The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-09-20
The True Story of Southern Disorders
From the New York World.
While Governor Chamberlain,

"nlle Governor CnamDoflaln, 0
South Carolina, il plotting with TIN
Washington conspirators for the Over
throw OF free government, not III Tho
South only, Put in the whole coun
try, his adjutants are as busily
engaged ut home IN stirring up thcil
negro athcrcnts to murder and riot
! Our dispatches tel the story of tho
&candalous proceedings in the
streets of Charleston during We'd
nesday night, and of the outragcs
inflicted on tho peuceablc laborers
Of tho Combahcc rice fields for Il
week past.
/ We have already printed full &c
counts Of the intimidation practiscd
against Democratic negroes in all
parts Of the South, but in no South.
crn Statcs has this prescription
been SO bitter and relentless as in
South Carolina and Louisiana.
Taught by the example Of their
white leaders that the laws are n
mockcry and q sham, the lower and
desperate classes of the culorcd
people hesitate at no crime to furth~
cr t:lcir abandoned ends.
Tl.c record of every week in "the
Prostratc State is a. shocking
series of arsons, outrages and mur-
dcrs which palcs the story of
Ireland under English rule by cons
traSt. SO common have they be-
come, ana SO hopeless ane the white
, nrrnln nf rnlinf from, thoco to u.bo,,,
the administration of the laws is com +,
mlttcd, that these crimes arc suffers
cd to go almost without protest
In one instance only, of late, have
the respectable citizens taken the
law into their own hands and in,
tlictol punishment that would
seem altogether incommensurate
with the immediate oilcnse, but
which was intensified by the recol,
lection of innumerabic atrocities in
the past.
] 1t has happened that very many
colorcd people Of the better sort
those who have accumulated Il little
! property and have an equal stake
with the whites in securing good
gOvernmcnt-havc announced their
determination to vote the Conscrva~
tive ticket at the coming election.
This has subjected them 10 persccn>
ton Of the most malignant nature.
They are waylaid at night ana
beaten they are threatened with
death if they do not resume their
allegiance to the Radical Darty :;
they are expelled from their
churches by the brute iorcc Of
mAiprities and made outtns,.. among
; their people. 1t has been found
necessary for the whites to guard
| the meetings Of these poor people
from violence, and to escort the
members Of coloycl Democratic
clubs back to their homes. Last
Friday evening, in Charleston, one
Of these meetings. was assaulted by
lrunkcn ruilians and broken up.
This act was repeated Oh Wclncs~
day night, and there followed II
satninaiia Of disorder and plumber
such RS could occur in no American
city uncul scd by the rule of such
;,connlrsls as have plunged South
Carolina into IL vc:y abyss Of misery,
from which her reputable people
arc now manfully cndcavoriny to
CXtricatc her.
In Louisiana The sumo drc,ry
story rccurs. Our dispatches have
detailed tie recent murderons at,
tempts i'll the interior parishes Of
the State, AMI there is conclusive
evidence that the ignorant negroes
are acting only under the advice and
prompting Of designing whites. 1t
is desperate struggle in both Wn~
happy commonwcalths On the one
hand arc arrayed the united body of
( intelligent citizens, representing the
mercantile, agricultural and ill.,
dustrial interests Of The State and
AIDED by the better classes Of the
cDIOrcd people; on the other, the
! d!sreputnble aliens whose only
object is and has been plumber, con
trolling and supported by the
ignorance and dcpravity of the lower
orders Of negroes.
On &Ac one hand we have Hamp-
ton vino, like Adams OF AIassuchu~
sctt", represents an illustrious
Revolutionary name, and with whom
are virtually associated all the
! worth and probity Of the State, a, d
Nichols and colleagues, who rcprc-
sent the vital clements Of society in
Louisiana. On the other wo have
the infamous Packard and his ass J.
ciatc. Yarmouth, the authors Of
every wrong from which Louisiana
hns suffered Patterson, n carpet
baSger, who openly bought seat
in the United States Senate, and
who thiuks South Carolina "is good
for four years stealing yct;' Moses
whose record rs governor was SIM
ply series of shameless robbcrics,
and Chamberlain, the attorney for
the plumdcrors, who vainly intrigued
for tho support of the Democrats
and, failing, has turned upon thom
with Characteristic viruloncc.
These arc the men who wrurg his
revolutionary instructions out Of the
! tttornnvs( (tnnorol onI in Nhncn