Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-18

The New York Tribune in q special
dispatch from Washington has the fol-
lowing:
The following is contained substan-
tially in the official report submitted to
the President concerning the South Car
DINA White Line massacre. in connec-
ton with Chamberlain 8 application for
troops: Captain Butler is known as
"One-srmed Butler" and is a brother OF
General Butler of the Hamburg mas
sacre. Cocker was a colored member OF
the Legislature. On September Is the
Rifle Club, commanded by Captain A.
P. Butler. went to EIIerton, and thence
by wood train to Robbins station.
where they found Cocker quietly sitting
on his valise, waiting for the train.
Some one exclaimed, There's that
Radical niger Cocker" Butler. ap-
preaching, said: Cocker. I'm the
niger ruler. and you've got to 60 with
me- Buffers command then sur
rounded him and dragged him into car
of the wood train, which then returned
to Ellerton. Cocker was then taken into
field. where Butler asked Cocker.
Whats your business?" ''I'm a Rep
resentative from Barnwell county, South
Carolina replied Coker. "All the
better" said Butler. Representative or
not, you are Radical niger and have
got to die" "For Gods sake give me
time to pray" said Cocker. Certainly, .
said Butler. pray away; but pray
| quick" Cocker then knelt down and
began to pray. and while he was kneel
ing Butler stepped back elk or eight feet
and shot him twice, and he fell forward
on his face, bleeding and dying. Butler
| then signaled six Of his men, who fired
| at the wounded man and he died. The
murderers took his watch, money and
gold shirt-bu.tons, and then left his
body to rot. These facts are sworn to
by witnesses who state that Cookers only
crime was Repub!ieanism.
There is no moro necessity for COM
ment upon this than upon any other
murder which has selfish Incentive be-
hind it. The only way for footpad to
become possessed of gentleman S
| watch and purse is TO take them by vio-
lence. The shortest cut to the abate-
ment Of negro suffrage and colored mem-
| berships of Southern Legislatures is by
killing negroes Dead men have no votes.
When the blacks Of South Carolina have
consented to the laws and limitations
prescribed by their white neighbors, and
agree to acknowledge themselves sub
| ject to the will and wish Of their former
| masters, they will not be murdered for
| opinion S sake. 1t is mere question OF
the surrender of right acquired through
Radical" legislation. That is all. Let
| the blacks show themselves ready to re-
turn to slavery, relinquish the ballot
and give up their Republicanism and
their schools, and there will be DO fur
Their trouble. The political question for
the North to determines, shall the Gov
eminent be relinquished to q party who
| will make it necessary to the saving Of
his Life that the colored man accepts
these terms? This is the grayest ques-
| ton of the hour-as much more grave
than the finance question or the ques-
ton of the payment of the rebel cotton
loan, as life, liberty and the pursuit OF
| happiness are dearer than money and
private gain. 1t is to be determined by
the vote of the 9TH of November if the
American people have the heart to rise
up to meet this momentous issue.