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

nt peace the the republican Leaders
have as yet found no pretext fol
sending troops there. And TIN
change has boon satisfactory to th'
honest republicans, black rs we'll q,
white, Of those States.
4. Tho process wc hrve above
doscrib Il is now going on in South
Carolina and also in Louisiana. In
the first namol Sttte three parties
appeal for negro votes. Hampton
hoads the democratic ticket, and ii
! many of the counties where oolorc6
men predominato in numbers the
democrats have put negroes on theil
ticket. Chamberlain heads the Gre
gular" republican ticket, and on tho
ticket with him and among his sup
portcrs are the most nct1rious cor
| ruptionists of the State, with whom
when he failed to get the demo
cratic nomination, for which he was
intriguing SO late us July, he made
his bargain. Such men are Elliott,
Moses, Whipper--mcn whom last
year Chamberlain denounced, but
who this year arc his allies. 1t must
be remembered TINT the Judge
Moses who now opposes Chamber
lain is not the corluptionist of that
name. Whipper few days ago
made vehement Chamberlain
speech Mt Columbia. Elliott is on
the ticket with him. Lrst comes n
considerable number of very inllu-
entail republicans, who support
Hampton ond oppose Chamberlain.
Among these are most of the Judges
of the Supreme Court, many North
ern merchants and planters, all men
Of intelligence and property and
therefore of influence. These use
their utmost efforts to carry with
them q part of the colored vote for
Hampton.
|, s. This being tho situation. is it
unreasonable in the democrats to
hopc to carry South Carolina and to
defeat Chamberlain md the cor
ruptionists who are his supporters
and allies Ought they not, on the
contrary, to have the good wishes of
every honest Northern republic III I?
Cam they not hope to carry their
ticket without intimidation, when
they have the support of the most
intelligent and honest republicans I?
They have been SO sure of it that
their whole plan for tho canvass
avoids and necessarily excludes in
timidation. They seek to get the
negro vote by persuasion and by all
tho political arts which arc prac-
tised and tolerated wherever in the
North ignorant voters arc to be III
fiuenccd.
6. But into tho midst of t his can
vass the President chooses to inject
the army. In IL Northern communi-
ty tho army, even though it came at
the request of Governor, would
have no political effect. But in the
South, in South Carolina. it has a
prodigious and well known effect.
The negroes see that ut Chamber
lain's call the President sends troops
That cerlitics to them that Cham
b3rlain is General Grants man., )
aid turns the mass of then, against
all argument, to Chamberlain. That
is why troops were callod to South
Carolina, and that is why this fedc-
raj interference in favor of rcnubli-
can corruptionists is SO iniuuituous
and so miscellaneous. When last
year tho honest republicans of
mississippi broke away from Cover
nor Amcs he called at once for
troops. When troops wcrn refused
him tho negroes turnc against him.
They no longer believed Inn to
possess General Grants favor, md
did not sclrlplo to vote against
him or to stay Mt home. Ames
knew very we'll that if the troop,
had been sent him he could have
carried the State, not by their use,
but by the conviction, their presence
on his demand would inspire in the
blacks thnt Amcs was General
Grants man." This is the secret of
tho use of troops in South Carolina
just now.
Bat this misuse of power is made
by the Northern republican leadars
to support notoriously corrupt set
OF men in South Caroline and secure
their continued pvedominnncc. Tho
honest people, republicans as well
as democrats, of that State, arc uni
ted in an effort to secure roform and
honest government. The managers
of tho national republican purity uso
not merely their influence, but on
tremo and dangerous measures of
military interference, to prevent this
reform. and to rcinstato in power
the men who have plundcrel the
State. That is tho situation, and it
is that which Northern voters are
to consider. ~ y. Ueruid.
The United States Supreme Court
has rendered IN important decision
affecting several New York life in
surance Offices. The Court decides
TINT policies in which residents in
the South have an interest, but in
which payments have failed to be
made, such failure being caused by n
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