The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-08-18


to shoot the first white man they should
meet.
A WHITE MAN BRUTALI.Y MURDERED
by NEGROES.
Soon after poor drayman named
Stevens, with one arm, who was uni
versally regarded as worthy and am
liable man, was driving along the road
with barrel of whisky in his cart. lie
was stopped by this band of rufiians
and the whisky demanded. He told
them it was not his property, but gave
them flask of his own and started.
After going short distance the me-
groes fired at his cart and struck II in
several places. A man who had joined
Stevens on the road tled for his life, and
he himself seeing the armed negroes in
pursuit, abandoned the cart and took
refuge in a neighboring cabin. He was
followed by the wretches, and against
the efforts of the colored woman, whose
humble shelter he had sought, and his
own, he was taken out.
After drawing lots five of the gang
took him into the woods and riddled
his body with balls. The perpetrators
of the outrage were arrested and put in
the Chester Jail, but before being secur-
ed they killed the deputy sheriff, Smith,
who served the process. Suddenly a
negro came from Columbia with what
| purportcd to be writ of haJeds corpus
from the radical judge, Thomas, at Co.
lumbia, but attested in no proper form.
The sheriff called into council the
leading lawyers, in order to determine
what course he should pursue in regard
to this informal and irregular requisi-
ton, which boro no evidence Of genu-
inencss, and came in an envelope of the
Adams express company. Meantime
the news spread and a vigilance com.
mittec reused into Indignation, know
ing how Governor Scott had pardoned
the worst criminals by hundreds, de-
termincd to administer stern justice
themselves by making an example, to
check this outlawry. They took The
prisoners out of Jail by force and exc
cuted them summarily. One of them
was released by the declaration of {
white man, that he was believed to bt
innocent of the atrocious crime of which
the others were guilty. While this act o
vengeance is deprecated, the eXtraordi
nary provocation, and the alarm Great
ed by the armed blacks, as well rs thei
violence, must be considered in conncc
tion with it.
A THIEF AS A WITNESS.
The other statements might be ex
posed with equal effect, but this illus
tration is sufficient for the present pur
pose. One of the principle witnesses
, named owen, on cross-eXaminatior
admitted himself to be thief.
- THE sCALAwAG BALLoT-BoX sTUFFE
Congressman Wallace, who was elec
ed first by the house of representative
and then by stuffed ballots, in distri
with 5000 democratic majority, follow
E ed the committee everywhere, and Wa
one of the active managers in gettin
up testimony. The affair in which h
figured at Spartanburg, and which wa
i telegraphed all over the country as
gross outrage, exhibits the purpose
magnify and exaggerate for politics
: effect. lie was seated next to Mr.. Ste'
enson, of the committee, at the hot
table, when man named Berry, Wi
y formerly had a feud with Wallace, el
l. tered in state of intoxication.
> Discovering his old enemy, he seize
y pitcher of milk and threw it at hin
whereupon Wallace drew revolvt
and would have fred but for the inte
n vention of those present. This was til
n extent of that outrage, and Berry, whe
!, sobered, sought to make every atom
: ment, as the citizens did who were il
j. jured by his reckless conduct.
NOT POLITICS BUT CORRUPTION AN
n ROBBERY THE CAUSE OF TROUBLE
There is no political feeling of an
# kind in the unfortunate disturbanc
h which have occurred in these few cou
" ties of South Carolina.
They result from mal-adminiStratio
!, corruption, robbery, carpet-baggin
O. anu ESPECIALLY alhJuP lue poor laDoiii
:, white men, from wicked purpose {
the part of the authorities and the le
islature to assert black supremacy al
degrade them with negro rule. Th
II is with them perhaps The real and INC
IN serious difficulty. 1t is question
: race, and which, as the government
,. South Carolina is now administers
10 and as sustained by federal powt
n. threatens the gravest consequence,
10 The white mechanic and laborer, VIII
~ he finds the worst criminal protect
i. and pardoned, the law an engine of p,
M secution, political power abused, in {
of der to oppress him with negro domir
tion and to outrage his wife and ch
IN dren, will resist, be the sacrifice wi
.. it may. He may be uneducated Il
No plain, but he is still American a
is proud Of his race Washington Pdtrl
~ Ii Might Have Been.
" We hear great deal about this phra