The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-14
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l'cuitons routes and by-lsn3 to ezcape
the hends who thirsted for Ms hIoodi's
In reply1to this fight OF bis Honor,
I will give an tinvarnished stataEerit
nf The fff:aets as the5r will he. -. Cd -.
to by the good people of Atldefsop.
This judicial aspirant for a Seat Id
Congress, at the hands of the me-
groes, whom he said some years ago
that he despised, and wished they
were all on ten-acre field, that he
mightleyel his artillery against them
and blow them to hell, came to An
derson and addressed the negroes.
on inc Court House square, in n
speech of considerable length. All
was quiet and peaceable. Not the
slightest disturbance took place. No
one thought of iniuring or molesting
his Honor. The crowd had dispersed
and he had gone to the house of n
radical friend. Whilst there, a mis-
chievous little urchin rode by, and
cried ont the talismanic words: "IRe
Ru Rtlc are coming!" Hearing of
the murder of Randolph, thirty or
forty miles distant, about the same
time, his Honor took to tho bushes,
"taking his circuitous routes and By
ways to escape the fends who thirst
ed for his bloodI'' A gentleman of
prominence in the village and a
warm Democrat, hearing of his Ho-
nor's flight, went down to assure
him that I'll ere was no danger and to
take him to his house, but he had
gone. 1t is said that his condition
was a pitiable one, when he arrived
at little village, fourteen miles off,
after walking, in the night, .'twenty-
i've miles by circuitous routes and
by-ways," to reach the place. He
was covered with mud and dirt,
cuckle- bnrrs and Spanish needles, in
passing through the fields, swamps
aud creeks.
son the Greenville and Charlotte
railroads, the lives of all Union men
are positively unsafe, 'the Ku Klux'
being upon every train and at every
station, to waylay and murder them!'
This is indeed most startling reve-
latlon, unknown before, not only to
the officers of the road, but to the
whole community. It is wonderful
that whilst Union men are passing
over these roads every day, s1he
Ku Klux" have not murdered and de-
voured them by scores! They are.
however, mysterious beings, unseen,
and their outrages unknown when
committed, and only heard of at a
distance.
"The incentive lettor of Ex- Gov.
Benjamin f. Perry, written some ten
days since, has increased this terror!"
Without intending or wishing to sin.
crease the terror" again, I will make
one or two extracts from this ''incen-
tive letter" SO that the public may
judge of its character.
cit is high time, I have said, for
the people of South Carolina to turn
their attention from national politics
to these terrible State wrongs and
grievances. They must not be over
looked in our present political excite.
ment, for the time will come, and
that speedily, when they will crush
us to the earth. Wo ought to pre-
pare to meet them-mot 6y rioience
and revolution. but by exposing their
atrocity to the colored people, whose
interest is ours, and Who have been
made the dupes and tools of these
evil men from the North. They have
come here for money, and will quit
the country when they see there is
no more to be had, or there is per-
sonal danger in their path. Our line
of policy is clear, potent and mani
fest. We must commit no aggression,
no act Of UiOlence, but be prepared to
act on the defensive, with spirit and
vigor, when action is imperative.
Patience and forbeou'ance in suferinq
ana oppression are high and patriotic
uirtueS."
1t is said, in the sacred Scriptures,
that "the wicked flee when no man
pnrsueth." Such has been the case
with these hungry advcnturers from
the North. They npprehend evil
when mono is intended. They see
danger i'll the rustIing oc leaf or
the waving of reed. Judge Hoge
was greatly excited, the other day, at
Greenville, when the post Office door
opened and the boys rushed in to
get their letters. He became agitat-
ed, jumped up, and went into the
hotel and inquired what that dis
turbance was about
The radical leaders, carpet-baggors
and ScalluWaOs bnvn hnnp oil oror