Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-24

| " "Man-AIraiu-IOsG OsGO-1Ome"-Dem-
Ocratic Executive Committee
Urging the Disbanding of
Military Organizations.
General Hampton Advises FOrbearanee
I'm south Carolina.
AUGUSTA, October 22.-Gcneral Hampton
in a speech at Aiken, told the people to offer
no resistance to arrests but TO submit quietly
TO everything. If United States soldiers are
ordered to fire upon the people, the latter
must not resist, but bare their breasts and be
willing TO die for the good of the country.
RiOting Demonstrations.
CHARLESTON, October 28.-Rioting demon
stratio1s of negroes, generally supposed to be
the result OF the Cainhoy affair, are reported
from various points of Charleston county. A
serious demonstration OF armed negroes at
Mount Pleasant village, opposite Charleston,
who will petition General RugeI for troops.
Report of the CaIDhOy Affair.
COLUMBIA, October 9.-The following cir
cular was to-day issued by the Democratic ex-
ecutive committee. 1t is in the main a cor
rect statement of the affair at which the
Herald reporter was present:
Rooms OF THE DEMoCR Ratio EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEES OF CHARLESTON UoUNTY,
CH ARLESTON, .. u, OcJODer ~, 1876. J
The Democratic executive committee have
made careful examination into the facts at
tenGing the riot at Cainhoy on Monday last,
and vouoh for the following statement, which
is sustain ed by the efhdavits, in their possess
sion, of credible witnesses. When the ar
rangements were made between the chair
men of the executive committee of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties for the Joint
meetings 1t was distinctly settled that, for the
purpose of securing peaceful discussion no
one should carry arms TO these meetings. In
violation of this agI cement the Repu Ll1cans
went to Cainhoy with their guns. Some of
them hid themselves, and others who ap-
peared about the speakers stand concealed
their arms in the edge of the woods adjacent
to the place of me- citing. A few guns had
been hidden by the mes rOes in a house
near the stand. VIII le the speaking
was going on these were discovered by q small
body of Democrats, and the negroes near
them thereupon made an effort to seize these
arms. This produced commotion, stimuli
taneously with which, and before a single
shot had been fired by the whites, a party of
negroes advanced from the woods in skirmish-
ing order, firing upon the whites, who were
for the most part unarmed, a lew only having
pistols on their persons, OF small calibre. The
negroes al Ound the stand at 3 signal at once
rushed to the woods, seized their weapons, and
Joined in the attack upon The whites. The
testimony establishes that there was but
single negro killed, and that he and all the
whites who were slain and wounded were shot
afLer this firing began. 1t was a treacherous
ambuscade, with every appearance of careful
preparation, having for its purpose the
at the meeting. We pronounce as false the
telegram TO the governor or c. G., Bowen,
sheriff, who is the leader of the Republican
party and candidate for reelection, which
declares that the fight was Oceasioned by a
portion of the Democrats from The city attack.
ing the meeting and killing an old colored
man.
BY order Of executive committee.
CHARLES A. SlMONTON, Chairman.
Address of the Democratic Committee.
COLUMBIA, OCTOBER I9.-The Democratic
executive committee has issued the following
address to the people OF the State of South
out regard TO political party or race:
His excellency the President of the United
States did, on the seventeenth day of this
meuded all persons engagod In nuIsvvfnl and
Insurrectionary proceedings TO disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abodes
within three days from this date and here
after abandon said combinations and submit
themselves to the laws and constituted au-
thOrities of said State. This proclamation Is
based upon the statements made by Daniel H.
Chamberlain, the governor of this state,
which statements are aimed exclusively
against his political opponent, and are proven
to be untrue by the testimony of every Judge
in the state, and from every trial Justice or
other officer of the law from whom response
has been obtained; every resident of the State
knows them to be untrue; every Republican
of character or intelligence, or who is not
in Office or seeking office, and many who
are in Office in the state, have expressed
horror and disgust at the course which
the governor has pursued. We say this much
for our vindication. Never has people suf-
fered more by diShOnOr of office and dishOn-
esty of officers; never has such bold untruth
been used Tor the support OF a movement
which shakes the pillars upon which rests the
constitutional temple of mighty people. Our
State is but petty portion of the Union, but
we cali upon our sister States of the north to
that the experiment now being
made for the domination of our elections by
the bayonet and by soldiers, as the irresist-
ibie instrument of revolving local despOtism,
If successful, will become The precedent be-
fore which the whole fabric of American lib
erty will fail, and which will be applied TO
other States just as soon as party eXigencieS
require it. We make this declaration of our
innocence, not in disTespect of the President
OF the United states, but as an act of justice to
ourselves as American citizens and to put our
case upon the record of an impartial trial be-
fore the great national tribunal. We bow in
perfect submission to the proclamation of his
excellency the President, and exhort our
llow-citizeps, whom we represent in the
present canvass, to yield full and entire obedi.
ence to every command in the said proclama-
ton. We know that the clubs called rifle
clubs are associations formed for home pro-
lection; that they are not combinations as
charged by the governor of this state; that
there are but few that have arms or amuni-
ton; that those which have been equipped
were so done with the sanction and some.
times with the aid of the governor, and have
been recognized by him as useful and appro-
PIRATE BODIES, and not one one Of them has been
necessity was occasloned by the reckless dis
OF arms and ammunition among the
colored people by the state officials, and we
know further that our white citizens were, on
the sixteenth day of this month, maSsacred at
a peaceful political assemblage, when, by
agreement with O. &. Bowen, Republican
chairman OF Charle-tOn county, and sheriff
of said county, and first Pres Dental elector
for the State at large on the Republican tick
et who was present, they went without arms
to meet the coIored race, the voters OF the So
called Republican party in this State, who
were likewise, by Mr.. BOwen's agreement,
bound to be without arms; and we know
that the politicians, who are the authors OF all
our evils, are teaching among the colored race
the use of the rifle and the torch. We know
that our homes are in peril, and that our
women and children are XpOsed to the hOr-
rors of ruthless butcheIy and barbarity, but,
nevertheless, we advise and command, so far
as our authority goes, that every such rifle
club against which the Misrepresentation of
the governor of the State are aimed be forth
with disbanded, and that the members there
of be held IN future only by those ties of hu-
manity which bind all good men together;
that the name OF The club be abandoned, and
the officers cease to exercise their powers.
This is said with the express declaration that
these clubs are not associated with or subject
to our political control; We repeat that we
speak without disrespect to the President of
the United States. He acts upon the state
ments made by the governor OF this State,
but we say 1t that we may show our willing
ness TO obey without committing an untruth
against ourselves by seeming TO ackuOwl-
edge that of which we are not guilty. We are
not engaged In unlawful and insurrectiOnary
we cannOt Gisperse, because
we are not gathered together; we cannot re-
tire peace ably to our abodes because we are in
our homes in peace, disturbed alone by the
political sgitatlOns created by the governor
and his minions But we rcsignedly and
cheerfully, in the performance of our duty,
suspend the exercise of our individual and
private tights to prevent evil 10 the whole
people, relying upon the universal sense of
right and appealing to the Almighty to sus-
tain us. We exhort our people to the continu.
aDce of submission to the authorities OF the
government, feeling assured that time and
patience will work our deliverance. Remem-
Der that the campaign Is now "A short one, and
all signs hopeful that the seventh day of No
vember next Will witness the full and COM
plete vindicatiCn of our cause through the
peaceful lLstrumentality of the ballOt-DOx.
A. G. HASKELL,
Il. b. FRASER,
]. ID. KENNEDY,
JOHN BkATTON,
JAMES A. HOYT,
RICHARD O'NEALE,
JOS. j. ADGER SMHTHE,
State Democratic Executive Committe.
A Bold South Carolina Boy.
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.l
WASHINGTON, D. C., October Ex-senator
Patterson, OF South Carolina known here as
the "Man- A fraid-1 o Go Home" leaves here
tomorrow for his native heath. TO-night ha