The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-07
Tho SRutuc Riot.

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The Radical newspapers Of the country,
despite counter-assertion and contradiction,
declare every day that the whites of the
South are goading on the intelligent and
uirtuous freedmen to tohe up arms in SELF
defence. They say that every trouble and
disturbance which takes place in the South
is due to the persecution and tyranny of
the whites; they say that armed militias
and secret organizations are indispensably
necessary to the safety and protection Of
the freedmen. The white Democrats, on
the contrary, say distinctly and emphad-
cally that there meyer. would be any disor-
der or violence in the South but for the law
less conduct of some few negro leaders, who
are inoited to open and fsgrant misconduct
by the subtle or hsttering falsehoods Of
their white chiefs. The truth Of this last
statement is, Of course, fatty denied, and it
is not often that evidence which the Radi
Gals dare not refuse to receive makes evil
dent the truth and yindioates the manliness
and honor of the Southern people.
On the Goth Of August last there was q
disturbance in Union District in this State,
which ended in tho wouading of several
negroes The whites said that the negroes
were the aggre.sors; the negroes said just
the reverse. Governor Scorr ordered an
investigation to be made by JOHN B. HUB
BARD, the recently appointed State Consta-
BILE, who is cousin of Mr. HORACE GREE
LEY. Constable HUBBARD, the Radical ap-
pointes of Radical Governor, confirmed
by mixed Senate, will not be suspected of
partialty towards the whites, and his report
upon the Santuc riot, published in our tele-
graphic columns on Saturday, may be e5-
sumed to do the negroes justice q. least,
and perhaps something more. We''ill now
endeavor to show, in few words, the con-
clusions at which Mr.. HUBBARD has arrived.
1. John Bates, negro of Union District,
has claimed to be an officer, ordering large
bodies Of armed colored men to assemble
and drill, marching them over the country
and discharging firearms on the public
highways, "thereby causing the white oiti-
"zens to apprehend danger to their persons
"and property, and to protest against such
proceedings, making no objections to the
"cslored men meeting, provided they met
"unarmed."
That is to say, the drilling, shooting and
marching of these negroes made the white
people apprehend murder, arson aad out
rage. What did they do? They protested
against these proceedings, declaring at the
same time that they had no objection to the
negroes meeting if they were unarmed
They did not attempt to interfere with free
dom of speech. They did not organize
armed bands and shoot the negroes down,
as they might have done. They protested
and waited Could Radicals do more than
this, or would they do as much?
2 John Bates orders colored men to
guard him from place to place, many of
them going eight to ten miles to guard him,
"thus causing valuable time to be lost to
sthe employers and detrimental to the en-
"ployees and farming interest in that vi
''cinity."
This shows clearly enough that Bates, in
encouraging the negroes to leave their work
to guard him, is persuading them to be idle,
reducing them to condition of vagabond-
age, and destroying that spirit of industri-
GUS labor which the whites are trying to
| foster.
8 A difficulty occurred at Santuc DEPOT
on August &c, which resulted in white