The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-09

When rSht, now 1ettereu, Snall De IIec,
And.all bur men |coHlpare with thee,
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ATLANTA, GA.,5 Oct. %, 1876.
SOUTH CAR0IINA'S WRONGS.
What Ex-GoNsrnor Randolph of New
,s-oli i..c,Jersey has Learned.
COLUMBIA; S.. C., October 29.i.
Since leaving New Jersey, eight or ten
days ago, ! have largely occupied my
time with those districts of South Caro-
lima declared by the President of the
United States to be in an insurrectinary
condition.
Ihave also spent several days at this
place. My object has been to obtain the
facts, as far as possible, and to this end /
have obtained interviews with the lead
ing men Of both political parties:
Among these persons have seen and
conversed with public men from Charles
ton, Columbia, Aiken, Camden and
Edgefeld.$ These places are centres of
population alleged to be especially yio-
lent and 7insurrectionary. Of them, one
and al, can, say that no village popula-
tion of New Jersey is more quiet or peace
full; and, with single exception, arising
from causes non-political, none of these
districts have been disturbed. Their
civil officers, town and county, mostly
Republicans, assert that there has been
no time within Gov. Chamberlain's ad-
ministration that they could not execute
the laws without assistance from without.
Let me enforce this striking assertion.
South Caroline has thirty-two counties.
All of these have Republican Sheriffs
save six or seven. Immediately after the
issuance of the Governors proclamation,
steps were taken to procure testimony
from the civil officers of these counties as
to their insurrectionary conditions. l
have seen and read the sworn afidavits
and attested letters coming from more
than one-half of. the Sheri6s of the coun--
ties, Including the Sheriffs of Aiken and
Barnwell-the only counties named in
the proclamation as being insurrec-
tionssry: Everyone Of tliesessWorn state
mems in substance declares that within
these counties there has been no resist
ance to judicial process, no unlawful OBJ
structions, combinations, or assemblages
of persons contrary TO law.
The facts stated by these civil officers,
the, Governors own deputies in the sew
eral< counties, have been repeatedly
brought to his attention, but elicit no
response or change Of action.
I'm order to afford to the Governor no
.p,retext for mistaking the condition of
affairs in the State, the testimony of the
Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts
ofthe State was had, and submitted to
him.
The Judges ofthe Supreme Court are
three; the Circuit Judges are eight in
number of these eleven officers ten are
Republicans :, with the exception of one
Judge, who was absent, all these, nom
political officers testified that they are
acquainted with no cause that warranted
the issuance of the Governors proclama-
ton, or that of the President of the
United States.
In private. conversation with several of
the Judges they have assured me that
the civil power, prior to the proclama-
ton, had been full and ample in all the
counties, and they brandet1 the Govern
or's assertion to the contrary as libel
upon the motion of his own to
secure his PERSONAL reflection to the Gov
ernorship. and thence to the United
States Senate.
Several of these Judges have been,
until very recently, the warm personal
and political friends of Mr.. Chamberlain !;
they are all Hayes and Wheeler men to-
day; they justly say that since the in
PRODUCTION of Federal troops the civil arm
of the State has been paralyzed; that
men of both parties and races look to the
United States troops to perform police
duty. and that the action Of the Governor
has placed upon the President the whole
responsibility of preserving the peace Of
the State. My observation sustains this
opinion. Omitting all debate as to the
original need of troopsin South Carolina,
the leading men of both parties are anx-
ious for their retention and protecting
care. Seeking information from civil
officers of the Federal Government
Stationed in South Carolina, conversed
at great length with the Judge of the
United States District Court for this
State. He has been a Republican from
the beginning, is now, and was appointed
by the7 Republican President, and until
very recently has been warm friend and
adn1irer Of Chamberlain. He said ne
had been astonished with the Governors
proclamation, and although his duties
feds him to travel in and to know every
county in South Carolina, he had not
been made cognizant of any interruption
of.ci7iI process, and bad not seen any
violence, outrages or murders, nor heard
of any save in the two or three instances
conspicuously published to the country;
As to these, the Governor had published
some facts, and suppressed others vital to
= lust Judgment. AS an instance in
no;nt the Governor had omitted to say
hat the Ellenton affair had begun by
the negroes endeayoring to outrage de-
fenceless white woman, and by the re-
fnsal of a body of negroes to surrender
the culprits ITO the constable's posse
Jndpe Bryan is now apprehensive as to
the Safety of the white families scattered
about the sparsely settled portions OF the
State. He fears that the tendency OF the
Gorernor's proclamation, and of the
r,resence of Federal troops, will be, in
the hundreds of townships where the
troops will not be stationed, to give