Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-01-22
SKsrcans OF TIE DnLEGArns TO THE GREA
Hp.SrlHLkBD.AxD.S STRIPED.
The Delegates from Sumter.
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l. l. Thomas j. Coehlan. An Irisbman, long
resident in Sumter. By trade blacksmith al
ways Union in politics; formerly hard drinkcr
and n trough :" has occasionally experimental In
steam saw mills, which he generally managed to
blow up, to tho great damage Of tho machinery
and Of ell who invested in It; has always been
opposed to negro mechanics, and has mado des-
psrato efforts to induce legislative action TO con-
fne negroes to field labour, and to exclude them
from the trades. Tho Irish and tho negro seldom
affiliate, but in this human Ola podrida the spec
tacle is seen.
w. E. johnson. An unknown imported mu-
latto, who made his appearance in Sumter, since
the war, as q preacher, Of tho African Methodist
porsuasion. lie halls from Phiadelphia, bragg
on his intimacy With General Candy and various
Con gressmen has no family, unless he left one 1t
tho North, and told the negroes in Sumter that
they must never stop until they placed black
man in the Preiidential chair, and We rule the
government" His anteecdents, however fair or
Infamous, are Of course unknown; but liz the
convention he |, very apt to "cry aloud andsparo
not" and show "de white trash do way"
8. Samuel Lse. A young mulatto, born in
Sumter, born and reared in Judge Moses family,
an excellent house servant, and understands wait
Ing on table, to which he has boen trained; can
road md write was always known as Sam. Mo
ses, but registers, votes, and will legislate, rs
Samuel Lee.
r. J. Moses, Jr. A young lawyer, native
of SUMTER and son OF Judge Moses. Delegate
No. 4 was Private Secretary 10 Governor Pickens,
and was in accord with the secession aroro of the
Piekens administration retains as memonto OF
the times the desk on which ho wrote the order TO
fre on the Star Of the Rer; surveyed In de-
light from the Governors headquarters the bonn
- Dat hxrR Rann
regard, and after the fight vas over, and the fort
evacuated by tho brave Major Anderson and hii
command, on Monday, F. j. Moses. Jr, claimed
tho honour, as Governors aid, Of raising the Pa
mstto Gag over the ramrar!a, which was duly
chronicled il the gaEottes Of the day. He subso-
ouenty was enrolling oficer for Williamsburg
District, and then for Edgehold District, and
aided the "rebcllion" in evory way except In the
fight Since the war ended he hnt discovered
that he was always opposed to 1t, and while edit:
ing for some months tho Sumter Naos, be changed
be,s 40 suddenly in favour Of tho Radicals. that
the patrons OF that paper withdrew In disgust,
and ho was dismissed. In Els valsdictory no de-
clarsd: al am not now, and never have been,
Radical, In the common acceptance OF thattern,
and was at that time momber Of the negro
Union League at Sumter, and In accord with
Wbittom,ro, Bowen, Wright & Co. His speeches
In tho convention will no doubt be rendered
doubly brilliant by tho vivid reeollechons OF tne
past, which "the City by the Sea" and the
crumbled walls Of old Sumter must Inevitably re-
vive; and It ought to afford him peculiar satia-
faction to unite with bis present noble associate:
in voting to disfranchiss Governor Pieken' and
the other unbought and untaintsd white men OF
tho State.
~of the delegation as q whole: It is unexcep-
tonably nulla bona, as It does not owna dollars
worth Of taxable property, and If johnson gives
ont tho hymn, "No foot OF land do poases',"
ho and his three assooiatoscan sing It con ahaorej
and tho truth Of 1t can be rouched for, whatever
be thought Of tho ss Il uni, ,no
white and two eoloursd. or 'alf and 'alf yet If
tho four wcro photographed, D close observer
would scarcely discern ,hades difference In
complexion. All four reside in the town OF Sum.
tor. Those delegates represent neither tho white
NOR tho black population Of Sumter District, al.
thou eh nominated by Whittomore caucus and
elected by tho League machinery.