The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-08-25
is doing this are liable to Indictment -

is doing this are liable to Indictment
Ira voice cried ".sShow it."l | will
! The Act 1868 authorized him to enrol
all men from two separate classes, firsj
those from Is to 81 and second those
from SO to As. After-not before
the enrolment is complete, be is au'
thorizcd to organize. No authority is
granted to any one to organize volun.
teer companies. One section makes i.
an indictable offence to drill company
until all the men have been enrolled.
All tile men have not been enrolled
call upon the Attorney-Gcncral to exc
cute the law. Had raised hundred
companies, armed them, and gone TO
drilling them, would it not have been
treason? The Jaw allows Gov. Scott to
do nc more than it. allows me. l do
not blame the negroes, The fault lies
with their leaders. Arms have been
given only to colorcd companies. Then
cartridges were given. Why A voice
put in "They wont hurt" The spea-
ker continued.] Nor will they scare
anybody in South Carolina. Hitherto
it was finable offence to 80 to drill
with a loaded gun; now it is the reverse.
Scott in his Washington speech said
he had been on the picket line for.
years. Probably he has. A picket
Gne is line of skirmishers that go
before an army to feel the enemy; and
when they have felt them, they fall
back and let the others do the e'fghting
of the battle. In that speech Governor
Scott said more; he said South Carolina
was nest Of assassins, and that Win.
chester rifles were the best law. Now
he is arming the colored troops and
supplying cartridges. What for? Who
is to be shot? "a voice said something
about the m14derers of Randolph
Judge Carpenter continued. The mur-
dercrs of Randolph? Go up1and kill
Gov. Scott, if ynu want tp,kill the muir
derer Of Randolph. APPLAUSE u=.:
Here a good deal of interruption oc-
cured about. the edges Of the crowd,
several voices calling out diffcrcntthingss,
TIE President of the meeting called
the attention of the Chief of Police to !
these di: turbances. The speaker asked
ifthcy-the colored people-could get
peace by arming. Caesar Gurley, a CO.
orcd nmn, called out that they wanted
a good Governor. .Thespeaker replied
that he had DO doubt that Caesar would
make better Governor than Scott.
judge. Carpenter continued: charge
Coy. Scott with melting civil war IN
Senrh Carolina; Because he is arrning
and drilling the cglorcd troops, and has
giyea lieu scartfidp es 10 boot soalebodgy
Nj sisb,eiss Ragss mo- hatred Of he col
+ 1=ss's' 3 81 s'ss s. 81 o.! esddh5 tdh
from igii,l ce 10 education. l would
help you al that | cnp. | would not
Iakc away one single right or privilege
that you possess-would not if / could,
and could not if would
Scott talks about his having fought
to free the color'd people. | tell y"a
the truth. Neither L, nor he, nor the
Uuitcd States army fought 20 free you.
When Scott tells you that the war was
to free rlle 1rgrocs, he lies. Scott nev
or freed YOU; nor did the Federal army
free you; bu, God Almighty did..-Ile
that directs the lcstinics of nations and
gives victory wherever he lists-He
that counts the hairs of your head aud
notes the srarrows that fall-His om-
nirotcnt fiat set Jon free. y voice
"That's So Lift your hearts in up.
gushing gratitude to Him, and do not
come down to thank the puny creatures
Of earth for the glorious work of His
hands.
They have been telling you that if I
were elected, | would reduce you to
something like slavery-require you all
to carry passes again, and all that; but
your comr1on sense ought to show you
that this is folly. The fifteenth amend
mcnt has fixed that. History affords no
example Of a peoples giving up right
like that without a revolution. Several
questions were here asked about the
voting of negroes in North Carolina for
Andrew Jackson; and about the repeal
Of the fifteenth amendment. The Judge
having answered these fairly, and set
tied the buzz as well as the individual
propoundimg the questions, went on to
explain, in detail, how the constitution
al amendments saght, in possibility, be
repealed, butsoer in human probabll'
iiy. Scott boasI that he is the cham
pion and upholdeg Of your freedom and
rights. He is'less than worm COM
pared to the earth, in the powers that
control your fortunes. -. r.
= How is Scott to be re elected =
How docs he propose to secure his re-
election? BY Union Leagues? a voice
said, "Leagues arc good places " The