National Republican., 1876-10-18
RESISTING rYRANrs.

The telegraph brings the tidings that
there was serious unpleasantness between
the races at Cainhoy, near Charleston, 3.
c., on Monday. Private kilograms from
that city convey the same.old complaint.
The Democrats repaired to the place of the
Republican mass meeting and resolved to
demand "balf the time. This modest
pretension was very justly declined by the
Republicans, when one OF the Ku-klux
drew his pistol and shot negro. This ex-
asperated the long-sufering Republicans,
and retiring to neighboring piece OF
woods they secured their arms and at once
opened fire on their assailants. The whites
were taken by surprise by this onslaught.
They were laboring under the delusion that
Republicans would not fight, and that Gone
white man can whip twenty niggers. "
When the bullets commenced to whistle
about their ears they incontinently fled, leav-
ing two dead and fourteen wounded upon
the field. All of this trouble grew out of
the unreasonable demand of the Democrats
to be heard at Republican meeting
to be allowed to vilify and abuse
Republican leaders, ready, as Of old, to
support their arguments by the bullet.
Their supple tool at Charleston-one Daw-
son, the Associated Press agent-at once
used the wires to transmit another negro
outrage" and thus attempt to further in
jure the unhappy South Carolina Republ-
cans. 1t is about time that the followers of
Hampton be taught that they may not ter
rorize and murder harmless negroes with
impunity. Their peculiar civiliz alton may
teach them to commit such enormitIes. and
when they attempt them as at Cainhoy, and
are severely punished, they have no one
to blame but themselves. Those Republi
cans at Cainhoy who resolved to defend
themselves against outrage should receive
the highest commendation from all who
love justice and hate wrong. For months
and years the white Democratic oppressor
has been driving the Southern negro
to the wall, and, forbearance having ceased
to be a virtue in the little community of
CainhoY, resistance was attempted, with
the above result, We do not know where
Hampton and his followers get their ethics
of morality from, but it appears to those at
a distance that in many essentials they may
greatly benefit themselves by aping the
characteristics of their former slaves. No
negro in South Carolina would dare at
tempt to interfere with Democratic meet
ing, and when Democrats attempt to dis
rupt Republican assemblies they should
be severely punished. Mr.. Hampton and
his followers never conferred the ballot
upon the South Carolina negroes, and if
the General Government neglects to teach
them thai they may not take that preroga-
tive away, it is well that they be taught
the fact, even though it be at the hands Of
the negroes themselves. The average
South Carolina Democrat is peculiar con-
glomeration of Bobadn and Munchausen.
Too poor to paint and too proud to white
wash, cunning in device as of old and thor
oughly unscrupulous, he presents most
pitiful spectacle. The present aim Of his
life appears to be a fixed resolve to again
make the negro "speed thsploW in furious
not his oion." To accomplish this end the
aid of the bullet has been invoked. As at
Cainhoy, may he ever be admonished of
the Scriptural declaration, that "He who
lives by the sword will die BY the sword"