The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-26
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A'Word OF Warning.

form party, and; alse, for the purpose taking
possession of the polls at thei October elec-
.tions, so as 60 ensure the success Of the can
didates Of the Ring This plan Of opera
| ,tions, however outrageous and infamous, is
in harmony with the private declarations
aud public hints Of the leaders otthe Scott
party, andis moreover, thoroughly in ac-
cord with the general policy Of that party,
which, from the beginning, has been,to ex-
cite the passions of the negroes, and to en-
courage them in hatred and distrust of their
white iellow-citizens.
From nearly every county in South Caro-
lima there come grave complaints Of the in
sulting behavior Of the colored militia. The
following paragraphs, taken from the coun-
try papers and the private letters received
within the last few days, show the general
direction OF the current: .-.
/. State Comptroller:G General Neagle, in
speech delivered at Rock Hill last week, told
the colored militia that the arms given them
by the State "were placed in their hands for
seltprotection.
g. About two weeks ago there was poll
tical riot at Gadsden, twenty miles below
Columbia. The colored militia took an ac-
tive part in the fray They had no ball cart
ridge but used their. .bayonets with military
freedom. Several persons were severely cut
and slashed, and one Of them died OF his
wounds. t"i - 80
g.. Governor Scott declined to receive a
white militia company formed in Laurens,
and has, We believe, taken the same course
in Colaubia. But he accepts, without hesi-
tation, all the purely colored COMPANIES
which are offered to him. These last are
armed and equippedswithout any. aYoidable
delay. 80. - - s'
4 The Radical Convention OF Orangeburg
County, on the 10th instant, adopted a
series OF resolutions, in favor of the renomi-
nation of R. z. Scott, the preamble to which
is as follows: -
"Whereas, 1t has become highly neces-
stsary and Important that the Republican
e.party should be as a unit in-the coming
campaign, in order to successfully oppose
,'.tbe antagonist Of its power. and its great
'sprinciples of truth and grand liberty should
atriumphantly prevail, and be 'criaen, ii
sneeds be, in blood upon the eternal hills of
sfas,s State - ,eas ~. ,is.,.z ~
IS. A5correspondent, writing gfrom Chester
Couaty, informs us that Wimbush, the State
senator from Chester, has told the negroes,
in public, that ''in FIVE years there will not
..be white man in South Carolina" The
colored militia parade regularly. Their
favorite marching song is, 1.-THE Rebs will
..Fight no More" -
IS. The colored militia at Clinton, on
the line of the Laurens Railroad, have
been in the habit Of drilling within two
hundred yards Of the town. On Saturday,
July .ls, three hundred Of the militameu. be-
ing on the parade ground, discharged their
loaded rifles into the heart Of the Town of
Clinton. The balls whisLled thick and fast
through the town, but no one was killed or
| wounded. '-'
This is enough to show the temper Of the
militia and the intentions Of Governor Scott
Eald bis Ring. "A high State official tells the
militia, with pointed. femphas; :. that the
arms are given, them for selfprotection lit
/ Is q notorious fact that Tor defence these
arms are wholly unnecessary, and that when
they are used it must be for attacks upon
peaceful whites. Ariottakes place at Gads-
den-the militia join gleeiuIly in the fray,
and hack and hew on all sides, instead Of
keeping the peace. Governor Scott accepts
al the: colored military companies that are
offered to him-and refuses to receive the
white companies. "A State senator tells the
negroes tLatj in Eve years there will not be a
! white man in tie state-to give this declara-
tion itspropsr application the militia sing,
rhs: ii {, :Rebs wsIIii iii Fight 10 Morep bandof
muitialmeni 81 GSiau::on, numbering three hun
dred deliberately fire into the town, from
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which they are distant only two hundred
yards. This is the condition OF things at
this moment, q and il is the natural and rea-
sonable corollary Of the insolent menace con-
tanned in the speech Of Robert Kingston
Scott, Governor Of South Carolina, delivered
| in washington four months ago. That Off
cial then said: !.'sThe Winchester rife is the
Hbest law you can have there" in South
Carolina; ,.i..'' : - s.''z...,,. -.
The people Of tae State ar, now face to
face with their danger, and they must meet