The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-04-19
rFran the New York Sun. April 1a.l
TRIALS AND TRIAULATIONs OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
a Part of the Plan to Force the State
70 Vote for the Present Re
eeiVer-MartiaI Law.

LAURENs, S c., April 5-After about
two months of peace the war has again
broken out in the up country of South
Carolina, and the Grant clmPign is being
prosecuted With renewed vigOr by the
army Of occupation. A fter the arrest and
conviction of about three hundred Ku-
Klux prisoners IN December last from
the county of York, the military subsid-
ed Into what was thought to be an ape
parent peace footing; the State Courts IN
this and the adjoining cou ties were in
operation, and several arrests aud con-
vietionS of Ku Kiux took place under
their Jurisdiction The people of Laur
ems and Newbrry counties, repOsing con
iidence in this state of affairs, resumed
their daily avocations, and peace and
quiet reigned undis urbed throughout
the land.
On Sunday morning last before day
dawn, however, u company of cavalry
rode into the town of Laurens, and hav-
ing previously picketed the roads leading
into the village, began an onslaught upon
the citizens Every house was entered,
the inmates aroused from their slumbers,
and the males hurried off to camp under
guard No house was exempt. The aged
were carried along the streets with their
white hairs iowing,and the young, beard =
less boys of Is were alike arrested amid
the shrieks and tears of the women.
White and colo red citizens, old and young,
well and inhrrn, were hurried of TO prIs-
! on by the gallant boys in blue.
The process Of Grtest was very simple.
No warrants, no legal process 4 squad
of cavalry merely pounded at the door of
the hotel wherein your correspondent
| was residing, and the male portion OF the
inmates were peremptorily ordered to
jump out Of their beds and come along,
this command being occasionally empha-
sized with an oath and occasionally with
a revolver demo 1stratiOn. The scene in
the streets was similar to that of the
sacking of a town in time of war. Crowds
Of weeping women and children ran af-
ter the soldiery who bore of their hus-
| bands and fathers, while in every direc-
| ton the men who could escape fled the
county. The result is that to-day the
J town, and indeed the entire county, is al
/ most depopulated the fields are aband>
oned alike by blacks and whites, and the
| crops which have just be7n put IN the
ground are left to take care of them
| selves
| a courier has just arrived here from
| Newbsrry county, and reports a similar
state of things there. Arrests are being
made in all the counties declared under
martial law by Grants proclamation, and
the white people who can escape are hy'
ing by the hundreds have never be-
fore witnessed such scene of confusion.
1t is reign of terror
Thirty PRISONERS were sent from here
| To daV to Charleston N here the United
! States Court is in session, and rs many
more will be sent to morrow. Advices
from Charleston say that the jails and
warehouses; are filed with these unfortu
mates, and one hatch of forty prisoners
was refused admission into the Columbia
| Jail in consequence of there being nc
room for them. BY way Of comment,
might add that there has never been re-
ported single Ku Kux raid or outrage
! Of any kind in Laurens county since the
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