New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-19

ASSASSINATION AS AN EXPEDIENT.
CHARLESTON, S. c., April 30.-Charleston Is
ou,et but not content There ID not that Of
acceptance Of the situation here which sees In Rich
rnond. Nobody is murdered nobody is insulted the
troops are not called upon to protect one class against
another but observer sojourn long in TINS city
and not discover that there sentiment OF disgust
with the condition Of affairs, deep and dark as the
untouched which still the fair city from END 10
ond sentiment is shy Of expressing itself to stran
GERS and readily drawn OUT but 1t flashes out now
and then in CLEAN of Indignation and its latent exist
gives the city very different aspect from Una.
which IL bore days Of its business prosperity anu
political PRIDE when cotton ruled the land, ana the
planter In these stately verandahed mansions gave law
to the senates and Courts religion to the Churches ana
tone to the society Of the whole country.
Charleston saw is not content; but of course mean
only half Charleston and ought 90 draw the line as
sharply as Browning does in The Ring and the Book"
in giving the gossip of Rome For there is element in
Charleston half It's population by the census, swayng
political at present organized making
much half its visible masses moving about the
streets which celebrates its Acknowledgement on Monday
with such jubilee this city has not seen since Ander
hauled down his flag from Sumter. On the faces OF
this half of Charleston discomfort to be traced O
their ways OF looking things shall speak in another
letter. reservng this for rejecting the sentiments OF the
white people alone
Analysing the discomfort OF which have spoken, and
III
against the inevitable and mourning over lost cause
that dead forever-and of all this there is not much
below the surface divides into two principal streams
There detestaton Of the political administration OF the
State not altogether account Of its rad
casm its color but on the ground-which state
merely aeged-Of its corruption and its olera-
ton of utter baseness of character in its haHgerson
The Charestonan after the schooling OF the past nine
ars has learned TO bear with comparative equanimity
sight of a coal-back policeman pacing the sidewalk
jul uniform but he is reused to wrath at such things
DIS this Said worthy and estmable gentleman to me
this morning, he read his newspaper Look at this
Hero is appointed Trial Justice in my county yes
terday by Gov Scott, who was, only few weeks ago.
pardcned out Of jail by this Governor He was put
in ail robbery, the verdict of jury more than
half negroes, the clearest evidence. He has been
guilty every petty crime; he is habitually drunk his
habits of the very lowest order his
vote has been bought again and again for 80 cents and
his decision Judge be had any day for what it
will bring What sort Of justice likely to have in
my oountyT
"And look" said another gentleman, eat the repre-
sentative in Congress from district He was accused
OF engaging in q conspiracy, when captain in the Con-
federatc army his superior officer to gain
promotion. and In Jail to he tried for the ofense
the Federal troops entered here and let him out
Ills character is beneath contempt. He has been in
trouble for having two wives at and has now added
third"
of public trust of all grades may be heard on every SIDE
running In this channel has taken form in
movement for new party-since anything In the old
clothes of democracy conservatism is beaten before 1t
begins race-with the watchwords Of Economical
Reform" Reduced Taxation" and PURITY Of Charac
ter in Office" The undertaking has its origin in meet
ing of the press few days OF course its only hope
for lies in obtaining great part OF the black
Vote but this it expects to do by demonstrating to the
intelligent the corruption existing and its inevita
1olan nv EinD
upon resentment of the pure blacks against an Ad
nnistration which has put in Office chiefly mulattOes
and Quadroons though the proportion OF mixed blood In
the State is comparatively small This seems rather
slender build upon but the party launches
its bark bravely and trusts to effect great change in
the character Of the Legislature, though onys family
hoping to overthrow the Governor. 1t will be pleasant
to see fiery South Carolina Democrats whose faith
ers strove for notification, shouting for pure black
blood for policemen" and bearing banners inscribed
"Black aud white but yellow" The Convention is
called for the 18th of June and already the preliminary
meetings beginning to be held in the outlying dis
tcs and the press sounds its trumpet with great vgo
The other of discomfort deeper and inter
all in the South including those whom the Recon-
structon acts exclude from active part in politics 1t
relates to the material interests of this State, and those
Of Georgia intimately connected. Prosperity say
those whose ideas would present. does not come back
the South fast it ought. Reconstruction is sub
stantially nished have at least little more to bear
from interference at the capital STILL activity does not
revive: Slavery gone and have nothing to I'LL it's
place. The defect is in labor Here the argument
leaps gap where your correspondent could only follow
it, We place no dependence upon the dsorganized
black labor which has been left our hands. We must
white labor to develop the resources OF the
South We have an admirable climate, the most fertile
sOi-in short, everything to tempt mmgrat which IL
nois had thirty years ago. Something must be done to
bring here working and women from the North,
from Norway from Sweden, from Germany, from China
Yes these Of the negro cry aloud for Chinese
labor to the ancient splendors Of their cot
CROP to build their railroads and improve their
water-powers and put them "where ought to be to-
day. Sir on level with NewEngland." This feeling
has crystalized call for convention to be hedin
Charleston next week, to bring together the leading
practical of this section of the South, including
representatives Of the railroad corporations, the agr
cultural societies. capital and all the industrial inter
ess TO discuss these matters with common sense and in
practical way. 1t will be gatheringn many respects
altogether unlike any which has been held in any part
OF the South since the and separate as 1t Is from
political issues will bring out many things more inter
esting than local politics TO the people OF the whole
country whose interests bound together and nsep
arabic OF this convention Its character, dongs and
results may write you fully in later letters.
page OF NATURALIZATION is sometimes worth ream
OF generaes. Take this single example OF fragments
Of q conversation a day two SINCE with Charleston
gentleman upon the topics have treated The talk be-
gan with question of labor it presents itself in the
South a. affected by the freedom and citizenship OF the
black man. My acquaintance did not agree with many
rural authorities with whom have consulted to an
Improvement in the character Of the labOrer becoming
manifest in recent years, and especially this season.
"The first great difficulty Is with the contract mig
Ger won't stick TO contract all you do. He signs his
name all rgh-thats the law now-but in three oil four
days he's OF and your contract is worth nothing"
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