The Portland daily press., 1871-08-03

Judge Van Trump, the Democratic
member of the KuKulx Sub Committee that
officially visited South Carolina causes a state
ment to be in reply to one made from the re-
ports of Senator Scott and representative
Stevenson. Mr.. Van Trump is careful not to
make any specific denial of any particular
statements made by the other members of the
COMMITTEE, Senator Scott and Representative
Stevenson. He only appears as the apoosist
Of the Ku-Klux without denying single out
rage. He only notices single case where
ten or dozen negroes were taken out of Jail
by the Ku Klux and hung because it was as
serted that bogus writ of hdbedS corpus was
presented for their delivery. He gives as the
reason for this action that the Governor had
constantly pardoned negro criminals of the
blacklist character, yet fails to give a single in
stance where Gov. Scott has abused the exc
cutive ciemency. He meets the concurrent
mass of testimony of colored men who have
been assaulted, by the statement that they
could not be believed.
Negro domination and carpet bag rule is
the cause of all the trouble, yet these meek
South Carolina Democrats have 5000 MAORI
ty in the district on fair ballot and allow
themselves to he cheated out of an election
by the dominant negroes who stuff ballot
boxes:
If we may believe the statement of a
Franklin county Democrat now in Central
Georgia, made to friend recently, the South
ern Democrats have game worth two of
that. These men are the canvassers who
and declare the votes. Our Maine
Democrat was appointed one of these in
spectors, but believed in fair and impartial
count such as he had usually seen in Frank
lin county. By his persistence it was obtain
ed, though many delays and hindrances were
thrown in his way, and Republican got the
seat by thousand majority where it was the
purpose to count in Democrat.
The past history of the Democracy of
South Carolina is not such as to impress the
belief that district with five thousand ma
Jority, would allow ITSELF to be circum-
vented by ignorant negroes.
But the Ohio Congressman in his hot haste
to exonerate biz. Ku-Klux friends, says there
is no political significance in the troubles
there; but before he has closed his paragraph
pours out his soul in denouncing carpet-bag-
gers, negro domination and the outragino of
the public sentiment by forcing upon the
white people, negro rule and corruption as
the cause of all these troubles, and ends with
an apology for violence.
Happily the people of the country have an
excellent idea of the ruling white classes of
SouthCarolina in the past, and it is certain that
the present generation is 10 improvement
upon the imperious and idle aristocracy that
preceded it. they are just the same, except
that the abolition of slavery renders them
beggars so that they are compelled TO exc out
aprecaritious existance by freebootery, gam
bling, and in short anything that will exempt
them from honest toll. A more miserable
Whskey-drnking and staggering band of des-
peradoes never disgraced the name of Ameri
can citizenship
That there are exageerations in many of
these accounts is no doubt. They always
will appear in such instances. But above all
and over all towers the fact that there exists
in many parts of the South organized bands
whose purpose it is to annul the late proyis-
ions of the constitution by system of
terrorism
The fact cannot be controverted and If the
Democratic leaders volunteer to apnear &c
apoiogists for the parties committing these
outrages, it is their privilege, but no one
cOmpels them to do it.