The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21

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Yours truly, ~
BROADBRIM..
iThe True Story Of Southern Disorders.
a While Governor Chamberlain Of South
Carolina is plotting with the Washing
ton conspirators for the overthrow Of free
government, not in the South only, but
in the whole country, his adjutants are
busily engaged at home in stirring up
their negro adherents to murder and riot.
Our dispatches tell the story of the scan
dalous proceedings in the streets Of
Charleston during Wednesday night, and
of the outrages inflicted on the peacea-
bic laborers Of the Combahee rice
fields for a week past. We have already
printed full accounts Of the intimidation
practiced against Democratic negroes in
all parts of the South, but in no South
ern State has this prescription been 80
bitter and relentless as in South Carolina
end Louisiana. Taught by the example
of their white leaders that the laws are
as mockery and a sham, the lower and
desperate Glasses Of the colored people
hesitate at no crime to further their
abandoned ends. The record of every
week in "the Prostrate State" is a shock
ing series of arsons, outrages and muir
ders which pales the story of Ireland un-
der English rule by contrast. So COM
mon have they become, and so hopeless
are the white people of relief from those
to whom the administration of the laws
is committed, that these crimes are suf-
fered to 60 almost without protest. In
one instance only, of late, have the re-
spectacle citizens taken the law into their
own hands and inflicted punishment
that would seem altogether incommensu-
rate with the immediate ofense, but
which was intensified by the recollection
of innumerable atrocities in the past.
Ithas happened that very many colored
people of the better sort-those who
have accumulated little property and
have an equal stake with the whites in
securing good government have an
nounced their determination to vote the
Conservative ticket. THIS has subjected
them to persecution of the most malig-
nant nature. They are waylaid at night
and beaten; they are threatened with
death if they do not resume their a.legi-
ance to the Radical party; they are ex-
PEELED from churches by the brute force
Of majorities aud made outcasts among
their people. It has been found neces-
sary for the whites to guard the meetings
of these poor people from violence, and
to escort the members Of colored Demo
cratic clubs back to their homes. Last
Friday evening, in Charleston, one of
these meetings was assaulted by drunken
ruffians and broken up. This act was
repeated on Wednesday night, and there
followed satuonalia of disorder and
plunder such as could occur in no Amer
lean city uncursed by the rule of such
scoundrels as have plunged South Caro-.
lima into very abyss of misery, from
which her reputable people are now
manfully endeavoring to extricate her.
In Louisiana, the same dreary story re-
ours. Our dispatches have detailed the
| recent murderous attempts in the interior
parishes of the State, and there is con-
elusive evidence that the Ignorant me-
groes are acting only under the advice
aGd prompting of designing whites.
It is a desperate struggle in both un-
happy commonwealth. On the one hand
are arrayed the united body Of intelligent
citizens, representing the mercantile, ag-
ricultural and industrial interests of the
State and aided by the better classes of
the colored people; on the other, the
disreputable aliens whose only object is
and has been plunder, controlling and
supported by the ignorance and depravi-
| ty of the lower orders of negroes. On
the one hand we have Hampton who,
like Adams, of Massachusetts,, represents
an illustrious revolutionary name, and
with whom are virtually associated all
the worth and probity of the State, and
Nichols and his colleagues, who repre-
sent the same vital elements of society IN
| Louisiana, On the other we have the
infamous Packard and his associate,
Warmoth, the authors of every wrong
from which Louisiana has suffered; Pat
terson, carpet-bagger, who openly
bought seat in the United States Sen
ate. and who thinks South Carolin lis
good for feur years stealing yet" Moses,
whose record as Governor was simply o
series of shameless robberies, and Cham
berlain, the attorney for the plunderers,
who vainly intrigued for the support OF
the Democrats and, failing, has turned
upon them with characteristic virulence
These are the men who wrung his
revolutionary instructions out of the at.
torney General, and in whose behalf
these instructions are to be carried out
The people of the United States may see
their chances of future greatness in this
contest. Will they suffer the constitu;
ton to be violated for such purpose ano
by such men? Will they permit oul
free institutions to be made scott and
byword in such a cause? The helples:
citizens of the South look to us of the
North for succor. 1t can still be glver
by the omnipotent processes of the ballot
where the ballot yet stands for something
Will it be denied to them?- ?-NeU Yorl
World. .,.......-.
The REAsoN.--A young clergyman
modest almost to bashfulness, was once
asked by country apothecary, OF con
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