The daily gazette., 1876-10-23
THIRD EDITION.
THE BAYONET.
South Carolina Become Literally
an Armed Camp.
REIGN OF TERROR IN THE LOW
COUNTRY.
Negro Raid on Mount Pleasant.

Negro Raid on Mount Pleasant.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Oct. %, 1876.
Governor Chamberlain assertion
that the State Is like an armed camp
has been verified. Troops have been
pouring In from North Carolina Vir.
glnia, New York, Maine and Massa-
chusetts for the past day or two. They
are mainly concentrated at this point,
and the city now assumes an aspect of
war, not at all unlike the occupation
by General Sherman in 1865. The
streets, the hotels, saloons and the
highways are allied with them. All
the officers of the garrison have been
requested to appear in public In full
uniform, and. while the whole matter
is farcial in the extreme.
A DlABorIcAL OUTRAGE.
At Summerville, twenty miles from
this city, on Saturday, an attempt was
made by negroes to outrage the little
daughter of the band master of the
First United States artillery, stationed
at that point. No arrests have been
made as yet.
The troops in camp at Cainhoy re-
port everything quiet. The negroes
haye not yet come to the village.
The Cainhoy massacre has emboldened
the negroes, and yesterday evening band
of about 400 of the militia, armed with
State guns, and rushed through the streets
firing their muskets and shouting HRem-
ember Cainhoy." There are about forty
white citizens in the town and about fifty
colored democrats.
These collected together, armed them
selves as best they could, moved all the
women and children into one house and
made preparations to defend them.
The republicans, finding that they
were determined to make stand, did not
carry out their intention.
They left there swamps about day light,
threatening to return soon and burn the
village, kill the men and outrage the
women. The statement is a literal rela-
| ton of what was witnessed by Herald
reporter, and is not in the least eXagger-
ated.
| Many of the neg. oes were thus impli-
Gated in the Cainhoy massacre. The at
tack upon the town was caused by the
report that colored democratic meeting
was to be held there. s
THE POLITICAL EFFECT
of it among the negroes is seen in the
swagger and bravado they now assume. 1t
has gone forth among them that the troops
have been sent here for their especial pro-
lection, to see that the State goes for
HAYES ana Wheeler and Chamberlain,
and the formidable display of the force
and power of the national government
consolidated the negro republicans and
inundated the class of them who have
gone over to Hampton.
AsToNIsHAiENT OF TIE TROOPS.
An assuring feature of the military oc-
cupation was related to me this evening.
The companies from New York were
packed off so suddenly that they believed
an actual war existed in the State, and
some expected the train to be fired into as
soon as they crossed the South Carolina
line. So confident were they of this that
ammunition was issued to the men and
they were held in readiness for a fight at
any moment. Their blank establishment
i can best be realized in this general eX-
preston among them, that the political
excitement in New York is much great
er than anything they have witnessed
since their arrival.
DEMOCRATIC NEGROES INUNDATED.
| If the election took place tomorrow
there is little doubt that Hampton would
be elected by heavy majority, but it is
impossible to conjecture the result on the
18th of November, OH account of the poll
teal effect of the military on the colored
democrats. The action of the President
in granting Governor Chamberlain's re-
quest for troops, without demanding an
application from the Legislature, as pre-
scribed ny the constitution, has caused
lconsideral comment in political circles
here. The Ellentown riot was the last
armed outbread in the State before the
Cainhoy massacre, which took place on
the same day the President issued his
proclamation. 1t occurred on the 18th
of September, and in a week everything
was quiet. Twelve days elapsed between
the issuance of Governor Chamberlain's
proclamation and that of the President,
with easy communication between all
parts of the State.
| ADAY OF PRAYER.
1t was announced in all the white
churches to-day that Thursday, the Goth,
would be observed as a day of fasting,
Humiliation and prayer for the success of
the movement for good government.
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