The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Although the shootings alluded to elsewhere con-
tinue in the South, still the October elections have
had a good effect. The Georgia Democratic State
Committee have issued an address, denying
the desire attributed to them of reducing the
negro to slavery, and pledging the party to
uphold the right of the African to suffrage.
A similar statement has been made in South
Carolina, but advocating negro suffrage only in a
qualified degree. General Wade Hampton has
published a letter in the Charleston Daily News of
October 21, in reply to a Wisconsin lawyer, who
assures him that widespread misrepresentations of
his views have been promulgated. Hampton says :

—" The main issues involved in the war were Seces

sion and slavery. The first, the primary one ; the
latter brought in at a later period. In regard to
these I adopt fully and without reservation the
principles pronounced by the late National Demo-

cratic Convention in New York, and in the words
of the platform promulgated there, I consider
these questions as settled for ever. I accept this as
the result accomplished by the war, and as its logi-
cal and legitimate consequences. This I have done
from the day the war closed, and I have counselled
people to look upon it in the same light. I was
strongly in favour of the action taken by this State,
conferring on the negro equal civil rights with the
white man. More than a year ago 1 advocated the
policy of giving to him, as soon as we had the
power to do so legitimately, suffrage based on
qualifications. The Democratic Convention, held
here in April last, recognized him as ' an integral
part of the body politic,' and declared that it would,
when our party came in power, grant him partial
suffrage. The State Central Club has reaffirmed
this declaration, and I have no doubt that this de-
claration is sustained by a vast • majority of the
white citizens of the State. We regard the Recon-
struction Acts as unconstitutional, but we lock for
their overthrow not to violence, but, in the lan-
guage of a resolution unanimously adapted by the
Democratic party in Convention assembled,' to con-
stitutional agencies and peaceful remedies alone.' We
invoke a decision on the constitutionality of these
Acts from the only tribunal clinpetent to pro-
nounce on them, the Supreme Court of the United
States; and we were prepared in good faith to
abide by that decision. It in ly not be inappro-
priate here to correct a misrepresentation widely
spread by Radical papers touching these acts. In
these I have been charged with having dictated that
portion of the Democratic platfoim relating to re-
construction. This charge 1 have more than once
denied, and I do S 3 again. The sense in. which
I spoke of the words " unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary, and void," as being my plank in the plat-
form, referred to them as constituting the plank to
which I, as well as any Southern man, clung for
safety." The letter concludes as follows :—" If the
people of the North wish to build up a strong and
lasting nation, let them be magnanimous and gene-
rous to the South. Let them confide more fully
than they have done to the honour of our people,
and they will meet a cordial and heartfelt response.
The future destiny of the Republic is in the hands
of the North, and upon their action it depends
whether there is again to be a Union based on fra-
ternal feelings, or one held together by the iron
bands of military rule." Governor Bullock, of
Georgia, has signed a bill which stops the operation
of the Georgia State Lottery at once, and prohibits
the sale of lottery tickets in the State.—The Lou-
isiana Legislature has adjourned sine die.—On the
20th October, among the last acts of the House was
the reconsideration of the vote sustaining the Go-
vernor's veto of the bill allowing the city of New
Orleans to issue $5,000,000 of bonds, principal and
interest payable in gold, and the passage of the bill
over the veto. The Senate sustained the veto by a
large majority, ho wever, so the bill does not become
a law. Both branches adopted resolutions giving
mileage and pay for the whole session to a number
of Radical contestants of seats of sitting Demo-
cratic members whose cases have not yet been de-
cided, and the House ejected another white member,
elected by over 300 majority, and gave his place to
a negro.—The Louisiana Legislature has offered a
reward of $lO,OOO for the discovery of those who
assassinated the sheriff and the parisludge of St.
Mary. Col. Pope, who held the former appointment,
at one time commanded the 23d Illinois Regiment,
and his body has been sent North for interment.
The canvass for the election of Presid.mtial electors
and Congressmen is being carried on with great
activi y by both parties in North Carolina, and both
profess to be confident of success. General Miles
has so distributed the troops in the State that there
is little possibility of any disturbance, and Governor
Holden has suspended his order for organizing the
militia. Here, as in the other Southern States, the
Democrats now disclaim all purpose to interfere with
or change the State Government exceptby the ballot.
Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, has telegraphed
to Washington for troops, stating that he feared
an armed resistance to authority; but notwithstand-
ing the murder of Deputy-Sheriff Dallar, of Shrew
County,who was seized while serving subpoenas, tied
to a negro, and shot dead, the Democratic Central
Committee assert the Governor's fears to be ground-
less. The 4,000 stand of arms with which he in-
tended to arm his adherents were destroyed, as we
last week announced, and it is now said that the
outrage was perpetrated by the Radicals for the
sake of the political capital to be extracted there-
from. A gang of the Kentucky Ku-klux lately made
an assault on a negro cabin near Hanging Fork,
in Lincoln County, but were driven off with the
loss of one killed and two seriously wounded. In
Kentucky they have lately taken to regulating the
"regulators." Three "lynchers" were themselves
lynched near Louisville. Major-Gen. Wm. Preston,
of Kentucky, one of the " excepted" rebels, has
been pardoned by the President on the recommen-
dation of ex-Attorney-General Speed. Bill Porter
was killed near Memphis, Oct. 17, by Carline, who
was arrested. Both are notorious characters. Talk-
ing of Tennessee, the Ku-klux-klan is said to have
been originated in Giles County of that State by
Gordon, a noted guerilla. Although it spread over
the South, its outrages are nowhere so marked as in
the southern and middle districts of Tennessee. The
State Legislature instructed the military committee
to inquire into the subject ; and their report, issued
not long since, gave details of the outrages. The
committee believe the murders from March to Sep-
tember averaged one a day, of which most were
committed by the Ku-klux, and with comparative
impunity, as few have been punished by the law.
It would be a mistake to suppose that the only
punishment inflicted by the Ku-klux was death,
whipping being their favourite pastime, and women
very often the victims. Matters have, however,
lately much improved.
The latest intelligence brought by mail from
New Orleans is dated Oct. 23. The Evening limes
says—" The long impending conflict seems fairly
commenced," and the accounts really appear to
justify the assertion. in fact, General Rousseau is
becoming alarmed, as he is asked for two additional
regiments. On the night of the 22d a body of men
in disguise broke into the gaol at Carrollton and
killed two negro prisoners, at least one was instantly
killed, and the other, being shot through the head,
will probably die. At Gretna an incendiary fire
was followed by a disturbance. Nine or tea frame
houses were destroyed, and the negroes, who, it
was said, were stealing goods, were attacked, and
a fight took place, three of the blacks being
killed and several wounded, when the rest fled
to Algiers and the swamps. Oa the morning of
the 23d a large body of white men attempted to
cross, when General Rousseau stepped the ferry
boats and sent a company of infantry to assist the
hundred pcliceman who were striving to preaerve
the peace in Gretna. That morning the metropo-
litan police were ordered to leave Gretna by an
armed band of 400 white men. A full account of
the St. Landry massacre has not yet been given,
and it is probable that the details will never be
clearly known. The whole country was roused by
the intelligence at Ope!ousas, and the assertion
that the Radicals wanted to burn the town and kill
every Democrat iu it. Everywhere there was arm-

ing and saddling and mounting in hot haste, and the
roads were quickly shrouded in the dust raised by
some 1,500 armed horsemen rapidly rendezvous-
ing and pushing on for Opelousas. If Capt. May
still lives only one white Democrat was killed and
but three wounded, while Dr. Thomson asserts, and
he commanded the white men under arms at St.
Landry, that at least a hundre I coloured men were
killed and fifty wounded, while some of the citizens of
St. Landry estimate the killed and wounded negroes
at double that number. A fight occurred at St.
Bernard parish, near New Orleans, between the
white and negro clubs. Three negroes and one
white were killed. The whites of New Orleans
armed themselves and proceeded to the scene of
the disturbance, but were prevented by General
Rousseau, who detailed cavalry to preserve order in
the city and its vicinity. He had telegraphed to
Washington announcing that Governor Warmouth
Lad offered him the control of the civil government,
and asking for instructions on the subject. The
President, through the War Department, authorised
General Rousseau to take whatever action might
be necessary. The negroes have been discharged
from the New Orleans police, and the troops main-
tain order. Fifty negroes entered Dardanelles, in
Arkansas, on Sunday, Oct. 25, and fired upon the
houses of the whites, who armed and drove the ne •
groes from the. town. It is reported that James
Hinds, a Congressman from Arkansas, has been
assassinated at Monroe, in that State. According
to Messrs Wright's report the recent frosts will
materially lessen the cotton crops. General Rey-
nolds, commanding in Texas, has ordered Judge
M'Farland to continue a civil case involving
the question of heirship to certain property.
The counsel protested to President Johnson
against this unwarrantable assumption of power
by General Reynolds, and asks for redress. Mr.
Johnson replied that the reconstruction laws pre-
vented his interference on behalf of the peti-
tioners. The Randolph murder has caused great
excitement in South Carolina.. The Senator arrived
at Cokesburg from Abbeville county in com-
pany with two others, when • he deposited his
carpet-bag and walked to the platform of the
cars. There he was met by the three men, who
each discharged his piece into his body, when they
mounted their horses and rode away, leaving
him dead on the platform. His body was
carried to Columbia, where he was buried
on the Sunday afternoon. Governor Scott has
offered $5,000 reward for the arrest of each of the
assassins, and has assured Randolph'e friends that
justice shall be done. The Governor sent Judge
Hodge to Washington to demand military aid, and
it is believed that the matter has been settled with
Secretary Schofield that the Governor shall issue a
Proclamation announcing the inability of the civil
authorities to preserve order, and assert the supre-
macy of the laws in specified counties wherein
martial law should then be declared, when the
United States troops would on his requisition be
placed at his disposal. The Democratic State Exe-
cutive Committee strongly reprobate the recent acts
of violence, and invoke all citizens, irrespective of
party or colour, to aid in preserving the peace.—
Anglo- American Times.

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