The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-04
4 LIBEL UPON QUE PEOPLE.
. To make Governor scott's malignant mes
sage complete, we print the following para.
graphs which were, by accident, omitted from
the copy furnished to TIE NEWS: = ~ /

b To make Governor Scouts malignant mes
sage complete, we print the following para.
graphs which were, by accident, omitted from
the copy furnished to TIE NEWS: ~ f.
The two parties In the State during the cam
paign, to which these extracts relate, tviz, the
extracts from The News, and other papers, ]
ran their respective candidates upon plat
forms that were almost Identical In terms, and
were alleged by the opposition to be identical
In principle. The fact therefore, that those
who claim to possess all the Intelligence,
wealth oil the State, were 40 utterly defeated,
cannot be referred to mere party differences.
Nor can 1t be explained BY charging such de-
featto those who are offsnslyely termed "oar-
etbaqgers" and "scalaWage," for the rltnber.
ofotttes toho are aciue Rep,i6l 6licdns in thistdts
nay almost be counted on Tie fingers of a hans
hands The cause lies deeper than thss IL is
doubtless due TO the 'negro'S just perception
Of character, either intulttve or derived from
long experience and close observation, which
enables him to look beneath the mere planks
of platform, and discriminate between those
who are loyal and those who are disloyal to
the government of his country. Hence, he
would unqusstionably vote as ne does, even
though every white man In the Rspubll-
can party In this State should go over
to sthe opposition. BE doubtless also per-
tlon to the national Democratic party, of which
they claim to be members, that the mere
guerilla or bushwhacker, p!uodering and
numbering on the outskirts Of great army,
does to the regular soldier 10 Its ranks.
These appeals were quickly responded to.
In many counties Of the up-country bands Of
armed horsemen, thoroughly masked, rode at
cans and shot them down In cold blood.
Colored men, Republicans, charged with
offences, and imprisoned on probable cause,
were taken from the jail aud inhumanly BUTCH
cred, to evsde the effect Off writ OF hdbeds
corpus which had been Issued 10 their behalf.
Hundreds OF Republicans, white as well as
oolored, law-abidlng citizens were tied to
with cowhides. On the day succeeding the
last general election, October 20, 1s70,) an
attack was made by these men on q member
OF the State constabulary, at Laurens Court.
house, while the court was iu session, which
attack was the signal, evidently, for the exc:
cutlon OF preconcerted plan 70 murder Re
publIcans; for the instant 1t was made large
number Of the citizens of the town, all OF them
of the opposition, formed liue Of battle and
began firing, killing eeverel Republicans upon
the spot, without provocation, and hunting
down those that fed, and placing them In
position, and then deliberately shooting them to
death. They then went to the postofdce and
demanded the 0all0C-oo4es u0m Cne'postmasL-
or, In whose custody they supposed them to
be deposited Republican ticket, as they
correctly thought, having been elected. In
this affair thirteen Republicans were killed
and many wounded. Not a man Of the oppo-
sition was Injured. In this and other counties
many were compelled to abandon their fami-
lies and growing crops and fly for their lives,
and others we're required and forced to make
public recantation of their Republican prin-
cples from the steps Of the county court
houses, aud In open daylight. In obedience
bo the mandates of these masked murderers
many of the local officials resigned, although
they were chargsable with no malfeasance In
office. In proof that these deeds OF violence
sprang from no local grievance, but were. a
part Of q genera. political plan, refer to the
fact that they were committed IN several
counties-Un Spartanburg. York, Chester,
Chesterfield, Laurens, Fairfield and Newber-
ry-where all the judicial and other appointees
Of the administration were of the opposition.