The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-10-28
The South CAROLYN. Rebellion.


down. He has issued his proclamation
commanding all persons engaged in terror
iZing Republican voters in South Carolina
to disperse and retire peaceably to their re-
spective ab0des within three days from the
date Of the order-October II, 1876. He
sue an order to the General Of the Army d.
recting him to immediately order all avail.
able force in the Military Division of the
Atlantic to report to Gen. Ruger, command.
ing at Columbia, South Carolina, and to
instruct that officer to station his troops In
such localities that they may be most speed
lily and effectually used in case of resistance
OF course, the number Of troops in the
Military Division of the Atlantic is small.
II every soldier in that division should be
sent to South Carolina the force would not
be large enough to preserve order in all
parts Of the State. II, however, the riae
clubs do net respond promptly to the proc
expect further steps looking to restoration
OF order in South Carolina. The Secretary
Of War, speaking for the President, directs
Gen. Sherman to instruct Gen. Ruger to let
it be known that it is the fixed purpose Of
the Government to carry out the spirit Of
the proclamation, and to sustain it by the
military force Of the general Government,
supplemented, IL necessary, by the militia
Of the various States.
OF course such An order coming from Gen.
Grant does not mean child's play. He un.
derstands thoroughly the people he has to
deal with. Having entered upon the line
OF conduct which appears to him to be his
duty, and which in this case certainly is his
duty, he will enforce the law in South
Carolina II he has to send an army of volun-
teers to conquer the rebellion existing in
that State.
South Carolina fired the first gun in the
war Of 1861. 1t is not surprising therefore
that she should be the first State to openly
defy the general Government in 1876. Dis
guise 1t as we may, the country is to-day
upon the verge Of very serious trouble. The
people that were whipped fairly and square,
ly in the war OF the rebellion are not willing
to keep the promises they made when they
were paroled. They are not willing to obey
the lawful authorities. They defy the law
and its officers and openly declare their in.
States Of the South they have by armed re.
bellion overthrown the lawfully constituted
State Governments and they propose now by
armed rebellion to overthrow and subyert
the Government Of the United States.
The whole theory of this Government is
based upon the one idea that the majority
shall rule. The Democratic party is deter
mined that the majority shall not rule.
They are great sticklers for State rights,
which, they tell us, must be respected be.
cause individual liberty can not otherwise
be maintained. The truth is, they seek to
establish State Sovereignty, with a view Of
DESTROYING the individual liberty Of colored
citizens. They CRY GENERALIZATION" when
the general Government interferes in local
affairs, when that interference is for the
direct purpose of preserving individual lib
erty.
The people who saved this country from
secession and ruin will sustain the Admins
tration In its treatment of the Southern
question as 1t presents itself in South Caro-.
lima: II we can have no peace as long as
the leaders Of the rifle clubs are free to stir
up strife, let those leaders be treated to
such discipline as will quiet their nerves.
The Republican party can and will carry the
country in November, il fair election can
be secured. And the Republican party can
or, failing in that, it can and will reconquer
the territory SO foolishly surrendered to the
whipped COnfederates in 1865.
Inc men who are now making all the
trouble in South Carolina owe their lives
and all they possess to the clemency of the
Republican party. Every Confederate in
the south is in the same position. And
shown them by their captors, refuse to deal
fairly in the conducting Of public affairs,
the first thought Of . man who helped to
whip them once is that they deserve another
II the restless spirits Of The
South again force war upon the country,
they Will never again be permitted to enjoy
the privileges of citizenship. OF that they
may rest assured. And they may also un.
derstand, as well now as later, that the cleo
toral vote Of State carried by fraud and
violence will not be counted for any Presi.
Dental candidate. The most sanguine
among them would not have thought Of at.
tempting TO force count Of the electoral
votes OF South Carolina, or any other Con.
!ederate State, for George B. Mcclellan in
1854. Neither can they now hope to force
count of the electoral vote Of any Southern
state ruled by an armed minority of its citi.
zens. Nothing but q fair and free election
Will entitle any State to . voice in the selec.
LiAn Of thu