National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-12-02

D Aiken aud Barnwell counties" He says
he saw 1.-TWO white men go up to negro In
Blackville, Barnwell county, on Saturday,
the 25th ultimo, and kill him for nothing
only that he was negro and Republican.
Nearly all the white citizens aided the muir.
derers in getting away instead of apprehend-
ing them for trial. They also approved Of
the act. Five negroes have been killed In
this vicinity within the last week. All the
rifle clubs are organizing again. In fact they
have never disbanded, and they are picking
off leading Republicans one at q time. There
is no law or order here, and do not see how
the poor negroes endure this awful state OF
affairs.n This Is part of the stamping
ground of NJ. C. Butler, of Hamburg notorlety,
and is doubtless one Of the localities referred
to by Wade Hampton and his coadjutors in
their letter to the President protesting that
there was no necessity for troops in South
Carolina, as they were ga abiding people"
The law of the bandit appears to be ruling
Just now In Buffers county of Aiken.
on THE VERY REMOTE contingency of Mr..
Tilden's triumph, we dip into. the future and
with prophetic scissors clip from the New
York World of March S, 1877, the following
interesting comment:
Immediately after the Inauguration cere-
monies were over President Tilden announced
the following named gentlemen as members Of
his Cabinet: Randolph Tucker, Secretary OF
State; Duke Gwinn, Attorney General: VIII
liam NJ. Tweed, Secretary of the Treasury;
/ John Morrissey, Secretary of War; James
Gordon Bennett, Secretary of the Navy. Here
we have five men known to the nation and the
world as men of transcendent abilities chosen
by the Chief Magistrate of the nation as his
counselors and advisors in the various affairs
of State. For these most admirable selections
the unbounded gratitude of great people
goes out to our Executive to- day. In Randolph
Tucker we see q man fully competent to
cope with and master all the intricate
problems of diplomacy which may be neces-
sary in establishing beyond controversy
forever the principles of State rights and
the legitimate power to repel coercion
which resides In the respective States.
OF the honorable Minister of Justice, Duke
Gwinn, nothing need be said, as his legal
abilities are known wherever the tones of
Blackstone and Coke have any standard au
thority. There is no more thoroughly-devel-
oped legal mind in Christendom, and none so
amply clothed with all the valuable points
found in Byles on Bills. In constitutional and
International law he is absolute master, and
his eminent contemporaries, John Shyster and
Count Johannes, do not hesitate to credit him
with remarkable depth, breadth and general
massiveness of good judgment In everything
pertaining to the powers and jurisdiction OF
the Supreme Court. In mentioning the name
of the distinguished Secretary of the Treasury,
the Hon. William NJ. Tweed, we find posi-
tive inadequacy in our mother language to ex-
press the profound gratitude we owe his Ex-
cellency, our much beloved Chief Magistrate,
in giving the nation such man for such
place in such q time of need. Tweed is
household word-yes, it has been spoken and
printed in a hundred languages, and time
seems to write no wrinkles on its azursd
Tweedledum. For six years he was the bosom
friend and confidant of President Tilden, and to-
gether they manipulated the municipal reins of
this metropolis until reform became the order
Of the day. At this memorable epoch in our
local government President Tilden was asked
to step from Tammany nall to the guberna-
torial chair of the State, and the new minister
of finance secured q leave of absence, spending
some time among his friends sswho had gone
before" at Blackwell's Island. From thence
he took fugitive mission to Spain, where he
performed for his country extraditional serV
ices of no mean importance in the interests of
law and for the ends Of justice. The new Sec
rotary of War has all the necessary requisites
for making him an admirable executive officer
of that department. His physical resources
are inexhaustible, and his experience in the
art of war makes him eminently fitted for the
administration of that important bureau. Mr..
Bennett as Secretary of the Navy will undoubt-
edlY prove a great success. His nautical ex-
perience rates him as one of the foremost sea-
faring men, yacht-produced, in this country,
and his selection will be heralded over the
land as an omen Of future prosperity of our
navy and the revival of commerce. For this
days work, then, can we all say to President
Tilden well done'