Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-22


a correspondent Of the New York
Rorld, writing from Charleston on the
14th inst, furnishes some striking pic
lures of South Carolina under sRadical
ro5berreconstruction." The following is
8 specimen: tsNesr the line of the rail-
way running from Wilmington to Kings
vile, and only a few miles from the vii
lage of Lynchburg, South Carolina, aquiet
and successful farmer lives with his large
family, depending on his crop entirely for
support. A few nights since an armed
band of twenty-five negro saysges at
tackled his premises, and in his presence
deliberately applied the torch TO his large
and well-flled barn and gin house, redue-
ing the whole establishment, including
eight hundred bushels of corn, to ashes.
Two nights afterwards another farm in
the same neighborhood was visited and
burnt out in like manner. What redress
have the sufferers by such outragesS
If the ruffians are proceeded against by
law it win be almost impossible to induce
the negro jury to convict them, but If
convicted and sentenced the psrdoning
power is ready in two days to restore
them TO liberty, and is certain to do it.
II the rufflans are shot there is hue and
cry at once rsised of Rebel outrages, ;
and negro mobs are ready to retaliate
Whittemore has publicly told them in his
speeches, AN the arms they required
was box of matches, and these out
RACES in his district are the outcroppings
of his teachings. THERE'S no doubt he in
doIses and gloats over them" Touching
the outrage near Lynchburg, the Sumter
Wdtchnldn makes this statement:
''The barn of Mr.. Hosea Wilson, (near
Lynchburg) with six or seven hundred
bushels of corn, was burned On the 9Th
inst. by body of armed and disguised
negroes. He had been told that it was
the purpose of negroes in that section to
burn him out, but being so far from any
connection whatever with any of the dis
tUbances of the country, and being en-
tirsly ignorant of the existence OF enmity
toward him on the part of any one, he
could not give credence to the report. On
the night the outrage was committed,
however, information of such character
was received as TO induce him to be on
the lookout. So slight had been his ap-
pTehensions, previously, and so pesceable
and inOffensive citizen is he, that the
startling news found him without assist
ance, aud unprepsred even TO fire shot
himself in defence Of his home and his
bread. Upon the approach of the ruff
fans, past the hour of midnight, We are
informed, he went in quest of assistance
of some sort, and, being unsuccess
full, returned, finding his barn in flames.
Ia this situation he did not attempt re
sistapca = No man in
Sumter county is further removed from
anything like participation in or symps
thy with Ku-Kluxism or mob law in any
shape, than is Hosea Wilson. He is one
of our most quiet, generous and molten
sive, honest and industrious, fair-dealing
and lsw-abiding citizens; and the outrage,
not only upon him but upon all that class
of our citizens, is mOnstrous. 1t touches
and must excite, 10 greater or less ex
tent, the more calm and solid and dehbe
rate portion of our people. IL must
arouse the sensibilities of the best ele-
ments of the community, and exhibit, in
their true light, the unfortunate condition
of things by which we are surrounded.
We are informed that few nights pre-
vious to the burning of Mr.. Wilson's barn,
a colored man named Jordan, who keeps
a shop near Lynchburg, was taken out By
party in disguise and whipped, and that
this terrible outrage was visited upon Mr..
Wilson, innocent and unoffending as he
Is, in retaliation. 1t has come TO us fur
Their, from a reliable source, that Jordan
and his associates have declared that they
will reduce that whole country to ashes. !"
That is the sort of law and order which
Gov. SCOTS administration has brought
forth. And still he is supported and up
held by Grant.