The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-11-02
A Northern Marie Views.

FUIe. LILO writer IL "
Boston, bat }las for the p,a p,ast t.,S
years spent much of his u. me
Charleston, whore he has large b.,
ness interests =
COLUMBIA, S. G., Oct. 20, 1876.
Col. Il. G. XasheN, CAai,ua
Democratic E.cecutive Cousn,ittet
Colu"adio, $. e.,
DEAR SIR: / have tho honor t.
ackno Wedge the receipt of you
communication Of this date, askins
me as q Northern man, to state IN,
views of the present aspect of pub
lie affairs i'll South Carolina. You
unexpected request gives me a priv
lege, which I gladly embrace, to re
fute the slanders that arc being ut
tered against thepeoplc of this State
It SO happens that in the cours,
of business 1 have visited every
county in South Carolina, excep
Georgetown, during the present
year. and many of them within
month past. J. have more or less
acquaintance in all, and in many
social rs we'll as business friends.
am known. Of course, to all as New
England man, ready at all times and
| under oil circumstances to maintain
my proper position as one. I have
therefore, had exceptional opportu
nifty for Judging of the general spirit
of the people. L have yet to hear the
first word of dis. aspect or to receive
the first act Of discourtcsy offered
to me as a Northern man. On the
contrary, I have frequently been
honorcd with courtesies which ]
know were extended to show good
will to my people.
AS to questions immediately con.
nected with politics. I have person,
oily seen no intimidation of voters
by cithor party but the influence
OF the secret Union League" per
meatcs, if it does not comprehend,
the Whole colorcd race here, and
very few Of them, men Or women,
dare violate it's bchests. This is an
element strangely ignored by the
press, but L have seen evidences of
it's influence all through tho country.
Tho presence Of United States
troops would excite no unpleasant
feeling, as whites naturally soon
assimilnte with their own color, but
the blacks are instructed by their
leaders, that the sudden largo in
crease of governmental forces through
the country means, that the govern
nent orders and will insist on their
voting with it.
The disposition of the whites to
ward the colored people, as shown
by word and act, is unquestionahly
generous, kindly and often affection
ate, but the purpose Of political
tricl1sters to anta3onize the two
r,c' s. n order to consolidate the
coiored vote for their own benefit,
regardless of every other effect, hhs
at last SO undermined the friendly
confidence naturally existing between
employers and employed, that both
social and business interests are be-
coming Very seriously menaced.
While some Of my most valued
and honored friends ut tho North
still remain Republicans, not one of
them who has visited the South has
fulcd to denomcc and repudiate the
regime Of tho earpet-bag clementh here,
and L am convinced that the rcputa-
bic men of tho great Republican
patty of tho North would, as they
have here, scorn to endorse the
clique Of adventurers who control
this State in the name of "Union
Republicans" If tho present cru
SADIE against that clement here be
considered apart from the Presiden
tial campaign, it would be no longer
question of politics, but rather Nh
effort made by the responsible and
respectable citizens of the State
to rid themselves of a band of mer-
cena1y ADVENT r,rs, living by the
exercise of quackery with the colored
pcoll and fraud uroaItho property
holdcs 8, their employers. Tilden' s
crusade against the Tweed ring, and
Bristow's against the whisky ring,
were not political movements, and
for sinil; L reasons no moro should
this bo. They were movements in
tho interest of law, ortlor and respcc-
liability, and SO is this.
1t mnkes one blush to imagine
what the conclusions of a foreigner
would be, who made his first visit to
America here, and contemplated our
/ publican form Of government from
South Carolina standpoint! Would
to Heaven Webster or q Choate
could witness these things, that he
might send the truth ringing in
thunder tones throughout the
length of the land; or Lincoln,
that he might blazon it in words Of
fire across the Northern sky, till
every true Republican berouscd to the
patriotic impulse to put country
before party, patriotism before
prejudice
Truly yours,
G. II. GIIDDEN.
The mysterious Indian who killed