The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-13

The CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN SOUTH
CAROLINA New York Tribune
publishes . ,special despatch from Co.
lumbia, and thus comments: SA n
The HSouth Carolina Republican
/ CQnventionYpresents rather an enoou.
ragn ng spectacle for the reformefs who
propose to do the reforming inside the
party. Gov. SCOTT having proved q
great rascal, was reformed out Of Office
by Gov. Moses. whose administration
has been suoh that Scott's was imma-
cnInte in the comparison, and the lat.
ter even had the impudenoe to propose
to reform Moses out aud himself in.
And now they are trying TO reform
Moses out and put in his place man
named Chamberlain, who it is suid
cannot be hulf So bad as Moses if he
tries. The present reform convention
has been sitting at Coium oiu for two
days, ''dwelling" on the nomination
like on aactioneer on low bid. wit.
ing to sell votes to the candidate who
will pay the highest price. And the
"vindication" business reaches it's eli :
max in Moses sitting there in the Con.
vention, asking a denomination to vim.
dicate his administration. Meanwhile,
q convention of tax payera is assem-.
bling at the same place for the purpose
OF nominating State ticket, aud tue
delegates agree that they will make no
nomination if only the Republicans
will nominate an honest man for Go
vernon. This is the State which Senu-
tor Peterson says requires the inter
ference Of the army to keep the white
people and taxpayers in order.
COLUMBIA, s. g., September 9-Iu
conversation with the Representatives
Of the Tribune, to-day. Gov. Moses
deprecated the impression that has
gone abroad, that South Carolina is
involved with Tennessee and Louisi-
qua in political outrages. He id that
the State was peaceable in every part,
and that he has no doubt whatever of
his ability to preserve order by meaus
OF the machinery of the State Govern
mept. with the assistance, perhaps, of
the Federal troops already in the State.
There ls now and has been q regiment
at the capital and battery of artll-
lery ut Charleston, aud he knows of no
reason for the distribution OF this
force in small detnchments throughout
The State. All he could ask would bs
that the President should empower
the commandant ut Columbia to re-
spond to his reqnisition, constitution
ally made. He knows of no recent
acts of violence or intimidatioa on tho
part OF the whites against the blacks,
and apprehends none. unless some en-
tlreiy unforeseen event occurs. Where
there has been trouble, it has been
chargeable in considerable degree to
the imprudence Of designing white
Republicans, whose very incendiury
speeches, made without due regard to
their elect upon minds already prcju-
diced, had alarmed the De mocruts in
the rural districts, and sometimes led
to lndiscretion and even crime Oh the
part of ignorant colored people. He
cited the case of notorious white
man from the North, who went into
Barnwell County, where the best feel
ing had prevailed between the two
races, but whose incnutious or design
ing speeches had been followed by the
burning Of several cotton gins. Such
conduct received, he thought, tue CEN
snrc of tho majority in both parties.
Az to the rifle clubs organized bv
the whites. he had no reason to believe
thnt they had auy designs against the
rights Of the colored people. II he
had, he certainly would not have armed
some of them, as he had done, nor
given them any conntenance whatever.
When tho late rumors of disturbances
in Edgeheld were rife, the Rife Club
of Columbia had offered their services
to him. with view to preserving the
peace, and lie should have counted
upon their CO operation in case of ne
cessity. The Governor thinks, how
ever. thut now, as heretofore, the
presence of United States troops can
do no harm, il Indeed it is not neces.
sary, and he thinks neither white nor
colored people object; but he is en-
phatic in his expression Of the belief
that the force now here is ample for
every purpose, and be anticipates no
outrages Of political character.
MANUFACrURED OUTRAaEs A gen.
tleman who has daily examined the
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