The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-09-19
How Ii Works.

How II Works.
The Republican managers, GRANT, CAM
ERoS, CHANDLER, and their associates,
ought to be very much delighted with tho
Immediate effects upon the negro mind of
their talk of violence in the coming cleo
tious. The order of CAMERON. and the cir
cular OF TAFT. have been interpreted nv
the partisan Republican blacks precisely
~ their authors intended them to be. ln-
rited by the Administration, speaking
thi ough the two great departments of law
md justice. they have drawn the bludgeon
IN the cause of HAYES, which they prop
erly understand to be identical with the
cause OF GRANT and the carpet-baggcrs.
They are ignorant aud excitablc. and they
argue, doubtless, that if men Of their color
are not to he permitted to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, except ON pam of
death, the sooner such men are made to
understand il the better. Their leaders
know that the second Tuesday of Novem-
Der is Il long way of, that the bulk OF the
army Is not on distant frontier, where il
ought TO he; that IL can be placed ut any
point in the South IN few days; and that
The only object of ordering SHERMAN, AT
This time. to "hold the troops IN readi-
ness. must have been to iulimidate the
whites, and encourage the blacks TO vio-
lence against those OF their race who were
disposed to cross the color line. aud vote
for honest government.
Until recently the blacks had been COM
paratiyely quiet and harmless. The out
rage mill had no grist. After WILLIAMS
and HESTER stepped out. after GRANT
announced that the country was sick and
tired of furnishing troops to Keep the
carpet-bassers in power, and after the
House had unearthed the systematic
peculatlons upon the secret service fund
by the agents Of WILLIAMS aud WHITLEY
IN the south, there seemed to be no fur
Their trouble. Que STATE after another
disposed peacefully and calmly OK their
rotten carpci-hag governments, and
AMEs wished in VAIN for dead Niger"
10 assist the Republican party. The
Democrats declined t Kill any. ON the
contrary they. encouraged them IN every
good work, and especially in voting the
Democratic ticket. Ii was only the other
day that Alabama aud Arkansas went
Democratic by immensely increased ma
jort's and tins increase in both i'll
stances measured an enormous change
Of the colCrcd vote. Mr.. CHANDLER un-
houbtedly had reason 10 he alarmed. At
this rate even South Carolina would be
rt>oued from her Thieves aud redeemed
IRON her degradation. There was no IN
SUR ecton in the South and no coustitu-
tional or legal call for troops from any
State.
But 1t was deliberately resolved by the
HAYES campaign committees and the
HRANT 4 ADMINISTRATION thai -mocratic re-
form negroes should he warned aganstvot
Ing for reform candidates. Hence the TAFT
circular aud the CAMERON order months IN
advance of the eloc ion. The troops are
10 be "held in readiness" The marshals
Appointed by GRANT. aud their deputies.
n many as wanted. are TO assume nbso-
iute control, not only of the polls, but OF
everything relating to the elections. What
Inference do the black followers Of GRANT
aud HAYES draw from thee measures:
What do they naturally suppose their
leaders desire aud expect them to dof
They have answered At thar.c>tun. Many
Of the better disposed coloIed men Of
Charleston lave organized TLLDES and
HsNDRICKs Reform clubs, aud II permitted
10 do so, intend 10 vote TO terminate the
Eway Of the scoundrels who now rule that
unhappy state Notwithstanding loud
threats by the Republican negroes. one Of
these clubs held a meeting on the evening
nf the 9th inst, which was addressed by
tolorcd speakers; and the scenes Of riot
That followed ITS adjournment have al
ready been fully and wildly described in
The columns Of The SCN.
The GRANT ana HAYES blacks make no
fecrct OF their determination to allow no
man Of their own race 20 talk or vote for
the Democratic ticket, and openly menace
the friends oil order who attempt to pro-
tcct colOred lcfOiinels against the VEN
H,ance of their own race. How do the
people Of the North like this picuucY 1t
Is largely if nov wholly, the work of
GRANT, CAMERON, aud CHANDLER, and is
their chosen method x oiecting HAYES.