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A Shell Manifesto,
Showing What Manner of Man has led
the "Movement" and made Charges
Against the Government of South
Carolina.
The Greenville News published, a
Bo ort time ago, a communication signed
?'Farmer Laareos County," and stated
that the name of the writer would be
furoished on demaod.
Following is the article :
Laurens, C. H., S. C. Sept 5.1890.
To the editor of the Greenville News
Io the year 1872, io the dark days
of Radicalism, when it looked as though
we would be swept from the bosom of
the earth by carpet baggers, scalawags
and free negroes, backed by Northern
troops, MoDougle io command of the
White Horse Cavalry wheels on Laarene
without giving her .citizens time for
reflection, sod hurled about seven ty
6ve of her best citizens into the dis
honored wails at Lanrens Court House.
Io a few day s they were carried to
Colombia to be jailed as a baud of
KaKlux, Joseph Crews having the
warraots issued for the prisoners.
Joseph Crews, knowing that the pris
oners woold attempt to impeach bis
character, prepared himself against it.
A document was handed to me on
yesterday by a gentleman of this place
which read thus.
"Laurens C H., S. C. April 15.72.
"We, the undersigned citizens of
Lsuren8 County, Stata of South Caro
lina, have been acquainted with Joseph
Crews for many years and know
nothing derogatory to his character.
Before and during the war his social
position was good."
Commenting on the above the corres
pondent in writing to the Greenville
News says.
"G W. Shell and seventeen other
signers. Some of the seventeen signers
say that Shell told them that he was
get?iog up the petition for the benefit of
the Laorensville prisoners. When G.
W. Shell was going around getting up
signatures to the petition it was pre
sented to such men as Sam R. Todd,
Billie Mills, Dr. Sampson, General R.
P. Todd and others who refused to
sign it. If such a document was fur
nished to Joseph Crews at the hands of
G. W. Shell he does not deserve to be
Congressman of the Fourth Cangres
sional District. Fourteen or fifteen of
the prisoners were transferred from the
Columbia jail to the jail io Charleston.
Joseph Crews had selected that number
out of the seveoty five to be bung, the
balance to go to Albany for life. * A
dark cloud at that time overshadowed
Laarens County and I never can forget
the unhappy sight of tears rolling down
the faces of mothers and daughters in
oar town and county on account of our
best citizens being lodged in jail for
their political principles Jose*pb Crews
takes the petition to Washington and
through influence of that petitioo with
the President he was furnished guns
and ammunition which were shipped to
this State for the purpose of destroying
the men, women and children of South
Carolina.
One word to the farmers of the
Fourth Congressional District: Don't
vote for a man who has affiliated with
the radical party in aoy way during
the radical reign io South Carolina.
Don't vote for a man who is in favor
of the sub-treasury bill?a bill for
demagogues to run into office on, a bill
which if it should pass would bring woe
and misery on the people of South
Carolina.
The day after this publication Cap
tain Shell was in Spartanburg and was
waited upon by a correspondent of the
Columbia Register, who says :
He appeared to be considerably agi
tated by the Register reporter's re
quest for an interview, and emphatically
answered ''No." Captain Shell said
that he did not wish to be interviewed,
and that he proposed to work out his
own salvation without aoy assistance
from newspaper men. Me said the
paper brought out in the Greenville
News of yesterday was genuine, and
that his motive and intention was good
id carrying the paper around for nig
natures
Mr. Shell seemed to be rather
nonplussed by the tare affaire are tak
ing, bat he grins and bears it.
Next came an "address to the Voters
of the Fourth Congressional District,
"signed by ninety-six citizens of Laa
rens, among them some of the best and
most prominent men of the county, and
which reads as follows:
We, the undersigned citizens of
Laurens County, having noticed .bat
the character of Capt G. W Shell, as
a citizen and Democrat has been wrong
fully assailed, beg leave to volunteer this
testimonial.
Captain Shell was born and raised
among us ; we koow him to be an
honest man ; we know that he bas ever
been faithful and loyal to the principles
of the Democracy ; we know that Cap
tain Shell with a number of good and
highly respectable persons of Laurens.
signed the testimonial that "Joe Crews'
character before and during the war
was good," was done in order to get the
Laurens prisoners, charged with Riot
and Conspiracy, out of the Columbia
jail and the prosecutions stopped. We
further believed that it accomplished
the object intended
In reply to the testimonial to Cap
tain Shell the following letter appeared
in the Greenville News of the 18th,
with the full name of tho writer ap
pended, who we understand is the
author of the first communication :
Laurens, C. H , S. C, Sept 15.
Things are gradually leaking out. I
interviewed a gentleman who holds io
his poshC?Fion a certified copy of the cer
tificate sustaining Joe Crews' character
in 1872 The certificate was gotten op
by G. W. Shell in bis hand writing,
and not in the hand writing of Chief
Justice Simpson. And I do say posi
tively Chief Justice Simpson did not
sign the certificate of character gotten
up by Shell for Joe Crews. He was in
Colombia at that time defending the
Lauren SN i 11 e prisoners who were arrest
ed f<?r ku klux.
The t;etiileuiH? goes on to say that
the certificate of character gotten op by
G. W. Shell for Joe Crews in 1872 whs
presented to Dr. John W Simpson,
the father of Chief Justice $\mp?oo.
Tbe Doctor declined to sigo, declariog
that tbe substance of the paper vras
untrue io his estimation, and that the
certificate was intended for the benefit
of Joe Crews against the interest of
tbe men who bad been falsely accueed
and arrested at his instance. He also
said Crews' character was to be attacked
by the defence wben the prisoners
should be brought to trial and this cer
tificate was to be presented as a testi
monial of character from prominent
citizens of Laarens County.
A gentleman of this county says in a
conversation with Mr. William Mills
that be informed him that tbe paper
bad been presented to bim to sign,
under the guise of an effort to obtain
the release of tbe prisoners, and that
he (Mr. Mills) had refused to sign,
saying : "I am perfectly willing to do
anything for tbe benefit of the prisoners,
but that paper is not for their benefit
and besides it is not true, for I have
regarded Joseph Crews as a d?d rascal
and I would not believe him on his
oath."
Let me say to the farmers of the
Fourth Congressional District that this
certificate of character was gotten up
for a man who was the worst enemy
the Palmetto State has ever had, and
before I would bave gotten up such a
certificate of character for such a man
as Joe Crews I would have suffered
myself to have been bang on one of tbe
highest mountains of the Alpines.
It was though the influence of Maj.
J. A. Le land who was one of the pri
soners at that time in Columbia for ku
klux that tbe prisoners were released.
He had been a school mate of Judge
Field, associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court. Maj. Leland
wrote to Judge Field while in prison
giving a history of the deplorable state
of things in South Carolina and through
the influence of that letter the prisoners
were released.
My last appeal to the farmers of the
Fourth Congressional District : Become
united as one man on tbe morning of
the 23rd of September and by our vote
send a man to Congress from tbe Fourth
C ?ngressioaal District that is like
Caesar's wife, not only virtuous, but
above suspicion.
I write this because I was one of the
men arrested and put in the dungeon at
Laurens and forced to dodge io the
words, after having fled to Canada with
a reward of $1,000 for my head.
While some of those arrested with me
were in jail at Columbia Joe Crews
came in and waved this very certificate
with G. W. Shell's signature to it over
their heads and said he would not take
$10,000 for it. I for one do not want
to see Captain Shell elected to Congress
while the memory of that time sticks in
my heart, unless he makes some better
explanation of bis conduct than he has
done. I am and have been a Tiliman
man and fought for him manfully dur
ing the campaign, but I don't believe
Ben Tiliman would support Captain
Shell if he knew the circumstances.
A. V. Eichelberoer,
Laurens, S. C.
ANOTHER CHAPTER.
Mr. Eichelberger^ reply to the
endorsement by so many leading citi
zens of Laurens County of Capt. G
W. Shell, opens up the question of
Shell's complicity in the attempt to
whitewash tbe character of the noto
rious Joseph Crews. I?. is alleged that
bis motive was to propitiate Joseph,
and thereby secure his powerful aid
in the effort to release the prisoners
from Laurens who were under arrest
at Joe's instance, and were undergoing
imprisonment and awaiting a trial under
tbe usual ['Ku Klux" charge, "con
spiracy and murder," on account of
alleged participation in the Laurens
riots of Oct. 20th 1870.
Many of those who are now voters
were but infants in arms in those hor
rible days of reconstruction. Many
of tbe events which then transpired
and many of the men who figured then
most prominently, are almost wholly
unknown to most of our younger voters,
and it seems to be a good time to en
lighten tbem as to the character and
conduct of the man whom Mr. Shell
then desired to fiV.ter and whitewash
It may also siggest to their miods
the reflection that Mr. Shell is the man
who, as Chairman of the Executive
Committee, issued the manifesto which
opened the way to the Tiliman move
ment Such a suggestion is calculated
to arouse unpleasant reflections in the
minds of those who followed the star
of Wade Hampton in 1876, or who
have wished that they bad lived in those
days io order that they might have fol
lowed bim. What follows is a con
densation of several chapters of Dr.
John A. Leland's book entitled, ' A
Voice from South Carolina." In 1870
Joe Crews was the recognized leader of
the Radical party in Laurens county.
Before the war he made his living by
buying and selling slaves, and by trad
ing with them Denied all social in
tercourse with respectable whites, on
account of his low-lived character and
methods, Crews, actuated by a deadly
hatred of bis own race, kept the com
munity in a constant state of excite
ment and irritation which finally culmi
nated in a rict on Oct. 20th, 1870. For
this, Crews bad prepared by procuring
620 rifles from the State Government,
with 20.000 rounds of ammunition ;
by occupying as an armory, a large
vacant store immediately fronting the
Court House at Laurens, from which
tbe entire square could be raked, aud
by converting his own barn into a
temporary fort, provided with loop
holes, and protected by a ditch. The
speeches of Crews were incendiary in
the extreme, as many reputable citizens
of Laurens testified over their own
signatures in the public prints of that
day. October 19th, 1870 was election
day. Crews, assisted by tbe State Con
stabulary and bis armed militia, and
protected by the soldiers of the United
States who had been degraded by being
put to such vile uses, had everything
their own way, the whites "giving them
the field." That night tbe soldiers
left, aud all thought that the danger
was over. But during the day, a citi
zen got. into a difficulty with one of the
constables, a friend ran up to see fair
play, his pistol accidentally went off, the
ne^roea rushed to the armory and
fired a volley upon the whites in the
square below, ayd the whites charged
aDd roatea teem, Killing tar?e. 1 ne
next day it was learned that four other
persons, one a white scalawag, outside
of the town, had been also killed, by
parties unknown. Crews ran as fast
as bis legs could carry him at the re
port of the first shot, and (be said) hid
himself in a hollow log several days.
He emerged thence when United States
I soldiers returned, and by some of them
I was carried to Newberry in the bottom
i of a hand-car tied up in a crocus sack,
I and "waybilled" as a quarter of
beef ! He was not seen again in Lau
rens for more tbao two years afterwards.
March 31st 1872 was a Sunday.
That moroiog Laurens was occupied
by troops of the United States, both
infantry and cavalry, accompanied by
! two assistant United States Marshals,
Hubbard and Hendrix?par ignobile
fratrum The arrest of a "majority of
the adult male population of the town,
then present" followed. Charge "con
spiracy and murder." They were first
shut up in the Court House Thence
they were marched to the house of Joe
Crews to show his sable friends that the
arrest was his work. Dr. Leland adds
"It is a notorious fact that he (Crews)
offered exemption from arrest to any
! who would sign a document certifying
to his respectability and social position,
up to the time of the war ; and that
there were found men who signed this
paper?thus securing for themselves
inglorious ease at home, but at 3
sacrifice of all self-respect."
From Crews7 house the party, with
an equal number of citizens of Clinton,
also arrested under the same charge,
were sent to the Laurens jail?thence
to Union jail?thence to Columbia jail
?thence to Charleston jail, from which
Dr. Leland wrote to bis old friend and
schoolmate, Stephen J. Field, Asso
ciate Justice of the United States Su
preme Court, which letter shortly after
wards secured the release of them all.
It is not necessary to dwell longer
on this episode of the history of recon
struction. The paper above described
is doubtless the same that Crews tri
umphantly waved over the heads of the
imprisoned men in Columbia, and de
clared he would not take ten thousand
dollars for it. G. W. Shell, Chair
man Executive Committee, &c, candi
date for Congress, &c, drew up that
paper, and was one of the signers
of it, says Mr Eichelberger. Com
ment is unnecessary. Maj. Leland,
who is still living, corroborates Mr.
Eichelberger. Not even the 96 prom
inent citizens who endorse Shell can
whitewash him as he endeavored to
whitewash Joe Crews. Will our peo
ple accept this statement by the 96 as
exonerating Shell, when they come
thus to know the facts? Shell's "fine
Italian hand" may be recognized in
this effort to vindicate his record, as
Blaine's was in equally disreputable
circumstances
The Radical Convention.
Columbia. S. C, Sept. 18.?The
Republican State Convention has been
in session all day with very few results.
Most of the time was taken up with ir
relevant "high fa]utin" speeches and
wild wranglings during which some
"cuss" words were used promiscuously.
Brayton has oot recovered from his de
feat for the temporary chairmanship by
Smalls, who was put forward by the
Webster faction and elected last night,
and it looks as if the present State
chairman will be no more after the ad
journment of this convention.
During the morning session Fred
Nix. Jr., of Barowell. poured hot shot
into Smalls, Miller, Quay and the re
publican party in general. He said
Webster had been told by Chauncey
Depew how to vote at the Chicago con
vention.
Webster scored a second knock down
by having bis delegation from Colleton
seated. In discussing this contest
records were attacked without gloves.
When the Charleston contest came
up Charlie Minort, of draw poker fame,
made Rome howl for about fifteen min
utes with a bitter denunciation of the
custom nouse ring. He said they were
a set of dirty pap suckers, and if it were
not for the government's aid they would
be goiog without shirts.
After lengthy discussions all Webster
delegations were seated. The unseated
delegations gathered en masse, rushed
up to the speaker** desk and denounced
Smalls and Miller in unsparing terms.
G. W. Murray, of Sumter, was elected
permanent chairman.
Various committees were then ap
pointed, among which was one to con
sider the advisability of nominating a
State ticket.
Dr. Crum, of Charleston, nominated
E. A. Webster, for the State chairman
ship. T. A. Saxon, of Laurens nomi
nated J. W. Morris, of Columbia, say
ing that last night the Webster men
had called for a negro. Now tbey
should have one.
Columbia, S. C. Sept. 18, 10 P.
M.?Webster is elected State chairman
96 to 24 Tom Miller is vice chairman
by acclamation. The Executive Com
mittee is?State at large, E. H. Deas,
Robert Smalls.
THE PARTY PLATFORM.
The following platform was adopted :
"The republican party of the State of
South Carolina in convention assembled
its unshaken confidence, unswervng
fidelity and unwavering trust in the
National Union Republican party with
its proud, enduring monuments, its
noble patriots, illustrious heroes aod
sainted martyrs, showing its faith by
its works, thereby endearing it to those
who love justice, regard mercy and
revere hath.
"That with its mission incomplete,
its moral influence unimpaired, its vital
forces intact, we earnestly and solemnly
pledge ourselves to renewed zeal and
redoubled energy io its support with
the firm conviction and abiding faith
that other grand and glorious achieve
ments will yet be attained to the lasting
oredit of our com mon country and the
pride of American citizens.
"We denounce and condemn in un
measured terms the suppression and
prostitution of the ballot io South Caro
lina, together with the unlawful and in
iquitous methods used in defeating the
true will of the people, thereby denying
to them a fair and honest representation
in the affairs of the government, both
State and national. That the cod tin
uance oi tue unnoiy system wmcn aemes
to the citizen the free and ontrammeiled
exercise ot his most sacred right, tbe
elective franchise, should be frowned
down and brought to a summary end
by tbe American people that a fair and
just representation may be bad in all
sections without regard to race or patty,
to tbe full and complete satisfaction of
all concerned.
"We bold that liberal education is
imperatively necessary and essentially
important to good citizenship, and must
materially effect tbe gvernment under
which we live and that proper and ade
quate advantages can only be secured
to tbe children of this State by liberal
aid from the general government, sur?
rounded by necessary safeguards for the
fair and equitable disbursement of
whatever sum may be appropriated.
That tbe advantages now offered by the
State is totally inadequate and deficient,
the school term being of entirely too
short a duration to ensure beneficial
results and the teachers in many
instances being incompetent makeshifts
unworthy to be entrusted with the
duties and responsibilities of so sacred
and important a calling.
"That we enter our solemn protest
against the pablic schools being used
for tbe furtherance of political ends and
the demand that they be freed from
such influences, and be held open to
honorable and fair competition without
regard to party principles or race pre
judices ; that tbe people should bave
the indisputable right of making a
selection and choice of the educators of
their own children, bearing as tbey do
a proportion of the taxes and tbe res
ponsibilities of citizenship.
"We do heartily endorse the adminis
tration of President Benjamin Harrison,
and feel confident that his utterance and
firm advocacy of tbe fullest protection to
every American citizen in the free and
untrammelled exercise of his civil and
political rights will be sternly maintain
ed and defended. That his sympathy
with all measures looking to the mate
rial interests of tbe masses meets with
our full approbation and affords entire
satisfaction.
"That we endorse the financial policy
of the administration as wise, econom
ical and safe and must inspire the con
fidence of capital and labor alike and
insure encouraging growth and pros
perity throughout the vast domain of
this country.
"We fully endorse and heartily ap
prove of the course of tbe honorable
Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the United States, supported by his
adherents and co-workers in tbe vindi
cation and defense of tbe principles of
republicanism, io tbe fitting rebuke ad
ministered to those who fraudulently
and corruptly obtained their seats in
Congress to tbe detriment of the true
will and free expression of opinion of
the people, and we hail with satisfaction
and pleasure the prompt and decided
action on the part of the House of Rep
r?sent?mes in such cases.
"That we note with regret tbe failure
on the part of the United States Senate
to pass tbe Blair educational bill and
tbe Lodge election bill, both of which
we bold to be of momentous importance
and necessary to tbe advancement and
elevation of the masses and for protec
tion in tbe exercise of their political
rights. That we looked with tbe as
surance of bope for the passage of such
measures and would urge that they be
made special orders for tbe first days of
the next session.
"While we recognize the importance
and necessity of civil service reform, we
hold that the great issues remaining un
settled are paramount and must be fair
ly and squarely met to insure permanent
peace, tranquility and prosperity
throughout tbe country and secure to all
classes equal and political rights.
"That with faith and confidence in
the party in power and the strong sense
of justice of tbe American people we
look forward to a bright future and a
free enjoyment of the privileges of cit
izenship. That there is a remedy for
the existing evils we feel assured and
that it will be applied in justice we look
forward to with confident expectation."
TRYING TO NOMINATE HASKELL.
The report of the committee on nom
inating a State ticket recommended
that tbe matter be referred to tbe State
Executive Committee. This was met
by a storm of disapproval.
Nix moved that the matter be con
sidered by tbe Convention.
Morris, of Columbia, seconded this
and said be was ready to unite with
the "sfraightouts" and elect Judge
Haskell. Then ensued a scene of con
fusion only known in a South Carolina
republican convention. A score of
delegates shouted out motions and made
speeches at tbe same time. Purvis
spoke against a State ticket. Nix
ranted for it and a dozen others put in
their oars. Io tbe midst of this con
fusion Deas offered tbe followiog reso
lution :
"In order to secure a just, impartial
and liberal administration for all tbe
people of this State, regardless of party
or color, the members of this Conven
tion hereby determine to support at the
polls as their choice for Governor of
South Carolina, Judge A. C Haskell,
of this city, and that tbe State Execu
tive Committee be instructed to carry
out the wishes of the Convention io
this respect."
Murray secured tbe floor. He
thought the Republicans had the best
chance since '76 and ought to unite
with tbe sfraightouts and put a ticket
in the field. The Democrats bad taken
a Republican party and they should do
similarly by taking a Democratic
Nix said : "In nominating a State
ticket be sure t> at McLane or none of
bis gang of disaffected Democrats are
put on it."
Pyrotecbnical oratory now began to
diop like raini When a vote was
taken it was deo ded to refer the whole
matter to the Executive Committee.
In 1874 the Republican party went
to the country ou a record of profligacy
and a force bill, and they were beaten
out of sight. They are going to the
country with tbe same record in 1890.
It is the same country, and we antici
pate confidently tbe same revolts.?
National Democrat.
The most popular liniment, is the old
reliable, Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil
IfinitaetU, vljul
ois vines oi wie country.
There are Now Thirty Two with a
Population of Over 100,000.
Washington. D C, S pt. 14.-^
Tie Census Bureau bas received a re
quest to furoish the population of
twenty of the largest cities io the coun
try, ba=ed upon the census of 1890.
The official count for that number of
cities, with a population of over one
hundred thousand, has not been pre*
pared yet. Sixteen cities, out of the
thirty odd which have the largest popu
lation, were fornisbed as follows :
New York. 1.513.501; Chicago,
1.098.576; Philadelphia 1,044.894;
Brooklyo. 804,374; St. Louis, 460.
367; Boston, 446,507; Baltimore.
435,577; Milwaukee, 204.099; Wash
ington. 229 756; Jersey City, 263,
987; Louisville, 161,005; Petersburg.
238,473; Allegheny City, 104.976;
Omaha, 130.530; Buffalo, 255,443;
Minneapolis, 104,750.
In the census of 1880 there were
only twenty-one cities with populations
of more than 100,000, but the present
census will show an increase of about
eleven, making in all thirty-two having
a population of 100,000 or more.
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There is a fatal epidemic prevailing
in Carroll County, Ohio, which was as
first thought to be malignant typhoid,
fever, but is now pronounced to be
genuine Asiatic cholera. Last Thurs
day there were six deaths in one neigh
borhood.
It has been questioned whether steel
for structural purposes could be success
fully made by basic process, out of
Southern iron ore This question has
been set at rest by the successful tests
made at Chattanooga.
Col. George D. Tillman, of South
Carolina, says the stories being circulat
ed that he will oppose Senator Hamp
ton; are untrue. "I am a candidate for
the House," said he, "and t am going
to be elected. I am further a good
Allianceman, but I am none of your
sub-treasury kind. I am a Democrat."
The Pickens Sentinel throws up the
sponge in the following graceful style :
"We used to ride in the saddle, but
now we are riding behind. We prefer
this to walk, if the man in the saddle
will make the nag go slow, keep him in
the middle of the road, and not bump
us against the saddle by making him
jump ditches and fences. The race is
over, take off your spurs." This is
sensible, and sets an example that
should be followed by all Democrats.
Reports received at Asbeville, N. C.
from a oumber of reliable citizens io
the neighborhood of Bee Tree Creek,
a tributary of the Sewaoee River,
twelve miles east of that city, state that
for the third time since the Charleston
earthquake smoke has for some days
been regularly emitted in considerable
volume from seven mountain peaks of
the Blue Ridge chain. The peaks have
come to- be designated the "Seven
smoking mountains." The occurrence
has excited the entire region in which
the smoke is visible and many of the
people are greatly alarmed.
Prince George of Wales, who wili
probably be King of England some
day, is now on a visit to this country.
When in the city ot Moptreal on Fri
day, he aod two friends, disguised as
common sailors, determined to "do"
the place. While inspecting a disre
putable portion of the city, they were
attacked by a crowd of roughs, who
would have used them up badly but
for the fact that the Prince and his
companions knew enough of the manly
art of self-defence to be able to take
care of themselves. While the row
was in full progress, the police came up
aod arrested the entire party, h was
in vain for the Prince to protest; be
was locked op io the guard house, and
kept in olose confinement until some of
the officials carae to his rescue, as soon
as they fouod out who he was.
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