The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-12-01


Of the War.
Boston Traveller
We are permitted TO print the fol
lowing letter from a prominent law
yer ia CoIum ola, South Carolina, to
friend IN TINS city:
COLUMBIA, s. c., Nov 10, 1876.
have just answered your second
message. l can not begin To write
you the frauds practlced r the terror
Ism which has prevailed In this State
since Monday mOrniDg last. / know
IL Is customary tor defeated parties TO
cry out fraud snd corruption, but here
IL has been u reality. We have, on u
fair count, over thirty thousand ma
joriGy In this State. Still, they have
cut our majOrities down so that we are
not quite sure OF Chaimberlain's cleo
ton. They all, however, acknowledge
The State TO have gone for Hayes.
You may ask how can or have thew
cot down our majorities? Well, take
Edgefield county as fair sample of
the others. We have in that county
about sixteen hundred majority. The
rifle clubs which Chamberlain dis
banded by his proclamation had been
going around, since the Hamburg mas
sacre, night aud day, coaxing and
threatening In every way, and the
poor negroes could not stand up under
1t. They knew that these people NOT
only threaten, but carry their threats
into execution. They threatened 10
turn them out of their houses and
homes, and TO starYe them. You can
net be gin TO conceive the manner nor
the magnitude of their operations, /
cannot write it; my heart sickeas at
the thought of It. The night before
the election the Red Shirts rode all
night long In squads, in the various
counties, 70 the cabins OF the negroes.
and either got promises from them to
vote the Democratic ticket or stay az
home; and SO Edgeield, instead OF Civ
Ing US 1000 majority, Is claimed az
Democratic by $500, q Democratic
gain of 500 votes. Abbeville, Barn
well, Laurens aud York are all claim
ed the same way, and the msjoritIes In
other counties greatly reduced. They
have battery OF two Napoleon guns,
and they have had them oHt on the
hill near that new house of mine, (you
will remember where,) and firing all
the afternoon, threatening myself and
all other carpet baGgers, and giving
us ten days to get out of town In. I
have written you frequently that the
North placed too much reliance on the
stories told by these rebels against the
Radicals here, and that the North
would one day want US. That day has
come, and they want South Carolina.
Yes, they need rs. They will have us,
too, and at u fearful sacrifice. For
three weeks, every time our party
spoke in the upper counties OF the
State we were threatened with assas-
situation, and expected 1t every night.
And for what
wish / could have got the ear of
Northern people In localities that
went Democratic, and Ii there was
any reason In them, could have con-
ViQced them. II | could have made
three or four speeches In Connecticut,
] could, believe, have carried that
State. ! could not go-I was needed
here. staid, gave up the Centenni-
al, and all to carry the State. We are
more than rejoiced here at Ben But
ler's election. tell you, no matter
what they say of him, he Is a friend
OF the Republicans of the South, and
l wish Congress was filed with men
just like him. We will have to leave
here; IL Is only a question of time,
and that short time too.
All this trouble In South Carolina Is
the result of Gov. Chamberlain's mis-
taken teaching and conciliatory policy.
have said, and say Ii again, there is
no use of trying to tote with the devil,
for he will not tote fair, and will get
the best OF 1t any way, and these peo-
pie are filled with the devil surely.
The only reports we have from
Edgefield County, except through
Democratic sources, Is co the effect
that the Republican Commissioners of
OF Election and Republican man
AYERS OF election dare not meet to de-
clare the result. Lawrence Cain,
the Senator from that county
dare not send q man over to let us
known the terror existing there SO he
wrote q letter and got his wiEe's sister
to put 1t in her bosom and bring it ov-
or. That was Wednesday night, and
that Is all that has been heard from
there since election. The Democrats
first claimed $500, then found that
was not enough, ana claimed 1900
aph finding that not enough, claim
now $500.
60 out on the steet because won't
be kept In by them, but about every
ten steps 1 hear the cry e the Car
pet Baggers Radicals we
will run them out In less than ten
days." Mark my words, this country
has got to be governed by the South,
or it has got to be governed by the
North. We fought for the Union once
we can fight for It again.
inclose you slip from the Union
Herald, saying: ALREADY, before the
vote Is counted, prominent Republic
ans are receiving notices to leave the
state. Qne gentlemen found such q
In
1t was myself that found the notice
In my door-yard to quit.
This morning Hampton has issued
an address to the people, calling him
self Governor. They give up the
State to Hayes. The Electoral tick
ct ran away ahead In all the counties.
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