The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-07
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OF Ffiday2 2the;l l2dS instant, the foll6 wing
partiAssss of the 15oept sniIitery. Ynid, ;,s in
that place. accompanied With the arrest
of aaYeralb prominent oitizeng, before
briefly oticed ii our colnmns: ~
Urtoh Friday night last, two compat
nies'of United States trocns ve.e ncsssaa
at thts plaoe, On that night one Jack.
son, Deputy United States Marshal,
accompanied by squad Of about fifteen
mounted United States soldiers, arrived
IN town. On Friday, infantry and ar
tlllery. numbering about five hundred
mon, dsbarked at Newberry, and took
up the march towards Laurens, estab-
iishihg' Newberry as base of opera
tons, and occupying various strategic
points along the line to this place.
The object OF this great military cam
paign, was the arrest of citizens in this
ConntS, gho wofs charged with having
taken part in the disturbance on the
2Oth October last This great display
force wss intended to meet the mighty
psf OF 1aurens rebels. reported by
Jrews., (poor Joe,) and possibly Go.
vernon Scott, as ready to come up from
the ground, fully armed, to defy the
standards OF King Grant and his army.
The strategy OF the campaign began
early on Saturday morning. A Lieu
tenant, OF the Eighteenth Infantry, went
to the residence of Mr.. 8. D. Garling-
ton.. invited him to the town, to show o
room, which the Lieutenant desired to
rent. decoyed him to the rear of the
room, when suddenly Jackson appeared
with q squad of soldiers, who took charge
OF Mr.. g., and marched him to the
railroad depot, the guard house, where
he was held under the bayonet. The
deputy, with mounted squad, spent
the remainder of the day in securing the
surrounding country. but made no ar
rests. Late in the afternoon, Colonel
Is. 8. Jones, the Sheriff of the County,
was arrested, as he was driving ont of
town towards his home. Colonel G.. f.
Moseiey, an ex-Sheriff of the County,
and proprietor of the Simmons Hotel,
lat which house the officers of the entire
military and Deputy Jackson were stay
Ing,) went in the course of Saturday
night to visit Colonel Jones, when he
was suddenly detained as a prisoner
Sunday morning was initiated by squads
OF soldiers and fierce marshal at their
head, furiously dashing in every direc-
tion, in search of law-breakers. During
the day DIR. David Richardson and his
son, Turner Richardson, Captain Hayne
Williams and Colonel r. P. Todd we're
gobbled up and sent to the depot. On
this day. also. the Marshal, with
mounted escort, made a gallant sortie
into the country, but made water haul.
General Oarlin las we heard the name)
arrived on Saturday evening and estab-
!lshed his headquarters at the Simmons
Hotel They refused to allow counsel to
see prisoners on Saturday. but the privi-
lege was accorded at nigh: of that dsy.
About sunset Sunday evening. the pri-
aonera, under heavy escort, we're sent
towards ;Nnwberry. The escort halted
ut Milana' g branch, four miles from town.
and spent the night.
On Monday. as the great military posse
retired towards Newberry, they arrested
Mr. George p. Copeland, James Copo-
land, his son, and Major N. 8. Harris,
all of Clinton, and Mr.. Henry Suber, of
Martins Depot. Tie meaning of this
extraordinary proceeding is evidently to
annoy our citizens. The United States
Courts have no jurisdiction in the pre-
miees. The proceeding is pretended to
be founded on an Act of Congress, Civ
ing Jurisdiction in cases where citizens
OF the United States are obstructed in
the exercise Of certain rights at Con-
gressional elections. The course pur-
sued in this instance is an Infamous and
damnable outrage Even had the United
States Courts the Jurisdiction claimed,
We have United States Commissioner
here in our town, who could have issued
the warrants on affidavit, and our citizens
need not have been dragged from their
homes. It is base aud dastardly ruse
to remove the venue and to have them
tried BY strangers who are not their legal
peers.
The proceeding was martial the arrest
was by the army of the nation, hurled
against citizens who were quietly pursu-
ing their avocations, and had no thought
of resistance. The arrest of the Sheriff
Was q shadowy ruse to cover the pretext
that no County Official would be left to
make arrests. The affidavit on which
the warrants were founded was made by
Howerton. who will be remembered as a
tool Of "tho Hon" Joe Crews, and tho
fellow who was whipped by sentence of
oourt-martial, for stealing a watch while
in the Confederate service. The warrant
was issned by one Boozer, United States
Commissioner. of Columbia. The citi-
zsns arrested are OF the highest respecta-
bility-all prominent and substantial.
We trust and believe that the Infamous
proceeding by which they arc dragged
from their horO eo will foil RI tba r,rn,nI