The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-10-25

From the Chester Reporter.l
Chester can proudly compare her record for
good order and obedience to the laws with
any county from Maine to California. and
suffer nothing by the contrast. The statement
that there is within her borders an armed
combination or conspiracy either able or DIS
posed to defy the constituted authorities OF the
shadow of truth. That the execution OF the
laws either of the State or of the United States
are now, or ever have been, obstruct-
ed here, since the surrender, Is equal.
ly without foundation. The only sim
gle exception to this general statement
that has ever come to our knowledge was the
resistance made last January BY. the armed
some of their number by the sheriff on bench
warrants issued from the Court of General
Sessions. In this instance, the execution OF
the law was obstructed by an armed force OF
negroes, and the cotton thieves for whose
arrest the warrants were issued were rescued
from the hands Of the civil officers. But OF
what avail is it for US to interpose our denial
to these SOLEMN assertions OF the President OF
the United States?
We have been under martial law before,
and have lived through it. Let US hope that
We may survive it again, and that, under It's
benignant sway, we may learn to love ana 10
kiss the rod when laid upon US by 1.-THE best
government the world ever saw"
Is Reconstruction Failure
From the Marlboro Times.
We do think it is a sad commentary on the
government of South Carolina that the party
In ascendancy, with the control of every de-
partment of the government, and vollng
majority of thirty thousand, cannot administer
the law, keep down disturbances, and punish
the o.i.Iders; that when drunken youth
commits an assault and battery upon an indi-
vidual, he should not be tried by a court OF
Justice having full Jurisdiction of the case
where he lives, and punished by laws In force
in the State, but should be spirited away to be
tried by other tribunals. Is reconstruction a
failure? II 1t is, let the present government
give way to some other that can grapple with
questions at issue, bring order out of chaos,
long boasted of, but gone no farther-the best
government the world ever saw.
Facts are Stubborn Things.
From the Lsurensvllle Herald.l
From beginning to end the proclamation Is
based upon false and untenable premises. No
such unlawful combinations as referred to ex-
ist, and the Radical leaders know 1t just as
well as we do. A corporal's guard can arrest
any suspected party, and carry him from one
end of the nine counties to the other, and
never meet with any opposition or disturb
ance. ANY officer of county can do the same
within his Jurisdiction. If alleged disturbances
of the peace have not been properly prose-
cuted, the fault is not with the people. The
courts and the prosecuting officers are In
the keeping of the Radicals, and II there has
been any neglect Of duty, 1t is there that the
responsibility rests. Warrants, however, are
very necessary In arresting disturbers of the
peace, and this devolves upon the injured
party.
The Coll OF the EmpIre-Let the People
bsPrudent and Hopeful.
From the Columbia Phenix.l
That the cause of law and order should be
maintained In South Carolina Is right; but 1t
does not follow that to effect this, the severe
measure OF martial law should have been re.
sorted to. Against this, however impotent 1t
may be, we raise an indignant protest. The
grounds upon which the President predicates
his declaration do not In point Of fact exist,
and his edict Is but the exercise Of the des-
potic power that he derives from partisan
Congress. Great is the provocatlon, and great
Is the desire of our foes that disturbances may
nrm-be true-be discreet. We are power
less now, and must yield to power. But be of
good cheer. This state Of things cannot last.
As ''the coil of the empire" draws closer and
closer around outraged communities and 80.
called States, wider and wider, we think, will
open the eyes OF the North. throughout the
North there are thousands and thousands Of
gallant men that are knit to US Of the South In
closest bonds. The reaction, then, must come.
Courage, faith, endurance, hope-these are
the qualities hat our citizens are called upon
to illustrate.
Be Patient and Prudent.
From the Winusboro' News.l
In view of the great provocations and Of the
manifest design of this procedure, we would
counsel our people to the exercise of greater
patience and prudence than we have yet been
called upon to exhibit. Resistance to such
oppression, as natural as 1t might be, would
best subserve the interests OF those who inau-
gurated this condition OF things. Emboldened
By resistance upon which the whole power
OF the general government would be brought
to bear, with what hendlsh gee would they
press on to spoliation of our property. the in
suit of our families, and the final confscation
Of our lands? To our people, then, we repeat,
"be patient" even though by cruel and ty-
rannical measures we be torn from our families
and thrown into the common jail.