The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-09-03
.u0erspll Jntelligtuter,
The Recent Disturbances in the South.

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The Chicago Tribune explains the howlings
Of partisan newspapers over recent disturban-
ces in the South:
The loya press has awakened to the impor-
tance of publishing Southern news of Northern
manufacture calculated to arouse the old ha-
treds on which the Republican party lives.
The fayorite style of item at this moment IS
something like this:
"Guns and ammunition are being shipped to
the South in large quantities. Iromlnent
Southern politicians say that the whites are
arming for the purpose of keeping negro voters
from the polls"
Ia few months the details will be more
sancpinary. We shall learn that the white
inhabitants of Hokeepokec County, Florida,
have massacred seventeen lovely colored babies
and one colored adult Then we shall be
thrilled with the news thai the editor of The
Louisville Courier-JournaL has been found pol.
soniue the lemonade prepared for pic nlc OF
dusky Americans. Before the campaign is
over, we shall doubtless hear that every white
Southcrer has sworn upon the Bible TO Kill
three blacks per diem, and reduce those VINO
remain alive after the election to hopeless
slavery It will be rare feast OF horrors
and il will force into completion the very sep
oration of the two races which these organs
pretend to deplore. They are now making the
most of the few disturbances at the South.
With wondrous impartiality they attribute
them all to the aggressions of the whites even
when the latter have nothing whatever to DO
with them There are now two specks OF war
in South Carolina. The whites in that State
are in a hopelessly small minority. lhey
would be idiots to provoke conflict. Ihey
have shown no signs of doing so. Yet, wnen
two negroes, Bowley and Jones, arm their fol-
lowers and skirmish up and down GEORGETOWN
streets. there is all instant howl OF "White
League" and IN instant call upon the General
Government to save these dear coored men,
these loved Republican voters, from the attacks
of q Gendsh euemy-said enemy being IN truth
the men and voters aforesaid. When the ne
groes of the whole region around Georgetown
come hocking thither, each faction breathing
out threats against the other and tae whites,
the latter arm themselves and stand ready to
defeud themselves, their homes, their children
and their wives from the brutal rage OF jgAo-
rant roughs Then there is still louder out
crv. Now, the fact is that uot one single case
of assault by 3 white man upon negro mas
been reported during the whole disturbance.
While the negroes have been firing at each
other from safe distances, and making the
streets of Georgetown hlooilcss battle fields,
the whites have kept perfectly still. Ihc Stale
Government has been called upon to Guell the
disgraceful row among its supporters, and has
proved unable to raise one company OF militia.
The Executive has reduced stealing to line
art, but is unable 10 grapple with any ether
branch of the science OF government. Thus,
because a disturbance has been caused by two
factions of negroes in 4 negro:ridden State, and
because a set Of negro officials have failed to
suppress it, the white men of the South are
denounced as mnrderous assassns and fomen-
ters of bloody strife. We do not regard them
as spotless angels. Neither do we, like the
loyal press, regard them as devils incarnate.