Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-12
The True Story Of Southern Disorders
New York NO-ld EditOrIaI1

New York Wo;ld, EditorIal.l
While Governor Cnan b lTIain, at
South Carolina, is plotting with the
Washington coLsp'ra.crs for the over
throw of free government, not in the
south only, but in the whole country,
mis- adju ants are as busily engaged at
home III stirring up their neg.o ad-
herents to murder and riot. Our dis.
patches tell the story of the scandalous
proceedings in the streets Of Charleston
during Wednesday night, ard Of the
outrsg2s Inflicted on this peaceable Ia
borers of the COmbabee ce-fislds for 8
week past. We have already printed
full accounts Of the Intimidation prac.
ticed sg 1ipst Democratic negroes IN all
parts OF the south, but in no SOUTH
ern States has tais prescription been 80
bitter and relentless "a in Sou Caro-.
lima and Louisiana. Taught By the ex-
ample OF their white leaders that the
laws are mOckery and sham, the
lower and desperate classes of the
colored people hesitate at no crime to
further their abandoned ends. The
record of every week in "the PROSTATE
State" is a shocking series Of arsOns,
Outragts and murders which pales the
story of Ireland under English
rule by contrast. So common
have they become, and 30 hopeless are
the white people of relief from those to
whom the administration of the laws is
committed, that these crimes are sUf.
fered to go almost without protest. In
one instance only, of late, have the
respectable citizens taken the law into
their own hands, and inflicted a punish.
ment that would seem altogether incom.
mensurate with the immediate offense,
but whi IA was intensified by the reeol-
lection of inDumersble atrocities in the
past. 1t has happened that very many
colored people of the better sort-those
who have accumulated little property,
and have an equal stake with the whites
in securing good government-havea an
nounced their determination to vote the
Conservative ticket at the coming elec.
tioD. This has subjected them to peIsacu
ton of the most malignant nature. They
are wsylsid at night and beaten; tney
are threatened with death if they do not
resume their allegiance 10 the Radical
party; they are expelled from their
churches by the brute force Of msjorities,
and made outcasts amOpg their people.
1t hss been found necessary for the
whites to guard the meetings OF these
poor people from violence, and to
escort the members of the colored
Democratic clubs back to their homes.
Last Friday evening, in Charles.
ton, one Of these meetings was assaulted
by drunken Iuffians and broken up. This
! act was repeated on Wednesday night,
and there followed saturnalia of disOr-
der and plunder such as could occur in
no American city uncursed by the rule
of such scOundrels as have plunged South
Carolina into a 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 interi-
or parishes of the States and there is COZ
elusive evidence that the ignorant ne
groes are acting only under the advice
and prompting OF designing whites. 1t
Is desperate struggle ia both unhappy
commOnwealths. On the one hand are
arrayed the united body Of intelligent
citizens, representing the mercantile,
agricultural and industrial interests of
the State, and aided by the better class
es Of the colored people; on the other,
the disreputable aliens whose only OBJ
ject is and hss been plunder, controlling
and supported by the ignorance ard de-
pravity Of the lower order OF negroes
On the one hand we have Hampton,
who, like Adams, OF Massachusetts,
represents an iIIustriOus revolutionary
name, and with whom are virtually
associated all the worth and probity
of the State, and Nichols and his
colleagues, who represent the same
vital elements Of society in Louisiana.
On the other we have the infamous
Packard, and his associate, Warmoth,
the authors Of every wrong from which
Louisiana has suffered; Patterson, q