The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-08-08


mad yet both are duly registered as "profcs-
sers" in high-Hounding departments of a Thoo-
logical institution, whose catalogue is circula-
tad in New England, and embraces n course of
study before which even the students of Prince.
ton and Andover might we'll tremble.
Ihe Advocate has but handful of subscri-
bprs in this section, for the negroee arc unnble
to read it, and very few Of tho white people
csen know of its o:,istonce But with or with
out circulation, and however contcmptibly
dininutive and badly printed, it receives q
nfophelson tq dopceur Of the public printing to
the the tune of $4,000 per annum, as perhaps
The only "trooly loil" paper in the state.-
v ith this, and such subscribers as the editors
pick mp in their summer visits and pcrcgrna-
tons among the Now England paints, the radi-
cal organ in reconstructed South Carolina is
maintained. The entire working forco, when
the office was visited not long since, consisted
OF one dirty white man and one black sdcvil, :"
&c negro npprenticc.) Tho dirty white man
has since been appointed by Gen. Candy an
alderman OF this city, with number of negro
coyicrcs assigned to similar prominence and
power, by the memorable comp de grace of the
great satrap who now lords it over the two
Carolinas What has become of the black
'devil" dcponcnt knowcth not, nor need your
readers care.
The mulatto Randolph is the congcnial as
Focate Of Lewis in the editorial and sanctum
chair professional. When the Radical Ne
gro League Junta was arranging it's machine
~ for the control of the State, it was asccr-
taincd that this city was oyc,stockcd with
candidates, and that distribution wcald be
necessary Accordingly, humorous carpet bag
gers here were ihccremoniously assigned to
counties in the interior, and thus Randolph,
professor in the Baker Theological Institute,
md editor of the Charleston Atloocatc and liv-
ing III thin ci,y, was duly returned, and Official
iy recognized by General Candy ms delegate
to tho Convention from Orangcburg, eighty
;ipilcs distant in the interior And in like
lfanncr, the whole nest of adventures, hor-
h3Ssd horc under the shedow of tho citadel.
iTdvfvd ior Go.l .,tioa atrtiao i5usiy
termed constitutions" BY this maneuvre,
Randolph added to his. other income the
eleven dollars per diem and mileage, as a
member Of that African asscmblngc
i While party of-Orangcburg negro burglars
were on their way to the county Jail in charge
otthc regular law officers, they we're rescued
hy an armed band Of freedmen The officers
obtained assistance and pursued the party,
when fight occurred, resulting in tho capture
OF several OF the rcscurcrs, two of whom were
seriously wounded, and have since dicd.-
Their dying declarations, nude unsolicited in
the presence of their attending physician aud
two United States soldiers as Witnesses, SOL
emily affirm that Rev. b. f. Randolph, Ohio
negro, preacher, editor, burnt district perform.
er, constitution-inaker and Senator from
Orangcburg, suggested, authorized and ordered
thcm to attack the shey;iT;s party and release
the burglars n Ct nrmis. All this within a
| ic'' weeks past, i'll Canby's District and under
Canby's eye, for the papers here have publish
cd the facts, and yet there is no military COM
mission ordered to try this reverend professor
for the murder Of these two men, of which he
is clearly guilty, if there is any truth in the
law maxim: .iacH per alum, t1,cit per Sc
But when the pcstil mt Dill was killed in Ker-
shaw, doubtless by some of his own party whom
he had outraged, some of the best citizens of
that locality were dragged from their homes By
detachment of Canby's soldiers and impris-
oned here whcro they arc still confined, aud it
seems there is not n particle of evidence against
| them Rut. Ron6olnh 10 rod;c,1 o,it -,
stead OF going to Castle rinckncy and thence
via military commission to the 5tato's prison,
goes to Columbia and occupies a seat in the
Senate Of South Carolina And the same
Randolph was n delegate from South Carolina
il. the Cheaso Convention, giving the radical
nomination to Grant and ColEux