The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-03-16


of Yocum's, 10 shield him from prose-
cution and conviction. Gov. Cham
berlain has taken Mackey on his
shoulders, and proposes, l presume,
to carry HIM through. The members
Of the bar in Mackey's Circuit, l am
informed, are very generally opposed
to his impeachment, while they do not
approve of many of his official acts.
How the matter will terminate it is
hard to conjecture at this time. AS
| before stated, not much legislation
is being perfected.
Tho House to day, passed concur
ront resolution, almost unanimously,
TO adjourn sine die, on tho !7th inst,
but it will doubtless receive the same
fate when it reaches the Senate, that
all similar resolutions have received
at the hands Of that body AN inde~
finito postponemont.
Crho usury bill camo up in the House
to day, and two sections Of it received
q second reading. 1t will evidently
pass the House, but have but little
hopo for it in tho Senate.
Some time since, somo colored peo-
pie in Edgcfold County, who perhaps
had heon guilty of bad conduct in the
community, were taken mp by somo
rash mon and pretty severely doalt
with, No doubt the parties violated
tho law, but tho opportunity to mako
n littlo cheap Radical capital, and
wave the bloody-shirt, was too good
to bo lost by tho colored Solons of the
Legislature. A great to do was mado
over the matter, and the House went
into Committee of tho Whole, to con-
slider it, 1t was amusing, as we'll as
disgusting, to 500 how eager somo of
them were to speak upon the question,
and gravely inform their less informed
brethren, that we wero just on the
evo Of tremendous" struggle, and
that tho Ku Klux miscroants had al.
ready offered rewards for their aesas-
inaton, because they woro prominent
leaders in thoir County, in order to
carry tho ncxt election, and how great
danger their precious carcascs were
in-the Edgofcld affair was only
promonatory symptom of what they
might expect during the coming cam.
paign. Davis. of Charleston, the tin-
dependent and coalition" member,
"and the bloody-shirt man of tho
House worked himself up to the high
est pitch, and made one of tho most
innamatory and incondary speeches
| over hoard fall from the lips Of any
ono. lie said tbat-"One drop Of the
IIood ofhiS people," (thc negroes, y ,0aS
'00Hh cvcry d,0clling house, cotton gin,
and barn in the State, and he adOised
his people to apply tie torch ,oithom hes.
'tdti0n Why he should advise this
course, in face of tho fact that the
parties charged with committing the
have surondorod and given
bond for their appearance at court, is
easily enough explained, when the
bad teachings Of tho negro by such
men as have been their leaders since
reconstruction is taken into consdo>
'ation, and together with tho slim
chances they know they have OF car
'ying the next election. Thoy know
,hoy have desperate case, and it
needs desperate remedy. The idos
of March will soon be here, then thoro
will be q general reckoning and shalt>
ng among the dry bones. The dcvo-
'pmcnts made in Washington by a
Democratic Congress in the last few
lays is only an earnest of what they
,Xpcct when the Democracy is en-
hrOned in this State. Tho National
Government is corrupt from head to
oot, and the whole body is II mass of
and South Carolina is only
me Of the limbs which is thoroughly
from the body, and when
ho body has become SO thoroughly
,utrificd that it falls to pieces, Of
'ourso tho limb falls with it. This is
plainly foroscen by the Radical ring