The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-03-09


/ removed By him at his pleasure. From.
mouutiin to seaboard there is,st least q
regiment OF these petty local pests aud
tyrauts, ignorant Of law aud letters,
ruling their precints with au iron rod,
Furnishing by fne and imprisonment any
who incur their, displeasute, aud secure
in oil their acts Of fraud, corruption,
aud malfeasance IN Office, 80 long ~
they offend not tho Governor or any Of
the truly loyal. The FIRST obnoxious
decision brings the offender under the
executive guillotine, his head is cut of,
aud another convenient tool is appoint
ed.
2. The courts are reduced to farce
by the supervision and interference Of
the autocrat. The judges are the crea-
lures of the Legislature, aud keep an
eye ON its two-thirds black vote and its
growing jealousy, of all which savors of
respectability aud regard to equity aud
fair-play. The juries are, largely com
posed of colored men yet three colored
meu, tried and convicted by such jury
and sentenced by Radical judge to one
years Imprisonment as the riugleaders
iu the most disgraccful Charleston riot,
in which the Savannah Base Ball Club
and their colored band so narrowly es
capped with their lives, were tried and
sentcnc ccd during the recent term of the
Charleston Sessions, and in three days
received full pardon and release from
Governor Scott, although neither judge
nor jury could say Que word in their be-
half Judges and jurics make up
costly machinery, and, uuder such re-
gime, don't pay for the candle. \ New
York rutban says, Changing for murder
is played out in New York" The loyal
felon here laughs at his own judge and
jury and says, "Pupishment for crime is
played cut iu Carolina" criminal
is loyal voter; bu. il a Democrat, God
help him! The above case is by no
means exceptional. nor the worst
3. Since the influx of these phiIoso-
piers OF "the great moral ideas" school,
the negroes have been used to control
tho ballot box and everything c;Sc to
which that leads These are >ubstanti-
ally the only voters, for under the re-
construction manipulations it is really
useless for any one else to vote Suppose
the whites could carry the elections
Congress stands ready (as in the two
upper Congressional dis,r;cts) to declare
tho defeated Radical candidates entitled
to the seats. They denounce White.
more, but why3 Is he not their own
bautling, and have they any right to
expect any other kind of mcn as South
cru representatives. under their own
hnvo
grcssional District of South Carolina
never elected Whittelnore. lie was
chosen by caucus, Il bakers dozen of
his own clan, under instructions Of the
Schenck committee whose agent aud
tool he was. Congress elected him and
Congress turned him out.
4. The jurics, which spectator would
consider already black enough, are now.
by an act just passed, to be still further
placed under the party control. They
arc hencelorth to be selected and named
by thrco commissioners in each county
is to be appointed by the Governor, and
each county is to be supplied with a corps
of 1Strial justices" to be appointed by
the Governor Here are more signal
lights-colorcd, but neither blue,
green nor red.
5. The Governor has corps of State
constablcs, armed with Winchester rifles
and rcvolvcrs, who will take q citizen
without warrant aud carry him frnm one
part OF the State to another, aud keep
him in custody so long Us. his ExccIlency
directs, and then tmrn hin: loose without
trial or redress He also has his negro
militia in various counties, armed und
ready to do his bidding
6. In York, Chester. and other upper
counties, from which | have Just re-
turned, the white population are sub
hitting to daily wrongs aud outrayes
which they say arc without cxcusc-all
done in the name of "libcrty," and rs
necessary to secure for South Carolina
"rcpnblican form Of government" \
nice thing, no doubt. is this Republican
ism to the few who manage it for their
own ends! The Russian Car and Tur>
kish Sultan might greatly admire it,
But the white people Of this country
look upon it as barn yard heap. too
stcaming aud fetid for lilies and roses,
but capital compost for such plants as
bloom into Moses and Whittcmorcs.
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