The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-07-29
De Large Negro Scare,

De Large Negro Scare.
After twelve days of labor ithout re-
suit, tke House, on motion of DeLarge,
went into secret session. And delivery
Of the following sensation was the con.
sequence. Gov. Scott receives a threat.
ening Ku Klux, and in secret conclave
it is read to the frightened crew. For
the benefit of our. many readers who
have not yet seen it, We publish the
communication in full:
NEwBERRY, S. c., July 13, 1868.
To Gen. Scott, Hybrid Governor of S. C.:
S1R-Jn the midst of scenes pregnant
with trouble, of an epoch in the history
of South Cal olina fearful to contemplate.
you have repaired to Columbia, our an.
cient and time-honored capital, sur
rounded BY a rulnp eonclave of hybrid
niggers and renegade whites, and have
assembled in a body to represent the
people of South Carolina as a legislative
body. You also, the Governor elect,
have been inaugurated, delivered your
self of q mass of humbug, free.ne
talk, as message, and really attempted
to put in execution the horrible, de-
spised and abortive, free-nigger loving
laws enacted by an unlawful body OF
scalawags, representing South Carolina,
in Unconstitutional Convention" In
deed, it was Constitutional Conven-
ton !" O! shades of Calligula, of Nero,
of France under JacobiD rule! The peo
pie (only the whites) l will tell you,
Governor Scott, of our poor. poverty
taxed State would prefer absolute death
to government instituted and ruled by
renegades and negroes. We do not
(never0 with Gods blessing, or by any
power, intend to b. in the least over
ruled by an inferior race of negroes and
imported scallawags, or despised Yankee
emmissaries. want you to understand
this ubject as plainly asI haze indited
it. Never Meyer
You are very careful to recommend to
the hybrid assemblage requisltion up.
On the United States War Department
for the States quota of arms, with the
view of organizing and arming negro
militia before the military protection is
relieved, after civil government is re.
sumed. Well, this IS decidedly rich
fully as much of the genuine Yankee OF
Pennsylvania as we could have expected.
Negro militia ! You say "our govern
ment must rest upon obedience to law,
&C." But how, if you have common
sense, could you expect obedience to
law" if there be such o thing in our
State as negro militia? We cannot, and
will not, tolerate a miserable negro mill
tia. Enforce the order,- if you will,
sternly, severely ; but we will not have
pcace. even such a peace as we now
have, no longer than these brutal, delu
ded savages-the negro melish-shall
kave been organized. No neveF!. then
you may expect-and you doubtless
hope to see it-a collision between our
people and the negroes. We will then
have no country, no peace, no fam.
lily ties to prevent longer oppression by
relentless Jicobin enemy, God wit
nesSeth that our people shall forever af-
terwards resolve to destroy the vile des.
potic rulers of our country. You know,
Scott, that you have no right to govern,
or act as Governor of our dear State.
And by the blessings of God Almighty
your party in the whole South shall he
discomtitted, despised, and, l trust, de,
stroyed.
The negroes could he made to do what
IS sstheiE paatu-dauI duIy, II there had not been
outside Yankee and inside renegade, in.
references with them, under Radical in
struction. Democracy will rule you yet
besides other help. to our people. We
will never have a negro government,
over US. Here is my name:
WILLIAM H. MARTIN.
. - ADDITIONAL WARNING.
R. Z. Scott, Bogus Governor, not repre-
senting the. white people of this
State-neVer
SIR:-You may continue and fill ths
position of Governor, under the impress
sion that military law has done its work
too efectually 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 vwoefully mistaken,
And can but hope that all who have
taken conspicuous part in trying to hu.
initiate the people Of the South, under
negro Radical rule, will (not far in the
future) be made to feel the penalty of
sound constitutional law, severely ad-
ministered by true. white 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 a
moment, of our present conditional con:
dition rendered so intolerable, by iDhu:
man fiends, with negro abetters, as to
defy any comparison, with either ancient
or modern cruelty. A savage, cruel, in:
humane being-a negro-put over and
above the only rightful people of the State
of South Carolina! Great God! Well
may We, the Southern people, the best
Of all people, desire to yet live (though
under severe persecution,) to witness the
just reward in store for Scott and all Of
his co.aGutors, and Of his party and ilk.
We will then rejoice-and feel trat the
day-yes, and 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:
July l3, 1868, W, H. MARTIN.
1t is hardly necessary TO say that there