The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-05-02

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cotton TO the acre. which will be worth about
s60.n he said. :'That sounds like good lot OF
money to get off an acre, but there's no profit
in IT, When come TO pay my hands and feed
them. nav for fertilizers and bagging, and for
feed for nv stock, there won't be much left.
Some men haven't paid expenses for the last
year."
starring tor the plantation, and when we re-
turned to the hotel they took another. nothing
beinr begun or ended at the South without
drinking. They became quite talkative, and
the absorbing political question soon came up.
WI tell Won. stranger" said one, 1--WE can't
stand bein' ruled by niggers any longer, they're
lust ruinn' the State. They're taxln' us and
plunderin US in way that no white man
would stand. They don't pay ln dollar OF taxes @
niger Legislature was mighty careful to put
il iIl The law that they needn't pay the tax 10
get TO vote Look here, stranger, wharabOuts
1o Won come from - replied that my native
State was Ohio. ''Wall, do you think folks In
YOUR tate would stand it to have lot ofig-
norant, degraded niggers, not worth a dollar,
maxim: laws and holding all the offices, and
taxin' their property, and they not a word to
say ?"
Ohio would not like snch state Of affairs.
stNo. | reckon they wouldn't and they
wouldn't stand il neither, not lot single day.
And, tell you, sir, that we've borne it as
long as we can, and now its got to stop. The
niggers have got to let men of property and
intelligence hold the offices, or they've got to
leave This part OF the country"
This find to be the unanimous sentiment Of
the white men here with whom have talked.
A one-armed lawyer, who had been colonel in
the rebel army, told me this morning that he
believed the negroes would soon abandon this
part OF the State and go to the sections where
they are largely in the majority 1 asked him
what he :hOilekt of an intelligence qualiflca-
tion for suffrage as remedy tQr the present
evil. s.Thut would suit u.s." he replied, shut
how are we going to get it, The negroes will
never mass law disfranchisng themselves.
The only way is TO force them to give mp the
poWer they have got, and we'mean TO do it,
It is perfectly evident that the whites mean
to try to get control Of the State government,
and that they have thorough erganlzallon al a iGr
called the White Brotherhood, the Invisible
Empire, tile Ku-KIux-Klan, or the Council OF
Satety-the last being the name Which they
give it here in Chester-its purpose Is the
same, and that is so to intimidate the blacks
Iffafat the next election they will not dare to
VN$Bfor any OF their own race for office or Tor
any white Radical. The troops stationed here
are under command of Major Van Voast of the
lStn infantry, duu cOuoisI VI HhS SohIpuuf VI
his regiment and q troop OF the 7th Cavalry
They are ouartered in the outskirts Of The vii
lage and use al abandoned warehouse for bar
racks. The officers say they have heard OF no
murders in the county since they. came, but
that the whipping of the blacks by masked
men still goes on, to somei extent. in the
surrounding districts. Sometimes the vic
Tins are whipped ior suspected theis: but
usually they are told that 1t is for voting
Radical ticket, and they are made to promise
never to do so again. The troops have no au-
thority to make arrests, and can do nothing
unless called upon by q revenue officer or oy
the sheriff to act as a posse e0nitatnS. The
officers are expecting new orders n W that the
Ku-Klux bill has been passed. They think
they will be directed 10 learn the state OF al
fairs in the vicinity, and report all acts Of vio-
lence. in order that the President may know
when IL is necessary to avail himself OF the
discretionary powers given him by the bill.
In counties where no garrisons have oeen
established the condition OF things is miich
worse than here. In Chesterfield County,
negro, his wife und daughter were murdered
one night las. week. The man had been col
lectlug the delinquent tax. lh Clarendon
County, two days ago; county commissioner
was found dead in the road, shot In six places;
The Ku.klux seem determined to murder oil
negro otiice-holders.