Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-29

south Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and
Louisiana becoming negro States, after
hey have been abandoned by the whites.
IN each of these States the blacks have |
majority of the population, and the writer
maintains that there is strong tendency on /
he part of the Northern blacks to emigrate |
South, where they would feel ''more at !
home" and would avoid competition with
he foreign white element, which is filling
ND the North and West He thinks that |
but for the terrorism of the Ku-Klux the
would soon establish. themselves in
possession of at least some Of the
States named. With a view to fur
Their this scheme, and to provide a
refuge for the blacks OF the North, the rid
dance of whom is so desirable by the Radi-
Gals of that section, the North AIneri-
can urges the resort to any measures, how
ever extreme, 70: the suppression of the
Ku-Klux. 1t is not improbable that the
present Ku-Klux crusade in South Carolina
has among its other objects the expulsion of
the whites from the State. 1t remains TO
be seen whether the white men of this
country, North or South, are prepared for
such a surrender. For a time Radical
selfishneSs and fanaticism may be tolerated
in its treachery to civilization, race and
country, but, in the end, their madness and
folly will reap its just retribution.
The Boston Post says every body
knows that this South Carolina affair is
what is professionally styled a put-up
Job, and adds, "Here is an entire popula-
ton put to flight by Federal troops, who
was living yesterday in as quiet and con-
tented fellowship as characterizeS any
other community. War has been prac-
tically declared against them by the Fede-
raj government. Not ON account of any
crime on their part do they fee, but be-
cause they are invaded by the troops of a
government that has nothing to do with
them if not to protect them. All this takes
place under the infamous Ku-H&ux law,
which was denounced at the time of its
passage, with such vigor, by Senators
Schurz and Trrunbull--a statute claiming
its origin in the Fourteenth Amendment,
which is thus interpreted to mean the over
throw instead of the extension of Republi-
can liberty"
The St. Louis Rep,blicdR reproduces
from its issue of Aug 4, 1870, the follow
ing:
1.-TWO months ago, the Washington cor
respondent Of the New Y Ork Tribune wrote
the following, which was published in that
paper:
"'The manneriu which partisan kilograms
| from the South have been manufactured and
published in the North to further the per-
sonal designs of INSCRIPTIONS and ambitious
men was well shown up on the develop
ments brought out in reference to the Wash
ington Chronicle during th4Rrogress of the
recent Georgia investigation. The sane
! game is noto going on in connection with
the internal affairs of other Southern states
II is believed that the EMS 'UING ELECTIONS
III the South will result, liz some instances
not perhaps in the defeat of the Republican
| party, but in the defeat of &c rtain individual:
who are, and have been using that party a.
a means only to their own selfish advance
ment Forseeing this, the effort is to GET
| UP AN EXCUSE TO DECLARE MARTIAL
LAW, and local newspapers in the interests
of the men alluded to are teeming with &C
counts Of ''outrage." THIS Is PARTICULAR
LY THE CASE IN MOUTH CAROLINA, anC
no surprise need be felt at q daily dish o
| horrors from that State, served up in tn,
Chronicle: ''for," said one of the North Caro-
lima senators, GIVE INTEND TO USE TIL
MILITARY" and IN Justification, are must ge
these statements disseminated through III
| NORTH"
The "Gnsuing elections" then To be pro
vided for, says the st. Louis Republican
''were those for members of the presen
Congress, and, in some States, for Governor
and Legislatures, and the outrage system o
electioneering did not succeed in all o
them. The ensuing election now is that 70
President next year; and as the vice of con
solidatiOn and imperialism has always beel
to increase its dose in case Of first failure
instead of abandoning its mode Of treatmen
we may expect the administration 20 infic
on our national ''sick man" so much of it
panacea of martial law that it will be q mil
acle if he is not killed outright. The re
cent proceedings in South Carolina, Gin
elusive of Marion county, dragOone
through slip of the pen, or on false re
ports), are obviously designed to Civ
fair warning TO other Southern State
of what may befal them i
case they show symptoms of Sinking til
whole duty of man, which is TO vote fo
the reelection of Gen. Grant. That Stat
was expected to preserve ITS allegiance {
Radicalism without sign Of faltering; bU
she exhibited suspicious symptoms. He
Governor although 4 carpet-hagger coul
not descend to official falsehoOd in certify
inc any portion Of lis State to he in ri
bellon; and her Lieutenant-GoyernOr,
, colored man, and a native of the State. pull
liclv proclaimed the contrary. For thus IT
flsing to serve as tools of the adminstr;
ton, and give it preteXt for placing Sout
Carolina under martial law, they have bee
subjected To the humiliation Of seeing th;
calamity inflicted on her, despite OF the
efforts TO save her from it,"