The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-04

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Union Jail, buksbs,ore. bong d lsassours,5I,7 !
they killsd the GsEgsssss So St,hn IL Smith.
HwhN sexfeda the pT0GHaS Sud ;h
itlegSo &AmeHfrom ColHmBfa vita WHIST
tputBortS1 tS be s:Nrik:: on abedss corpus,
f4rom the Rd9ioaE ind dge; RoHpKs :at Cg-,
Ein4Ria. bnshtteated in Sesy form.
fhe' Sheriff call led id tpl SpnhSas Head
ingslawyera= in 6rde W. fAtskMfhs wdat
course sss he should nhhsaa ihTssaia q athis
bore no evidence OF genuineness, and
came in an envelope of ,the. Adams Ell :
press Company. Moantirae, the news
spread, and q Vigilance com r1itteeroused'
into indignation. knowing how Governor
Scott had pardoned the worst criminals
by hundrads, and believing it TO he u
trick to oarry,oH the. ,muIderers, deter
mined TO administer stern 'jnstioa them,
this oatiawry. ifhcy took the prison crs
out Of; jail BY force aud executed them
summarIiy. One OF the number was re-
leased by ths declaration of white man
that he was believed to be innocent Of
the atrocious crimo Of which the others
were guilty. While this not of ven
geance is deprecated, the extraordinary
provocAtion and tho alarm created by
the armed blacks, as we'll as their VIC
lence, must be considered in connection
with it. The other statements might bc
exposed with equal effect. but this illue.
tration is sufficient for the present pnr-
pose. One of the principal witnesses,
named Owen, on CROSS examination, nd
mitted himself to be u thief
Congressman Wallace, who was elected
first by tho Honae Of Representatives,
and then by stuffed ballots, in District
with 5000 Democratic majority, fol-
lowed. the committee everywhere, and
was one of the active managers in get
ting up Testimony. The affair in which
he figured at Yorkville, ,and which was
| telegraphed all over the country as q
gross outrage, exhibits the purpose to
magnify and exaggerate for political
effect. He was seated next to Mr.. Ste
vonson, OF the committee, ut the hotel
table. when o man named Berry, who
formerly had fend with Wallace, enter
ed In q state OF intoxicatiop. Discover
ing his old enemy, he seized pitcher OF
milk .ands ShreW it. at him, whereupOn
Wfliaog drew q revolver and would have
| fred, but for the intervention of THOSE
| present. This was the extent Of that
outrage, and Berry, when sobored.
sought to make every atonement, as the
citizens did who were injured by his
reckless conduct.
I There is mo political feeling of any
kind in the unfortunate disturbances
which have occurred in these few Coun-
ties OF South Carolina. They resul.
from mal-administration, corruption,
robbery, carpet -bagging. and especially
among the poor laboring white men,
from q wicked purpose on the. part of the
authorities and the Legislature to assert
black supremacy and degrade them with
negro rule. That is with them, perhaps,
the real and most serious difficulty. Il
Is q question Of race, and which, as the
/ government Of Sonth Carolina is now
administered, and as sustained by Fede-
raj power, threatens the gravest conse-
Quencea. The white mechanic and To-
borer. when he finds the worst criminal
protected and pardoned, the law an en-
gine Of, persecution, political power
abused in order to oppress him with
negro domination and to outrage his
wife and children. will resist. bs the sac
rifice what it may. He may be unedu-
Gated aud plain, but he is still American
and proud of his race.
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