The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-07-27
Head Quarters. Military District
Western S. G.,
FOURTH SEPARATE BRIGADE,
NEwBERRY, July Is, 1865.
GENERAL ORDERS,

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GENERAL ORDERS
No. g.,
1. The case of Joha B. Glymph, by his
own statement, shows that he had con-
tion, about the contract, who wished to
consult United States officer to ascer-
tain if it was correct, and SO told Mr..
Glymph. Glymph was indignant that
the colored man should not confde in him,
and, when he started for this place, seiz--
ed a shot gun and deliberately fired, the
contents entering the arm and back OF the
negro. AS Glymph has been several days
in Iail, it is ordered that he be released
on executing o bond, with sufficient secur-
ity, to keep the peace and appear tor trld
when called.
II. VIM. Lemons is q clerk in a hotel
at this place. Burrel Mayes, whom no
one would suppose to be anything But
Anelo-Saxon, has taint Of African blood.
Some time ago be escaped from Ibis mas
ter, went to Columbia, volunteered as a
soldier, under the name of John Brown,
in South. Carolina -Regt., was wounded
in the battle of tAe Wilderness, captured,
sent North, and finally returned as a. pris-
Fcner of war.
Lemons makes the justification for as
sault and battery, that Mayes came into
the hotel and requested him to take
charge of his carpet bag, passing it over
the counter The next day he returned,
procured his carpet bag and went on his
way. BY some means Lemonss learned
that MsJes l.ts5 Jes was tainted WIN miSn. AFRICAN
III 1looG; he beca%-.s enraged, that negro
should ask him to do any service. follow
ed until he found, and commenced beat
ing him..
| As there is not the shadow Of an excuse
for his conduct he must remain in jail un-
til competent court can punish himas he
deserves.
III. John;Whitman, charged by afreed-
woman with beating hef, was arrested,
and on examination states that he was in
formed the woman was inso9ent to bis
wife, the particulars or provocation for
which he did not ascertain bat he took
the woman, stripped her naked, tied her
down, and then with q leather strap gave
Is stripes. This is clearly a. case of. as
sallt and battery, and would be:punished
as such exceptthat MIR. Whitman alleges
that he would never have punished the
woman, had he not supposed he had a
right SO to do, from the fact that Capt.
Murray, of the 25th Ohio Fol., lately COM
manding at this place. approEed contracts
with the power inserted to the employer
to punish, and also told them, in numer-
GUS instances, that they could buck and
gag and tie up by the thumbs whenever
necessary. This is the excuse given for
many 0utrages committed upon the color
ed people in this section Of the State.
Thatthere many be no excnse forfutare
offences the Brev't Brig. Gen'l'Coma g, is
sues this Order, directed to all the Dis
tricts in his command, viz: Lancaster,
Fairfield, Chester, York, Union, Newbel'-
ry, Edgefeld, Abbeville, Laurens, Spar
'tanburg, Greenville, Anderson and Pick
ems.
Why an officer in the United States SER
vice should approve contracts with such a
dangerous delegation of power, and in ad-
dition authorize the. exercise Of punish
ItcUU 81 etiiu SGluOiil w
be used in the arlny,.is very remarkable.
The contract said the punishment should
be lgTfuE. Yet no man so stupid but
knows that the lawful Punishment which
slavery imposes cannot now be allowed
to seonrge the naked back and limbs of
free men and women. Slavery and the
lash arc Synonymous; you cannot separ-
ate one from the other in the mind ofthe
African. Yet girl whose inselehec may
have been produced, as sometimes 1t Isl
by violent and threatening language, or
ilsolenco, if you please, from the white
person, who was of size to be held in Dir.
Whitman's hand, is tied and beat on the
supposition that it was right, because. q
United States officer had delegated such
power. The colored people are told they
are free, yet under the shield of the Uni
ted States Government, they are noGged
some of them as they never were before.
There are many persons who feel all the
bitterness which the rebellion ehgendered,
and While brooding over the modification
of defeat, loss of property, and emancipa-
ton of slaves, exhibit the cruel measures
Of wreal,ing vengeance+fpon tho innocent
and helpless freedman.
After the publication of this order, like
offences will be severely punished You
have,sworn to sustain the proclamation Of
the President, consequently the abolition
of slavery. Such conduct you will rcadi-
ly see is violation Of your parole, for
teiturc of your oath. Nearly all the diff
culties attendig the immediate emancipa-
tion Of SO large a class, and the transition
from slave to free labor, could be removed
entirely, or greatly mitigated by cheer
ful acquiescnce on the part Of all.
Some very foolish, if not very wicked
men, are contributing not only to their
own injury, but that of the entire State.
By disregarding the rights of the freed