The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-04


the State, without soliciting, the aid of
tho military for it is through their vir-
tue alone that We may ever hope to bring
about peace and. prosperity .9.aja
SALUDA. OLD TOWN.
Tho souih ohrolEna fkt Kfa1--Fniso
.. ,staten1snta E1posed.r ~. M.
The. Washington Patriot. OF the Cd,
publishes the, following article in re-
sponse, to q statement, telegsephe1, on,
Saturday, copied from Washington
evening papef;.
The;, sub odm hintee, consisting OF
Messrs. Sootfg Stevenson and :,.Yai
Drump;s appointed to investigate the al
LEGGED odtiages i'd SDuth Carolina, re-
turned TO this city, on Saturday after
noon, and Immediately after q statement
was published, On the authority OF the
Radical members, though without their
signatures, which .wes subsequently tele.
I,grsphea over ahe country by the Associ.
lIaief Press We are auth 6ri3hd. by Judge
Van Trump, to pronounce that pnbiioa-
lltion nntrue, in many essentisl particulars
and aperyeEaion of facts in othets, evi.
ducing f Bipartisan aud falseimpression.
L.
Counties, namely, Laurens, Chester.
York and Spartanburg, where acts Of
violence have been committed on both
Sides The whites and blacks are nearly
equally divided in population, and the
carpet. bag rule, by WHICH. the negro is
foroibli put over the Hhite 'hihn, has pr6i
duced q bad, and even dangerous, state
of feeling. The poor. whites are mostly
aggrieved at an oppression, which is in
tended to make them che interiors of re-.
cent slaves stepped in ignorance and Woe.
Every thing has been done to aggravate
the laboring whitea to outrage the social
condition Of their families. On tho very
eve Of the last election Gov. Scott or
gAnized fourteen negro regiments aud
armed them with 7.400 Winchester rifles
and 100. 900 rounds of fixed ammunition.
These regiments we're distributed in diff
ferent parts of the State, and especially
where their presence would be most like
ly TO excite bad blood. This proceeding
was rendered more offsnsive by the fact
that the whites, who had become alarm
ed. were refused the same privilege to
protect themselves.
| A company which had been in exist
ence long before this time was disarmed
and disbanded by the Governor. tits in
proof before this committee thnt negroes,
dieguitsed as Kn Klux, committed many
outrages. The testimony given by the
negroes was Of the lowest kind, and ut
terly unworthy of belief. They were at
tracted by the fee of 90 per diem, and,
in many cases, we're evidently drilled for
the occasion. At Spartanbnrg numbers
! OF them were congregated in the post
! Office while waiting to be called as wit
nesses, and, doubtless, learned the lesson
which was afterwards rehearsed substan-
TALLY in the same words.i
OF the various negroes who pretended
to have been punished, but one was
| stripped; and one white man at Colum-
bia. who, while claiming to be refugee
! from terror, was holding an Office there
at the expense Of the State. His ficti-
tious wound had been healed with that
plaster. In the Radical statement, it is
broadly alleged that ten negroes we're
taken from the Jail in Union and mur-
dered by an armed band, but the facts
| connected with this transaction are all
Intentionally suppressed for efftct. They
were as follows: A company Of some
twenty-five armed negroes appeared in
that neighborhood and openly announc.
I'd their intention to shoot the first white
man they should meet. Soon after
poor drayman named Stephens, with
ono arm, who was universally regarded
as worthy and amiable man, was driv-
ing along the road with barrel Of whis.
key in his cart. He wss stopped by this
band OF ruff1ans and the whiskey de-
nnaniei. lie TOLD them that il was not
his property, but gave them fask of
his own and started. After going short
distance the negroes fred at his cart and
struck it In several places. A man who
had joined Stevens in the road, fed for
his. life, and he himself seeing the armed
negroes in pursuit, abandoned the cart
and sought refuge in neighboring
cabin. He was followed by the wretches,
and against the efforts OF the negro
woman, Whose humble shelter he had
sought. and his own, he was taken out.
Alter drawing lots, Eve OF the gang
took him into the woods and riddled his
tbody with balls The perpetrators of