet they might have to
! take him as the nominee of the party
and for this reason be thought Hamilton's
course injudicious.
The hour for the departure of the
train had arrived, and although other
speakers followed, and delegates to the
convention were elected, your correspondent
closed his note book and wended his
way to the depot
W. H.
Gillisonville Aug 28.?Receiving instructions
from you to attend the meeting
here, I send you a brief account, so
that yodr paper may contain reports of
the progress of the Republican canvass
in this county, to encourage our friends
to greater exertions in those counties in
which the party have not such great
numerical strength as in this county.
The meeting was a joint one, participated
in by both democrats and republicans
and to the credit of those opposed to us
in this section they did not atttempt to
bully, browbeat, and insult us, as I see
they do in other sections of the State,
nor did they come in armed bands. Our
party was represented by Messrs. Myere,
Wheeler, and Miller, and the democatic
exponent was Lawyer Moore. I wish I
could give you a report of the speeches
but your readers have probably read the
views of these gentlemen often, but I
cannot close without writing you of the
ingenious retort made by Mr. Myers, in
reply to the question asked by Mr. Moore
if they ever heard of a strike in the rice
fields under democratic rule before the
war. Mr Myers retorting that the striking
in the rice fields in those days was all
on the other side. Gillisonville, is
marching to the music of Hayes and
Wheqler, this time.
T. D.
Hilton Head?Aug 27?The meeting
here yesterday was a great success, iu
. . a. _
every respect. The speeches were rousing
and kindled the sparks of enthusiasm
iu the most apathetic amongst us
The speakers, Senator Green, Lieut,
Gov. Gleaves, L. S. Langley, and Joseph
llobinson, whom I here they call " Red
Hot Joe '* in Beaufort, were well received.
and their remarks were cheered
most lnctilv Wo ol 11 -J
.. w w uwvi Ut ugaics IU U e
I convention, and if Hayes and Wheeler,
I and the Republican party had a few more
Hilton Head Islands scattered around in*
this State, Tilden, Hendricks andHampton,
would fold their campaign banner
around them and steal away, to some'
country where the laboring classes
have no voice in the government
S; E, TV
Beaufort, Aug. 29.?Although the
weather threatened rain yesterday, the
meeting on St Helena Island was the
largest that has been- held during the*
present campaign^ The Union BrassB^od,
was present and aided % their
music in keeping the immense crowd,' be-tween
ten and fifteen hundred, io solid
mass. After the election of chairman,
over which a contest was made, Congressman
Smalls Addressed the aswmbledl
crowd and described the attitude of the
democrats by giving an acoonnt of the tar
raultuous meeting at Edgefield, where
they came armed to the teeth and wanted
to dictate what must be and what must
not be said by republicans, and how their'
passions were worked upon by Gen. Butler.
He also gave a concise account of'
the rice field trouble and the check system
that gave rise to the strike. He
spoke of the account given by a correspondent
of the Newt and Courier of the
condition of the island, who was present
at the meeting, and expressed a hope that
he would send a better report of the pres.
ent meeting, and complimented the people
on the peace and order that prevailed
there, in so much that although fewer
mkiia ma. Ii'.aJ a? a? ?t ^
VTII11C U1CU IMCU MUUIIgN U1CU1 IUU IS'
any section of the State, in proportion totheir
population, yet not one of the vhite
citizens considered it necessary to Mm
themselves.
Speaking of the canvass for State tklf
et he expressed similar view* to those he
announced when speaking at Eustis' Oak*
in favor of waiting and1 sticking to the*
nominations so soon to be Inade in Co*'
lnmbia, towards which, in electing their
delegates to the county convention they
were taking steps. Cham berlain hadl
done things that he did not approve ot,
but if nominated they most support bim?
as they could not afford to have any splits*
After speaking of Hayes and Wheeler
the meeting responded to his eall aDd'
three tremendous cheers from a thotuand
voices rent the air. After the election of
DELEGATE?,
Mr. Smalls took charge of the meeting
and introduced Mr. N. B. Myers who isdoing
youmaus work for the national
nominees and his effort to crystalise theparty
in this county will have a telling:
effect in the approaching election.
Mr. J. B. Dennis of Columbia was the
next to address the meeting, and traced
the democratic party from 1820, showing
them to be viidually the same in spirit
now as then. He paid a high encomium:
to the ability manifested by Mr. Small*
in the halls of Congress. He advised,
the party to discountenance petit strife
amongst themselves for the sake of a united
party. He was followed by a few remarks
from the correspondent of the .
News and Courier, who confined himself
to expressions of pleasure at their evident
prosperous condition. The next speaker
was introduced io a facetious manner, as
t'm Hon. Blood and Thunder, a pet name
of democratic correspondents when they
wish to introduce our Senator to their
readers notice. He generally calls a spade
a spade, when talking politics; calls theHamburg
affair " a foul and bloody murder
44 hencft the sobriquet After running
brief y over the political situation he called
attention to Dr. White, and his description
of the last meeting they held on
Helena which he wrote to the News and
Courier. That what he had said personally
of himself he would leave to the refutation
by the people, but when he det?
cribed St Helena Island, onoe a garden of
Eden but now a howling wilderness caused
by the misgovernment of the domroenfr
party and the thriftless lawlessness of the
people, he thought he ought now, in aa
much as he had spoken of their prosperity
to them, to take back publicly what hehad
previously said of them. To these
< T-v Iirifi. ! J il.i 1
remarks Lfr. n nue repnea ion since ne
had for the first time, for quite a cumber
of years, visited the island and saw so>
many evidences of prosperity, he should
most willingly endeavor to rectify through
the same source the impressions he had
Mished to their detriment, bat that he
then wrote from information derived
second hand and not from personal observation.
Messrs Wheeler and Mr. Joseph
Robinson, clinched the nails that- had
been entered by the previous "speakers,
and St Helena as of old will control the
political destinies of the party in this
county. As the party goes so goes St
Heleua and as she goes so goes thw
county.
T. E. A.
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OFFICE BOARD OFTOUNTY commissioners
Beaitfobt, 8. C. Aug. 10th 1876.
The-anunal meeting of the Beard will be held en
the first Tuesday after the fiat Monday,.In Septea
her being the 5th day of said month. i
AU persons having Mils against the county are *
re-|nired by law to deposit the same with Clerk of
the Board on or before the flat day of September,
next, and in default sneh bills will not be audited
at said anunal meetingTHOS.
H. WHEELER,
ug.ll 1-t Clerk of Board. ,
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