Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-27
Outrageous Conduct Of Chester Radi-
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n The officials in Chester seem to be do
ing their best to work up the white peo-
pie into an outbreak against their author
ity. Some weeks. ago an account Of the
arrest and shameless treatment Of a white
lady was published. Upon the heels Of
that outrage comes the following, which
is taken from the Chester Reporter ::
I We regret to be compelled to chronicle
another most inexcusable outrage in this
county perpetrated under the pretence of
legal authority. Or rather, we regret that
we can do nothing more than chronicle it..
Employed on the farm of Mr.. John A.
Marion, a few miles east of this place, is a
respectable young white man, named Hen.
ry Ferrell, aged about twenty-five years.
He was summoned to work on the public
highway last summer; but forgot the
matter and neglected to appear when sum-
moned On last Monday Isom Grier, a
negro constable, went to the plantation of
Mr.. Marion, with q warrant for the arrest
of Mn Ferrell as q defaulter on warrant
issued by Ben Michael, negro trial JUS
tice. The constable found Mr.. Ferrell en-
ployed at the gin house Of Mr.. Marion,
and arrested him. Mr.. Ferrell desired to
1gosto the dwelling house to get his coat,
;ie being in his shirt sleeves, and for the
purpose of letting Mrs Marion, the only
other, white person on the plantation at
the time, know where he was going to.
This privilege was refused him by the ne
gro constable, and, upon his insisting upon
going to the house the said constable call
ed 10 his assistance some other negro men
who were at work about the gin house,
seized the young man, overpowered him,
and tied him hard and fast. ], He was
brought to town, thrown into jail, and on
Tuesday was carried before. Michael and
squeezed to the extent Of ten dollars and
ninety FIVE cents. He was only default
er for one days work on the roads. These
are the facts as furnished to US by MIR.
John A. Marion, than whom there is no
more respectable nor truthfulman in, Ches-
ter County. .,g- - ..sts
"4It is our deliberate conviction, apd
has been so for some time, that it is the
settled purpose Of certain Radical officials
to goal he.wliite people Of this section Of
country into taking the law Into their own
hands and resenting tho indignlties that
are continually being heaped upon them
under the pretended forms of law. We
iUelieve that, this purpose:had its inception
I'D. u rls al and the
it out IS instigated in high quarters with
the view of4advancing the political for:
tunes of the instigatdrs. Itis q matter Of
history that the organization OF the
X. K. X. was instigated and helped for-
ward by the Scott administration, and no
one, we suppose, would for a moment de-
ny that the Moses administration is no
whit thcinlerior Of its predecessor in all
species OF rascality and robbery. With
this conviction upon our minds all that
We can advise our white brethren 10 do is
to grin and bear for the present. We be-
lieve that there is a God above US who
loves justice and truth and hates false
hood and oppression, and that in His own
good time our present rulers, all of them,
negroes, carpet-baggers and scalawags.
will be seen calling upon the rocks and
the hills to hide them from the fury Of an
outraged and long suffering people"