Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-22
THE HAMBURG RIOT.

A few days ago party OF negro mill
tia, in Hamburg, South Carolina, a little
village on the opposite side of the S.
vannsh river from Augusta, Georgia,
excited the Opulace by an unseemly
and unnecessary act Of violence, TO acts
Of reprissl, resulting in riot and blood
shed, which no sane man can defend.
As the population Of that section of the
country is largely negro, and, under the
stimulus Of csrpetbag teaching, thst
element hes learned to segregste itself
from the whites, and sntagonizs them
on every occasion, this riot represented
the ''war Of racesn idea, with results
fatal to. the negroes, who outnumbered
the whites, but were largely in minor
ity on the score OF discipline. The figures
are, six negroes to one white man
killed, aud two negroes and one
white man wounded. An oe-
curfence like this, to be
deplored by every good citizen, could
not be allowed to pass by the bloody
shirt Radicals, whose oily hope for sue
cess in November lies in the continued
exeitstion of sectional passion and pre-
JUDGE; and so an affair that in no sense
was as bad as the stOning TO death of
three ssssssins at Newark, New jersey,
is msgnified beyond its proportions, the
cOwsrdly governor Of the State running
TO Washington to intensity it as a ku-
klux, ex-rebel or Confederate uprising.
In case of greater magnitude, the less
OF life considered, what did John c. |
Brown, the Democratic governor of |
Tennessee, do2 He did not run to |
Washington and decry the common hui |
msnity Of the people whose executive
he was, as has Governor Cham |
berlaine, Of South Csrolins. He |
did not demand an invasion |
OF his State. by United States troops, or
cover whole population with disgrace
merely to crafty his party purposes. He
did not attempt to cover bsave ard in
telligent people with odium. No; he did
none OF these things. He went down to
the scene OF the bloody trouble, secured
the cooperation of the people, as well as
the authorities, and by the 'promptness,
csierity and determination with which
he entered upon his work "a the chief
executive of the State, sworn to enforce
the laws thereof, made bloody rsprisals,
riots and eD1eIReS impossible in Tennes-
see, we hope, hereafter. And this is
what Chamberlain should have done.
He should have gone to the scene Of the
riot, and called about him the pesceabIe
aud law.Abiding citizens, and pro.
ceeded, with .their, assistance, to execute
the laws like true executive. He knew
there wEs nothing political in the
wretched affair; that it was the result,
not OF cold blood, but originated in q
thst, like the explosion of
nom the friction of a little
match, it WAS the natural product of q
few heated words growing suddenly and
into a mountainous crime,
ourdened with sorrow and shame to
christian community DESTROYS of
nothing SO much ss the peace and good
will which reigns in every southern
State that is governed by Democrats.
Governor Chamberlain knows this, and
ne knows his duty. But he is Repub-
lean, snd the party claims are with
him supreme over the claims of his peo-
lie and the performance of mis- duty.
I does not seem to weigh any
hing with him that the people Of /,
he State of South Carolina have
or eleven years borne with fortitude the /,
ObbeIies and insolences of those who
hiefiy opposed his election, snd who
lave Professionally set themselves against
VI attempts at. the storatjon Of good
He Isl too intent on the
lection Of Hayes and Wheeler, and Sc
uring to them all the aid and comfort I
4 political coloring to the Hamburg Il
lot 10 think Of doing his duty. Hence | :
lis cowsrdly deseTtion Of his post, his :.
light to the national capital, and the -
ebate in the senate and the hOuse upon !,
not that is tame alongside Ct the =
ioody and brutal stouipg to death OF =
ne three assassins at Newark, New Jer-
ey. The New York Herald very properly II
emlnded SunsetCox, the other dag, that ~
e should never sacrifice the respect d
nd love he owes his country for the .,
Ike OF achieving partisan advantage. "
'hat has 1t TO say Of this shameless IN
9vernor Of South Carolina who, instead OF
remaining in his State TO enforce the GU
VS. a! all hazards, runs to Washington
it'll bioody-shirt tale snd:makes a re-
ut to the President, as II he was in iss
ct the viceroy OF Radicalism he imag- phi
es himself to be. What would be VIZ
ought Of the mayor of Memphis if, an
der similar circumstances Of disorder, die
were to leave the people to them siO