Middletown transcript., 1876-11-04
SOUTH cARoL1sA.s TRIBuLAT1ons.

The address to the people Of the
United States. stating nothing but the
actual facts of the difficulty in South
Carolina, is another corrobration Of the
charge that the use Of troops, in that
unhsppy commonwealth, is intended
merely to overawe the Democratic ne
groes, and drive them into voting for
Chamberlain and his minions. Com
ing as it does from the leading divines
and business men Of that State, it can
in no way be considered of partisan
character, for the men who have affixed
their signatures to that document are
men whose probity and sincerity are
above suspicion. That the black Ks in
the recent collisions were the aggressors,
and that they are evidently encouraged
and protected in their lawlessness by
the Republican authorities, are also
clearly proven, and show to what des-
perate extremities the corrupt State
government is driven, in order to per-
petuate their power and secure that
''tive years of good stealing" which
Senator Patterson so UNANIMOUSLY re-
marked was left in South Carolina yet.
In Governor Chamberlain's call for
troops. stress was laid upon the fact
that the Legislature could not be assem-
bled in time to make proper application
to the President, and also upon the
want Of money to pay the members.
But correspondent of the New York
Herald writing from Columbia says
that the Legislature is accustomed to
assemble without pay. and that in
1868 and 1873 it did assemble. at both
of which times the treasury was empty.
That the treasury is now empty is also
the fault Of Chamberlain, who, against
the protest of the State Treasurer, de-
posted 100000 in the Bank and
Trust Company, Of Charleston. This
company was insolvent at the time. the
deposit was made, of which fact Cham
bellaine must have been aware. as he
was one of the directors Of the bank
and one of its attorneys The bank
shortly after collapsed the State losing
the 5000, 900, had no money to pay,
and, consequently, Chamberlain had
the long wished for pretext to call on
Grant for troops. These facts cannot
be refuted, and although the truth has
slowly but surely come to light in re-
gard to the true inwardness of Cham
berlain's plans, it must be born in mind
that none of these tales have been writ
ten from Democratic standpoint ; but
are the actual observations of impas-
sionate observers. The following para
graph. clipped from the address Of the
representative ministers and business
men of Charleston, tells the whole story
in few words. and entirely refutes the
charge brought BY the Republican jour
mails that Hampton's partisans are the
only real aggressors: 81 /.
''It is not true that in the recent
race collisions the white people have
been the aggressors. Their forbearance
as in the Charleston riot, the unpro-
vokcd Cainboy massacre, and the still
more recent assassination Of . white
citizen at Edge6eld, has been wonder
full. The truth is that the leaders of
the colored people, fearing that the day
Of their power is drawing to close,
have excited their ignorant dupes, have
supplied them with arms, have aroused
their fears for the loss of their liberty,
and have thus encouraged them to COM
NIT deeds of violence"