The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1871-03-22
Reconstruction q Failure. More Troops
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suppress out'ages. ip the Counties OF
Union aud York, in South South Caro-
lima, where he reports that meu are
murdered or driven from their homes
nightly, because Of their political
opinion. Gov. Scott inforuis the
President that there is no sufficient.
ly armed aud equipped militia to
give the needed protection, and that
if lie did have at his disposal compe-
tent militia force, there are no funds
in the State Treasury to transport and
subsist them. Hc says that it is not
just or rea. a.ouable in the Government
to expect him, with the limited mill,
tary resources Of the, State, to SUCCESS.
fully meet in the field the trained
soldiers who held the United States
at bay for four years, and often
achieved signal triuInphs over its best
armies and that to expect this Of
him is to initiate the Egyptian system
with most grevious ilnproYe meot,
requiring the making of bricks with
neither straw nor clay. He state 8
that The Ku Klux, that were former
ly thought to be mere political
ghoul,a O bloodv spectre, ujurcd up
for party purposes, is now terrible
fact, an armed organization. thorough
ly equipped, having it's field, staff and
line ofkoers, and established lines of
communication. He says that if Con
gress illpass an act guaranteeing the
F,,ll l.
moneys expended in suppressipg do
mestic violence South Carolina can
then obtain the necessary credit to
mobilize her militia, and then sustain
them in the field. Nothing hut u
permanent garrison in the disafrocted
sections Will give the protection to the
mcn who are threatened with murder
or exile, solely because of their fdeli,
ty to the principles Of government.
AS an evidence of the condition of
affairs III South Carolina, tho facts
arc stated, that, OH last Monday,
company Of Unitcd States troops, that
lett C"luu. bia for York, had the
Railroad to,n up in their ftont 10y u
hoay % ar' >,i mtn. ,rd scic obliged
10 mur'h ~ the ro Il. Ou Friday
last, 81" Republican ,ncmcers of the
Mgl.'a'ure, no~ n'tjiny, paid men 10
pichei ,ic Dad leaning jrnul the capi.
til hecau,o Of we'll grounded ts,r re- of
*" kux ra,d upon their body.
a c)nnn.tce oi three 'ncmbcps cf the
Leglslatute Of South Ca,olina will
arrive here in Il day or twr t. Jay tho
c'',d tidh"! }na',s III Suu;,h Ca, o,ina
befa:e 4" y: esi:!v":. NJ. W;;,rvti
ilkes, tn" tc"di e conservative
mcmhrr Of the Sruli, Carolina Legis-
la'urc is one If the com,ni,tec.
T"e so"v" txiract sc clip from the
Washington co',tsrnr d>nee uf The
New YvrkaTr,hnnc The editor ap.
proves The upll'cutlou nt Gov. Scott,
and expresses che hope lha, the F,de-
eras Government will fur.ish he r.-
quisitc furcc to ferret out and pnnish
the fnrnda bic Ku Klnx claus wA,ose
pretended acts have given Gov. Scott
80 much alarm.
This application of Scott, approved
by Greeley, u prominent leader of the
Radical party, is = virtual confession
that "reconstt uction" has utterly fail
cd. South Carolina was quick to ac.
cept the situation, and acknowledg
the .tightfuluess Of reconstruction
Indeed, she was, if not the first,
among tho first Of the Southern
States who yielded to the "march Of
events and gave up the government
and traditions of the fathers Of the
country. Aud now South Carolina,
after an experience Of five years of alb.
solute Radical rule, is again to be put
under the tutclage of the Federal
Government. With negro supremacy
in every bratch of the government
negro social equality enforced in
places ofamusement, on railroad cars
and steamboats,, in churches and
school "houses---with full and
thoreughly equipped negro militia,
the Governor of the State confesses
that few disordely white pefsons in
two of the Counties are too powerful to
be overcome by the State authorities
and plaintivcly begs assistance from
Grant.
If nepro'~ reconstruction, after five
years of Federal support, and fiyo
I years practice in the arts of govern
ment, cannot protect its organism in
South Carolina, where the blacks are
numerically much the strongest, what
must:b be the weakness of tho miscra.
bio Radical bantiiug in those States
whore the whites have a majority
Does not the condition Of affairs in
South Carolina, if they really exist al
Gov, Scott states, furnish strong con
demnation of the whole vile thipf
called reconstruction ( How long
will the upited States be able to keel
up and support military establish
ment strong enough to furnish each o
1.-The Southern States with number 0
soldiers sufficiently large to overcome
opposition which tho entire Stat,
militia Is unable to accomplish, ant
how long will the people of tn,