The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-20
A BRACE OF cAEpET-BAGGERs.
THE MEN WHO WOULD RULE SOUTH CAROLINA
BRACE OF REVEREND RADIoA1s-N Au-
THENT1c HISTORY.

THE MEN WHO WOULD RULE SOUTH CAROLINA
BRACE OF REVEREND RADIoA1s-AN Az
| THENuo HISTORY.
The Charleston correspondent Of The New
York World sketches white mau Lewis and
black man Randolph with telling raoiness
Rev. T. W. Lewis is white man: Rev. B.
| F. Randolph is thick-ipped lustful mulatto
| Both are preachers; both are professors in the
Baker Theological Institute (colored), estab-
| lished here since the war; both are editors OF
an obscure, dirty, blasphemous, semi-Metho-
dist, semi-politioal, all-Radical little weekly
| published in this city, and called the Charles
| ton Advocate; both are from States consider
ably north of this; Lewis hailing from Massa-
chusetts, and Randolph from Ohio; both ore
preachers Of the NJ. q. Church, and leading
men in what that church recognizes and sup
ports as the South Carolina Mission Confer
ence. or course the membership is confined
to the blacks. who have been a1ured by these
evolves in sleeps clothing" from the folds in
which they were formerly nurtured.
Neither OF these men could stand success
full examination in Webster's spelling book, or
write what would consider creditable note;
and yet both are duly registered as 'sprofes-
sors" in high-sounding departments of Theo-
logical institution, whose catalogue is circu-
latod in New England, and embraces course
of study before which even the students OF
Princeton and Andoyer might we'll tremble.
The Advocate has but handful Of subscrib-
ers in this section, for the negroes are unable
to read 1t, and very few of the white people
even know of its existence. But with or with
out circulation. and however contemptibly d.
minutive and badly printe.l, it receives Nc
Pherson douceatr Of the pubic printing to the
tune OF five thousand per annum, as perhaps
the only "trooly loil" paper in the State. With
this, and such subscribers as the editors pick
up IN their summer visits and peregrlnatIons
among the New England saints, the Radical or
gan in reconstructed South Carolina is main
tanned. The entire working force. when the Of
fee was visited not long since, consisted OF one
dirty white man and one black "devl" Il. e.,
negro apprentice). The dlrty white man has
since bsen appointed by General Candy an al-
derman OF this city. with o number OF negro
coWreres assigned to similar prominence and
power, by the memorable coup dc grace OF the
great satrap who now lords it over the two
Carolinas. What has become CT the black
''devil" deponent knoweth not, nor need your
readers care.
The mplatto Randolph is the congenial asso-
ciate of Lewis in the editorial sanctum and chair
profcssio al. When the Radical n gro League
Junta was arranging it's machinery for the con-
city was overstocked with candidates, and that
O distribution would be necessary. According
ly, numerous carpet-baggers here were uncer-
enormously assigned to counties in the inte-
rior; and thus Randolph. professor IN the Boxer
Theological Institute and editor of the Charles
ton Advocate, and living in this city, WAS duly
returned and officially recognized by General
Capby as q delegate to the convention from
Orangeburg, eighty miles distant in the inte-
rior. And, in like manner, the whole nest OF
adventurers, harbored here under the shadow
of the citadel. were provided for In conyen-
ton audaciously termed constitutional" BY
this maneuvre, Randolph added TO bis other
income the $11 per diem and mileage, as a
member Of that African assemblage.
While party Of Orangeuurg negro burglars
were on thoir way to tho county Jail in charge
of the regullr law officers, they were rescued
by al armed band OF freedmen. The officers
obtained assistance and pursued the party,
when fight occurred, resulting in the capture
Of scyeIal OF the Iescuers, two OF whom were
seriously wounded and have sinre died. Their
dying declarations, made unsolicited n the
presence OF their attending physician and two
United States soldiers as witnesses, ,so!emnly
affirm that Rev. B. F. Randolph, Ohio negro:
preacher, editor, burnt district performer,
constitutions maker and seuator from Orange.
burg, suggested, authoriz: ID and ordered
them to attack the sheriB7s part. andreie2se
the burglars vi et arnMs. AZ tins with
in fow weeks past, in Caa6y.s DIS
papers here have published the fac 8, aad
yet there is no military commission ordered to
try this reverend professor for the murder Of
thaso two men, OF which he is clearly guilty, If
there is any trnth IN the lew ulaXlnl Idcn per
ot,1tn,, jdcat per Sc. But when the pcstilent
Dill was killed in Kershaw, doubtless BY same
of his own party whom he had outraged, some
OF the best citizens of that locality we're drag
ged from their homes by detachment OF Can
by's ol Iiers and imprisoned here, where they
are still confined, and it seems there is not
particle of evidence against them. But Ran
dolph is o Radical, ard Instead Of going to
Castle Pin knay and thence yia military COM
mlssiol to the States PRISON. goes to Coiunl-
bla aud occupies q scat ID the Senate OF South
Carolina. And the samo Randolph was dele
gate from South Carolina in the Chicago Con-
venton, wing the Eadical nomination to
t'rant and Colfax.