Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

We have already given an account Of
some of the outrages perpetrated in South
Carolina by the defeated rebel democracy
after election. The republicans carried
the State by $4,000 majority, also carry
ing with them many whites who never
voted the republican ticket before, and
would have carried more but for the ter
rible threats of the rebels and fear of their
vengeance, which was has been in some
cases fearfully executed. Two members
of the last Legislature are among the as
sassinated Ofthe deeds which have been
committed, the following account which
we find in an exchange, from cores
pondent in Columbia, gives an example;
''The most inhuman, brutal outrages that
ever disgraced civilization are perpetrated
here in the name of Democracy. i was last
night invited into the Office of one of the
State officers to witness a sight that chilled my
blood with horror. The room was large and
dark, only single candle being lighted to
enable us to see more closely the objects we
were called upon to inspect. On one side OF
the room, ranged side by side, and Invested
Of all the clothing of the upper part of the
body, sat two stalwart men and ont ~oman
their backs literally cut into shreds by the
lash of their tormentors. | had read OF the
horrors of Uncle Tom and dreamed of the
brutal Legree, but it was an image of fancy
that never could persuade myself was pos
sible to exist as a fact. Yet last night had
the evidence Of my own senses, and like
Thomas, who desired to put his fingers into
the gaping wounds, | am prepared to doubt
no longer. These poor people were dragged
from their homes at dead of night, carried n
distance, and then stripped of their clothing
and dashed and beaten until their prosecutors
became tired of such hellish work. The
woman's back was terribly mutilated and torn,
and / never desire to witness such sight
again. Their only offence, SO far as known,
appears to be that they were Republicans one
of them having been selected as a manager at
one of the polling places. They know all the
men who committed the outrage, but when ar
rested and brought before magistrate tor pre-
liminary examination every one of them is
able to prove an alibi by score of witnesses
if need be. Trials here are farce, and JUS
tee is nothing but mockery. The civil au-
thorities are powerless to protect these poor
inoffensive people, and unless the L. S. Gov
eminent can enforce the Fifteenth and other
amendments to the Constitution the colored
people may just as well be remanded at once
to the tender mercies of the fends incarnate.
The names of these people are Glen Bowden,
Minerva his wife, and Daniel Lipscomb.
The Governor. United States Senator Rob-
ertson, Congressman Hoge, and several 9TH
ers saw these poor creatures and heard their
story. 1t was enough to melt the heart of an
anchorite. An old gray-haired white man,
another of the election managers, was treated
in the same manner, and subjected to other
indgnities too indecent to mention And yet
the very men who commit these outragcs
boast of their superior intelligence" their
culture and refinement, and, strange to say,
they find plenty of supporters among the peo-
pie of the North"