New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-24


3 The executive committee Of the Repub-
loan National Committee was in session on
Wednesday, but transacted only routine
business. Secretary Chandler was in a.
tendance, haviug returned from Washing
ton. The cyllers At headquarters were
numerous aud included Postmaster Ger
eral Tyner, the Hon. James g. Blaine, who
felt some little WEAKNESS. he said, after the
extraordinary handlhakipg. to which he
vas subjected 1t Newark; General n. p.
Banks, Ex-Governor Noyes. of Ohio, Charles
q. Fulton. editor of the Baltimore Amerj-
eQ,s, and L. Thomas Jr., oh sirmAn Of the
Maryland State COMMITTEE. Tho news Of
the Presidents decisive response. to Gov
srnQr CtAmberlaiD, in ordering troops to
South Carolina, gave universal satisfactiou,
and the opinion vas general that the de-
mand for government protection was rrgenv
and imperative.
Secretary Chandler, in conversation, said
President Grant could not have done Other.
wise without oisobeying the law of the
land. He had acted strictly in accordance
with the law and the constitution and under
the advice of tho Attorney General. The
members of the Cabinet we're unit In sup
port of the Presidents proclamation. Aside
from the evidence received through Gov
ernor Chamberlain, the government was
assured OF the necessity Of protection to
eminent was determined to sec that justice
was upheld and violence and lawlessness
put down. If the regular United States
troops did not suffice, State militia would
be employed. Secretary Chandler said he
Anticipated some adverse criticism from the
Democrats, but it would be simply absurd
TO charge that the troops bad been sent to
South Carolina 10 intinidate the white vote
at the ballOt-bOx.
Ell Governor Mccormick. secretary Of
the national committee, said he had heard
no Republican make an unfavOrable com
ment On President Granite South Carolina
proclamation. He himself was convinced
that the presence of troops in South Caro-
| lima would alone restrain violence and &C.
cure peaceable and fair election. Gov
/ ernor Chamberlain. who was veil spoken OF
! by men who know him personally, had
been eminently conservative in his political
| liAr, and on that account had not been very
| acceptable to the radical Ropubiioans Of
| his Safe. Mr.. Mccormick thought this
was one reason for trusting his Judgment in
| . matter of this kind. Private acoOunts
| showed there was nOthing like free speech
| in South Carolina. He thought that PIesi-
dent Grant, in matters pertaining to mar
! tial law and the Southern States, had been
even more careful OF doing justice and pre-.
venting unnecessary rigor than civilian
/
| is an extract from . letter sent to the na-
tional committee By . resident of South
| Caroline, who is known to the committee
20 worthy Of creGence. 1t was written les
| then . month ago:
! We are now in the midst of one Of the
| very worst campaigns known in the South
| since reconstruction. Our convention met
| in this city last week. Before third Of
| the delegates could depart for their homes
i ~fk ~As
telegraph of "riot" in Aiken and Barn vel
| counties, between blacks and whites. A
riot" here means an attack upon colored
Republicans by white Democrats, and thu
| Democratic newspapers here acknowledge
that not less than forty-!Our cOlOred men
were killed during the above mentioned
riot, and only three whites are thus far re
ported injured. Even laborers at work ir
the cotton fields were brutally shot down
| and mutilated. =. man whom
have known for eight years, and regard a.
Trustworthy. reported to me what came un
| der his observation on Tuesday, the nine
tenth instant. He went down the Por
| ROYAL railroad, as tar as EllentOn, twenty
miles from Aus Usta, Georgia, when the
| conductor refused to take the train any
| further on account Of reported fighting
a few miles below, at plscs called
| "R)bbins'" Before leaving ho saw 6
!
| the name Of Coker. who was delegate t
the recent Republican convention, deliber
ately shot down in cold blood not fifty
| yards from tho cars, where he was sitting
Cocker did not leave this city for his home
till Sunday morning. and could not have
reached Ellenton till that very night. Con
| sequen,ly he could not in any way have
been mixed up in the reported riots Of San
day. Coker was shot by ten men, and
while not suspecting the least danger. TIVE
men ehot into bi, body while he was lyirf
on the ground dead. This man says he alst
cav two others lying by tho side Of tn.
railroad dead, one with one side Of his head
shot entirely awsy. Both we're colored.
firmly believe that not less than 100 coloret
men lie dead to-day in the counties betor'
mentioned, and for no other reason thai
| that they were Republicans.
| Abram s. Hewitt said to q Tribune re
porter yesterday: ri consider it an I'm war
| ranted and cruel outrage, committed in ut
| ter disregard Of the constitutional and Stat
rights of the people of South Carolina. l
I knew of any stronger language l shoul'
/ "a ~, Til,