American citizen., 1876-10-21
SOUf.i CAROLINA.
The Sys.ecs Of Arbitrary Arrests
lEaugurated.
Uni.ed States Troops al Work.
A Charge Of Threatening Republican
Voters "a ith Violence,
A State Judge Threatened with Ar
rest for Interference.
[ Correspondence New York Herald
COLCRaIA. Oct, II, 1876.

COLUMBIA, Oct, Il, 1875.
AS pretlirtct! in these dispatches,
the midnight arrests of citizens 10y
United States Deputy Mar>haiS,
supported by squads of United
Of Aiken last night. Special dis
patches to yeur correspondent rep
Resent tue commuDity there as be-
ing in state of the greatest f'T-
meut and excitement.
A MARCH IN THE NIGHT.
The Deputy Marshais and sol
diers who had left the town Of AK
eu the nil glIt previous for the pur-
pose of making arrests, came back
this morning with nineteen prison
ers from what is known there as he
Silvprton section. The arrests III
the immediate town began there
this evening. The arrests SO fai
numbering thirteen.
A DEMOCRATIC oHAIRMAN
Among those arrested is Il lawyer
named G. W. Graft, man of fif y
years, who is the Democratic Chair
man of the county, and w:O on the
Goth inst, telegra,hed the Stat..
Executive Committee IN response to
IN appeal urging fniet Submission
10 al arbitrary measures and an ap-
peal to the law afterw;trd -
"You Weed not fear. We shall
subm to the law. The Deputy
Marshal has promised to give me
The list so that the meu Can 'surren-
der without trolbie."
Those arrested ia Aiken are
chiefly members of the Rife Club
there. Immediately after the ar
rests, a conference was had with
United States District Attorney
Uorbin ard Cnited states Commits
sioner Boozer. The counsel for the
parties arrested decided to waive
preliminary examination and the
Commissioner agreed to take bail,
the bond for all being fixed at
2,0cO, the District Attorney re-
serving the right to except to any
b..i! in certain cases not specified.
OF ;hirty-two arrested, twenty
six have SO far given the required
bond, and six are now III the coun
y jiil guarded by Uai:el S-ates
soldiers.
THE CHARGES
against all the parties arrested Is
intimidation of voters, in threaten
ing them in violence it they voted
for the Republican Presidential
e.ecto ors aud candidates for Con
gress. There are over one hundred
more arrests to be m de in that sec
tion of the State. and the District
Attorney and U. s. Marshal will
there to consumma'e- their
work in Bdrlwell, Eigield aud
Aiken counties.
GOV CHAMBERLAIN'S WORK.
1t is well known here and conf
IDENTITY believed that all these ar
rests are being made at the instance
of GOV. Chamberlain, for the pur-
pose of intitnidating the whites and
colored Democrats, and in fhe effort
to cause resistance and blOodshrd
with the view to declare martial
law. The entire Julioiary of the
State have reported the charges G.
made i'm the Governors
and he is left without
a legal support, if the United States
District Attorney is excepted.
DISCRETION OF THE WHITES
In the present excited condition
of popular feeling the white people
are b..having with remarkable cool
ness and discretion. Ii it was not
that the arrests are made under the
of TIE United States sub
would not be tolerated and
would cease to be
virtue.
TESTIMONY OF A SHERIFF.
W. H. Jordan, the Saeriff OF
Aiken county, who is a Republican,
in reply to Gov. Clamberlain's
charging that that
county was in armed resistance to
the constituted auti o tiles of the
State, and to the statement of the
District Attorney that he is unable
to execute due process of law, says
That everything is quiet in that
that he has not now nor
has he ever had any resistance Of
fered to him in serving any judicial
process placed in his hands. He
further says:
81 can individually and alone ar
-est any man or set of men in this
upon the proper process of
my Court, as l did IN the HIM
)urg case, and need no help in nIa-
ling such arrests, not even posse,
much less the aid of Federal sol
licrs. l have been in many parts
If this county, and know of no
.rmed bards or assemblages of
men prepared to resist tie law. | |
iave learned from a reliable source
hat posse engaged in suppress
ng the EilentOn riot, untier con
table, dispersed VIII n the Federal
oldiers promised that they would
lisperse the negroes"
THE MAYORS TESTIMONY
The Intcndant or Ma, OF of Aiken
own, the county seat, ssys that.
Notwithstanding Gov. Chambelain's
he can assert there
las been no time when a civil pro-
ess could not be served by any or
inary official in that town.
ANGER OF THE GOVERNOR.
The Governor and the District
attorney are very much incensed at
he certificates of the Sheriff Of
Aiken and the State judiciary, all
t them SepublicauS, and they are