Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1872-10-30

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fsalsttiia
bothersitlay '.tlidt ..t,itzIatrfck should not
I'lfavc Il man 10 cross. tic, line stowards
Qsecola s. il.s:t,,l e sri.suipIed
and yulprsverqpuIplr, he ia a;ikelSsto slEange
bis nipd ifit sinukl,suit l,isfviews to do
.so,apd iflietouM servee,pufputethereby,
His lmotlierI Lpte IInrtIiii,f Is 81 Saifdidates
for County Clerk Of Mississippi County.
although lie, has always lived 81, Gritten-
den, aud il. might .baa.s,cards
ata sincite Eturthcr1iasurfGctioi s,etfaaIk To
have the militia ordered to the country.
As thestsaihei stliiestea aeame down tho
river nigh q tllsfpfc n d laslailq gs H,ilcJ mt
8 p. m, near Bugler's 's,landing, just abnve
Pecan Peint, ,r,ahd~t,irty miles bcldw
Osceola5 III Ia iSgro sl!lsY the oily person
in sight and she ropndslto. ,egfind more
than tWenhty five At,hcH rl5laek. who dc
mandcd .passases,hmiIst stl.e river The
captain Observation-Disclosures EiiotsMatcr
hose lqth on the party and, they scamperc,l
over the bluffino the woods, out of sight,
in in, very great hurry ,AtSimlsslla land
ing, in Bend 80, tic Celeste. wass h,Aled
nesii midnight OH Sunday by Il squad Of
white men; who dcnlaIiilS,t that the Boat
should return twenty-five. miles tffS Tie
river to Nodd1a Asbcfe fight w.,s going
On They were aiipallys dissufpirsl from
such IL course, and beca,ss convinced tli.,t +
the reported fightMas i fraud everything
being quiet about that locality the
Celeste came by
The Celeste has ON board Il co,lpIesofs
vicious, war-likc looking maskcts, iii Sip
top, order for shooting fol rs, whiei. were
picked up in the road near Coitonwood
Point, fifty miles below Osceola, where
they lad been cast away by some of, ,Eitz-
pRhick's blacks when. closely puTsiiesIsby
y Il flftA - sass5 ,
steamer gave his receipt to deliver ,,tl,c
weapons. safely to Colonel Davies, slho is
the present commander Of the cifzeasa,t
tsccola, under. orders sof; the acting. Sher-
'iff ofthc county. ..sV
AS an illustration of the Why things
are managed over ii esrittcnlern aud Mis-
sissiPpi counties, and the means used 10
engehdcr illsfceling between the. blacks
and whites, the. following incident, IS re-
lated: Some three weeks ago Lewis L,:ilE ,sswlo
is II candidate for Sheriff, iii Cfiltcnlen,
visited ono Of Tie plantations 'i near
ti5rtdley's Landing to make il speech.
The farm hands left theii Work, and Col
Icctcd to listen 10 his 3 harallisguc. Tie
argued that Il bliick man sshl6ul,lia, not
vote the same wayt nat wliite ian dowtiniears
did. Their interests were 'ainitaJgsunislic,
he said, and the landlords We're a1l .,tifsyS-
ing to'get control Of the government of
the State and county 50 as tS Sdii Sdiisfrra,iii- frai
chisc the blacks, stop them trani Voting,
and perhaps take their liberty from
them. For this reason he dSSsirfcsd ,fo
secure their influences, lbdir NvoiSs.. iSSifSt aid
then the office Of 'shcriG being. fi,eir
friends first, last and all the time. Tits
talk caused tic f;,rlir owner d, gcntcih,iafn
from North Alabama, Who only Hqrrhass-
cd Il plantation ovcrthrrc'wi;hint TIC East
few ycars) to make a Inins in opposition.
though it WAS thei irst political cllnrt OF
his life. The plantor told Ills workmcm
that Lewis was eithcr' All ignor;,nus who
did not know of what 'l,c. talked or lie
was bad man, who sihuiy misstatcd
the tacts.a He told tho negroes that the
American constitution, hpdi iscSfiiitiied
their freedom forever, as. it had asalses re,es
iranchiscd them, and the Stats Of vtAArkap,
sas coulano moro tanpcr with pr prGYelt
tfcm from exercising their rights of free
dom than they could move the world.
Lewis came Observation-Disclosures tanaake
him Sheriff and keep him fronkawork,
make himself rich n'sl sngendcr idhees,
trouble and tormenls. lfhe followed the
plough and worked the fields as those did
towiom he talked hhd'of Whom Iles ,asIed
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