Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-12-13


been the prey now the educated aud
Intelligent citizens arc tho victims.
ARREST OF COLONEL M'KIssIcK.
Yesterday | tclegraphcd you that
among the twcnty.one persons arrest
cd in Unionvilc on Wednesday was
Colonel Isaac X Mex ssick. This is
the most important arrest yet made,
tho prisoner being lawyer Of dis
tinction and influence in this part of
south Carolina. He was the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in this
district last year and was returned Ms
defeated by the State Canvassers. His
opponnt, one AS. Wallace, now holds
u seat in Congress, and to the direct
agency of this uIan Is attributed the
present condition of affairs in South
Carolina. In my last letter from Tn.
ionville | explained how atrocions had
been the Radical frauds at the last
election, and 1t was entirely owing to
these frauds that Wallace received an
apparent minority Of the votes cast.
MckisSick is now contestant for his
seat and for months past has been col.
Letting evidence to lay before the Com.
mittee on Contested Seats. His arrest
has astonished everybody, as he is
generally regarded as conservative,
almost to timdity, aud AS the last man
likely to belong to the Ku Klux or.
gnnization. 1t does seem singular
that Il good lawyer, such as he is should
become Il member OF u seorot society
banned by the law. Among the whites
the impression is general that A. S.
Wallace engineered the arrest for the
purpose OF getting rid of him as a con
testant for the seat he now holds.
DESTROYING THE WHITE POPULATION.
Unionvillc is almost depopuated of
its white men. A large number OF
arrests have been made, and an equal
ly large number have voluntarily left
the place rather than run the risk of
being thrown into prison. Tho village
does not contain more than thirteen
hundred inhabitants, nearly one half
Of whom are negroes hence it is easy
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white men can injure it. In all cases
the white women and children have
been left ut home. In the town they
are well protected by the presence Of
the United States soldiers, so that If
they suffer il must be from want or
mental anxiety. In the country,
however, the situation is very grave.
Many men have either left or been
imprisoned and their families are on
their plantations without any white
protectors whatever The increased
arrogance and insolcnce of the negroes,
of which | have been witness my.
self, has given rise to II feeling of deep
anxiety for these protectOrless white
women and children. In some lOcali
ties there is not white man to be
found for miles around, while on every
plantation arc dozens OF negroes, their
minds filed with the notion that the
United States government is estab
lished for their special benefit and that
they can do as they please with i'm
punity. Ladies on these plantations
are now compelled TO submit to what
ever insOlence their servants may gipo
them. One lady assured me that she
had found it necessary TO stifle pride
aud assume an air Of the deepest re
speot and courtesy, not to say rever'
encc, to every negro on her plantation,
aud when sho goes to bed AT night it
is with the utmost terror
INsoLENcE OF THE NEGROES.
Ono fact concerning the negro is
that ho is II thorough coward at heart
and perfect hypocrite Until Con
gress made him voter he was quiet,
submissive and civil, aud nobody ever
thought Of disturbing him because he
was free. After he was given the vote
aud carpet.baggors aud Scalawags be
gan filing his head with ridiculous
notions Of equality ho changed com
pletcly, and "put on airs" Bat ho
would never have become overbear
ingly insolcnt had he not been taught
to believe that "thc Yankees (mean
ing tho people Of the North) would
hep him to keep the Southern white
man under him, and hadn the whole
course of the Radical party and the
government tended to confirm that
belief Arm him with rifle and he
becomes unbearably insolent Let him
feel that there are Northern white
men ar federal soldiers at his back and
he will hesitate at nothing to oXasper.
ate his former master The lowest
and most ignorant of white men are
proud of their race, no matter what
little pride their race may feel in thon,
and all consider themselves immcas-
urnbly superior to the best educated
negro that ever existed. They viii
resent any assumption of equality by
II black man. and whom that black mnn
adds TO what they regard as audacity
by downright insolence they are likely
enough to thrash him soundly. That
they have done this in disgaisc aud
not openly is, | think, due entirely tn
the fact that the State government
was wholly in the hands of men elect
cd by ana symwthizing with the ne
nfO, anu lDtSc NtHll NNlNu'N', FN'N
him to the pcnitentiary it he vented
his anger pnbicly. In most OF the
cases in which negroes have been
whipped, white men belonging to tbs
class have been the perpetrators, aud
have no doubt that ia very many ot
thom the cause was found in the indis'
erect or impudont language OF the vic
Tins. The assertion that these whlp.
pings were designed to intimida'c and
| keep them from voting is, TO use an
expressive though inelegant phrase
"too thin" Before the lust election
in South Carolina the Radical press
!. throughout the country tccmed with
accounts of Ku Klux uutmgcs, ana IN
cvcry case reported it was declared
that tho o9joot sought was the lntim'
idation of voters. Governor Scott De
came alarmed lest the "reiurm' ticket.
which was headed by n conservative
Republican, would be elected over che
regular ticket headed by himself, and
adopted measures to assure success.
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