The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-06
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How tho eAntI-Reformers Celebrated tho
Day-The Death-cry OF the Carpet
BagSers.
IrRex OUR OWN coRREspoNDENT.l

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LyBrand's celebrated Post Band to discourse
music for the occasion.
The day we celebrate did not exhibit these
altogether so strikingly as the programme did.
There was something Of aprocession; main
ty the four colored militia companies-the Ell
aott Guards, the Neagle Rifles, the Stevens
Light Infantry, and the Scott Guards. There
4As no military, except this militia.
I'm the crowd Of persons at the Park, a few
State officers were seen standing among the
spectators. Auditor Tomlinson and Treasurer
Parker were standing round. But none OF
these men were on the stage, so far as your
correspondent could see.
The crowd gathered in Sidney Park two
hours before the procession arrived, which was
sadly behind time.
There were probably $500, possibly 5000, per-
sons present, very large portion of them be-
ing girls and children. A new convert or two
made the sum total of whites on the stage.
There may have been one hundred whites, all
told, on the ground. It was acolored celebra-
ton.
ssProfessor LyBrands celebrated Post Band''
was absent. The programmists had counted
without their host. The Post Band is under
command of the comlnandant ofthe post, Gen
eral Bumford, and that gentleman distinctly
informs these antl-Eeformists that the Post
Band cannot be used for purposes SO manifest
ly political and 80 notoriously partisan. He
declines to allow the band to discourse mu-
sic for the occasion"
The fruit stands, melon stalls, ice cream
tables and ginger pop stands were numerous
and apparently successful.
.SaColonel W. Beverly Nash, orator Of the
day" and also "chief marshall entered the
Park on horseback.
The militia stacked arms. The crowd drew
.aeound the platform. 1sHon. Charles M. Wild
q, first assistant marshal, /" ofaciated as master
of ceremonies, and announced and introduced
the speakers.
The first speaker was ~. E. Greene, Esq"
sergeant of the Senate, who made short
speech. He told the crowd that the prejudice
against them was not oHe Of race, but one Of
ignorance; that Gas Mr. Jillson said the other
day at the Howard school) the whites were
prejudlced moro against uncuftivated brains
than agaInst black skins i
The oraeor5of the ,day-Colonel Nash-was
nextinroduced. He commenced by saying
that his name had been announced without
his consent, and that he had never heard of 1t
until last night. His oratien consisted of an
analysis Of the sBlack Code, as he termed it,
with as much of recriRinative abuse of the
whites as he had at command; the whole tend
ing to array race against race. and embitter
feelings between them. HE did not spare the
carpetbaggers nor the new. converts to Radi-
calIsp. any more than he did Carpenter and
Bi Although he dlsclaimed any purpose
Of ralslng those old and by-gone issues, he
spoke Of little else .Distrust Of the Reformers
and of the white race In general, was the key
note of this Grafton.
Next followed "James Davis, Esq.," whose
sentiment was, ..Stand by the Republican par
ty, right or wrong
Next came Representative Il. W. Purvis, Of
Lexington County, who introduced his speech
bStsaylng that he felt to-day, for the frst, time
like free man and white man. His speech
was of so.yfolent and vindictive a character,
so extreme in sentiment and so unparlianen-
,tary In language, that his best friends and the
friends Of his party probably wish that he had
not made 1t. But while he denounced and
:ebused the Ref0rmists, the Democrats, and
the white race in general, he did not
spare the carpet-baggers, nor those sly
ing whites who have sneaked into the
Republican party for nothing else than
:galn.n Neither Worthington nor Hoge,
who occupied seats on the platform at some
parts Of the performance, seemed able to stand
the CALLING fire and incesant hot shot that the
speaker poured into the ranks Of the political
Adventures and vultures that had swarmed
In upon the colored populstlon>of South Caro-
lima. Both these worthless took places in the
audience; and after the speech Hoge crept
back and took o seat again. The speaker
made the, point that he would sooner trust
Hampton, Butler, or JEFF. Davis, than some of
the cursed trash that have joined the Repub-
licau party. he further asked, ont of three
hundred State. offices, are there ten held by
negroes; and out of three hundred and twen-
ty Federal Offices. in the State, how many do
the colered race hold? He said that his race
are determined to have power, and mean to
be represented.
(. The last speaker was the Rev. David Pickett,
eolored man, whose voice was so low that
h1eould not be heard.
All the speakers were colored. The "Hon.
W. n Wigg," the only white man announced
to speak, failed to appear.
About P. H., the master OF ceremonies an
nounced that, as everybody was tired, they
would adjourn until 6 o'clock tonight, at the
State House, when speeches would be deliv-
cred BY Messrs. David Pickett, General Elliott
and Judge Hege.
The celebration was purely political party
display. 1t was boggle, almost failure, and
far more unfortunate for the Anti Retormlsts
than for their opponents.
The snub given the movement by General
Bumford, about the music, seemed to cast a
daInper upon the day, from which the most
enthusiastic failed to recover. CoRsAIR.
AFFAIRS IN MISSISSIPPI.
JACKSON, Mss, July4.
The Legislature adjourned lover In honor Of