Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-01
South Carolina.

Information which DOT only confirms my prsVl- |
Gus predictions as to the wholesale system OF
arbitrary arrests to be inaugurated 90 the eve OF
the election, but develops stupepdous plot on
the: part Of (be ,Federalattaches Of the Depsrt-
ment OF Justice and the Governor to intimidate
white and c,lored democrats and defeat free
election lo Aiken county the plan is to rear.
rest large numbers of those already bailed ny
the Uu!ted States, Commissioners ca afhdaVlts
of negroes aud warrants to be issued, this time,
by State trial Justices
The af6davl;s upon which, the warrants are
to be issued charge the accused parties, not
with Intimidation of voters, but with unlawful
shooting aud being engaged 10 riots on or about
the1,l7th; ASH antE19tb of SeptemberslasE
Some Of the charges are said to be for murder:
These arrests arc to be made on the 4th and
9Th of November The State law requires
uolice OF tour days to obtain hearing on
writ OF habeas corpus Tor release before either
two trial justices or circuit Judge JIbe result
is that the parties SO arrested wilt be thrown
into Jail, and held there, if necessary, by the
aid OF Federal troops until the election is over.
This Conspiracy is regarded. as The most daring
and hghhanded yet attempted, and, even with
the presence of the Federal troops, it is not al
| together certain that it will be submitted TO.
There arr low mutterlngs and torebodlngs OF a
! popular ouburst, and such tyrannIcal acts as
these may precipitate the storm, notWlthstand
ing the determination of peaceabIe submission
under any aud all circumstances. The alleged
Offences for which these rearrests arc to be
made occurred about the 18th OF September.
| The afiiavits on which the warraots are based
have been in the bands Of the United States
District Attorney and the Governor for weeks
past, many Of them having been substantially
published 10 republican organ 10 New York
sometime since but they have bceu purposcly
held back until the eve of the election to defeat
the will of the people, and if possible, provoke
d collision with the troops. 20 Saturday thlr-
| teen additional arrests we're made 10 Aiken
county by the United States deputy marshals,
all of the parties, with two others already con.
fined, being still 10 Jail. The District Attorney
is reported to have over 500 warrants upon
which to make arrests on Saturday and Mon
DAY preceding the election 10 Aiken and Barn
! we'll already prepared, and 600 to 700 for Edge
field and the surrounding couuties. These ar
rests of COURSE will Include all leading citizens,
and are intended to overawe the people and
overcome the democratic majoritles III the coun-
; ties named.
The plot creates great excitement among the
! few democrats to whom il has become knowc.
| As further confirmation OF the plot, an lnd-
vidual named jim Caution, who combines the
! offices OF the State constable. under Governor
Chamberlain, and Deputy United States Mar
shall under Marshal Wallace, this morning
said:
Il arrested Butler, by God, aud Ill arrest
$40 more democrats before the election.
THIS remark was dropped when the dual
i la Lat
! during personal controversy.
With ali the civil and military appliances OF
the Federal Government 10 bis hauds, together
with the entire election machi 1ery of the State,
! It IS almost impossible to believe that Cham
barlaiu can be defeated. The Board of State
canvassers is composed at present., with one ex-
ccptiou, Of caodilates for recC ctiOD on the re-
publican ticket. The names OF the candidates
ON the electoral Congressional, Legislative, State
and county tickets are all placed on the same
ballot, so that the caoVasserS, 10 deciding the
election of any candidate, are practically giving
judgment 10 their own Case The Inferior
/: boards are also largely made up OF Candidates
for flee or appuintees OF the Governor. ln
Laurc Us, a doubtful county, one of the three
co.u ;ni>sion:Is is the republican candidate tor
Senator, and another is republican candidate
Tor the House. La fairfield The chairman OF
the boar,i is the republican candidate for the
House and che OF the republican precinct Fed
eral Supervisors is candidate for county COM
missioner.
A prominent republican says that majority
OF all the commissioners in the Stale are either
| republican candidates or appolntees OF the Gov.
error. 1t will thus appear that under the pres
eut system the republicans would be the gain
ers by contest. a numb:r of the counties
will be close.
During the march Of the grand Hampton
procession on Monday the coored democrats,
as well as the white meu, women and children,
were submitted to the most abusive and Vlest
insults from negro r.ughs and WJmen, parllcu-
| larly the women. They lined The streets and
made Indecent exposures Of their persons and
cursed The white and black democrats in the
most foul aud Indecent language. 1t was all
submitted to- uodcr Instructions from General
Hampton. The entire police force was out,
but cyuli not put a stop to this assault. 10
some cases the negro women fairly performed
al Indian war dance With clubs and knives, and
10 one or two instances attempted to pull COL
ored meu from the racks aud mob them. No
disturbance occurred owing to the forbearDce
of the whites, several of whom were actually
knocked d)wn lu the Streets
! CHARLESTON, $. G., Oct. 3l.-U Unexpectedly
I enough tie democratic canVassers are making
excellent progress among coIored voters 10 the
u.igLborhood of EIlenton and ROuse's Bridge,
the scene OF the outbreak which made the chief
excuse for military Intervention in this State.
They report many converts.
A futter OF excitement amoog the newly ap
pointed deputy marshas throughout the State
is CAUSED by the announcement that they are
not entitled to pay except 10 Charleston.
| b,r ham nrIor RI a nd
ty, 10 the mountain district, where there has
never been the taintest sign of violence, but 20
NOV ment is made to station troops 10 Charles
ton aud other coast counties where dagger of
Intimidation aud lawlessness grows hourly more
imminent. Ten companies in all will be sta
toned in Bridge6eld county yet not man has
| been sent to the counties OF Beaufort, ColIeton
| and Charleston, which have eleven thousand
| voters, ard over thirty thousand black vo-
| ters aud wi ere the fana,cism and ignorance
of blacks are such that it Is dangerous outside