The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-07-22
TILDEN ON HIS NOMINATION..
ANOTHER REFORMER.

burg county, North Carolina, nominated
for the State Legislature r. A. Shotwell,
who in the dark days of 1871, rendered
himself infamous as the brutal and active
leader of the Kuklux clans that then dis
graced the Southern States. For the nu-
merous crimes in which he had participated
he was arrested, and upon trial and con-
viction was sentenced by Judge Bond to
the Albany penitentiary for a term of six
years, a POI ton of which time he served,
but was pardoned at the solicitation of
several of his victims. But what signifi
canoe has this nomination in an obscure
State south Simply this, that the nomi-
nation of two as notorious copperheads
and southern sympathizers as were Samuel
Jones Tiden and Thomas \. Hendricks
during the war is inspiring with fresh hope
SOUTH whose claim for such recognition is
based upon the double record of hatred to
the negroes and devotion to the southern
confederacy. Is not the result of the nom
nation already apparent in the south ?
Read the horrible details of the brutal
massacre at Hamburg, South Carolina
What is that but the first act in the Demo
cratic campaign of that State looking to
the subsection and Acknowledgement of the
coloIed voters? Did not the same plan
work successfully in Mississippi? Is it
not just one year ago since the colored
people of Nicksburg, who, peaceably as
sembled, were being addressed in the Court
House of the town, were wantonly fired
upon by crowd Of 90 White Liners - and
several prominent colored men slain in cold
blood. From that day the zeal with which
this merciless and proscriptive policy was
inaugurated, was not abated one whit till
in the following Fall of 1915 the Demo.
Gratis of the State of Mississippi held peace
able and undisputed possession of every
voting precinct in that State, by virtue OF
the terror inspired by their bloody acts
Who does not know that the colored voters
of that State are to-day as completely dis,
franchised as they were in the days Of
slavery. This policy is about being inau.
gurated in South Carolina. The attemp,
to disperse company of colored State
militia at Hamburg, upon the silly demand
of two young men, was the pretext merely
for the brutal and outrageous scene that
followed. The feeble partisan apologists
for these outrages in the south know
full we'll the object in view. 1t is to LolC
in the Democratic phalanx an undivided
south. Too shrewd to openly avow theil
disregard of the amendments to the Con
stitution, knowing full we'll the effect OF
the prohibitory amendments were they to
array the local State Government against
Federal authority they aim to secure the
same result by the Inauguration of a reign
of terrorism, during which the defenceless
negroes driven from the polls 10y individual
threats and personal acts of violence, the
chivalrous whites shall peaceaJly proclaim
of the new era of Democratic Reform
This is the hope of Democratic South Car
DINA, as it is now the fact of Democratic
Mississippi. There is not shadow of a
doubt of the result in both of these States,
if the voters therein have the opportunity
of depositing an unrestricted ballot. No
two States of the Union are more intensely
and certainly Republican,; and we hazard
the prediction, that notwithstanding the
disgraceful attempts to inaugurate therein
an era of violence and bloodshed by the
reckless adherents of Tilden and Hendricks,
that both Mississippi and South Carolina,
repudiating these shallow pretenders, will
roll up handsome majorities for the tried
and true soldier Rutherford B. HAYES.