The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-22
THE TRUE STORY or SOUTHERN DIS
ORDERS.
New York World Editorial.

Carolina, is plotting with the Washington
for the overthrow of free
not in the south only, but
in the whole country, his adiutants are
as busily engaged at home in stirring up
their negro adherents to murder and riot.
Our dispatches tell the story of the scan
dalous proceedings in the streets of
Charleston during Wednesday night, and
of the outrages inflicted on the peaceable
laborers of the Combabee rice-fields for
a week past. We have already printed
full accounts Of the intimation practiced
against democratic negroes in all parts of
this prescription been 50 bitter and re-
lentless asin South Carolina and Louisi-
ana. Taught by the example of their
white leaders that the laws are mockery
and a shame, the lower and desperate
classes of the colored people hesitate at
no crime To further their abandoned ends.
The record of every week in the pros
trate state" is a shocking series of arsons,
outrages and murders which pales the
story of Ireland under English
rule by constrast. SO common have
they become. and so hopeless are the
white people of relief from those to
whom the administration of the laws is
committed, that these crimes are SUIT
fered to go almost without protest. In
ono ;nS+ap,a ONLY, Of Lotto b,vo +lo 40
spectacle citizens taken the law into
their own hands, and inflicted a punish
ment that would seem altogether incom-
mensurate with the immediate offense,
but which was intensified by the recol-
lection of innumerable atrocities in the
past. 1t has happened that very many
colored people of the better sort-those
who have accumulated little property
and have an equal stake with the whites
in securing good government-have an
n1unced their determination to vote the
conservative ticket at the corning cleo
ton. This has subjected them to perse-
cutiOn of the most malignant nature
They are waylaid at night and beaten
they are threatened with death if they
do not resume their allegiance to the rad
ical party they are expelled from their
churches by the brute force of MAORI
ties, and made outcasts among their peo-
pie. 1t has been found necessary for the
whites to guard the meetings of these
poor people from violence, and to es-
cort the members of the colored demo-
cratic clubs back to their homes. Last
Friday evening, in Charleston, one
of these meetings was assaulted by
drunken rufians and broken up. This
act was repeated on Wednesday night,
and there followed a saturnalia of disor-
der and plumber such at should occur in
no American city uncurscd by the rule
of such scoundrels as have plunged South
Carolina into n very abyss of misery,
from which her reputable people are now
manfully endeavoring to extricate her.
In louisiana the same dreary story re-
ours. Our dispatches have detailed the
recent murderous attempts in the in
III ANA ltAi AN4ANo VI LAiE SUIT anu LilEIt il
conclusive evidence that the ignorant
negroes are acting only under the advice
and prompting Of designing whites. 1t
IS desperate struggle in both unhappy
;ommonwealths. ON the one hand are
lrrayed the united body of intelligent
representing the mercan tile, ag-
-icultural and industrial interests of the
tate, and aided by the better classes OF
he colored people; on the other, the
lisreputable aliens whose only object is
md has been plumber, controlling and
by the ignorance and depray-
ty of the lower order of negroes.
IN the one hand we have Hampton,
Who, like Adams. OF Massachusetts,,
eprescnts an illustrious revolutionary
Iame, and with whom are virtually
all the worth and probity
f the state, and Nichols and his
olleagues, who represent the same vital
dement's ofsOciety in louisiana On the
ther we have the infamous Packard
nd his associate, Yarmouth, the au-
hors of every wrong from which Louis
ana has suffered Patterson, a carpet
agger, whc openly boughf seat in the
United States senate, and who thinks /
outh Carolina is good for four years
tealing yet;" Moses, whose record as
overnor was simply series of shame
ess robberies; and Chamberlain, the at
oiney of the plunderers, who yainly in
rigued for the support of the democrats,
nd failing, has turned upon them with .
virulence. These are the .
zen who wrung his revolutionary in
tructions out of the encouragement, 4
nd in whose behalf these instructions are .
0 be carried out. The people of the .
United States may see their chances of /
lture greatness in this contest. VIII
hey suffer the constitution to be violated .
1r such a purpose and by such men +?
Viii they permit our free institutions to
e made scofiing and a byword in such
cause? The helpless citizens of the
outh look to us of the north for succor.
t can still be given by the omnipotent
recess of the ballot, where the ballot
till stands for something. VIII it be de-
led to them