Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01

wind and he is sure to be ambuscaaed But
more than this. The whites regard a Repubii-
can Of their color with tenfoid the vindictiys-
ness with which they look upon the negro.
Scores of white Republicans are hurying iu
alarm 10 the newspaper Offices TO insert cards in
which they renounce their party and profess
conversion TO Democracy. II these men hang
back and refuse or neglect 70 join the precinct
club or the nearest military company, their con-
duct is reported to the township meeting. A
committee is appointed 10 request an explsna-
ton. They call on the suspected man at their
earliest convenience. II he be sensible he viii
submit prOiuse apologies and regrets, and hUr-
riediy take up his Fii.e AID follow them 70 the
drill-rOom. Three or four white circuit Judges
have been dragOoued into conformity, aud the
crowd Of lesser lights threatens to absorb every
white Republican in the State except Governor
Chamberlain and the United States Senators.
lone NAN KILLED."
II white man refuses to Join the precinct
club; If white mans loyalty to the party Is
suspected if q white Republican persists in Qis
opinions, he is spotted, marked, doomed. He is
scowled at if he walks abroad. If he passes
crowd OF lettering whites at street corner an
ominous silence falls on them till be IS out OF
hearing. No warning is given him. No mid
night visits are now paid or kuklux nissives
dispatched. The whites have found by bitter
experience that such things are boomerangs
which return with tenfold force TO injure the
throver. They manage the matter better now.
They wait till an obnoxious man whom they
have doomed as a victim chances TO stand or
pass near them, say on the public square, at the
post Office, in bar-room, On the street. A
crowd of white desperadoes viii cluster near
him or follow him They appear 10 be drunk,
and begin 10 quarrel over some silly matter
having nothing to do with politics. Several
bysiaadegs come up and take sides. Finally
blows are exchanged, pistols drawn, and
regular free light occlIrs. shots are fired
BY all the party. Yet, strange TO say, when
orler Is restored, it is found that not one Of the
conibatants is injured, while the poor RepUbh-
can has been struck BY several random shots and
killed. An account Of The affrav appears il the
press (thc press IS almos. wholly Democraticl
under the heading, 3" Street ROw-Oue Man
Killed" MOI oaly are single men picked of in
this way. but sham fights are arranged by white
ruflians on some non-pOlitieal pEeleRse, which
swell to the proportion OF riots, and in which
several Republican bystaBGers are killed by
chance shots, while none Of tue combatants are
hurt OF course, the authors or these deeds 20
unqunisked. In the first place, II Is impossible
to tell who fired the shot. Then It Is unsafe fo-
any one TO iRdict ANYBODY about il, or for the
officials TO be too Jealous in investigating o.
prosecuting. But IL an assassin does get into
trouble by imprudonce, his comrades, who of
course compose most tofthe bystandcrs. are called
as Witnesses and swear hin out safely By giving
in doctoEel testimony.
TIE MISSISSIPPI PLAN.
/ now find myself carried back 10 TIE .iIae OF
secession. Then no Soushe.Rer dared syOw'
Union sentiments. Then there were thousands
Of them in the South, bit they were r,sthlessly
subjected to system Of terT3.is.n. and had To
choose between conformity and almost certain
death: aud with hardly an exception they con-
formed. To-day there are Thousands OF whites
lO-Cel into this Confederate revival against their
judgment GEd inclination; bat they must con-
f4.1n : 70 sa the CO-f.afrraurnr Thnv coufo-r7,
and then, TO avoid the iEnputation OF i1.sewarui-
ness, they endeavor 10 prove their sincerity o.
OGt1oiUg their comrades II violence. The same
mel head tbs movement VINO led the Stat
into secession TAey have thoroughly revived
the policy OF INTIMIDATION. Talk o. the
blacks being int;m.dltel. II is through the IT,
limitation Of the whites that the intimidation Of
the black Is rendered possible. The election =
to be carried On thc M.5s.ssiDgi pan; ani J part
OF the plan, be i re.1eG5ered. was the iRtiniic-
ton Of the whites. Wade Hampton Is as mucl
q MssissiBDi1l IS 2 South Caro-. ,ntaa. L Is trUe
that he Is descended from C.rOliaisus famous
Ia the Revolution, tina. bis ancestors have 81
WAYS lived n this State, that he himseI is 4
citizen ol this STATE. and that the family home
stead Is in the city Of Columbia. Bat besides
the immense cstItCs he owned IL South Carolina
before the war, he lad vast demesnes in Missis-
siPpi and othe. Southern States. This VIII nCi
seem sur -friz;lg waen l UIeation the fact be pos
sessed 10000 acres Of land in fee simple, aud
owned 1000 slaves. Now the war took from him
the bulk Of his property. Bus so much reul-inei
after all his losses that he is % ta.s Dig the
veal; hest man il the Southern States. Most Of
his property now, however, Is IN Mississippi
tie has abandoned by far the larger part Of bis
ancestral estates in South Carolina. Though
his home IS in Columbia, he spends half his time
on his plantations in Mississippi. He has ose
plantation there on wcich So OF his former
slaves are empioyed. 50 wei has he been able to
keep up this old plantation plan while the small
farm system has been becoming vel nigh uni
versal The fact / 15iTe 10 call attention to IS
this Hampton was in Mississippi prior 20 the
last election there, which the Democrats carried
by the shotgun policy. The similarity of the
methods employed b. the Democrats in the can
vass roing on he1e now, with Hampton as their
leader. forces me to the conclusion that the ex-
pertinent is to be repeated here.