The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-19


this Federal movement. that has rolled
it's disastrous waves over our liberties
and our industries, under the pretence
Of enforcing the law against .'rebel-
lious" people, so-called. We have already
indicated the spirit OF ex-Judge Hoge.
What, now. are the anteosdents, public
aud political. OF the representative OF
the United States Government in Go
lnmbia. Mr.. Worthington. who 40 fre-
quently appears for THE GovERNMEnrP
He 1t it'vas who, as o political adven.
turer ind "ex- United States Mlnieter, -
appeared frat in the State in the reform
canvass Of 1870. He raised loud voice
in that campaign. and made such spas
modic elocutionary efforts. that General
Bntler dubbed him the spotted man. f"
We are not unaware OF the vocal forte of
q man Of Mr.. Worthington's stamp. He
ia. the prince OF .speakers and
demagogues-a speaker who reaches
after the, unattainable, and penetrates to
the unseerchable; ready. in the negro's
cause, to i.
"plnck bright horor from the pale face moon,
Or dive down into the bottom OF the deep,
Where fathom line could never toach the
bottom.
And draw up-drotDned niggers by tho tcool"
After the reform canvass, he becomes,
with ex-Judge Hoge. a brieaess barris-
ter, waiting, Micawber-like, for ''some-
thing TO- turn up" We next hear Of
Mr.. Worthington on mission to Wash
ington, to ask of President Grant mill
tary Law for South Carolina. Next We
hear OF him as speaker before the
colored convention that recently held
its sessions in this oity. Upon that
occasion. we are told that Mr.. Worth
ington made violent and an infiamma-
tory harangue, appealing to the negro
mems passions, prejudices and lust Of
power. He bid them, we are informed,
to use the power they had, to assert
their rights, political and social. and
to aspire to full equality at the board
and everywhere-to grind into the dust
what he called the aristooratio element
at the South. We next hear OF Mr.
Worthington as representing the United
States Government against prisoners
arrested under the 'Ku Klux Act, and
assuming powers arbitrary and high
handed. Now let US here cay, that we
have no criticism TO make upon the
United States officer. high or low, who
discharges his duty fairly and impair
italy under the Inv. But we do say
that. least of all men, should the United
States Government be represented by
Mr.. Worthington. 1.-THE reasons Why"
~ addition to those already given, we
shall proceed to give.
Mr.. Worthington 10 himself Ku Klus.
WITHOUT DISGUISE, as we'll as ex.Judge
Hoge. We charge. upon high and un-
questionable authority. that Messrs.
Worthington and Hoge have been heard
to declare that the citizens OF Columbia
ought to go to the State House, in broad
daylight, and hang to the nearest lamp
posts, the State officials Parker,
Scott and Neagle--until they were dead,
dead, dead. Now. these we're the senti-
ments, boldly avowed, by these men.
They are clearly and plainly Ku Klux,
actfhoss disguise; and yet, these are the
men who have contributed, first, TO make
Ku Kinx. and then to pursue them to
the death; and. in doing so. to destroy
the liberties and paralyze the business
of the whole Statei And this MIR.
"orthington-this z. Il. without dis.
A0ise-this alleged President OF Union
1eSgue here-this man becomes a x. K.
prosecutor. and wieids In HE person the
authority OF great Government. We
present HV tofthe country-a doubly, q
tnrice spotted man-and let the prisons
snat now contain the innocent victims OF
his wrath and n.lics. open wide their
portals to *ece:-s Aim-not tho least .,
the offsnde,against the law.
Nor is this an ,VaiAd in the proseou.
ton OF the Ku Kinx pro6eediues e.ain.t
South OaroIina. Messr.> Msrtlsuoton 4
Hoge diDide in the proseou Ehpn " N.
men held in arrest. It is undeAtood sd
made pnbIicthat Mr.. Wortiih hgtonAxepve.
sents the United States Govern Mseas
alone, aud MIR. Hoge is ready for tho de-
fence' and thus the nrm ia ready for
work either offensive or defensive.
Gen. Grant maAoa solitude and calls
it peace.
Messrs. Worthington & Hoge make.
Ku Kluz cases and then so for. the
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'Aeads I win, 4ails yon lose.' 50 As
Virgil has ito sacred thirst for gold I
. iohat erient ,oiH thou lead 5fkal brensts. F"