The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-08-03


instead of doing that he is rushing to
Washington to invoke once more the
demon of discord and sectionalism, to
drag their material of passion through
this Chamber, he will not be doing that
which will prevent disorders in that
State. I say. sir, if there is lawlessness,
it is because these so-called Republican
governments have been not only corrupt
and lawless themselves, but also because
they have encouraged it by giving it i'm
punity through their imbecility and cow
ardice, and often by actually melting it:
I say that wherever, as in the State OF
Arkansas to-day, the Governor has ruled
with a firm hand and enforced the law,
lawlessness has been crushed out and all
citizens, black aud white, are alike secure.
Governor Garland has in one year put
down the spirit of lawlessness in that
State, and it is now as peaceable a COM
munity as any in the country. l repeat,
it is not the fault of the people, whose
property, interests and business invest
ments and industrial arrangements de-
pend upon peace and order, and are
utterly ruined by such disorders, but of
governments either too inefficient to put
down crime or SO much interested in pro-
ducing that they furnish provocations to
it. Why, sir, the other day Governor
Kellogg, of Louisiana, appointed as tax
collector to a parish in that State-so l
read in the press-a man who was q cap
tain of a band of murderers and robbers.
If he had sent his police to hunt him
down and shoot him like a wolf, him and
his marauding band, he would have done
his duty. But instead of that he legal
ICES robbery and theft by making the
robber public officer and, when riots
and disturbances grow outof such actions
as these he comes here to Washington
and calls on this Government. to bring
about order. Sir, these occurrences are
ruinous to the South, they are unnatural
and morbifc elements, and disappear
wherever this kind of men is eliminated
from political and social control in the
South, and management of affairs falls
into the hands of her own people.
"OUR" REPRESENTATIVE WAVES THE
BLOODY SHIRT.
In striking contrast to the effort of a
gentleman and statesman, We give the
incoherent and infamatory remarks of
Solomon l.. Hoge, the mis- Representative
from the Third Congressional District of
South Carolina, whose opportunity for
waving the bloody shirt was not neglected.
Here is the report from the Congressional
Record:
Mr.. Hoge: Mr.. Chairman, in rising to
speak upon this question, / will say that
I had hoped the occasion would not have
arisen at this late period, when I, as q
member of Congress, should be called
upon to rise in my place and speak upon
the subject that now is occupying the at
tention of the House. I WIS in hopes
that the time had passed in South Caro-.
lima when these outrages, these deeds of
blood and murder could ever occur again.
I was in hopes that they were forever
passed. ~, -
T can remember, Mr.. Chairman, that in
1868, during the memorable election in
the Third Congressional District, which
1 had the honor to represent on this floor,
there were nearly three hundred of our
citizens murdered, so that this outrage
that has been perpetrated in Edge6eld is
nothing new in the history of South Car
olina. Over. three hundred of my con-
stituents at that time suffered loss of life
by adhering to and advocating the prin-
ciples of the Republican party. But
while this state of affairs has existed, I
do not want to make the statement to-day
in this House, nor do I believe it, that
even in South Carolina all the white men
who belong to the Democratic party are
in favor of the murderers. I do not be-
lieve that. On the contrary, I know
there are many men in our State that
belong to that party who are as much
opposed to these deeds Of blood and vio-
lence as I am. But l do state to-day,
and I stated from that knowledge that I
have gained from experience, after nearly
eleven years residence in South Carolina,
and having been intimately connected
with the politics of that State during that
time-I do state that there is an element
in the Democratic party either controlled
or partly controlled by the men who
headed the band of murderers at Ham
burg, q party headed by such men as
General NJ. G. Butler and General Gary,
and men of that class, who by their acts
and their words, by their counsel to the
people who do these deeds of blood, urged
them on to commit these great crimes.
While perhaps General Butler would be
too much of a gentleman or too honoras
able a man to shoot negro if he had
told him to run of, for the mere pleasure
of seeing him fall, yet by his advice these
dirty scoundrels and murderers who did
that shooting we're actuated and enccur-
aged to do these deeds of blood; it was
by Just such men as Butler and Gary, of
Edgefeld county. Those are the men
who advocated and recommended this
outrage upon the colored people; and it
was simply because they are members of
the Republican party, because they can
not control their suffrages and get them
to put them in Office by their votes. They
say to them, "You have to act with the
Democratic party in South Carolina, or
we will make you do it." The edict has
gone forth that black man in South Car
olina must either vote the Democratic
ticket in the future or follow in the foot
steps of those who fell at Hamburg. 1t
has placed my distinguished friend from
Mississippi-no, do not know that he
would allow me to call him that-it has
placed him in position to obtain seat
upon this floor, to be elected to the Senate.
He says that they have peace in Missis-
sippi and in Arkansas. So they have !;
but it is the peace of the grave; it is
lasting peace to the colored man and to
the white man who dares to advocate
those great principles of civil and relig-
ious liberty that have been advocated by
the leaders of our party-principles which
came down to us from our forefathers,
and which it is our duty to perpetuate
and hand down to our children as a sa-
cred heritage.
There is this prejudice existing in the
minds of the white people where slavery
has existed; it is one of the results of
thot ;net;tuti ion This opposition to the