The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-08-08
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1868.

] AUGUST 8, 1856
and set both are duly registered as "profos-
strA0 in hightaoundng departments of a Thoo-
logicni institution, whose catalogue is circula-
tsd in New England, and embraces course of
study before which even the students of Prince:
tanand Andover might we'll tremblc
The d Aluocate has but handful of ,subscri-
bars in5t this section, for the negroes arc unnble
to read It, and very few Of tho white people
egen know w5of its existence. But with or with
out oircuIation, and howover contcmptibly
diminutiye and badly printed, il receives
McPherson aoace3y o. the public printing to
the the tune of e5 900 per annum, as perhaps
The only "trooly loil" paper in the State
With this, and such subscribers as the editors
pick mp in their summer visits and pcrcgrina-
tions among the New England saints the radi-
cal organ in reconstructed South Carolina is
maintained. The entire woi King forco, when
the Office was visited not long since, consisted
of one dirty white man and one black "devil,"
&c. negro npprenticc.) Tho dirty white man
has sinco been appointed by Gen. Candy an
alderman of this city, with number of negro
ednticrcs assigned to similar prominence and
paawer, by the memorable comp de grace Of the
great satrap who now lords it ovor the two
Carolnas. Whit has become of the black
devil" deponent knoweth not, nor need your
readers care.
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The mulatto Randolph is the congenial as
Fncinte Of Lewis in the editorial and sanctum
llchnir professional. When the Radical Ne
lIsto League Juntn was arranging its maclinc-
rysfor the control of the State, it was ascer-
fsincd that this city was oyclstookcd with
candidntes, and that distribution would be
necessary. Accordingly, numerous carpet bag
)gers here ware dhcoremoniously assigned to
counties in the interior, and thus Randolph,
Eprofessor in the Baker Theological Institute,
lnnd editor Of the Charleston A0oocate and liv-
lin this ci,y, was duly returned, and official.
lyrecognized by Generul Candy as delegate
tothc Convention from Orangcburg, eighty
/ piles distant in the interior And in like
lfanncri the whole nest of adventures. har.
1 L1ssd here under the shadow of tho citadel.
iSr ,tioda atldao 5usiy
termed constitutional" BY this manuuvre,
Randolph added to his. other income the
eleven dollars per diem and mileage, MS a
member of that African asscmblagc.
h While a party Oft fOrangcburg negro burglars
were on their way to the county Jail in charge
tofthe regular law officers, they were rescued
by IN armed band of freedmen The officers
obtained assistance and pursued the party,
when fight occurred, resulting in the capture
| several Of the rcscurcrs, two of whom were
seriously wounded, and have since diod.-
Their dying declarations, made unsolicited in
the presence of their attending physician and
two United States soldiers as witnesses, sol.
emnly affirm that Rev. B. +. Randolph Ohio
negro, preacher, editor, burnt district perform.
err constitution maker and Senator from
Orangcburg, suggested, authorized and ordered
them to attack the shcr;ifs party and release
the burglars II Ct armis. All this within a
| lew weeks past, in Canby's District and under
Canby's cye for tho papers here have publish
cd the facts, and yet there is no military COM
mission ordered to try this reverend professor
for the murder of these two mon, Of which he
is clearly guilty, if there is any truth in the
law maxim fact per alum, .ftrit per Sc
But when the pcstl: Dill was killed in Ker-
shaw, doubtless by some of his own party whom
no had outraged, some Of the best ctizens OF
that locality were dragged from their homes by
detachment of Canbys soldiers and impris.
oncd here whcro they arc still confined, and it
seems there is not particle of evidence against
them. But Randolph is radical and in-
stead of going to Castle pinckncy and thence
via military commission to the States prison,
ilgocs to Columbia and occupies scat in the
Senate Of South Carolina. And the same
Randolph was delegate from South Carolina
III the Chicago Convention, giving the radical
nomination to Grant and Colfax.
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