The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-07
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NInfo Military Intssfersncs.
Every days experience makes it moro
apparent that The purpose of tho Presi-
dent 10 to employ the army, not only in
controlling partisan conventions, after
the fashion in New Orleans, but in or
ganizing military plan to operate on
tue Presidential election. Hence, troops
nre now scattered over the South with
strategic design, at the very time that
cries como from the frontiers and plains.
claiming protection against savage in
cnrSions aud murderons assaults. Thou
sands OF soldiers arc lying idle in South
ern cities or the interior, and kept there
as standing menace to peaceful people,
while the Indian roams with impunity.
scattering desolation in his wild and flu.
rlOns path. '
Not many months have elapsed since
the President Illuminated u proclamation
against South Cnrolina, threatening mar.
tlu law, which was potoriously instigated
by his partisan ndherents, and was desti-
lnte OF all Justification. at best, there
was only local disorder, which tho Go
vernon was bound to suppress, and had
the power to crush. Instead Of exercis-
ing this authority, he called upon the
President informally, and between them
Il town riot was magniiicd into the pro-
portions OF q State insnrrection. The
whole scheme was sensational, and iu-
tended to produce the impression lhnt
tho Ku Klux Of Radical fabrication had
more than imaginary existence.
Ihe same game is to be reEeutG,l
Then It WAS Governor Scott who figured
and now it is Senator Scoit-1rcodes
dmJo. The Senator heads committee
which, after throwing drag-net far aud
wide, and catching swift witnesses OF all
culors and character, ut 50 a dnv. and
ten cents IL mile for travel, has utterly
failed to make anybody believe that
there is any Ku klux organization in or
out Of South Carolina Hence, he urges
the expcdient Of u new proclamation, in.
tended to have effect ON tho pending
elections, and to withdraw attention
from the frauds which have been recent
ly disclosed in Pennsylvania, and now
threaten the defeat OF the Rndical party.
The prctext alleged by Mr.. Scott is cast
i'll tho old mould, ind has not oven the
stamp of novelty TO recommend it. He
prctends to have Information that "out-
raSes" Luve been committed in the Coun-
ties Of York aud Spartanburg, which
Justify interference on the part of the
Federal authorities.
What sort OF 'outrnges" must they
be. the knowledge Of which is confined
to MIR. Scott, and derived from his par
tisan instruments III South Cnrollna?
The telegraph IL operating and the mails
| travel regularly, and yet not O word has
been heard OF these alleged crimes
More than this, there is a detachment OF
Unlted States troops on the spot, the
duty OF whose commander it is to report
such facts to the War Department.. Yet,
with all these opportunities aud constant
communication, it is now audnciously at
tempted to impose story on the public,
OF which nobody has heard, and upon a
himsy and fabricated charge like this, to
subject innocent people to the terrors
and penalties Of martial law!
That this scheme was deliberately con
cocted for partisan purpose, il not
doubted. Tie presence of Scott and
Cameron here, by preconccrted plan
with the President, is corroborativc
proof, if any were needed. Aud this is
bnt the beginning Of system which is
to be applied to every part Of the South
whenever II pretext for interference can
he invented. The aim is, by this tor.
turing process, and others equally crimi-
nnl, to provoke collision, aud then, by
declaring martial law and employing
force, 10 hold States in subiection which
nre known to be hostile to Grants re-
election. This is the meaning of the
new programme, which is to bu carried
out III soon as the excitement of the
Now Orleans affair shall have subsided.
The President hesitatcs on that account
only, but he ndheres to the policy of
armed intervention. just as lie "sticks'
to San Domingo. Washington Patriot.