New-York tribune., 1876-10-14


will make it impossible for the Democratic
party to carry New York unless by fraud.
THE CITIL U1RS or SOUTH CAROLINA.
We print this morning a remarkable contn-
bution to the annals of disturbed and, We
may say, distracted commonwealth Ii is
from the pen of gentleman born in South
Carolina and not Republican. Ii rccOunts
with great vigor and with apparent fairness
the course which political opinion and action
have taken among the spared remnants of the
Palmetto aristocracy. Ii describes the sudden
change which has occurred within a brief
period in the desires, opinions, and actions ol
the South Carolina cX-SeccSsionistS. II sets
forth the revolution "against the subjcc-
" ton Of enlightened property holding Anglo
'SaxOns to a horde of African barbarians un-
" der the guidance of unprncipcd scoundrels
from the North" This is what is claimed
by its ap0lOeists for the violent and passion
ate spirit which has lately been exhibited.
Our correspondent shows that only four months
ago all was going ON well in the State. Gov.
Chamberlain was almost universally regarded
as IFS savior The old families OF Charleston
consented socially to recognize him. The Dem
ocratic journals sounded his praises. II ap-
pcarcd almost as certain as any event can be
fiat ne would be rcnominated by the Repnbli-
cans. and that he would also bc sustained by
The Conservatives Now, at least among the
so-calicd ari,tocracy, he is regarded ms a
" carpct-baggcr OF the carpct-haggcTs." This
change our correspondent attributes TO the
Democratic success which in 1874 secured
Democratic majority in the National House
of REPRESENTATIVES. The writer gives tins rs
the result of his own close personal obScrya-
tion. THE firc-catcrS began once more To hold
ND their heads. All the Southern States eX-
cent South Carolina and Louisiana were DEM
orratic. They recalled the political changes in
Wississippi-;he 10000 Democratic majority
won by the shot gun and the revolver
An tlcir debt of gratitude to Gov.
Chamberlain was forgotten. revolutionary
iournal was started in Charleston. TIE cclc-
bration of the Fort M0ultrr Centennial eX-
fitcd the military spirit. Thousands of the
Confederate troops were once more under
arms: all the speeches dwcit upon the past
clories of the State; while over the cOlOrcd
poHccmcn the troops from Georgia rode ruth
lcssly. unrcstrainod and unpunished We need
account of the railway j0hbcry and corrap-
ton. of the Hamburg massacre, of the whole
white population up IN arms and drilling oil
the intrusion of armed Democrats upon Re
publ;can meetings. of the wholesale butchcry
of the blacks, and of the thousands OF whites
forced into this Confederate. revival by ntim-
idation. 1t is claimed that Wade Hampton,
who owns large estates in Mississippi, has
carried tine Mississippi tactics into South
Carolina, with the design of repeating there
the successful game of elections decided by
brute force.
Our correspondent il in n position 10 be well
informed, and We believe him 60 bc honest.
We are willing to make great allowances for
men who have suffered 50 gIicyoGsly, and
who, if they have committed enormous errors,
have paid enormous penalties. One question
we are compelled to ask: Why Will these mis-
gnided persons thus forfeit the good will, the
confidence, and, to certain extent, the SYM
potLy of those who are their wcll-wIshcrs in
other States! Making allowance for feeling
and cxaggcraton in the reports of their vio-
lcncc which reach us, there remains enough To
excite regret, disappointment and disIrust.
There also remains enough to suggest to
peril, of confding the General Government to
Democratic hands. If Democratic majority
i'm the House of Representatives can exercise
such a balcful influence over the temper
and Judgment of the cx-COnfcderatcs, what
could we reasonably expect, OF peace, of re-
construction, of quiet and order iii the South,
with the Democrats in full possession of all
the Federal power might, and authority 7
What encouragement do these lire-eaters give
to those who would be their friends as well
as the friends of the freedman, to assist in
promoting political revolution in favor Of
the Democracy sympathy may be worn out,
patience may be exhausted, kindly consldera-
ton may be abused until it loses something
or its kindlincsS. If the aristOcrats of South
! Carolina are not in love with rum, and enam-
ored of their own extinction, let them think
Of these things
TIE BUSINESS OITLOOK