The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-08
TIE LExLNGToNfsLANDER.
Another Radical Lilo Mailed to tho
Counter

We take hom the Columbia Phoenix, of yes
terday, letter, IN which 1t u positively assert
ed that there is no truth Id the Radical ru.
mors that attempts are being made in Lexing.
ton to defraud the freedmen, The correspon
dent says .@soS '
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PuGNU.
In yorr iasueJ OF the .4th distant appeared
the following from q member Or the state con:
stabulaIy: so.
y bslleye are9qlar systemAtio attempts will
this yeSr OF Their share OF tile crops. Many Of
the Latter neglected To have written contracts.
and are being driven OF the plantations, and
refused any enumeration for their labor"
You ask, what say our Lexington friends IN
We pronounce thbirhole paragraph malicious
~ false, and an unpardonsbIYw wicked attempt
toslAnder the good oitzens Of Lexington. The
evidence Of It's writer's being wholly una.
quainted with the people whose reputation he
30 unwarrantaby attempts 10 defame.
aoms treedmen Of this county have no
be thus bound, and preferred to work without
contract in writing, 50 that they could leave
when It might suit their convenience, OF when
ever they might become too lazy to work.
The only 'systematio attempt to defraudn
known to the citizens OF thisf county. is the
present State government, which, not satisfied
with the spoils OF Office, would rob the good
2, tine STATE OF their ams aso
Os
sale house III this State. His drum mmers, the
State Sonatabulsry, are sent out in every direc-
tton to collect material to be Manufactured
into eleotionss Yarns by Northern printing
presses, or TO be- Used as fuel to Increase the
already too violent feelings entertained towards
sno .ne southern ' people This firm. with It's nume
its own reputation or that OF the people Of
"our dear State" unless it increases the gene
RAJ stock OF the company. or aids in keeping
sne lucky goose IN the clutches OF Northern
EsoTn to Be injured 81 shs vile of 5fG "a
Scotes obief foierks Hubbard, z or any of the in
ferior drummers who do his tiddines.
We ohallenge the ''great calumniator" him.
sell, tho s!a.e constabulary, or Sny other set
OF defamers, to estabfsh the charge OF any
"systematic attempt" on tho part OF the good
SelE Se9pe o o. Lexington tDa to do aaSEs save their
out RadioAlism and the presenf rotten State
government; and We honestly believe that the
isSs nsS OF Le1ington's being so thornhghly Demo-
ous statement. Imagine these Drumming con.
stables travelling through thie county, so
nearly iutned by: Sherman, so blessed. ti) IN
thaying avn BooSer andA Corley, aud yot SO true
IN Ps1sRss Sa s s e ,5
and fishes fr6m the too willing Etasp Of nun
ert diqils. Imagine their spleen as they
mediatedo9 these sad truths las they thought
Of this connty offered in the Rood cause during
the last campaign-as they remembered the
Democratic barbecues, pionics. sSs., and You
will agree with us that there was. need OF. an
eorpe expression OF the malice which they' bear
this county. and you will Aud, too, In these
things; this IN Hphpstton OF the Sssstematio st-
good aud true men; but We wonid ehun the
approval Iot tIese aoula-be ojtzans, and well: