The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-31
Satan Rebuking S n:


SCOTS Organ winds up a sensational &C
count of "fresh outrages in the up-country"
with the bold statement that '.the deeds of
"blood," which frighten him and his masters
out Of their wits, are the fruits of the teach
ings of the anti-Radical journals OF the State,
which journals it is intended "to hold res
''ponSible for this unhappy state of affairs. I"
A mere straw in itself, this impudent threat
shows which way the wind is blowing. 1t is
the development of plan formed in Wash
ington some months ago-a plan whose
first stage was Governor Scott's declaration
that South Carolina is "a nest of assassins, )"
and whose maturity will be reached when
martial law shall, by hook or crook, be
proclaimed in the strongest white counties
| in the State.
Any person who is familiar with the con-
duct of the leading members of the Radical
party in South Carolina can see, at glance,
that all the hue and cry about Ku-Klux-
Klan and sanguniary rebels is only intend
ed to deceive the outside world, and to en-
able Governor Scott and his agents to re-
tain, by the strong arm ofthe United States,
the political power which fraud and intini-
dation have enabled them to grasp. That,
here and there, tongues have wagged with
more freedom than prudence, is likely and
reasonable enough. Audit may be true that
,roro tb,n ono onnco;apoa otr;cl-op odvoptur
er has fed from fancied dangers to the
shelter Of convenient ditch, where he
might lie perdu until it was time to send
heart-quaking dispatch to Radical head
quarters in Columbia. An injured citizen
may have resented with blow the wrong
for which a Radical politician would find re-
dress in low court or packed jury. All
this and more may, for all that we know,
be true as Gospel. But we do emphatically
deny that there has been as much lawless-
ness on the part of the native white people
OF South Carolina as on the part Of the Radi-
cal pettifoggers who, for years. have stirred
up strife and encouraged disorder. We go
further, and assert that this people, far from
being prone to violence and cowardly per-
secution, have Shown more forbearance and
exercised more patience than could have been
expected of men who have bold hearts in
their breasts and warm blood in their veins.
A sufficient proof Of the truth Of this state.
ment is found iu the fact that the knot Of
intriguers who rob and insult the people
walk the public streets in safety and sleep
at night in peace. If South Carolina has,
il the words of Radical paper, ga band OF
srowdies who bluster, and hack, and kill it
is passing strange that these "villains,
"drunk with the wine Of political and section
sal hate, did not begin by purging the capi-
tai OF the State of its official infamy and per-
sonal corruption?
And while Governor Scott aud his agents
charge upon the native whites the guilt OF
crimes which are not committed; while they
endeavor, day by day, to widen the breach
between the respectable white man and the
respectable negro while they VOW that the
State suffers, and that they will have peace and
quiet-these miserable hypocrites have not
word of condemnation for the scandalous
words and dastardly actions, on the part Of
leading Radicals trhtch are the real and
only cause ofachateoe'' unrest aud turbulent
feeling may be found IN tie State.
Governor Scott proclaims that Winchester
ride law-the law of force-is the only law
for South Carolina, aud organizes negro
militia, to the exclusion of the whites, in
every district. This negro militia is told
that it is organized and equipped that it
may defend Governor Scott and his support
ers from the attacks of the whites, and opens
the ball, as at Clinton, by firing volley
into the midst of quiet village. Represen-
tative Crews tells the colored people that
they may help themselves to what they find
on the lands Of the whites, and bids them
burn out the whites, if they are still dis
satisfied. Senator Nash assures the freed
men that all the property in the State, of
right, belongs to them. The Speaker OF the
House, in public speech, contemplates the
necessity Of writing in blood" the liberties
of the people on the granite hills of the
State. Inoflensive colored men, who oppose
the Scott Clique, are set upon, and beaten
within an inch of their lives. White men
are driven from the polls by gangs of lawess
negroes. These things stand upon the re-
cord, and not a Radical journalist has ever
whispered syllable Of censure or reproof.
For every violent act or Incorporate word
of the white people OF South Carolina
score OF outrages and blackguardly threats
have emanated from the Radical politicians
Of the State. Yet Scott aud his cohorts are
bleatng lambs, and their opponents raven
ing wolves. A partisan OF Scott can do no
wrong: The white man, whose unpardon-
able sin is intelligence and respectability, is
never in the right.
If the blatant Radicals were sincere in
their professions, it would be easy to calm
the public mind, so that the guilty might be
punished and the innocent acquitted of
blame. A vigorous denunciation of all in
cendjary speeches and laWiesS conduct