The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-17
sOUTH CAROLINA.
A Healthy Suite or Thingsa.-New
Yorh Roushs taken there to Erters
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A Healthy State OF Things.--New
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7 b. ,.i5f NEW YoRK, January t5, !
Samuel Haggett, OF 1903 Madison street,
RyearslQ the truth Of the following stater
mentilhlill adi5aiiy iaiId II .giGy q aJiil
About seven weeks agoa Colonel Bal
ker, on the stat Of Governor Scott, Of
South Carolina, appeared In o. saloon
known as the Crystal, situated In n the
BoWery, between BroOme: and Grand
Streets He inquired TOR men who were
willing to go. TO South Carolina, where
they were % be appointed Deputy State
0onstables, and be employed at the Union
Gold,mines for the protection Of the negro
miners, He wanted fifty men, he said,
and showed bis authorization from Gov.
.ernor' Scott "a t0E.a procuring them, Theft
.tfalsp Orlatiol expenses were 70 be paid,
and alter reaching their destination they
wereto receive three dollars . day and
mileage. On these Representations, Baker
secured twenty-five men; among them N.Y.,
sell, and on the 22nd OF last November
The started tor South Carolina with his ~.
lcruits, making the voyage on the steamer
John Adger. We arrived ut Columbia
November 20, and there were sworn In as
deputy constables by Constable Hubbard,
We were given commissions and badges.
Then follows q copy Of the commisf
sion and the names Of twenty-five re-
Grpits, all Of whom are well known CHAR
acLeFS in this citYsl.7a rom 5df {, 500
Haggett says the party was command
ed by Colonel Jim Carrigap, Onarriying
in Columbia, they were regarded by the
people as representative New York
roughs They then learned that Gov,
Scott and many Of the members ol the,
South Carolina Legislature were afraid Of
assassination by the Ku,Klux.a They
dared hardly leave Columbia, The Kai
Klu8 constantly watched their move
ments. They could not get the Ku.Klux
leaders in their grasp, though they knew
who they were and where they were to
befound. Senator Crews who lived in
Laurens, was afraid to go home without o
strong guard. While the party was at
Rouse's Hotel, In Columbia, d State Sen.
ator, accompanied by another official, had
several conversations with Jnos Barrett, J..
Corcoran, John o Brien, and Haggett OF:
teripg them thirty thousand dollars and
State protection 4 they would go 70 the
house Of Mr.. Todd, In Laurens, and attack
and kill the supposed leaders Of the Ku.
Klux harborOd there They were said to
be men named Todd, Clure, and MCCur.
ley, They were told that heet horses
would be provided tor Their escape, and
that fhey mignthaVe $l0,OgU when theY
would lind an a safe N todgs mouse!
Meantime, Tue. remainder Of inc party
were 70 attack Dayid Gest Jasper Gipos,
x'Slerlh smith, y. kIce rogers, q man
named Sumner, and Henry vest, all sup
posed leaders 81 tho hu'h luxi who lived
in Union, twenty miles from Columbia,
Ten thousand dollars was 10 be paid ior
each oneo OF these men who was killed. II
was understood that Governor Scott ari-l
thorized the proposition. The party say
they assented, without any intention Of
tho ku;klux. Il
'Haggett says: 1--WE accordingly started
for Union by rail, were there armed with
Winchester repeating rifles, and then
journeyed by wagon to the Union gold
mines, which are some seventeen miles
distant from Union proper. On the wsy
we were joinedby fifteen mounted United
States regulars, under Lieutenant Paul
On reaching tho mines the kuikllx Will
not allow to be worked, we looked about
US tor tho negro miners we were y PRO- Pr
tect, but not single soul, black or white,
was to be seen In the .nelghborhood. I'M
der the circumstances, We did the best we
could; The wagons which had conveyed
Us to the spot had returned, and We would
have TO tramp the distance back. Rather
than do that, we concluded to remain
where we were and await developments,
Our party took up quarters IN Two desert.
ed log cabins, and the regulars put up
ten dAyAt and durfnp that time wore thrice |