Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-10-06

Mr.. Tilden and his friends rest their hope |
of his election on ga solid South, aided BY
the votes of two or three Northern States.
But how is a solid South to be secured for
Mr.. Tilden? Upon fair vote, five Southern
States are unquestionably Republican. south
Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama. louisiana,
Florida, have clear Republican maJorlties.
To make solid South it IS necessary 10
keep the Republicans away from the polls
in these States. And this is the game the
acknowledgements managers are now
PLAYING. Unable to succeed BY fair means,
they have set out to accomplish their puI-
pose by terrorism and assassination. That's
the way they carried Mississippi last year,
reducing the Republican vote in one county
from 4,044 to I. That's the way they car
ried Alabama few weeks ago. reducing the
Republican vote in the State from W ,OOO to
so 900, and in many counties to almost
nothing. Wade Hampton rides South Gar,
DINA with an armed cayalcade. Armed
companies are securing the State and ter
rorizing the blacks. The assassination OF
negroes is reported almost every day.
"Up to this time, SAYS letter published
by the New York Erening Post, dated the
DIST of September. "there is no Definite IN
formation of the death of a single white per-
son, although the sheriff OF Aiken reports
three killed, or rather says that three are
reported killed There has been no en-
counter at all, so far as we have been able to
learn, but rather wholesale murder OF col
ored men wherever they could be found. In
the cotton field, at work or travelling along
the highway, they were deliberately shot
down in cold blood, brutally mangled after
they were dead, and left TO lie In the not
sun with no one to remove or bury their
bodies. There has been no hostile gamer
ing of the blacks. unless you can call meet
ing of from six to ten of them hostile
gathering Nor have they fred upon any
one except perhaps in self-defence. | be-
lieve at least one hundred negroes have been
killed since SUNDAY morning last in the two
counties mentioned, and | do not believe a
single white man has Teen harmed.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, in Barnwell county, 5. C., gives the
following picture of affairs there
These rife clubs who are all stained with
blood and murder, are the old rebel soldiers
reorganized for the purpose of carrying the
election by intimidating the negroes and
keeping them from the polls. The whole
country to-day is in a state OF rebellion.
Poor colored men and their wives are insult
ed and abused by the rifle clubs, as they 60
and come from the slaughter Of negroes,
some of them shooting at them passing by
when they are at work, for the fun of see
ing them run. am farmer and if
should give my name my life would not be
worth feather.
Another correspondent says
1t looks exactly as if there were great
war IN the near future. Armed bands OF
Democrats, calling themselves ride clubs
are overrunning the country ready 10 turn
anything into a fight These bands are heay-
ily armed with rides, shotguns and reyolv-
era, and keep the country in perpetual
terror. This county, although having a
legitimate Republican majority Of at least
two thousand, 5 in fact now al the mercy
of the armed Democracy. 1t is the same
old rebel spirit ruling the country just as
before the war One hears from the whites
on every hand, 1--WE will carry the State II
we have to kill every - Radical