The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-27
The Observation-Disclosures

manding 1.-The persons composing the M
slawfQl combinations in South Carolina
ssto disperse and retire peaceably to their
respective abodes within twenty days." is
intended to be a very serious and 5oiemn
document. But those who know the truth
about South Carolina treat it as grim
Joke, when the President of the United
States -cajoled, as usual by Radical tuft-
hunters-proposes to accomplish the impos-
sible, and s'to dispersen, o set OF men who
can as easily be reached as the dwellers in
other worlds than ours. We do not pretend
to aeny that s'unlawful combinations" OF
citizens did, upon two occasions, break open
the iail in Union, and did shoot to death the
negroes who we're accused OF numbering Mr..
Martin. These "armed men," however, DO
their work speedily and secretly. 1t is not
known where. they come from, or where thay
go to. They never meet in public The
people, at large, are ignorant ss to who and
what they are For this reason, President
Grants ukase will be as effective as a bull
againsta comet.
There is q weightier reason behind. The
evils under which South Carolina groans,
and which make Ku-Kluxism possible, are
not charged directly to the account Of the
United States; nor is there, in this State,
any rebellious feeling against the. National
Government Upon this point we cannot
do better than quote Senator Sawyer who,
last week, in his place in the Senate, said:
s'Much had been said, here and elsewhere,
as to the inclination Of the Southern people to
enter into another rebellion But he would
tell senators there was not one word of truth
In It. In the face of their MANNED sons, their
desolated hearthstones, their ruined homes,
their devastated fields, no. such, foolish idea
could be entertained by them for moment.
He did not think that a'y Of the disturbances
In the South originated from hostility to. the
General Gouernnent, but that they, eoere in
spired By disa6sction to the local governments.
And sohy ? Because the men aoho soeTe, most
fitted by education and position to take part In
the affairs, Of STATE ,oers excluded from all par
ticipasioa. Through this cause, it could not
hA fiAaied hat man of an inierior moral and
Intellectual stamp had been elected into public
positions"
No one will accuse Mr.. Sawyer Of preju-
dice In favor Of this people. The acknowl-
ehgment that the disturbances in-the South
do not originate from hostility t9the Cen
aeral Government" is wrung by the hard
facts from Mr.. Sawyer's lips Equally sig
nifcantis the confession that the outbreaks
In the South, and especially In this State, are
inspired by "dsaffection to the local gov
s.ernments, which disafection is caused by
the exclusion ''of the men most fitted, by
education and position" from 'tall pard-
.,cipation in the affairs OF State.". Mr., Saw
yer never uttered more pregnant or more
truthful words. t ,e%-
Wesay, then, that the Presidents procla-
nation ia waste Of ink and paper, because
1t. cannot reach the so-called insurgents
whom it commands to retire to their homes.
Nor will the presence OF United States
troops though the ,ohole army be sent here-
give to South Carolina real and lasting
peace II United States Troops be stationed
in every 1illage and at every Cross Roads,
there will be no armed resistance to the
State laws or the State officials. And, even
without the presence Of the Federal Soldiery,
there have been but two cases OF active in
reference with the courts, or with the Radi-
cal rasGals who are doing. their best to give
the coup-de-grace to the people. At Ches.
ter the whites took up arms, as 1t was their
duty to do, to defend themselves from. the
attacks Of the marauding negro militia. The
alleged robbery at YorkEills is not proved
to have been the work Of the so-called Ku-
Kiux. Only IN Union has Judge Lynch held
bis court, and this was induced by, the belief
that the negroes who murdered Mr.. Stevens
would be- acquitted, orbe pardened, unless
the whites, or their allies, took the law into
their own hands
The vast majority Of the white citizens Of
South Carolina do not contemplate, or de-
sire, any armed hostility to the State gov
ernment. They therefore, do not fear the
presence Of United States troops. What is
proposed to be done, in the nature of resis-
tance, does not involve any violation of the
laws, and can be accomplished as thorough
ly IN the midst of the soldiery as at dis
:tance of hundred miles from their camps.
Nor do the people fear martha! law, if that
martial law is 10 relegate South Carolina to
the position which she held before The COM
pletion of Reconstruction. What we are
battling. against is the raie of an irrespon=
sible negro majority, who bar out the prop
erty holdez from all participation in the
affairs ortgoVernment; 'who ill the State
offices with ignorant and veaal men;
who grow rich by taxing, to the tune OF
81, 100000 in one year. the impoverished
white citizens Of the State, This is our
trouble. Aud we believe. that We express
the sentiments Of The majority OF the people
when We say that, we had rather thousand
times be governed by the unprincipled
Sickies or The. suHen; Gauby, than by the
blockheads aud knaves who, every session..
hold high carnival, in Columbia. 1t would
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