The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-09-29
MORE BAY0NETs IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.


The New York San, an anti-Grant
Republican paper contains the follow
ing scathing rebuke of our present
taking President:
That there are violations of law and
order in portions of the South no we'll
informed person can deny. That their
number and atroeity are sometimes
overstated for partisan purposes, is
doubtless eqally true. That General
Grant and his supporters intend to
take advantage of the existence of
these real and reported outrages to
put some ofthe Southern States prac-
tically under martial law, with special
reference to securing the appointment
of delegates TO the Republican Ma
tional Convention who will vote for
his denomination to the Presidency,
admits of no quuestion.
Something does not go right Just
now in South Carolina. In that
State, as also in louisiana, prominent
Resahlicans are hostile to Grants re-
nomination; and they are sowing dis
cord in the Republican field. The
most effective mode therefore of sup
pressing discomfort, staying up the
hands of the revenue collectors, post
masters, and other Federal officials,
is to set the Ku-klux law in full op-
Grafton down there. Fortunately for
Gen. Grant, who relies mainly upon
office holders and his troops in the re-
constructed States for a denomination,
there are At this present juncture just
outrages enough in two or three
countries of South Carolina, and par
ticularly in York and Spartanburg,
to afford sufficient pretext for put
ting the terrible machinery of the ku-
Klux law in motion, not alone there,
but in all parts of the Palmetto. State.
So, though the heaps of papers
awaiting the signature of the ,Presi-
dent at the White House, and the
general stagnation of business in the
Executive Department consequent
upon his absence, were not sufficient
to lure him from his gift-cottage by
the seaside, call for the Intervention of
the military in South Carolina to ex-
.ecute the State laws and prepare the
way for the election of friendly dele
gates to the National Convention,
Touses him from his lethergy at Long
Branch, and sends him post haste to
Washington Reaching there quite
Unexpectedly to his cabinet, so the ae-
counts tell us, he went running around
to find his official advisers, and finally
ordered Acknowledgement Akerman,
who was member of General Bod
Toombs' staff during the rebellion, to
draw up a proclamation threatening
-Akerman's old friends with trial at
the drum head if they don't stop
breaking the laws of South Carolina
What a sad and humiliating speeta-
Gle have we here. At the best, and
taking Grant on his own showing,
what proof does his proposed inter
vention afford of the utter incapacity
and worthlessness OF the carpet-bag
government fSotuh Carolina View
ing the case from Grants own stand
point, to what dilemma does he re-
duce us-either to let one of the stron-
gest Republican States in the Union
lapse into chaos, or maintain order
therein with the bayOnet under a law
of Congress whose main features are
clearly unconstitutional, and which
clothes the President with the powers
ola dictator. But when it is remem-
bered that the caseis to large extent
simulated one, and that this use of
unwarranted powers and this display
of9he bayonet are mainly to enable
the President to thwart the wishes OF
a minority of the Republican party
by obtaining nomination for another
term, not Independent Republicans
only, but all awabiding people should
consider what is necessary to preserve
the liberties of the country.