Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-31
South Carolina.

A special dispatch from Charleston to the
Baltimore Sun, dated last night, says:
THE reception of Gen. Hampton to-day was
the occasion OF popular demonstration which
was all the more remarkable because Charleston
has heretofore, both before and since the war,
shown little interest in partisan displays Over
ten thousand voters marching four abreast were
in the procession, two thousand Of whom were
mounted, and the column presented curious
scene. all classes being strangely ntermlnged
venerable LAWYERS, i'll clad workingmen, promi-
Lent merchants and negro iongshorenen taking
their places in the line without tho slightest dis
crimin nation
THE route of the procession was hsnds)raely
decorated with national flags and notices.
Crowds of ladies waved handkecchies from ev
cry window. The whole city seemed to have
turned out and tne continuous cheering with
which Hampton was everywhere greeted was
phenomena for staid old Charleston.
Gen. Hampton addressed the immense meet
ing in the Battery Garden at noon, and u night
he is speaking in the Academy Of Music to the
colored citizens, who have crowded Inc building
| to hear him. He is much encouraged by tho
enthusiasm O! his welcome from WHITES and
blacks, and expresses the utmost confidence in
his election.
| that large Dumber of affid! Wits and warrants
| for the arrest OF leading citiz~ns Of I'd Seueld
! have been prepared The matter has been de-
lsyed as long as possible, and it is not proposed
| to execute them until the 9Th Of November, for
purposes we'll understood
A number OF e1- soldiers &C the United States
! army, now resident IN the county of Chester
| have issued an address headed ITO Our Old
Comrades OF the Army of the Unor," in which
they set forth that after being in the Union ar
my they have now became citizens Of this State,
and that they deem it due to truth and justice
TO publicly contradict the false report; circuat-
ed as to the treatment OF men Of olthern birth;
that though always voting the Republican ticket
| they have not been Disseminated agains. social
| ~ or in matters or business on that account.
| They say that certificate OF hon orabe dis
charge from the Union army is sufficient to Sc
! cure employment to the bearer, and give in
stances where this has been doue.
They conclude by declaring on their honor
that the ex-Coufederstes are to-day ob.dlent 70
| the constitution and laws or the MON and loyal
to it's flag; that the only rebellion IN progress is
rebellion against public robbery and misrulc;
that Hampton s as loyal rs they are sud that
the people who sus lain him are struggling to
save American civilIz ton rom being 'rushed
out under the heels Of sl[ barbsrous A"groes or
| strsngled III the grasp Of corrupt political! CAR
petbaggers. They who follow Hampton they
say, deserve the approving sanction Of all
lust men, and are entitled, comrades to your
hearty God speed" The idress is signed by
eleven ex-United States soldiers now r, sident III
Chester county"
Senator Randolph, who has been in South
Carolina for some time exam nlng the condition
of affairs there. says:
"Of one and all the districts alleged to be in
SURF, ctionary, l can say that no village popua-
ton of New Jersey is more quiet or peaceful,
and, with single exception, srising from causes
non political, none of these districts have been
disturbed"
All the judges told him they knew of no cause
that warranted Cham berlain's pro lama.ion, or
that of the President of the United St3tes and
va al,
saton that the civil power, prior to the pcocla-
nation, WAS full and ample in all the counties,
and they branded the Governors assertion to
the contrary as libel on the state"
Judge Bryan. Of the United States District
Court for south Carolina, corroborsted all that
had been s.atei by the ten State judges He said
he WAS adjourned at the Governors Lroclama.
ton, and although his duties led MIN TO travel
| in snd to know every county in :outh Caroins
he had not been made cognlZant OF any inter
| ruption of civil process and mad not seen any
violence, outrages or murders, nor heard OF any
save in the two or three instances conspicuously
published to the country. . Judge Bryan is
now apprehensive as to the safety Ut the waite
families scattt ed about the sparsely settled por
tons of the State. He +! Ars that the tendency
of the Governors proclamation, aud Of the pre-"
sence of federal troops will be, in tba hua reds
of townships where the troops will! not be STA.
toned, to give license to the base and brutal
passions of the lower class Of negroes.
Touching the condition of the elections, Sena-
tor Randolph says:
1.-THE board of State canvnssers consists of the
Secretary of State, the Comptroller General,
the Attorney General. the chairman of the COM
nittee of elections OF the House. Four Of these
officers are republicans With them rests the
entire power OF count Of these six final can rs
sers four are candidates To- reelection. In q
| word, the members of the State board are abso-
lutely and finally judges f their own election.
1.-THE COUNTY boards of canvassers consist of
! three ommisioners of election. They are ap.
pointed by the Governor.
Of the military power Of the State the follow
ing was ascertained Its militia is composed en-
tirey of negroes. To them and them alone, are
State arms and ammunition given. 9TH ter5 and
men al republicans, and republicans uniy. Inc
State has purchased over hsf million dollars
worth of srms within seven year, past They
| are now wholly within the control Of the
| groes and their leaders.
1t is conceded that Gov. Chamberlain during
| the first two years of his administration made
persist0 1t efforts to reform the government OF
the State and that ho sought TO shake himself
| loose from the worst men of his party. who, in
turn, denounced him as o partner in their ras-
| calities.
Senator Randolph then concludes as follows
| "Suddenly, however without assigned reason,
| against the protest Of every Leading republican
| in the State, Gov. Chambe ceased his en-
| nifty to the men he had denounced, consented
to be their candidate for reelection, led ticket
/ Will meu HuOee iuldIuy us ueiu up w pun
| lie e1ecration, and whose association he has
spurned for years. Every republican judge of
the supreme Court in this State will indorse
| this statement. Some of them have giveE me
this information. Why he made this rem .rk
able change can only be Ief! to conf ec.ure. Poll.
ticsns say his reward is to be the United States
Senstorship.
Yesterday one OF the msrshals Of Alcndsle,
| s. G. arrested drunken negro who had BEEN
| for two hours or more disturbing The peace oflho
| town. His language became so obscene that
| even the modesty of the negroes YVES shocked.
Ten or twelve republican negroes came to the
aid of the prisoner, and swore that they would
not allow one of their party to be put in he
guardhouse This mob, armed with sticks,
Knives and pistols used every effort to rescue
the prisoner from The hands OF the marshal, and
had it not been for the timely aid of Mr. George
All, q town officer, the priSone! would nsEeT
have been put IN custody. But it did not end
here. As soon as this breaker Of the pesce wss
placed in the gusrdhouse forty Or more negroes