The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-19
High-H anded Measures in Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina.

sissippi and South Carolina.
It is unlikely that a full history /
of the infamy of the present admin
istration will ever be placed before /
the people. Each day adds chap |
ter or two to the apparently limit
less record of debauchery, fraud
and oppression which in ages yeti
to come will distinguish the regime
of Grantism, and render darker the
blacklist spot in the history OF this
republic. When the shameless in
fanny Of the whisky-ring and the
thousand and one evidences Of cor
raption which have been developed
during the past year were exposed.
it was hoped by every lover OF our
institutions that the lowest possible
deoth had been reached; that the
worst had been told, and the patri
otto citizen could contemplate with
some serenity the record of the past
in the belief that nothing worse
could follow. But the vanity Of
UGH hopes has so often been illus
trated by even more disgracerul
lamps upon the already deeply
tanned reputation OF the Admins
tration, that we can never hope to
see the end of its fraud and oppres-
sion till it ends its existence.
Among all the outrages commit
ed by the administration and its
tools since the war, there has not
been more Infamous one than
heir conduct of affairs in South
| Carolina since the canvass opened.
And now that unfortunate State is
70 be put under military despotism,
The white people are to be crushed,
and the Federal Government to be
subverted, for the sake OF, saving
| Chamberlain and ultimately winning
seven electoral votes for Hayes
There is such opposition to Cham
oerlain, even by an increasing fac
lion of his own party, that he fears
he will be defeated; so he appeals
TO Grant to send troops to his aid
and already many good citizens
suspected of an intent to vote the
Democratic ticket have been ar
rested. Grant and Taft issued theil
orders on Tuesday, and even now
' the military is being poured. intC
4 he State. This is the GROWING
} OUTRAGE.
4 The plan devised by Chamberlain
e to carry the election his own way
] in which piece of dirty work th,
Admins tration is to be his assist
! ant. is thus stated by the New Yorl
! Herald, of the 14th inst, a pape
which all along has been opposed t.
81 the election of Tilden;
, Having arranged a Board o
State Canvassers Of Election and
Returning Board, the majority o
whose members are candidates OF
the same ticket with him, and ar,
hus by a monstrous perversiOn o
Justice entitled to decide the vot
p in their own favor; having furthe
B managed that of the ninety-si1
Commissioners of the Election ii
The counties, seventy should be hi
= declared partisans and forty Office
holders who hold their places b.
e his appointments; having thus pre-
arranged the count in his own favor
Mr. Chamberlain now summon
b Federal troops and Federal Mar
shals to arrest citizens known to b
opposed to him in politics"
In answer to the appeal of Pat
\ terson, of South Carolina, and som
Mississippi Republicans, for troop
-. TO be sent to those two States, tn
Administration has expressed it
purpose to give them all possibl
o aid.
These are the methods adopted b
l. the Republicans to retrieve thei
D. losses in Indiana, Ohio and Yves
e Virginia. 1t is we'll that the Hous
is Of Representatives is not Republ
can, for Grant would surely call q
extra session of Congress, and a lar
would be passed to increase til
army probably fifty thousand me
more, and station them here in tn
2 South, with the ultimate object i
q view of carrying enough States b
@ force to elect Hayes. He and hi
IN tools would be none too good to d
so if they could.