The daily gazette., 1876-07-20
The Hamburg R1Ot-A Pretext for
Sending Troops South.


The Hamburg RiOt-A Pretext for |
Sending Troops South.
The Radical newspaper express no
sympathy for the poor white man
who was shot down by the negro militia
company at Hamburg, S. c. We have
no doubt that this innocent mans death |
was heart-rending to his relatives and |
friends.
We have no good men in this country |
to spare, either white or black, and the
killing of any such is crime that must
be atoned for to the offended laws. Lynch
law is not to be commended, even when |
men deserve to die for their offenses.
What threats tho ring leaders of the |
negro militia company at Hamburg, may
have made while with their arms they
occupied the house as a fort and detied |
oil the civil authorities, has not yet been
fully made known. But we have no
doubt that when all tine facts come to be
learned it will be found that the whites
did not act without great provocation.
We do not justify the execution Of the
six negro men said to have been shot
after the company had surrendered. The
whole affair shows how completely the
Republican party has failed in its at
tempts TO govern the country. The
general government is robbed by the
100000 white of6ce holders. from the
Cabiuet officers down to the tide wait
ers, and in the Southern States the
negroes are made to bear arms to over
awe the white people while the carpet
baggers rob them of the little that is
left after paying the taxes imposed upon
them by the negro; the latter enjoying
nearly all the offices, when they are no.
toriously untitled and wholly irresponsi-
BILE.
There is little wonder that the poor
white people of the South feel degraded
and outraged by the villainous govern
ments Grants soldiers have forced upon
them during most of the past eight or
ten years.
THE negro population about Ham
burg is one of the worst in the whole
South. 1t was there that was organized
afew months ago plot for the general
rising of the blacks against the whites
in several counties in Georgia, which
would have involved wholesale murders
and outrages of the most fearful kind
Fortunately correspondence revealing
the details of the conspiracy was inter
cepted, and by the prompt intervention
of Judge johnson and Gov. Smith o
Georgia, bloodshed was prevented
Prince Rivers. the negro magistrate VIII
figured in the Hamburg disturbance
was one of the conspirators implicate
III this plot. The so-called militia com
pany of Dock Adams was a mob Of negr
rufians who had become notorious fo
their outrages, and had been ordered b
the Governor t deliver up their arms t
the State year ago. They were de.
peradoes who dehed the authorities an
private citizens alike, AMI though tn
does not excuse the killing of pr;so,
ors who had surrendered themselves,
shows that it was not political mott,
which led to the tragedy"
There are people who believe tn
affair was designedly brought about f
political purpose.
That an attempt Is 10 be made TO car
the Southern States ty the bayonet ,
are assured, even by Republican paper
as the following copied from one W
prove.
We DO not want the electoral vote
South Carolina If it can be secured on
by the tactics which for the last t
years have been practiced by the earn.
oaggeis VINO nave choSed the prosperi
out OF that state by mismanageme
and plunder. They are already eett;
ready to employ the same old {
vices by which they have kept the
selves IN power there since the close
the war, they are again waving
bloody shirt in Congress and in
face of the North in order to secure
control of the coming election by
use of Federal troops. There has b
too much of that sort of business.
too many South Carolina elections h
been controlled in that way.
The recent massacre of colored nee
at Hamburg, South Carolina, was a er
OF the most atrocious and cowardly cl
att9r, bnt it was not in any sense
htlcal crime, politics had nothing to
Win u, and the attempt to make it
pear that they had is nothing moro Ii
another fling of the bloody shirt. :" !
trick is not only stale, but tits as Inf
Gus IN its way as the murder of the ri
burg negroes. With just as much ,
priety might We attempt to make
late Newark butchery political or
as that, and with just as much proprj
might we demand that from now u
after the November election Uni
States troops shall be stationed at n
ark to protect the tanners from the
saults Of possible rufians seeking to n
der them. The Hlmh,.g vi, 70 v