The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-07-29
: WILLIAM II. MARTIN.

will nerer haze a negro government over as
Here is my name. -.-.
WILLIAM II. MARTIN.
ADDITIONAL WARNINGS.
r. K. Scott, Bogus Gouern0r, not represent
ingthe nhtte people Of this State-neuer ::
SIR: You may continue and fill the po-
sition of Governor under the impression
that military law has done its work too
effectualy for our people ever to cast it
aside, and undo all reconstruction as we'll
as all military laws; but in this view you
shall be wotully mistaken. And | can
but hope that all who have taken con-
spicuous part in trying to humiiate the
people of the South, under negro Radical
rule, will (not far in the future) be made
to feel the penalty Of a sound constitu-
tional law, severely administered by true
chite men of the State and country.
Your career will be as short lived as you
could we'll wish it, and much shorter.
Just to think; for moment, of our pres
ent condition-a condition rendered SO
intolerable, by inhuman 6ends, with negro
abettors. as to deity any comparison with
either ancient or modern cruelty. A
savage, cruel inhuman being-a negro
put over and above the only rightfnl pco-
pie of the State, of South Carolina
Great God We'll may we, the Southern
people, the best Of all people, desire to
yet live (thongh under severe persecu-
lion) to witness the just reward in store
tor Scott and all his coadjutorS, and of
his party and ik. We will then rejoice,
and feel that the day-yes, the year, too,
of Jubilee has indeed come.
Receive these warnings in time. Your
negro militia will not keep our people
from killing them fast enough.
w. Ii. MARTIN.
July IS, 1868
The above was mailed from Ncnberry
Court House July Is, and addressed to
His Excellcncy r. X. Scott, Esq.'' The
Governor showed it to some of his friends
us political curiosity. Said friends saw
in it the elements of a ir,t-class cam
paign document aid using Dclarye as
stool pigeon, determined 20 invest it with
all the blue light and pyrotechnc effect
of newly discovered mine Of rebellion.
Nobody believed in its authenticity; no
one imagined that any real danger was
concealed in the sulphurous eloqucnce Of
the untathered epistle; brt the lette. was
sion was determined on Tor the purpose OF
considering the mystcriou. communica-
ton, and of impressing On the public
mind that the Legislature Of South Caro-.
lima was in danger Of being Immediately
bombarded by the ku Klux kIan.
Accordingly, at an appropriate hour.
tho business of the day being disposed of,
DeLarge made the motion, the lobbies
were swept of spectators, the reporters
were elected, and the frightful missive
was read to the horror stricken repre-
sentatives How much hair stood on
end, during this process, has not yet been
definitely ascertained; how much courage
was evoked by the abominablc threats of
the unterrifed Newberry rebel, can be
measured by no moral thermometer we
wot of; but it is understood that during
the interval occupied in the discussion
there were several patriotic detonatIons
we'll calculated to alright the most cal
lous heart, and a display Of temper re-
motcly suggestive of manslaughter in the
first degree To all this verbal blood and
thunder, one Of the Democrats on the
floor Of the House, speaking for his COM
panions, responded with the brief remark
that his party were not responsible for
the crazy cbullitions of any individual !;
that tho people Of the State demanded
the settlement Of che issues Of the hour
in but one way, namely. at the ballot
box; and that neither on the floor nor Oft
the floor would the sensible people Of
South Carolina counsel the employment
of force to settle mere differences OF po-
litical opinion.
This declaration appeared to exercise
q Mrs Winslow's soothing syruppy IN
huence on the perturbed imagnations OF
those who were not in the secret OF the
movement. and the secret session was
soon dissolved.
The long and short of the whole mat
ter is that the shrewd managers of Radi-
cal influence found in the document pre-
ciselv what they wanted for double
nurnose. First, something to show that
South Carolina is one of the most fear
fnllv unrcconstructed States in the Union
or out of it, consequently that Republi-
cans arc all patriots; and secondly. that
a coIored militia must be Immediately or
ganizcd and armed for their protection
The last has already been discovered
to bo the most delicate point with which
the Legislature have to deal. White Re-
publicans are opposed to it--espeeially
those who have lived in the State, and
know the intlammatory elements which
exist; while on the other hand there is a
strong pressure from the constituency
outside for permission to bear arms and
be considered as part of the army of
South Carolina. Ofcourse goodly mum