New-York tribune., 1876-10-16
A SOUTHERN CAMP.
ANARCHY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

TIE vIoLyNCE OF THE BLACH9-DriNnnAToN !
ON BOTH sIDEs.
Prom O -ate and resident o South Carcitno fo tf '
Republican.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Oct. l0.-The firecatcrs. had
hoped, would be improved by adversely. But as
know too well from personal observation thcy have
borne within them mind not to be changed by place
or time Like the Bourbons, they have returned 10
leadership, having learned nothing and iots''Vu
nothlng They have entered into tins campaign |
with the most criminal intentions. Their cohuHc'
reminds me of the remark Of Moore that the minus
of some statesmen ike the pupil of the human eye
contract themselves the more the stronger l'glt
there is shed upon them" Well may the Repubh-
can platform express apprehension at the pros
meet of a united South ruling the councils of
the nation The advent in Congress Of Ben
Hill and Proctor Knott has driven the old Bourbon
element at the South into a species Of insanity The
palmy old aute-beum days, they fancy are about
TO return If we can't get out of the UniOn, they
say, "why them Wen stay in the Union and rule IT,
Won elect Tilden and carry Congress again-both
Houses. We shall then return to Washington ana
do as we used to do in the days of Calhoun and
Buchanan. Wen dominate, socially and politically"
Already they have entered wedge, as the last
session of Congress indicates; and now South Caro-
lima and Louisiana are making every eXerton 10 get
their fingers in the pie. In South Carolina, know,
the desire OF the leaders to do this is almost mono
nauiacal. The present House of Representatives.
say they, is well enough rs compared with 'e-
publican House. But though there is Demofratlc
majority in the body, and majority OF those Demo
Gratis are SOutherners, there is one thing lacking;
there are no leaders among them. They, have no
master minds TO mark ont policies, and devise bold
expedients Now it has always been the province Of
South Carolina to supply the Democracy with
leaders Ii has given them Calhoun Preston LowndeS,
McDufie and Hayne The COnfcderacy failed"
saws the fre-eater, because South Carolina was not
allowed to direct its cOunciis-because Davis ana
not Rhett was made President, The same Is the case
now: the Democracy need cOunseors and leaders,
and OF such we have an abundance to give them"
Accordingly, the leaders of the Soutb Carolina
Democracy are crazed with the desire TO 90 to
Washington Every tale Of official corruption, every
social scandal "a hailed with eSultant cries Of " You
can't expect anything better of Yankees" The one
desire of their souls, next to putting down the
negro. is to go to Washington and turn things,
politically and socially upside down.
l ought to mention that their detestation OF Presl-
dent Grant "a absolutely without bounds For Mr..
Fish they have some respect, as he is of the old
Knickerbockcr stock. The same circumstance ac-
counts largely for their enthusiasm for Gov 1lldyn
They cry up Charles Francis Adams, too, Tor his
wealth and ancestral distinction. For President
they would have preferred Sir. BayaTd, rs being. #
sides having Southern prepossessons; bat they
Judged Gov Iilden to be the most available candi-
d8te-the best tub to ding 10 the Northern whale.
But thouQh Gov. Tilden OF Nh Bayard VIII do ior
the present, things will never lie straight, they
think till Southcrncrs dominate both ut the Capitol
and in the White House; for they dcv0utiy believe
that the bloolcd aristocr2cy of Che old Southern
plantations is superior to anything outside OF the
landed gentry OF England. These things, indeed,
are not expressed The stump OF IN the papers.
One hears them only in social Intercourse AID ao
Northerner could hear them therc. The Democrats
have method in their madness. Their editors a"a
orators are allowed TO say nothing calculated to cost
Mr. Iildon votes in the North. 1--WE must hc
patient, We must wait, we mast ba Wnlmt' -
tho papers and the speakers. They are airit tftt
there Will b, an explosion taa, tuey viii not hc
aoie TO hold back tie Gger long enough They
loadly assure the negroes tha there is no desg' 10
keep them ont # Office and then cooily aSk ,hcn 90
vote the Dsnocrtjc ticket. Wen may Gov. Cham
bsflain sacea5toaiiy ex.laiu h4' their conversion
10 loyal sentiments i5 as sldaca taat of Paul ot
Talsus to Christianity.
VI TT ARMS.
Every rssa,, 1f the war is being deliberately un- /
deymined .u soa,h Carolina. ! am aware Of tda /
rcpugaaucs will. which the S. .d..s 'f troops - tile
South has come 10 DE looked opon by the people OF
the North. Tar power has been uuue"esssgiiy /
cNertod ON some OocasioDs-!houch If President /
Grant were !u S0cfh Carolina today, he would Uu-
doubtedy D., tempted TO repeat vi.h teufoid energy
his assertion thet the Ilaup-1 affair was q direct
proof of cnr Justification and necessity oi his whole
policy towa-t the reconstructed States Tbs CoI- F.
stitution undoubtedly gives tho National Govern /
ment authority 20 protect state against domestic /
violence. Now thIt domestic violence exists i'm /
South Carolina is feet as well ascoTiaiuel ". /
probable and o., absolutely certain "a the commits /