The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-12-14


Its wealth has been equandered, iits
s"peFb natural advantages have gone
to waste, and the enterprise which
has gathered nearly two hundred
thousand people in it's chief city has
been defeated by q misruIe more
tyrannical than that which has
driven many a pIundered and des--
perate community into the for1qrrnn'
extreme of war;.
We have read of outbreaks in New
Orleans, and the ALMOST hopeless
energy Of it's people has been den
onnced by General Sheridan ae tbs
lawIess passion Of banditti. But, 40
whole, the citizens have displayed
a self control which does them honor
"a self control which we entreat
them TO maintain with even greater
care in the present terrible emer-
gency than they have done in the
past. Their enemies alone will profit
by their acting other than in peaceful
ways against the power which grinds
them. Their patience and forbear-
ance wlll stir the sympathies of the
rest Of the Union, or else we are fit
only for corrupt despotism.
Professor Sumner saws that Now
Orleans to day is the most mournful
city he eveH saw-sqnalid in appear
ance, the people dispirited and hope
less, and everything that gives lite to
commercial centre gone from it. In
the last election the citizens used
every lawful means OF getting rid of
their plunderers. They made no. OBJ
lection to negro suffrage, found no
tault with the Union, which was used
TO strengthen their enemies, gave no
work TO the uni'e1 States troops sent
Ihither under the ptctence of keeping
thcm ia order, and relied unly in
the ballot box to secure their redcmp
tion. They exhausted every device
to prevent frauds at tie election, rra-
soned with the negroes, organized
pol itlcal clubs, eel,t ont trustv agents
to prevent repeating at tue polls and
to collect returns, ai,a did nvgry,hing
that a Law abiding people under our
system of government can do. And
now they find their vilIainous Re-
turning Board p' eparipg to count
ont the handsome majority their et-
forts secured aud OF witch they
have the detailed and authentic re-
turns. Meanwhile great party at
the North refuses TO listen to their
solemn word, preterring to take the
lies Ot a set of scuundrels its own
agents have hitherto denounced aud
reprobatcd; and its head and the
head of the national Government sur
rounds these tamperers with the ball
lot with Gordon of troops.
Can honest and reasonable Repub-
Iicans stand idly by and allow wron q
to be consummated9 Are they pre-
pared 10 take advantage Of it to in
auGurate President of their partyE
Do they not foresee the doom that i'm
pends over all who have any part in
such a perversion OF tho ballot? This
is not q partisan matter. 1t is, mucbs
bigger than that. 1t is as if the city
OF New York had been kept under
the heel of Tweed'S ring, in spite OF
tho efforts Of it's citizens, by the pow.
er of the State and National Govern~
ment working in unison to annul the
verdict Of the ballot box. II New
Orleans was across the river from us,
we shO1ld think Of little else than
how to redeem it from TIC thieves
who devour its substance and 20 viii e
Oft from our fame SO black blot as
it's ruin. Blu though New Orleans
is sixteen hundred miles away, it's
adversely is as reactive on us as if it
were only six mills away. Looking
at the outrage merely selfehly, can
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