The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21
,cameraoah's ,aaf' Policy Alarms the Rsspuphhli.
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WASHINGTON. September Z.

- TtWASHINGTON,:S SeptemOer 4:
The celoredrio inSouth Carolina have
created, grave alarm among theaRepubli-
can leaders here to-day, lando Tonight
there have; cheen various Consultations
and general discussion of the uueKpec-
ted phase the color issue has taken under
reckless leaders in Charleston. Various
dispatches have gone tol the leaders IN
South Carolina and especially to Gov.
Chamberlain, earnestly insisting that the
negroes must berbetters controlled,i ZOE the
North will revolt at. the Grant Cameron
policy adopted to carry the election, and
they have also been implored by telegraph
to get out prompt statement from some
body denying that the negroes wantoniy
attacked q peaceabie body OF their own
race, for no other reason ithan that they
chose to be for the Conservative ticket.
The gravitylof the,case is heightened by
the general disorderly spirit that is stead
lily cropping out and growing among the
more ignorant and idlennegroes, since the
publication of Secretary Cameron's mill
tary order relative to the South. The
political leaders Of the negroes have all
given the same Interpretation to Came
,ron's order, just as was intented by Grant
and Cameron, themselves, and that is,
that the army Is intended to protect the
negroes in anything they shall see fit to
do in the name Of, the party. Senator
Patterson publicly declared in this city
before the Cameron order was issued:
"We'ye got to raise h-:ll somehow with
the niggers and get the troops down there,
or the d----n rebels, will carry the cleo
ton in spite of us,"'' and it was in obedi-
ence to this spirit, more honestly than
elegantly expressed BY Patterson, that the,
Cameron order was issued. Thenegroes,
especially in such sections as Charleston,
where they are in an Overwhelming ma
iority, now believei,that the army is be-
hind them, ndthat they can do anything
necessary to carry. the election, and they
are only too ready to indulge in the farg-
estlicense:ET The danger now is, that they
will not stop with political violence. q The
rice field negroes, the MOST ignorant and
brutalized of the race ia, the Southy have
again become turbulent on'the Combahe,
near Charleston, and there is danger OF,
general disorder under,the immunity that
they assume theyipossess by the protec-
ton of the administration and the army.
Gov. Chamberlain is greatly alarmed for
the safety of his State; and the Republi:
lican leaders here tonight would be glad
had Cameron's order never been issued.
All reliable reports from Charleston G.
to prove that the Republican negroes at
tao. ed the Conservative negroes without
provocation of any kind, and the result
is wild mob of ignorant and lawless
blacks, who believe themselves above all
restraint, legal or otherwise. Some OF
the more discreet Republican leaders
here insist that while the administration
cannot recede from its position by the
revocation of the; Cameron order, there
must he an,oficial construotiantput upon
it publicly that;will make the NEGROES
and their reckless leaders in the South
understand that2they must pay some re-
spect to law and, .orier.a Mnny declare
that if it is'not DONE, the North;cannot
be,relieu updn,to 7shstain Hayes under
the load of despotic and violent policy
that sacrifices the peace and safety of
half the country in lam effort for few
electoral votes, which will, ,hkely be lost
under any ircumstances.- 'ladelphia
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