Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-28
HAMBURG.

Lei u utSIO DC liz
in any of the southern states, and the
loyal heart is tearfully agitated. Let a
negro kill half 4 dozen white men in the
same state. and under like circumstan-
ces, and not a republican paper will take
the least notice of it. What 4 howl was
made over the Hamburg affair! We re-
greet that such an affair did take place,
and we deny that the whites were any
more to blame than the negroes; still
the negroes lost more heavily than did
the whites. and all republicans will per-
sist in calling it a negro massacre.
About two weeks ago there was mas
sacre at Cainhoy, South Carolina, where
three or four whites were killed, and
sixteen whites wounded, and not a re-
publican negro was scratched, and the
republican papers have not yet heard a
word of it. The trouble occurred at a
Joint debate. and both parties had agreed
that no arms should be taken to the
meeting. After a republican orator
had spoken, and while a democrat was
replying, Il negro and a white man got
into a fight. when all the republican
negroes Immediately ran to the brush
close by, where they had muskets con-
cealed, and selling them, opened a
murderous fire on the unarmed and I'M
suspecting democrats, who only saved
their lives by running.
This is one of the most brutal out
RACES we have eve heard OF, n the
wonder is that any community could be
found to tolerate 1t. A large number of
colored men at that meeting were DEM
ocrats, and their testimony shows that
1t was a preconcerted plot on the part
of the republicans to murder democrats.
Gov. Chamberlain is the republican n
didate for reelection, and he scarcely
notices the affair. All honest white re-
publicans have been driven to vote with
the democrats, and the more intelligent
negroes are rapidly going over to their
real friends. The condition of affairs in
that radical ridden state is desperate in
deed, and the forbearance of the law
abiding people has been tested severely.
The democrats are on their good beha-
vior, as the following will show:
Ten out OF eleven judges on the bench IN Seutf
Carolina have now testified that there has been
no violence or lawlessness committed in theil
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kind of bands of democrats, and that IN nc
case has the judiciary been hlndered in its work
Nine of these judges are republicans, anc
''souDd republicans at that.
There is great danger of the demo
Gratis electing their governor. and the
republicans will defeat it if it can bt
done by fair means or foul, and the fol
lowing dispatch will show n plan o
operating:
CHARLESTON, Oct. 2O.-Att the close Of gran'
democratic meeting at Aiken To-day, durin
which there was not the faintest show oil tufDu
lence, the United States Marshals arrested elevea
influential citizens, including the chlei marsha
of the democratic procession. The colsred dem
ocrats. who had a barbecue ut night, asked tn
privilege, which was accorded, OF furn'shih
provisions to their mcarcerated fellow citizens
If such scenes are enacted in the sout
and go unrebuked, how long will it b
till they are perpetrated in the west
Not long, for we know the same pre-
gramme would be carried out here no"
ii the republicans had the power, an
expected to gain a point by doing so.
;, Governor Hardin left Tuesday attel
noon for Omaha, Nebraska, to be pre-:
!. ent at the meeting OF the governors c
= the western and northwestern state:
The object of the assemblage is a tu
: consideration OF the ~grasshopper plague