The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21
ighe 4, 70 Story OF Southern disorder,

While Governor Chamberlain of South
Carolina is plotting with the Washing
ton conspirators for the overthrow of free
government, not in the South only, but
in the whole country, his adjutants are
busiIy engaged Mt home in stirring up
their negro adherents to murder and riot.
Our dispatches tell the story of the scan-
dalous proceedings in the streets Of
Charleston during Wednesday night, and
of the ontrages inflicted on the peacea-
bic laborers Of the Combahee rice
fields for week past. We have already
printed full accounts Of the intimidation
practiced against Democratic negroes in
aii parts Of the South, but in no South
ern State has this prescription been 30
bitter and relentless as in South Caroliiia
and Louisiana. Taught by the example
of their white leaders that the laws are
as mockery and a sham, the lower and
desperate classes Of he colored people
hesitate at no crime to further their
abandoned ends. The record of every
week in "the PROSTATE State" is shock.
Ing series of arsons, outrages and MUIR
ders which pales the story If Ireland un-
der English rule by contrast So COM
mon have they become, and so hopeless
are the white people of relief from those
to whom the administration of the laws
is commit tied, that these crimes are suf-
fercd 20 g., elmost without protest. II
one instance only, of late, have the re-
spectacle citizens taken the law into their
own hands and inflicted punishment
that would seem altogether incommensu-
rate with the immediate offense, but
which was intensified by the recollection
of innumerabIe atrocities in the past.
/ Hoo y n<Tf 9 f1ok u n
j people OF the better sort-those who
have an equal stake with the whites in
nounced their determination to vote the
Conservative ticket. This has subjected
them to persecution of the most malig-
nant nature. They are waylaid at night
and beaten; they are threatened with
death if they do not resume their allegi-
ance to the Radical party they ara ex-
PEELED from churches by the brute force
Of majorities and made outcasts among
their people. It has been found neces-
sary for the whites 70 guard the meetings
OF these poor poeple from violence, and
TO escort the members Of coi3Fei Demo-
cratic cirnhhss back &C their homes. Last
Friday evening, in Charleston, one Of
these meetings wss assaulted by drunken
.ss::as:::s.ss..s .ss::as:::s.ss..s saa bT0kkei up. This act gas
repeated on Wednesday night, and there
followed q satuonalia of disorder and
plunder such as could occur in no Amer
lean city uncursed by the rule of such
sconndrels as have plunged South Caro-.
lima into q very abyss of misery, from
which her reputable people are now
manfully endeavoring to extricate her.
In Louisiana, the same dreary story re-
ours. Our dispatches have detailed the
recent murderous attempts in the interior
parishes of the State, and there is con-
elusive evidence that the ignorant me-
gEpes are acting only under the advice
aid prompting of designing whites.
1t is a desperate struggle In both un-
happy commonwealth. On the one hand
are arrayed the united body of intelligent
citizens, representing the mercantile, ag-
ricIiturai and industrial interests of the
State and aided by the better classes OF
the colored people; on the ether, the
disreputable aliens whose only object is
and has been plumber, controlling and
supported by the ignorance and depravi-
ty Of the lower orders of negroes. On
the one hand we have Hampton who,
like Adams, of Massachusetts,, represents
an illustrious revolutionary name, and
with whom are virtually associated all
the worth and probity Of the State, and
Nichols and his colleagues, who repre-.
sent the same vital elements of society in
Louisiana. On the other we have the
infamous Packard and his associate
Wnsmnth, the emthnEe ef every wrong
from which Louisiana has suffered Pat.
terson, carpet-bagger, Tho openly
bought seat in the United States Sen.
ate, and Who thinks Scath Carolin "is
good for feur years stealing yet" Moses
whose record Gs Governor was simply Q
series Of shameless robberies, and Cham.
berlain, the attorney for the plunderers
who vainly intrigued for the support Of
the Democratic and, falling, has turned
upon them with characteristic virulence
these are the men who wfung hi.
revolutionary instructions out Of the At
y torney General, and in whose behal
N these instructions are TO be carried ont
The people of the United States may SCI
their chances of future greatness in thii
contest. viii they suffer the constitu
tion to be violated for such purpose ant
by such men? Will they permit ou
free institutions to be made scoff and ,
byword in such a cause2 The helpless
citizens OF the South look to us of tn,
North for succor. Il can still be giver
, by the omnipotent processes Of the ballot
whore the ballot yet stands fer something
Will it be denied 10, them 7-Ns,v Tor,
World
J; The REAsoN.--A young clergyman
modest almost to nasnfilineSq. Was oiiC