The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-25
Governor Scott In ynshington-NTwic
Told Tale.

weeks ago, without provoking anything more
than a feeling of awful jollity that even g
high official should venture to'hint that there
was in South Carolina even contingent re-
mander of the recklessness and violence SC
falsely imputed to our people. In this State
the talk about Winchester rifles is twice
told tale. The Legislature of South Caro-
lima did authorize Governor Scott to buy two
thousand arms of the most improved pattern,
and these arms, in the. hands of negro con-
stables, are scattered throughout the State.
They were not needed. The people are
quiet and law-abiding. Without the Win
chesters there was no wrong doing; and
with them-a more significant fact-ths
State is still at peace. And the reason is
not pusillanimity, not degradation OF spirit,
bat devotion to law and order, and de-
termination to preserve in this State the calm
and tranquility indispensable to the success
full prosecution Of agriculture and trade.
The party of which Governor Scott is the
head, left no stone unturned in their en-
deavor to stir up riot and disorder. They
failed in South Carolina, and will fail again.
There is, indeed, no danger that Repub Bill
can from South Carolina will knock at the
doors OF Congress with majority against
'him," because his friendsspa been pro-
hibited "by intimidation and murder from
voting. Hoge and Wallace were defeated,
not sby intimidation and MURDER" but by
the vote of the people; and in the next cleo
tions any men like them, not in politics but
in personal shame, will be routed AMI over
come as they were. Congress may again
admit defeated candidate, but it will be
because party expediency is higher than the
law and the constitution, and not because
any circumstance of illegality or wrong at
tended the expression OF the wishes OF the
people.
In justice to Governor Scott, we freely con-
fess our opinion that even so preposterous
politician cannot, in his own heart, believe
that there is the slightest chance of getting
up 'sbloody conflict" in South Carolina by
way of influencing the fall elections. This
is atrrly loyal" people, and Governor Scott
knows it. But all this buncombe talk about
rebels and rifles may bolster up the rSrty,
and may induce Congress to remit gallant
Georgia to the tender mercies of Governor
Bullock. Inzsnis way the political testimony
of Governor Scott may do Bullock some SER
vice, although we are inclined to believe that
the present Governor of Georgia will think
twice before he attempts to hold Radicalism
together by arming the negroes against the
Georgia white men.
The aim Of Scott and Bullock, and their
Northern brethren, is to influence the mind OF
the Northern people by tales of outrage and
wrong, so that their own acts Of uSurpation
and tyranny may pass unquestioned. They
desire to keep their claws on Georgia, and
to rivet the chains anew upon Virginia and
Tennessee. Massachusetts is threatened
with reconstruction, and New York is not
safe The Butler party, backed by Bullock
and Scott, demand new States to conquer,
anl nothing would delight them more than
some tale OF blood and rapine which might
convince New England that the South
needed, and the whole nation needed, more
thorough reconstruction. These men would
willingly sacrifice the lives of thousand
ignorant colored men for the greater glory
of their party The blood Of the black man
may flow like water, if the party politicians
Cali only succeed in obtaining u longer lease
Of power.
And the way to overcome these people is
plain and simple it is by adopting the pol
icy, nov adopted in South Carolina, of aban-
doning national political questions and adj
dressing every energy 20 securing good gov
ernment and increasing industrial activity.
Without PEACE these cannot he had, and the
peace which, under the auspices OF CITI-
zENs PARTY, builds up our waste places and
causes the barren fields to blossom like the
rose, will, also, defeat the ingenious schemes
Of unscrupuluus politicians, whose only hope
Of retaining the public honors they disgrace
Is in fomentinS dlscord and encouraging in
surrection and rebellion. This broad fact
should be pondered in every Southern State.
GOVERNOR SCOTT, in his Washington ora
ton, declared that he spent 'four years in
"the army" in the service of his (not this)
beloved State, and that he "nerer felt great
ser danger on a picket line" than he did in
South Carolina ''during the (polilical) cam
''paign Of 1865" Jes' so! But the 'picket
''lir:e" OF his affections must have been an
exceedingly safe place, or else ''His Excel
''lency" is as easily scared as Congressman
Hoge, the burden of whose song, during the
campaign OF 1868, was this:
He who fights and runs away,
Lives to fight another day;
Bat he who is in battle slain
snail never run nor fight again.
WE have not been able to find out 80 far