, 1876-09-15

EGhlttht@uH VI dulAalAtAB Aahp si1ots "'Nt ~fe-
lonco md luxury at tho expense Of tho North,
aud by tho allowance of Rebel claims for
war losses, which there will DO no lawful
mems Of avorting In caso they anccood to the
control of tho Government. Theso nre tho
logical conclusions from Col 1NaERsott's
eloquent atntomont Of tho case, and 1t is for
every loyal nnd conservative citizen, North
and South, to AJAX himself whether tho
danger Is moi threatening enough to domand
energetic personnl opposition.
ArTERp1ECE TO THE HAMBURG MABsA.
GRE.
Tho clivalrous Sonthrons who celebrated
the gloriouB Fourth by their cowartlly butch
cry Of lsarmod 'niggers" ut Hamburg, s. G.,
have not been indicted. II Ia by no
means certain that indictments ever will
be reported ngainst them. "Gon." BUTLER
and hia associate assassins, who 80 promptly
surrendered themselves after their bloody
work anil dcmanaed speedy trial, wo believe,
arc still going abont repeating that demand.
Thoy burn, as It were, with impatienco 10
meet their accusers face to face. It will bo
remembered TINT 10 red-hot haso they grown
in this desire to face their accuserH that. at q
recent Republican mooting in Hnm5urg,
where Gov. CHAMBERLAIN was tho chief
speaker, DuThEn and his gang, well armed,
appeared and claimed for him share Of tho
time, OF which he availed himself to mako
such ferocious domand to see anybody who
accused him That tho meeting was broken
up In like fashion, the hunt after their
aceusora was kept up industriously
but without ayaif until the open-
ing Of Court md tho meeting Of tho
Grand Jury. On TINT day tho mob that did
tho numbering, with their Hympathizers from
Georgia, assembled at the Court House, in
Aiken, on pretonHo of holding political
meeting. When tho Court opened there
wero in the town upward Of ono thousand
Whito.Linors, mounted and fully armed, be-
sides roinforcemonts from Georgia with the
identical cannon thatat the massacre upon the
Fourth was trained upon tho negroes when
they rctreatcd to their, arnory. Tho wit
nessoa who woro to have testified before tho
Grand Jury against Bu11En and the othors
Implicated in the murilers prudently kopt out
Of the wey. Tho Judge Of the Court seems
to have been himself completely ovorawed
by this ominous gathering of armed mon,
and suggested to the Attorney Genora1 that
tho cases against BUTLER and tho others had
batter DO continued, which was forthwith
quietly done. Feeling that somo explanation
Of this fai1uro Of Justice was necessary, tho
Attorney General addressed long 1otter to
phraso, ho details tho facts, as to which tho
Columbia Uniou.HerdM Of tho 9Th inst.
sayB:
We publish elsewhere the letter Of Attorney Gen.
cral SroKR to Gov. CnAxDEnLA1s, giving tho rcn'
sons which guided him In consonting to contlna-
aNcc Of tho cascs against thu Hamburg sl0tcrs. We
think the action OF tho Court and tho Attorney.
General to be 1udlclous The political o1cltemont
tn tho Stnto fs great enonGh now without such I'D.
dltionat fuel would bu added to 1t by auch trial.
That It was looked upon purely III political light
by tho defense needs other denomination than
| that found in the condition Of the Court House
/ town Of Aiken County On tho day on which 1t was
expected that bills would hayo been given to the
Gnad Jury. It's usually still streets wcrc thson2ed
| by men from four counties. Fully z, 800 DemD.
crata had assembled, ostensb!y to hold political
| meettng, which noctng had boon, Of course. pnr-
ppaely nxed simultaneously With tho meeting OF
the Court Mosu than l. 600 armed hosscmen had
1!tcd tho usually quiet roads. by which also came
Witnesses Jnrors and law otlicars. IAs rles eluts
tad subYe clubs, and the artillery clubs wert there
The cannon also woke the echoes among the pines
and sounded over tho pine hils. II tsas tbs taa1s
artillery that had been used to 1ohdrd the Ht!tia
company on thai memorable 4th Of July, ut Hdns-
| burg. Again Georgia tonncd 1t to South Carolina,
and for similar purpose II It had been peodea-
All this display Of force was nadc fort purpose.
That Court and those jurlea and witnesses would
have buen strange men, indeed, II thcy could SOC
!! II unmoYed II wns wtAc not to nut them tn d