The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02


or constituted authorities. The hostility
TO them Of Gov. Chamberlain and hiS
CoadJutors is recent it is political, and ia
= designed to effect the coming election.
II is not true that In the recent raoa
collision the whites have been the aRRres-
sora. Their forbearance, as in the Charles
ton riot, the unprovoked Cainhoy mas
sacre, and the still more recent assassina-
tion Ola white ctizenin Edeehsld, has
been wonderful. The truth is, that the
leaders Of the colored people. fearing that
the day OF their power is drawing TO q
close, have excited their ignorant dupes.
have supplied them with arms, have ar
oused their fears for, the loss oftheir liber-
W, ana have thus encouraged them to
commit deeds of violence.
We may also affirm some things which
are true: ,.I. .NH
1t is true that there is in the State n
most active, earnest, and exciteJ canvass
to overthrow corrupt rule and re-establish
nohest STATE Government. Thisis q legi-
INNATE and lawful object which should
command the sympathy and support of
every lover of his country. Ii is not
treason to defeat Chamberlain, nor is it
lnsurrectlon to elect Hampton Itistrue
tnat while the white rifle clubs are order
ed by the Governor and the President to
dlsband and disperse, the colored militia
OF the State are allowed to remain in Or
ganization and in possession oftheir arms
and to attend political meetings in mill
tary order, with rife and other arms.
Ihe object of this discrimination is. as
obvious as is che comparatively defense
less condition in which it places the
white populations. We simply ask what
would the people ofNew York or Masea-
chusetts think or do upon a like applica.
hop OF the bayonet policy to them under
such circumstances?
Fellow countrymen we have sought to
place before you brieHy,and in true CO.
lors, the condition of South Carolina, the
wrongs OF her people, their patient for
bearance and their newborn hopes. Not
long ago Gov. Chamberlain. in a trans
port of truthful and genuine enthusiasm
proclaimed to the people ofthe country
she sGarIilng TACT that the civilization of
the Puritan and the Cavalier, of the
koundhead and Huguenot, is in peril in
Sonth Carolina, He spoke these word
under the influence ofhis better angel fo
true words he never spoke, and they are
as true now as then, The peril is create
now than then for when the worst an
most degraded elements of society ente
into or control a government, is thereno
much reason to apprehend some cata-
strophy which we hardly dare to con-
template? [Signed,l ~" -atI1daIl
), Y.'TuPPER, President Charleston Cham
Der of Commerce. .nf .1y e...,
w. M. WIGHTMAN, Bishop Methodi
Episcopal Church South. 20 '','
u 3, W; Howe D. D., Bishop Dioce
of South Carolina. LI'a1a n
r. NJ LYNCH, D. D., Bishop of Charles
JOHN FORREST, d. w., Pastor First Pre-
byterian Church. i... ...l.....
q, K. BRACKETT, Pastor Second Presbv
terian Church. ~" i' -"
j. l. GlRARDEAU, D. d.. Professor Tbeo.
logical Seminary. rT m
j. A. CHAMBLIss, Pastor Citadel sousr
Baptist Church. ... t.....
L. MULLER, D. D., Pastor St. Matthew
Lutheran Church.
W. S. BOWMAN, Pastor Wentworth Lu-
theran Church. lt EE7a.-
r. +; STEVENS, Presbyter Reformed Epis-
copal Church ......
". B. YATES, Chaplain to Seamen.
DAVID LEVI, Minister Congregation Beth
lehem. -'>''- --O'-
G. o, WTTE, President Peoples Ma
tional Bank .u
S. JOHNSTON, President Bank
Charleston, N. B. A. 80
D, MowRY, President Union Bank.
JACOB SMALL, President Germania Saw
ings Bank. .' .o nN
,. II. FROST President South Carolina
Loan and Trust Company. .......
ALBERT LENGwICK, President Peoples
Bank of South Carolina. 1'"I
[. r. ROBERTSON, Vice-President Caro-
lima Savings Bank. ..,r-