The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1876-11-02
A Nort,sert Man'a Views.

The folio wing To- Ter has Desn son n
to Colonel Has..r.ell, in s:s! tospo"ssS -, !
all inquiry as to th>H = cont':$tot ont':N'4;vo va "a n
State. The writer is n's "tu ;,
Boston, but has for the asst C.,S'
years spent much of his IT, ne IL
Charleston, where he has large b., 81
ness interests =
COLUMBIA, S. G., Oct 20, 1876.
Col. Il. e. Xash,ell, CAaiyma,,
Democratic Ececutice CoUenaittee,
Columdio, $. e.,
DEAR SIR: I have tho honor to
wledge the receipt of your
communication Of this date, asking
me as a Northern man, to state my
views of the present aspect of pub
lie affairs i'll South Carolina. Your
unexpected request gives me priv
lege, which [ GLADLY embrace, to re-
fute the SANDERS that arc being ut
teredngainst the people of this State
1t SO happens that in the course
of business I havo visited every
county i'll South Carolina, except
Georgetown, during the present
year. and many of them within a
month past. I have more or less
acquaintance in all, and in many
social rs well as business friends. I
am known. Of course, to all rs "a New
England man, ready at NIL times and
under all circumstances to maintain
my proper position as one. I have,
therefore, had exceptional opportu-
nifty for Judging Of the general spirit
Of the people. L have yet ohear the
first word Of dis, aspect or to receive
the first act of discourtcsy offered
to me as q Northern man. On the
contrary, 1 have frequently been
honOrcd with courtesies which I
know were extended to show good
will to my people.
AS to questions Immediately con-
nected with politics. I have person
oily seen no intimidation of voters
by cithor party but the influence
of the secret "Union League" per-
meatcs, if it does not comprehend,
the whole colorcd race here, and
worry few of them, men Or women,
dare violate it's bchests. This is an
element strangely ignored by the
press, but I have seen evidences of
it's influence all through the country.
The prcsancc Of United States
troops would excite no unpleasant
feeling, as whites naturally soon
assimilato with their own color, but
the blacks arc instructed by their
leaders, that the sudden large in
crease of government forces through
the country means, that the govern
lnent orders and will insist on their
voting with it,
The disposition Of the whites to
ward the colored people, as shown
by word and act, is unquestionahly
generous, kindly and often affection
ate, but the purpose of political
tricksters to antayonize the two
r,c, s. n order to consolidate the
cotored vote for their own benefit,
regardless of every other effect, has
at last SO undermined the friendly
confidence naturally existing between
employers and employed, that both
social and business interests are be-
coming very seriously menaced.
While some of my most valued
and honored friends at the North
still remain Republicans, not one of
them who has vinitod the South has
fIled to denounce and repudiate the
regime of the earpet-bag clementhcre,
and am convinced that the rcputa-
bic men of the great Republican
patty of the North would, as they
have here, scorn to endorse the
clique Of adventurcrs who control
this State in the name of "Union
Republicans, " If tho present cru
sade against that element here be
considered apart from the Presitlen-
tial campaign, it would be no longer
Il question of politics, but rather m
effort made by tho responsible and
respectable citizens of the State
to rid themselves Of a band of mcr-
cenmy ADVENT, r.rs, living by the
exercise of quacllcly with the colored
pcol1 and fraud uroa| the property
holde. 8, their employers. Tilden's
crusade against the Tweed ring, and
Bristow's against tho whisky ring,
were not political movements, and
for sinil; L reasons no moro shonld
this DO. They were movements in
tho interest of law, ordor and respec-
liability, end SO is this.
1t makes one blush to imagine
what the conclusions of a foreigner
would be. who made his first visit to
America here, and contemplated our
/ publican form of governmt mt from
IL South Carolina standpoint! Would
to Heaven Webster or q Choate
could witness these things, that he
might send the truth ringing ip
thunder tones throughout the
length of the land; or Lincoln,
that he might blazon it in words of
fire across the Northern sky, till
eyery true Republican be reused to tho
patriotic impulse to put country
before party, patriotism before
prejudice!
Truly yours,