The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-14
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Governor SCOTT has called upon the
President for United States troops to
suppress outrages in the Counties Of
Union and York, in South Oarolina.
where he reports that men are murdered
or driven from their homes nightly, be.
cause Of their political opinion. Gov
Scott informs the President that there is
no sufficiently armed and equipped mill
tia to give the needed protection, and
that if he did have at his disposal
competent militia force, there are no
funds in tho State Treasury to transport
and subsist them. He says that it is not
just or reasonable in the Government to
expect him, with the limited military
resources of the State, to successfully
meet in the field the trained soldiers
who held the United States at bay for
four years, and often achieved signal
triumphs over its best armies; and that
to expect this of him is to initiate the
Egyptian system, with most grievous
improvement, requiring the making OF
bricks with neither etraw nor clay. He
states that the Ku Klux, that were for
merly thought to be mere political
ghoul, a bloody spectre. conjured up for
party purposes, is now q terrible fact,
an armed organization, thoroughly
equipped, having its field, staff and line
ofhceSs, and established lines of commu-
nication. He says that if Congress will
pass On Act guaranteeing the State full
reimbursement for moneys expended in
suppressing domestic violence, South
Carolina cnn then obtain the necessary
credit to mobilize her militia, and then
sustain them in the field. Nothing but
permanent garrison IL She a:saGcc.cd
sections will give the protection to the
men who are threatened with murder or
exile, solely because of their fidelity to
the principles of government. AS an
evidence Of tho. condition of affairs in
South Carolina, the fucts are stated,
that. on last Monday. company of
United States troops, that left Columbia
for York, had the railroad torn up in
their front by q body of armed men,
and were obliged to march by the road
On Friday last, the Republican members
of the Legislature, now sitting, paid
men to picket the road leading from the
capital, because of well-grounded fears
of u Ku Kux raid upon their body. A
committee of three members of the Lo-
gislaturo of South Carolina will arrive
here in day or two to lay the condition
of affairs in South Carolina before the
President. Mr.. Warren Wilkes, the
leading conservative member of the
South Carolina Legislature is one of the
committee.
The above extract we clip from the
Washington correspondence of tho Now
York Tribune. The editor approves the
application of Gov. Scott. aud expresses
the hope that the Federal Cove rnment
will furnish tho requisite force to ferret
out and punish the formidable Ku Klux
clans whose pretended acts have given
Gov. Scott 30 much alarm.
This application of Scott, approved
by Greeley, prominent leader OF the
Radical party, is q virtual confession
that Reconstruction" hns utterly failed.
South Carolina was quick to accept the
situation. and acknowledged the right
fulness Of reconstruction Indeed, she
was, If not the fret, among the first OF
the Southern States who yielded to the
"march of events" and gave up the go
vcrnment and traditions of the fathers
of the country. And now South Carroll
ma, after an experience of five years alb
solute Radical rule, is again to be put
under the tutelage OF the Federal Go
vernment. With pegro supremacy in
overy branch of the State government
negro social equality enforced in places
of public amusement. on railroad cars
and steamboats,, in churches and school
houses-with full and thoroughly
equipped negro militia, tho Governor of
the State confesses that few disorderly
white persons in two of the Counties are
too powerful to be overcome by the State
authorities, and plaintively begs assist
ancn from Grant.
If negro reconstruction, after five
years of Federal support, and five years
practice in the arts of government, can
not protect its organism in South Caro-
lima, where the bIncks are numerically
much the strongest, what must be the
weakness OF the miserable Radical bant-
ling in those States where the Wilt,
have II majority? Does not the condi-
tion of affairs in South Carolina, if they
really exist as Gov. Scott states, furnish
strong condemnation of the whole vile
thing called reconstruction? How long
will the United States be able to keen up
and support military establishment
strong enough to furnish each of the
Southern States with number of SOL
diers sufficiently large to overcome oppo-