The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-04

q majority, and an honest, economical govern
ment. The General, after stirring appeal TO
the colored men to join in the movement to
drive out the rascals who preyed upon them
and the white men alike, took his seat.
Mr.. /. s. Youmans brought an array oi
charges against Governor Scott and his Ring,
and By his statements, gathered from the OFF,
cial records of the State, convinced his hearers
that such bribery and corruption on the part
of the Scott officials, high and low, never be-
fore existed to curse any people: On the mat
ter of heavy taxes alone he showed that In
Fairfield County $4,000 acres OF land onetenth e ei,
of the whole area of the county, and in Will
liamsburg County s5,542 acres, one-sixth oi
the whole county, were advertised to be sold
for unpaid taxes; and he recapitulated his
facts in regard to the increase Of the State
debt s., 900, 600. He alluded to the threats Of
the Governor to rule the State and carry the
elections by the Winchester rife law, and ne
advised, entreated the colored men not TO join
in any such scheme, as 1t would end IN no gooo
to them or to the State; he appealed to them
to save the State by recourse to the oailotDoA
in conjunction with the Union Reform move
ment.
When Mr.. Youmans concluded it was nearly
4 o'clock, and the meeting was adjourned 10
permit all present to participate In the oar0e-
cue prepared in an adjacent grove, which was
done, and all came away satisfied. The color
ed people had been told by the Radicals not M 70
attend the barbecues given them by the white
people, as they were only gotten up to poison
them. The colored people, by their action In
freely partaking Of the food spread before them
TO-DAY. showed their disbelief in the lying re-
ports of the Radicals.
After the barbecue the crowd returned to
the speaking stand, ard were briefly addressed
by Colonel +. Y. Simons, OF Charleston, wRo
happened to be present, and told his audience
nff h0 nf
country.
A special train, which had brought up to
Saluda Old Town large number OF persons
from Newbesry Courthouse and the depots
along the road, left Saluda, on the return trip.
at halfpast4 o'clock, carrying our party, and
arrived here about haltpast O'Clock, during a
heavy shower Of rain.
Near the depot, about one hundred colored
men assembled and cheered for Scott when
ever colored man who had been on the train
passed. They also cursed them and expressed
the hope that the reform bread and meat
.hey had eaten at Saluda would poison them."
1t was expected by the people of Newberry
Courthouse that the speakers would address
them, and General Butler and Colonel Sim
mons, Notwithstanding heavy rain was iall-
ing, determined that they should not be dis
appointed. Accordingly they repaired to the
Courthouse, and from the steps addressed a
crowd OF about three hundred whites and
blacks, about equally divided, and pre-
sided over by Major j. j. Pope. AT first
few of the colored men took exceptions
to General Buffers bold denunciations oil
the Scott Ring, and attempted BY threats to
gag him; but seeing that this had only the
effect of causing him to make more deadly
thr1,sts at the bloated officials who preyed
uron the State, the dsturbers concluded that
they hai mistaken their man" and kept
quiet.
After General Buffers speech, Colonel
Simons was Introduced, and In showing up the
Radical officials mentioned that In 1857 ne met
Judge Hoge at Laurens Courthouse, and
Hoge said st have been Democrat all my
llie. Congress should never have given the
negro the right of sufrage-they lthe ne
groes) are brutes. I wish the whole niger
population had but one head so. could cut It
of and free the white people, Inst Friday
night, said the Colonel. / met Hoge IN Column
bia and he said he had been defeated; that the
negroes had gone back upon him; that If the
Reform movement wished to win, 1t should
fuu good Republican for Congress from the
Third Congressial District. A friend OF Hoge's
standing by answered the Colonel's question,
where he could find good Republican, by
sayf1ig Hoee was the man, TO which the Colo
mel replied that the Reform party Wouldn't
touch him with q iorty.toot pole. The Colonel
then read an editorial from the New YORK Iri-
fined in the penitentiary for his offences
against the laws.
The audience, standing and in the rain, had
paid the gr.ates. attention to the remarks OF
the speakers, but as 1t was growing dark. and
there was 10 prospects Of cessation OF the
rain, it was determined to dismiss the crowd,
which was done.
AL,,ut an hour after this, few low negroes
made an assault upon colored man named
Gourdin, of Charleston, who had consistently
adhered 10 his white friends. He drew his
revolver and drove his assailants of.
: About 8 o'clock, about seventy-fve colored
men assembled in front Of the Courthouse, and
until u o'clock. They were told to vote for
Scott; that unless they did they would be put
back into slavery. They were advised not to
trust the white people, and not to attend the
meeting Of the Reform party.