Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-10-19
Face the Facts.

The Democratic newspapers of the
North manifest singular want of agree
ment in their methods of treating the
South Carolina troubles. From one class
we learn that there are no Southern out
RACES at all, except such as are manufac-
tured in the North for campaign effect
Another class assures us that the lawless-
ness and terrorism which exist are due
solely to the eXcesSes of the ignorant
blacks, melted thereto by their Radical
leaders; and there are still other Demo-
cratic journals which boldly justify the
kind of campaign adopted by the Hamp-
ton men on the ground of necessity for
Kidding the State of the gangs of corrupt
carpet-baggers and thieves which have
plundered it since the war. We surely
can not accept all these explanations
There are Outrages or there are not out
RACES. If it is true that the campaign is
as peacefully conducted as that which
| recently closed in Indiana, why are the
columns of the Tilden and Hampton pa
pers filed with accounts of "disturb-
ances" and reports of the movements of
| bodies of armed men? Andi if the negroes
and their FFRadical leaders, are the ag-
| gressOrs, how does it -transpirc that the
| loss of life is i'll every case so oYerWhelm-
ingly against the colored Republicans p
| We have not made a statement i'll these
columns which can not be verified by the
| local Journals of both political parties i'll
| South Carolina. We have it Oh the au-
| thOrity of the Charleston NeeCS and Court
| er, Wade HamptOn's leading organ, that
i'll large portion of the State, including
| the principal cities, there is virtually no
| civil government. Bands of armed men,
in some cases numbering thousand,
sleep upon their arms, and are ready, at a
| moments notice, to crush to the protect
| ion of the citizens All accounts agree
that these ''Rifle Clubs'' extend through
every county in the State, and number,
in the aggregate, many thousands. The
| State is, i'll short, an armed camp, and all
| this time a law exists on the statute books
making it Il penal Offense to organize and
maintain troops without the sanction of
State authority. Governor Chamberlain
announces his attention to use all the
power vested in him to maintain the civ
il law, and the NeaCS and Courier calls it
revolution" Gen. Ruger informs the
Democratic Central Committee that he
will use the few hundred soldiers under
his command to quell riots, and, as far as
is possible, protect members of both par
ties in their right to vote, and at once the
cry goes up, E'Meet force with force" If
the HamptOn-Tilden party are conduct
| ing peaceful and honest campaign in
| South Carolina, why this repugnance to
| the ordinary means of enforcing the law
The talk of Federal bayonets being used
| to carry the State for Hayes is the sheer
est nonsense. If the soldiers were equally
distributed throughout the State, there
at each voting place. 1t will be difficult
to make intelligent people believe that
the twenty thousand riflemen under the
command Of Hamburg Butler are likely
to be deprived of their votes in that
fashion. - Cincinnati Gazette.