The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-10-26

now stationed at Cainhoy, and no
further trouble = &pprshendeu.
Chamberlain t>:agsaphed to Bowen,
who is sheriff of Charleston county.
to have all the guilty parties arrested! !!
Nothing is said about the powerless.
ness of the law to upprehend the
offenders, and no such action is
taken similar to that of the, Cover
nor upon tho Hamburg riot. White
men were treacherously IN | brutally
murdered, but that is Of little mo-
ment in the eyes of tho unscrupu-
lous demagogue md oily-tonyuod
hypocrito. who now disgnces the
highest office in tho gift of the peo-
pie of South Carolina. Indeed tho
Govel nor seems not a little inclined
to accept rs truthful and final tho
lying statement of Bowen that the
difficulty arose from al attack made
by the whites upon al old colorod
man.
Tbs affair is in every respect
worse than tho killing of the nc
groes ut Hamburg. In tho one
case there WIS u mob of lnwless
blacks whose conduct was offensive
and dangerous to all good citizens;
who wore banded together rs Il
military company without the
sanction Of any competent authority;
who wore insolent in their conduct
towards persons in no way offending
or molcsting them and who re-
fused either to disband or to cease
their unlawful doings. It was such
IL body Of lawbroakcrs that suffered
in the Hamburg riot. At Cainhoy
the two parties h I'll mot cor n law
full and peaceful purpose; it was
agreed that mono should have fire.
arms; there was no good ground
for tho whites to apprchcnd any
attack, and they went totally I'M
prepared; tho blacks violated theil
pledges by going with their muskcts
and concealing thom near by; ant
they seizod the first prctext for M
attack upon the whites. Their COLI
duct was infinitely worse than that
of the whites at Hamburg, md
showed degree of treachory and
bloodthilstincss which is nlmos,
without a parallel in tho history OF
our State The brutality of their
conduct was increased by tacir
savage boating of the wounded and
dying-the bcd,es Of som,
Of those injured and those slain
showing marks of most inhuman
treatment. Such aro the main
featurcs of the Cainhoy and the
Hamburg nff.irs. But mark the
difference in tho action of the Gov
@ nor in the two cascs In the one
he writes hoatol, partisan, sian,
derous letter to Washington, ana
afterwards makes tho aff.ir u toxt
for rounds of abuse of some of the
best men i'll the St;itc-acting in
such way as to convey to the
public mind IN utterly falso i'm
pression of the affair and causing at
the North volumes of abuse against
our people. This course suited his
purpose, and served to win him
friends among tho negroes and
White Radicals, and to bring ad-
dltlonal bnyonots into yno State.
The Cainhoy massacre IS treated az
comparatively SMALL matter. The
lying statement of Bowen is tacitly
accepted as Il truthful version of the
difficulty, and he is simply instruct
od to arrest tho oflendcrs-iust
what ho is already sworn to do! No
letter is written to CIR mt or Senator
Robertsor, no pitiful appeal is sent
t. Washingtcn-nay, worse than all.
no horror, no regret is expressed at
tho brutal and barbarous murder
Such is tho course of man claim
ing to bo the governor of South
Carolina Such is the course of the
man who lays claim to personal
honesty, political integrity! Is it
any wonder that such u man should
be, rs Chamberlain is to-day, IN
object of contempt to all tho best
people Of South Carolina, and that
those pooplo should DO unitod in
an effort to hurl from powor tho
self-scoking, cold-hoarted and men