The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-11-03
SOLID SOUTH.
SHOTGUN Policy i'm South Carolina.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. Is.
Gen. NJ. W. Gary. one of the most
effective orators for Tilden and Wade
Hampton, in South Carolina. recently
denied the accuracy OF a teIsraphic
report froln his speech N these dis
patches. He, however, in his card OF
denial, 'eaffirms the substantial state
ment of that Dispatch. Within one
week General Gary has given expires
sion to statements quite as atrocious
as those which he denied, and he will
not venture TO deny the accuracy of
this last speech, for its authority is
vouched for by a gentleman WHO has
been one of the bitterest opponents of
what General Gray calls the carpet
bag rule in South Carolina, AMI whose
writings upon tnat subject have been
extensively copied in Wade Hampton's
present organs. According to this
gentleman, who is now in South Car
olina, General Gray, about October 6,
in public speech, said:
South Carolina Is u white mans
State, and, in spite of nigger majori-
ties, the Democrats are going TO rule it.
This we swear to you by heaven and in
the face of God,"
Gen. Gary answered this question,
at Hampton ratification meeting
held in Akin, few days since. He
said:
1.-The edgefield policy, that is the
shot gun policy, won in the State cam
paign and will win in the present cam
paign. That policy is to plainly tell
the negroes that the whites are again
in command of the State. We Demo
Gratis do not want their vo.e. They
will vote against US at their peril. We
must warn the leaders that "the tall
popies will fall first" /, for one, would
shoot first Chamberlain, Elliott, Pat
terson. and such carpet baggers, and
second tn. miserable white native
scallawag. and lastly the black leaders
generally"
In another part of his peech, Gen.
Gary says:
''Go armed to the ballot box, and
meet force with force. If any one tries
to prevent you from carrying the State
for Tilden and Hampton, the person
or persons whose try must be remov
ed out OF the way by the use of suff
cient foIce, and II it becomes necessary
to shoot them in order to remove them,
we must be prepared TO shoot rather
than be prevented from redeeming the
State from Radical rule"
The news frum South Carolina is of
the most startling and alarming char
acter The evidence is indisputable
that the seme spirit of disorder and
rebellion which brought on the civil
war now animates the De nocrats' iank
and Gle, and that they are better armed
than ever The plan of the Democrats
for carrying Soutl, Carolina, which has
al admitted Republican majority. is
to Tighten the negroes from the polls
by their rifle clubs. Tie Republican
managers in Washington have been
with proof that, after having
accomplished all IIIrt can be done by
constant intimation until November, it
is the purpose OF the Ha,npton and
Tilden men then 10 vote early ip the
day, and then to patrol the country
roads with their mounted cavalry, and
to keep the negroes away from. the
ballot box by force until after sdndown
That this is the plan of the Democrat
ic campaign, there II not the slightest
question. The Democrats, in public
speeches, openly eountenance resist
ance to Gov. Cllamberlain's order for
these Illegal organizations to disband.
and Chamberlain is powerless to en-
force his order.