The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-16
Ku KIux. Rincs, DO.

unQer Gate OF t1tn 14bt.S uuQeIIakeH 10
vindigsfe Gove9nor Scott in the wins
ohestst Rifle" affair." by throwing mud at
the white people of South Carolina. In
the course of his remarks he says some
things that desire to notice through
your columns. He introduces into his
vindicatien brief but brilliant epistle
from David G.. Robertson to Governor
Scott, which runs as follows:
"SUMTER, s. c., April 10, 1870.
''1o HIS Ercellency r. K. Scot.
GOVERNOR: I respectfully ask you to
send q few men into Sumter County.
would like two men sent to nay house, as
the Ku Klux are still organized, and the
colorod people have no protection, &C.,
&c. Very respectfully, your obedient
servant, DAVID q. ROBERTSON"
The writer under review tells his
readers, Immediately under this letter,
that t'this Mr.. Robertson is brother of
Hon. Z. j. Robertson, member of the
United States Senate from this State. -
This he does, presume, for the same
reason that an amateur artist, who had
made q drawing of such unique appear
ance that it might have been worshipped
without violating that part Of the first
commandments which forbids the worship
of the likeness of anything in heaven
above, or in the earth beneath, wrote
under his picture: ''This is a cow" It
appears to me that any man who should
read the letter of Mr.. Robertson, with
out knowing any more about him than
he could CLEAN from It, would immedi-
ately conclude that he was member of
the colored .:persuasion,. for whom the
intensely radical County of Sumter
affords no protection. T should say,
from a knowledge OF the political status
OF Sumter, coupled with the wording OF
that epistle. that there is the largest kind
OF ''nigger in the wood-pile," if we
could only find him. Think I see the
woolly end Of him. What formidable
organization the Sumter Ku Klux must
have, that it requires t,oo of Soott's
rifiemen to protect the tenants of one
house. from their ferocious attacks. 1
should say, by all means, Governor Scott
ought to send the two men, and suggest
that the correspondent of the Republican
be one OF them, aud that he goes armed
with '.Winchester Rifle" and very
large squirt-gun. The occupants of the
tenement, which requires 80 strong a
guard. might find the squirt-gun very
useful, after the descent Of the Ku Klux,
about the post occupied by the valiant
knight In question. Governor Scott will
doubtless be the recipient of numerous
letters similar to this one of Mr.. Robert
sons, during the approaching summer
and fall, all designed for the same pur-
pose, l. e., to create the impression that
there is necessity for the militia to be
sent out with their "Winchester Rifles"
to keep the peace.
This correspondent wonders if GER
tain 'South Carolina gentleman, whom
he introduces into his epistle, s'ever
stood by, and with heart calloused by
nature, and hardened by custom, and
without compunction of conscience,
watched the lash descend, cutting deep
into his own flesh and blood" Here is
a lover of peace and quiet, is he? One
who wants to see peace and harmony re-
stored to this distracted country. And
how does he propose to effect that great
and most desirable object? Why, by
contemplate appeals to the basest, most
lgnoble passion Of our corrupted nature
that of revenge. He hopes. by con-
tinual re-opening of old wounds, to foster
and perpetuate spirit of hatred in the
breast OF the former slave, who was made
such by Yankee cupidity, towards his
FORMER owner. Inc man who can con-
descend to such an execrable course,
ought to be sent to board with General
Stolbrand, "for his conntry's good" r
aronder, also; and what is my wonder?
Why, wonder if the writer in question
ever trod the soil of Massachusetts in his
childhood? I wonder if he over heard
of Boston. the city from which between
l,70O and 1,S00 white children are sent
annually to the tombs, and of which
unfortunate class, the Judge of the
police court Of that city declared, on the
23d of May, 1865, ''not more than m
average of one in thirty ever saw Bible,
or learned what it told Of" The same
city, of which the same Judge said, on
the same day: "One-fifth of all the
children of this city are under the in
duence of the school of destitution, de-
bauchery and crime" This is the land
whose orators are eloquent in depicting
and deploring the unhappy condition Of
the poor OF the South; and which sends
forth its swarms Of philanthropic carpet.
baggers into every nook and corner of
the South, like a swarm of devouring
lOCuStS. to eat nm the anI,atopna of ~.