New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-08


eve that they were made for the purpose Of Great
ing in Washington and throughout the North false
impression of the condition of affairs here. One Of
the accusations is that the Democratic press OF the
State advises violence. and The Montgomery Adrer-
ts the leading organ Of the party in this State. is
designated as of the papers that advises every
species of lawlessness." There have been two well
authenticated cases of assassination in Sumter
County since the first of August. The first was that
of Mr.. Billings and quote from the editorial COL
umns Of The Advertiser of its comments on that
murder. On the 18th Of August it said:
The killing was O cold booded murder and as no in
been engaged in it. we're observable the PROBABILITY is
that the deed was by some individual Tor
the purpose OF robbery.
On the 10th of August the Democratic party OF
Sumter County had been accused of the murder
and The Advertiser contained the following editorial
We hope our friends Sumter County will tvsit Mrs.
Billings and her that "no stone shall be left un-
to the s 81 ar
who thus mper II shall be dealt with sternly ana
white r Sas the to
cennses or blast our OF success IN
be attempted our party should make It special duty
TO discover the offender and bring him to condgn pun
ishment.
THE GOVERNOR URGED BY THE DEMOCRATS TO TAKE
ACTION
The second case of assassination in Sumter county
that of the coored mail agent Ivy. on the 18th
of August. The following editorial appeared in The
Advertiser Of September
News reaches ria Meridian. Miss, that on Saturday
last Tom Ivy. negro mail carrier on the Central Rail
where near the State line We desire to say, for
ALL that such conduct deserves it will receive tine
pated In It should be speedily dealt with by the outraged
laws ,Ss IT. % ,s Mn q ms
they not only give our people bad name a9f0ad thus
tai but they put the only weapon the Northern Rad
GALS hands with which they can hope to win =, 2
the Democratic and Conservative party Of
Alabama, therefore. we denounce ana repudiate
once into the lawless Republican camp where they be-
long We will not be responsible for any ofther radical
tors Of the State often and perssenty urged
upon all strict obedience to the laws that when
such deeds thew do 60 with positive knowledge that they
acting without the pale of the party and in open
peat: Let all such seek utilization with the awbreaking
riotOus Radical ruaDs Of the State in whose company
hope to find congenal spirits Our party puts its foot
down all such execrabe deeds 1t will have none OF
Let US take such prompt and decided steps that IT
shall also be the last Let Gov Lewis offer the highest
authorized by the law for the arrest and
ton of these murderers and let all good men lend
helping hand in dragging them to justice.
And again, on the next day, The Advertiser con.
tanned an article from which make the following
extracts; $50
no one Knows whether white men or negroes did It
dreadful deed We do not assume advance Of all tes
tmony that either race s guilty II the blacks dd IT,
II white men did it, they are RADICALS 10 IA; az,
ns paiy
resiousiy promoting. =. =. = We are willing to make
cation can justify ASSASSINATION. Besides, Il must be
remembered that at this particular time wmte hadcas
are almost every where putting foolish negroes FORWARD
tn offer
the hope Of getting them killed beaten so that the
Rnessh Se plays
hands either traitor to his party or an idiot Here
se ne sS Sest be Who the
their best and most lasting interests deserves all the
addition to, the lawful cOnde unaton Of his deeds.
STORIES OF VIOLENCE AND INSULT EXPLAINED.
Now. these articles which ! have quoted were
copied approvingly into almost every Democratic
paper in the State. No fewer than fifteen weekly
Democratic papers contained both of the arti
cles in regard to the Ivy assassination the same
week On the 18th of September The advertiser
called attention to the fact that the Governor had
far neglected to offer the proper reward for the APP
prehensiOn of Ivys assassns and called upon him TO
do it at once. At this time the Republican Con-
gressmen we're in Washington asking for troops to
be sent to the State, and the editor challenged the
United States Marshal to assert that he OF his depu
ties had encountered the slightest obstacle in the
discharge of their duties The Marshal went where
he pleased, arrested whom he pleased, without the
slightest apprehension of danger. The advertiser
also in the same article denied the charge, repeat
edly made. that the white militia had ever refused
to obey any lawful order and said that it was ready
at any time to assist the civil authority whenever
called upon.
The author of The Chronicle letter land l quote
from this because it is fair sample of scores of
Others have read in Northern journals and from
which honest people of the North have derived their
ideas of the State of Alabama society indirectly
asserts that the Democrats of this county threaten
10 carry the election here by fraud violence ntimida
ton or some other unlawful means, and says that
Republican meetings have about been suspended In
this county. (See extract given abOve). Why did he
not tell his readers that the Republican party in this
county is about equally divided into two factions
that are more bitterly hostile to each other than the
Democrats and Republicans, and that the reason
why it was impossible to hold Republic
can meetings was because those of each
faction were broken up by members of the other
Last Saturday evening the negroes of one of these
factions were holding meeting at Wilson's Station,
in this county, when the speaker was attacked by
band of negroes belonging to the other faction, the
platform pulled from under him, barrel put upon
his head and he was otherwise matreated that a
fight ensued, in which the leader of the attacking
party was shot dead. These are the only class of
troubles that have occurred in this county; and
assert on the authority of statements made to me
by Mayor Faber a Republican. that the stories
about insults to Republicans the streets of Mont
gomery "by splitting upon them, throwing them of
the sidewalks tripping them as they pass, knocking
of their hats" &c, are lies made up out Of whole
cloth.
THE STATE GROSSLY sLANDERED BY THE ADMINS
TRATIoN PRESS.
Why did not this same correspondent, when he
said that the hostility of the Democrats of this city
was so great that they refused to pay their taxes