The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1876-10-18
THE SOUTH CAROLINA SPEC
TACLE.

The New York Herald points out that
South Carolina-one supporting Tilden
and Hampton, one supporting Hayes and
Chamberlain, and third supporting
Hayes and Hampton. 1t is to disperse
the last named party and drive the color
ed voters now in back to his support that
Chamberlain is using troops and making
arrests by federal deputy marshals. Well
may the Herald pronounce this so dan
gerius as an example for the future-as
well as of such pernicious effect upon the
peace and welfare of the State and of the
colored people who are there, as in Lou
isiana and Mississippi, made the football
of unscrupulous political gamblers-that
it ought to be understood by the North
ern people.
A few months ago Mr.. Nordhoff, one of
the most intelligent of observers, gave to
the Herald the resnlt of his observations
in the South, and they agree in all essen
tial particulars with the reports of the
correspondents of the Times ans Tribune
year or two before. Now, however,
that the republican party is in danger of
losing its political ascendency, the Times
and Tribune appear to have procured a
different class Of correspondents, who
are coloring their statements to suit the
exigencies OF the party, and are clearly
doing their best to fire the Northern heart
once more, with tales of Outrages perpe-
trated on the negro of the most extraor-
dinary kind. Where but recently Mr..
Nordhoff found peace and concord they
find internecine war and anarchy. They
tell of negroes hunted down; they quote
letters bearing internal evidence of hav-
ing been fabricated for the occasion; they
tell of enormous quantities of rifles and
to arm the old Confederate soldiers with;
assert in addition that "a dozen batteries
Of artillery" have been bought for them
and to sum up, they desire the Northern
public to know that the negro is ''getting
desperate" under the oppression to which
he is subjected; that when aroused she is
a wild BEAST" and in one suggestive para
graph the correspondent of the Tribune
shows how he may be expected to act, by
Saying that the whites ''are haunted with
the fear of fire." and that sin the use Of
the billy and the torch the negro is an ex-
lpert of the first order" So the bloody
shirt is to be waved again at the North
and at the South correspondents speak Of
the negro as ''an expert at incendiarism.
And this in the centennial year-the yea
which good and patriotic men desire shal
be celebrated as a year of jubilee!
But if the most monstrous exaggera
, tions of the condition of South Carolini
have still power to delude the Northern
people, the New York Times and Iribua
through certain new correspondents il
South Carolina, are endeavoring t.
/, strengthen that delusion. A year or tw'
, ago both these papers sent intelligent
Northern correspondents South to repor
the state of affairs there and the temper o
the people. The letters then writer
were honest and impartial, They show
ed that the occasional outbreaks there
had been magnifed and distorted, an(
that the bane of the South was the carpe
baggers, who, by the aid Of negroes, hat
been elected to office, and who plunderet
| whilst they maligned the people. Thes'
truthful letters were, however, written a
time when no presidential election wa
pending, and whilst the republican part.
was securely in power.-Baltimore Sun