Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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As Viewed by the Colored Maru 829 appeared last evening at the meeting of the Democratic Union Club of tho Seventh Assembly Dis trict, at 2*t Greenwich avenue. Col. Fredrick A. Conkllng, the President set up a placard having tho strange device at the edge of the flag draped platform, and there was a burst of applause. Mr. William J. Curtis reviewed the issues of tho campaign and then Col. Conkling introduced Mr. Isaac II. Hunter, colored, former ly of North Carolina. "It might seem strango to some republicans," he said, "to ace a colored man advo cating the election o f a Democratic President. But to understand fully how this can be they have only to transform themselves into negroes for twenty four hours. If they could do this, they would vote to a man against the Republican party as it is now constituted. [Applause,] It would ofoourse, bo of small conse quence to mo whether the Republican bartered his honor for 8329 if he were a private citizen. Rut when he calls upon the American people to go to the polls and approve fraud, ras cality, corruption, hribeiy anil perju ry by voting for him, I assert that be is guilty of one of the greatest, per-; haps the greatest insult that was; ever off jred to the nation. [ Applause j The men who strike the keynote of this canvass tell us that it is unsafe, for a white man to vole the Republi can ticket south of Mason and Dix on's line, and that, when a negro dares to vote it, his cattle, arc driven oil*, his fields laid waste and his cabin i is burned, and he and his frmily are 1 murdered. If tins is so, and I, who come from the land whence these man u facto red stories of outrage arc sent to give a pretext for the waving of the bloody shirt before the eyes of "Northen , voters, challenge*tho-pro duction of nt.y proof that would be accepted in any court of law in this city, if it is not the fault of the Repub lican party? For 10 years they had absolute control of the Government, its purse and its army and navy. They made whatever laws they pleased, and brought force to bear in imposing these laws upon] submissive people. In God's name, then, is not the Republican party to blame lor the existence of this wrong, if there is one? (Applause.) My race remem bers the Freeman's Saving Bank, ami will give evidence of their remem brance in the coming election. Re publican statesmen organized the bank to enable them to lake lasting care of every penny that the poor ucgro might be Stuart enough to earn and save. Charles Summer offered an amendment to the bill organizing tho bank to the effect that its funds should be invested only in Govern-j mcnt bonds. For this noble effort | to put a safeguard around the poor negro's money, he was deposed from his high position in Congress, ami given the* cold shoulder by the* mag nates of the Republican party. ( Ap- j plausc. The bank was robbed, and it was one o( the meanest steals that was ever perpetrated by white men (Applause) Men representing the parly of enlightenment and lofty ideas, gentlemen, stooped beneath the dignity of the common high, waymnn to rob the widow, whose husband or son died on the battlefield of bis country, of her last dollar. (Appluuss. The time has come, gentlemen, when the black men see that all of their friends nre not in the Republican party. They will give voice to their trust in a part}' led by the hero states, man Winfiold Scott Hancock, o:i the j 2nd of Novctuoer, in thunder tones." (Applause.) Three cheers were giv en for Mr. Hunter. Messrs. Moore and William G. Reigen spoke and then Col. Conkling announced that the club will hold a meeting every Friday night until clccton tiny. Confound that rat Hint Mole our paste prush ; we hope that the bris tles may get crossways in his throat and giye him a chronic case of whoop- j ing-cotigh. More Wite than Country. The other night, soon after a ward meeting had opeued, one ot the elec tors present began edging for the door asif he meant to leave tho place. He was soon stopped by a friend, who said : "Don't leave us now ; I wantyou to hear what that speaker is saying. Hear that! He says we must triumph or the country is doomed." "Yes, I know, but I've got to edge along toward home," was the reply. "Homo? great heavens, how can you talk of going homo until ho has finished that speech ! Ho p?ks if you ? want to see grase growing in the streets of our cities?-our fertile farms returned to the wilderness?our lain ilies crowding the poorhonscs until there is no longer room to receive another?" "No, I don't know as I would, but I guess I'll sort o' work my way out." "Wait fifteen minutes?ten?five? wait until he finishes. There it isj again! lie asks whether you aic a] freeman or a slave? He wants 16 know if you have forgotten the patri otic principles defended by the blood of your grnndsircs?if you have for gotten the sound of liberty bell?" "I don't know as I have, but I must go?really 1 must." "Hear that?hear that! He says your country will bless yon." "I can't say as to that." replied the man as he crowded along ; but I am dead sure that the old woman will if I don't get home in lime to put this codfish to soak for breakfast !" "Great guns! but <lo you prefer codfish to liberty ?" exclaimed the other. "I don't know as I do, but I gel more of it." "And yon will see this country ru ined?sec her go to destruction?" "I'd be kinder sorry to see hor go down hill," slowly observed the delin quent as he reached the door, but il you had a wife who could begin jaw ing at ten o'clock and not los*i a min ute until daylight, and then end up with a grand smash of crockery and a ; fit of hysterias, you'd kinder stand of! as I do and let this glorious old -re public squeeze through some mighty line knot-holes."?Detroit Free Press. Sensible. The following sensible talk, from the Koine (Ga.) Tribune, we com mend to our boys: "Nearly every day the merchants of Home arc ap plied to by young men for Clerkships, | ami other situations, in vain, for nearly everywhere they are lohl that 'every place is filled,' and still every ?.lay applicants continue to pour in. On the contrary, however, nearly; every exchange we read contains ad -1 vertisctuenls lor various kinds of me- j chanics, including carpenters, masons painters and others. Would it not, \ therefore, be a good idea for some of | these discouraged young men to learn I some useful trade, by which they can j earn an independent living? Work of any kind is honorable and a good j trade never goes amiss. It is fre quently one's best friend and is a Staff on which the rising generation can lean with confidence. Good mechan ics rarely ever go begging for work, and they initially earn much better salaries than clerks or salesmen. Do 3 ou ask what you can do to help keep an honest ami economical government in our Stale? The first duty is lo go to the polls and vote on the day of election. You:- s oond duty i* to stir up your neighbors who jay not he much Interested in the election. Many of our people do not read the papers. They feel too poor to take tliein, or else they live far I'rdm a post- llicc and cannot gel. them. Go and visit such neighbors before the election nnd urge upon them the great importance of turning out on the second day of November. It is the imperative duty of all good cili/.'Mis, whether white or black, to vole for good and honest men to man age our Stale Government. i Hard on Grant. General Sloeutn said that if Giant said so and so he is a liar. Grant did say so and so, and, therefore, he is what lie is charged with being by Slo eutn. But it is not the first time that he has bad this infamous charge ram med down*bis throat; and, therefore, there is no reason why anybody should be shocked that such accusa tions are being made. Grant is no demigod. He was for some years a disreputable kind of an old bummer around St. Loui;?after being dis missed from tbc army?and then he was a tanner's clerk?and a very poor one?in. Galena. The war came and ho alternated between big drunks and big defeats, till there came a time when, by giving three lives for one rebel life, he managed to secure some victories. There is nothing of the demigod in all this; hence, when within a few days people see this man lying like an ordinary character, slan dering a brother officer, and showing himself to bo capable of envy and malice and meanness, and all that sort of thing, there is no reason for any one's being In tbc least surpris ed. It is Grant getting down to j where he belongs. Ho received a thin! gloss while bo was traveling around, the world ; a thin gloss for politeness! ami regard for appearances; but this was very soon scratched oil'when he; came back here and went to running around in bis native wood. When this was rubbed off there remained the original Grant. There is no rea son why any one should be in the least astonished.?Chicuoo Times. A little child is shot in cold biood in New Jersey for hurrahing for Han cock ; a Democratic Sheriff in Indiana is killed by Republican roughs with the smiling approval of party organs a Democratic procession is attacked, tired into ami broken up by negro Radicals in Wilmington, Del. ; iu Newark, N. J., Republican employ era openly discharge laborers for no other offence thuo being Democrats; in Brooklyn, N. Y., manufacturers placard their establishments with threats to close and starve their work men if Hancock is elected ; govern ment employees arc threatened with discharge if they fail to pay assess ments for political purposes. Yet the Boston llitrald ami newspapers of its class, pretending to be Independent, (but invariably leading to what seems the stronger si de,) hypocriti cal I3' and unanimously roll up their journalistic eyes to shut out such sight o! these things, ami piously damu the "fraud and force" of Hie solid South. Turtrng the'r backs upon the corruption l)ing thickly about their own feet, they preach in familiar cant phrases to us. Lt the organs clean up their own back yards before organizing a moral sanitary inspection for ours.? Greenville News. J Radical Ku-Klux. On Saturday Oct. 2, there rode in the procession, Rosscr Line, a color ed Democrat living near Doves' De pot. Fur this his life was threatened by negroes living around him. Last Monday night he went into the house of Allen YVriglil to see his wife who1 bad left him, nnd while in the house, was set on by a number of men and women. They beat, shot and cut him j and then dragged him across the yard and threw him over the fence, leaving him for dead. 1!r? was dis covered by some white men who had been attracted by the noise, and taken care of. He is in a very critical con dition. The persons engaged in the deed were arrested and carried bo fore Ttin 1 Justice Warlcy, who re manded them to jail. Radicals must understand that this tiling cannot go on. We have sworn lo protect colored Democrats, ami if the fear of tbc law does not prevent such occurrences, there arc ways, swift and sure, of preventing such characters longer to cumber tbc earth. Look out Republicans, wc arc j in earnest.? DarMnglon News. Thou Hypocrite Badly Confused. "A Southern paper tells the follow ing: Soon after the bntilc of Prairie Grove, Confederate olllccrs of rank went into the Union army to negoti ate for an exchange of prisoners. Three Union olllccrs were detailed to J negotiate with them. One day, while the commission was in session, anjold gray-headed, gray-hoarded Arkansas farmer walked In and asked : "Ks this the provo's ollis?" sSoinr one attempted lo explain, hut the old fellow being nuilu deaf, did not understand, and said: "Yes, I'm a good loyal citizen ; I'.vo got my protection papers ; I've been and got paid for my forage. It's all right." "Look here," said Col. \V., of the Union aimy, "you had belter be care ful about what you say about your loyally ; don't you see those gentle men over there?" pointing across the table to where the Confederate olli cers sal in their gray uniform. The old man took out a pair of di lapidated spectacles, and lilting them on his nose, closely examining the grr.y uniforms with their velvet collars and brass star?. His hands trembled violently, and go seemed quite fright ened, but he collected himself and snltl to the Confederates : "Well, gentlemen, 1 meant no of fence. I don't know?fact is, I've alms been a Southern man. I've jess got one son, and he is with Marma iluke. The only other man grown in my family that's lit for sarvis is my darter Sallio's husband, and he's with Re?tor, and? "Hold on, old fellow!" ciied Col. W;, "what, about your being a loyal citizen ?" Ho looked al the. other side of the ? tatjle. Then he readjusted his spec iales, scanned the blue coals, look bTif fits handkerchief from about his neck, blew ids nose, leaned both hands on toe table, ami said : "Well, gentlemen, this is a little mixed, but you just go on and fight it out among yourselves. I can live ui,der any government. The House and Senate. The House of Rprescntativcs now stands 1-lC Democrats, 130 Republi cans, and 10 Grccnbaekcrs. The Grecnbackers are classed as 7 Demo cratic ami 0 Republican?making the House : 153 Democrats lo 130 Repub licans?a majority of 14. The Re publicans gained 0 Congressmen in Ohio on the 12l|i instant, and in In diana. The Democrats will have all they can do to hold their majority in the House ; and we see how important it is that South Carolina should send back a solid Democratic delegation. The Senate stands 42 Democrats, 33 Republicans and 1 Independent. The Republicans will get a Senator from Indiana in place ol McDondald, another in place of Kernan, of New York} another in place of Thurmnn, of Ohio, and another, very likely, in J place of Wallace, of Pennsylvania?4 in all, making their number 37, with chances in Connecticut and Now Jer sey. The Democrats will gain one j jn Mississippi, in place ol I truce. The Senate therefore will be close. TllK best si<jii we see for the Demo crats is the position of the Xew York Herald. This papci is notorious for geUiu?; on the side that does not win. It gave Maine to the !tepnhlicnns, and was mistaken. Then it placed Indiana on the Democratic side, and lost again. Now it comes out against the Solid South, tho Democratic plat form ami everything Democratic. It urges a crusade in the South and in vites the intelligent and property holding Southerners to fall in the ranks ol the victorious party and share the power and spoils. The New York Hun of Sunday said Jay Gould had bought the New York World. The World of Monday > lys Gould has secured a controlling interest in tho Sun. The I ruth poems to bo that, day has made up his mind to own the universe and robought the Wothl with the ?SVii lo ( boat and illumine it. On the Homo Stretch. The Democrats have recovered from the temporary repulse in Indi ana, and arc taking a fresh and de termined grip. Just as the loss of Maine stimulated the Republicans in Indiana, so their victory has nerved the Democrats in the East, and both parties are setting in with despera tion. While a few Republicans are hurrahing over the result, the more thoughtful arc counseling their fol lowers not to crow too soon. Secre tary Sherman himself in a speech says: "The Presidential election is transferred from the October Slates to each and every Slate in the Union. The drift and cm rent of public opin ion, though very hopeful for the Re publican party, are not so decisive but that the people must now dili gently and actively take their part in the great canvass this fall, which in my opinion is of greater importance than an}' since the election of Abraham Lincoln in 18G0." The Democrats of New York are registering every voter and arc de tcrmined to bold the fort. New Jer sey has not gone Republican in a Presidential election for a long time. Connecticut swings in the balance. California, Nevada and Maine are all fairly doubtful, and Shermau is right in saying that the contest is not de cided. The Radical National Committee, while claiming decisive results, show by their action that they do not feel 1 confident. They sent speakers and money to Virginia, North Carolina and Florid;]. Why send money down here without need for it! They arc too shrewd to waste a cent. This is a year ot surprises. Ver mont surprised everybody by giving an increased Radical majority. On the heels ol this came Maine's thun derbolt to surprise the Radicals. Then came Indiana's surprise to the Di tno crals, and Ohio's surprise to the Re publicans, who barely held their own in the home of Garileld. Some body is going to be surprised in No vember. Who it is remains to be seen. In the meantime push things . vclj .?X< ws and JJira'd. Have courage to discbarge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. Have Hid courage to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it. Have the courage to speak to a] friend in a seedy coat even though you arc in company with u rieb one, I and richly attired. I Have the com. ?e. to speak your) I mind when it ?? ..tcessary that you should do so, and hohl your tongue when it is prudent that you should do so. Have the courage to own that you are poor, and thus disarm poverty of I Have the courage to cut the mo t I j agreeable acquaintance when you are j convinced that be lacks principle?a friend should boar with a friend's in (lrmitics, but not with his vices. Have courage to show your re spect lor honesty, in whatever guise it appears, and your contempt for dishonesty and duplicity by whotnso 1 ever exhibited. J Dave courage to wear your old 'clothes until you can pay for new : ones. j j Have the courage to act with con sistency regardless ol consequences. ! This Republican campaign is being I fought on two issues ; the chief issue j being sectionalism. The other issue I is the tariff question. The Republi can platform is thoroughly committed j to a protective tniiir, while the Dem ocratic platform advocates a tariff for I revenue only. The manufacturing I Slates want a protective tariff, to pro tect their manufactures from competi tion with European manufactures by J high import duties. Indiana was 'carried principally on the sectional issue?aided by money. The Repub licans expect lo carry Connecticut land Now .Jersey on the tarilf is?mc? Have Courage. Light in tho West. New YonK, October 18, 1880.^ General Cook, of cavalry fame in the war, who was at the Democratic headquarters to-day', said the party would surely carry Indiana In the next election. "In the other elec* tioti," he said, "the counsels Of the party were divided, but the frauds perpetrated upon tho Democracy by the use ol money and the importation of negroes has welded them together. English says that the October cam paign was Landers'. This is his tight, and you will see some work done there that will frighten and as tonish the Republicans. There, is no dying or bemoaning in the West. They arc at work heartily and enthu siastically. Ohio has eighteen thous and Republican majority. Now there were 18,000 colored men imported into Ohio for the purpose of affecting the vote. Just before the election they sprung this ridiculous and absurd tariff issue upon the State and the elec tion was half over before the suppor ters of Hancock could show the peo ple it was a false cry and a demagogi cal Republican report. The people of Ohio have awakened to the situa tion, and the tide has turned the other way. They will have to do a great deal of work in Ghio to prevent it from going for Hancock in November Their victory was an astonishing thing to the Republicans. They ex pected defeat and their tariff cry was a desperate forlorn hope. They con not repeat their practices in that State. They cannot repeat to tho same extent. They cannot put 4, 000 more votes into tho Hamilton County- ballot boxes than there are adults over 21 years of age, nor 1, 000 more in Columbus than there are voting citizens. The people are turning against them for theirjj^i* censed and unholy frauds."?Boston Herald. Do you remember the cruel and unnecessary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in several of the upper counties of this stale eight years ago by that drunken tyrant, U. S. Grant? The horrible condition of affairs re sulting from that act of oppression ought lo forever damn the dastardly party and policy which represented that infamy. But hard-hearted and brutal as that act was, it stands out sublime and radiant as twilight^splen dor when compared with Garfield's proposition that "It is clearly the right of the victorious government to. indict, try, convict and hang every rebel traitor in the South" for engag ing in the late war. Will you cun sent by your indifference aud apathy to the election of such an implacable tyrant to the Presidency, ear worse, than Grant In d Granlism woultl he* the domination of Ibis South hating tyrant. ..._ ? : ^rtiaiAU! Lkt tho Democrats of South Cata lina and the Union now adopt the gab. lant words of Raul Jones as their bat tic cry. When his ship, in tbc.'Rey.o ilutionary war, the Ron Homme Rich ard, was riddled with the shot of the I Scrapia and her consort and the Brit ish caplain asked if she had struck, i her colors, Jones answered , through I the smoke of battle. "We have not begun our part of the battle." Let us commence?open and keep up our fire until the victory is won. Hancock will he elected and we must help lo put the .great general in the Wb'te. Home. Jupiter and Venus are splendid these evenings. One hardly knows which to admire most, tho setting "star of love" as she goes down in uhdimined splendor in the west, or ihe rising hing, as he moves up from the eastern horizon in all his regal glory. Behold them in their beauty; and then consider how "the hea ven declare the glory of God." Tm: Charlotte, N. C, Tress has discovered a tree in Northampton I county which last year bore berries I similar in shape and color to huckle I berries, but a little larger* and this j year has three well matured, perfect ly formed pears.