, 1876-10-22
Is TILDEN TO MAKE MURDER FREE AL
THE SOUTH!


ors Of the late War, in promoting T11DEN's
election have recently undertaken to coun-
sci and comfort the soldiers and sailors who
fought on the Rebel side, and who are also
now engaged in fighting for TnDEN. When
the President issued his proclamation direct
ing the disbandment and dispersion OF the
Rifle Clubs in South Carolina, Gems. CA,dER-
ON and ConsE were greatly grieved, and
forthwith they wrote joint note IN the
name of the ssSoldiers and Sailors Of the
Union" addressed to Gen. WADE HAMPTON,
assuring that distinguished Confederate
General that ssThe time has come when the
ex-Union soldiers can grasp hands with the
ex-soldiers Of the Southern Confederacy -;
and these two Chicago Generals further
wrote to HAMPTON these words:
The noble course OF your people in submitting
ouietly to the indignity thrust upon yon has
gained for You the admiration and respect OF all
true men Let us respectfully ask that you bear
your souls In patience and the hour Is at hand Tor
deiyerance from the evi1s with which the American
people have been SO long afflicted
All Of this, with due respect to the two
Generals, is very disgusting and very ridicu-
1ous.
When was the indignity thrust upon the
people of South Carolina to which these peo-
ple have submitted? An unlawful armed
force OF 10000 men, organized in military
style by companies, regiments, and brie AIDES,
and divided INTO infantry, artillery, and cav
airy, have taken possession Of the State, and,
bY vanton murder and assassination, by
armed demonstration Of strength, by DOM
iciliary visitation, by personal chastlsement'
and by every form of terrorism and intimida-
ton, have sought to prevent the unarmed
majority of the population from holding po-
litical meetings, from being candidates for
Office, and from voting for the Republican
candidates. This armed organization is
violation of the laws Of the State, and, at the
request of the Governor, who is powerless,
the President did, what he was constitution
ally required to do, interpose the authority
of the United States to preserve the peace
and protect the people from violence. This
is the " indignity" to which the people of
South Carolina have, in the opinion Of these
two Generals, been subjected.
It would be gratifying to the soldiers who
fought for the Union to know what is the
sdeliverance near at hand for which these
men in South Carolina are advised to bear
their souls in patience. Is TnDEss election
to be notice to the Rifle Clubs to go ahead
and rule the State by force, resorting to assas-
sination, and murder, and menace, and intim-
idation, and "deliverance from any danger
that the President of the United States will
execute his sworn duty to protect the people
Of any State from invasion or domestic vio-
leuce? Do these men wish to assure the e1-
soldiers Of the Confederacy that h1r: THDEN
will not interpose the national authority un-
der like circumstances, and that his election
will be a deiverancs to the Rifle Clubs all
over the South, and that he will never sub
iect the ex-Confederates to the indignity Of
suppressing systematized oppression and
barbarity, including every crime against hu-
1nanity, which is only equaled by that of the
Turks in Bulgaria? Is this what Gems CAM
ERoN and ConsR, speaking in the name of the
soldiers of the American Union, promise
these murderous Rifle Clubs will be the
official conduct Of TnDEN if elected?