New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-02
THE KU-KLUX.
DEMOCRATIC VERSION OF THE SOUTH CAR
OLINA TESTIMONY.

OLINA TESTIMONY.
THE FORMER REPORTS SAID TO BE EXAGGER-
ATED-MOsT OF THE OUTRAGEs COMMITTED
by NEGRoEs-THE DISTURBANCES NOT OF
POLITICAL CHARACTERISTIC CARPET-BAG-
GERS ALONE TO BLAME.
WASHINGTON, Aug. THE Daily Patriot OF
tomorrow morning win contain the following article in
response a statement teegraphed hence on Saturday
The sub Committee consisting OF Messrs scott sie,
yensoh ana van iE st aprona returned to this city
on Saturday afternoon, and Immediately aier siatt
ment was published upon the authority Of the Radica.
members though without tueir signatures, which was
subsequently teegraphed over me country ~ Tue
ciated Press. We authorized by Judge van trump
20 pronounce that publication untrue In many essential
particulars and peryersion o. facts in others ev9en1y
ooiored for the purpose Of producing partisan aud false
Impression The testimony shows that there are
four counties; viz Laurens, Chester o h0rE,
have been committed on both sides. The whites and
are %r r S bv yyS the negro Is oby put
over tho white man has produced bad ana even it
aggrieyed by oppression which is intended TO make
them the Interiors of the recent slaves stepped IN r.
norance and vice, everything has been done to aggravae
The aborng whites and to outrage the social condition
On the very evening Of the last election Gov Scott
organized IA negro regiments, and armed them with
T1 winchester e5 ana lUCO Tonas S dGed s
parts Of the state and especially where tner presence
ing rendered offensive by the fact that the
whites who had become alarmed were refused the same
privilege TO protect Themselves company which had
been In existence long before this time were disarmed
and disbanded by the Governor. 1t is In proof
before this Committee that negroes disguised
as the Ku-Klux committed many outrages.
The testimony given by the negroes was OF the lowest
traeted by the lee of 81 per diem and many
were evidently drilled for the occasion At sParans
ONCE while waiting to be called as witnesses, and
doubtless learned the lesson Which was ora after y;
tho various negroes who pretended 70 have been
m b %hS w ean be
count OF terror was h9dG an once 'here a, Inc h en
In the radical statement it is broadly alleged that
dered by armed band but the facts connected with
this transaction all Intentionally suppressed for
company of some as armed negroes appeared in that
neghborhood aud openly announced their intention 10
a drayman. named Stevens, with one arm, who was
aSpS a road With be Of Whisky in ms
cart stopped by this band Of ruians ana the
e %t,sAy b Ssa saye them rO" flask Of his cR
and started again Alter going short distance the ne
man who joined Stevens the road fed for his life
and he himself, seeing the armed negroes N pursuit
cabin He was followed by the wretches, and against
the efforts Of the negro woman whose humble shelter he
had sought, and his own, lie taken out After draw
rs rid his ' body with Balls The perpetrators OF this
but Before being secured they killed Deputy Sheriff
Smith Vino served the s sap M S, came
habeas corpus from the Radical Judge Thomas at Coum
ba, but not attested IN proper FORM The Sheriff
called into council the leading lawyers, In order
termne what course he should pursue in regard
to this informal ana Irregular regaiSltion
in an envelope OF Adams Express Company Meantime
the spread, and vigilance committee Lolsed INTO
the worst criminals by hundred ana believing 1t
to be trick to carry OIL the mnrdsSrSrs de
They took the prisoners ont Of Jail by force, and
executed them summariiy One OF the number was re-
leased by The declaration OF white man that he was be-
ieyed be innocent Of the atroeols crime OF when tue
Others weie guilty. While this act OF vengeance depre
Gated the extraordinary provoeatl0n ana tne alarm
created by armed blacks, well as ther 'loiehce' must
The other statements might be exposed with equal
effect but this illustration is sufficient ior ,ne present
purpose. One Of the principal WITNESSES, naheu oCen'
on crosse examination, admitted Dinsei tnleI. Con-
gresham Wallace who was elected ndss ny ,e iiouse
trict With 5000 Democratic majority, followed the Com
mittee everywhere, and was one OF he acSe ahagers
in getting up testimony; Inc ansr III when ns hguieu
at spartansburg. which was telegraphed all
the the 9Ssn magnify and exaessac the most
insignificant incidents for political effect He was seated
next Mr. Stevenson OF te ho az ne hoS
feud with Wallace, entered IN state OF lntoxieatl0n
Discovering his old enemy he seized pitcher OIL MIX
and threw it at him, wieTcuboh Mailace drew re-
yoyer aud would have hred but Tor the inter
yenon Of those and geT when soerSd sour s
TO make every atonement as the citizens did VINO We're
injured by his reckless conduct. Inere Is no p9llca
feeling OF any kind in the unfortunate disturbances
which have occurred In these Few counties or south Car
lima They result from INSTRUMENTATION, corruption,
robbery, carpeba gisn anu especially among the poor
iaboring white from wicked purpose ON the part OF
the authorities and Legislature TO assert black suprom
acy and DEGRADE them with negro rule. That is with
them perhaps the real and most serious difficulty Ii is
the question OF which, as South Carolina Is now
administered and sustained by Federal power threat
ems The grayest consequences. The white mechan-
les and laborers, when they find the worst criminals
engine of persecution, and political power abused, in
order TO Cypress him with negro domination and TO out
rage his wife and children, Will resist be the sacrifice
what il may He he uneducated and plain, but he