The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-01
spect,of nobody They have oppressed

/ ried them hundreds Of miles under arrest !;
they are charged with having taken pay
for Issuing pardons granted by the gov
ernment, with having murdered unoi-
fending citizens under cover, of law; with
having insulted women and maltreated
men, and they are consequently deapised
and hated with the utmost bitterness,
So thorough is the public hatred of these
fellows that the sentiment of the people
is always against them and with the dis
tillers. In this way al apparent respec-
liability is given to the lawless practice
that has encouraged hundreds of people
otherwise perfectly respectable to embark
il ii. Whole communities who have no
interest whatever in ecrooked's whiskey
yet -sympathize so thoroughly with the
Idistillers as against the "informers" that
they hinder the latter in their search in
eyery way frequently combining tosride
him on rail, duck him in a mill pond
or treat him to suit Of tar and
feathers.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
Indeed, it is hardly too much to say
that this matter of illicit distilling went
very far toward deciding the late Presi-
Dental contest, as follows: In North
Carolina Zeb Vance, who bore the Tilden
banner as gubernatorial candidate, was
exceedingly unpopular in the Western
/ counties. AS the war 'Governorof North
Carolina he had prosecuted these Union
hogbacks with great severity and they
were thoroughly incensed with him. It
was said that he even put their wives to
torture to make ytheua--telI~whese.. their
husbands were. In the Senatorial con-
tstof 1874, after Vance hadrecei yedthe
nouaiIationpof the Demoeratics CAUCUS,
The members from these counties bolted,
and, joining with the Republicans,
elected Merriman. 1t was believed that
these counties would vote against Vance
and thus give the State to Settle and
Hayes. Vance, however, prepared a
bitter invection against the system of
revenue spies, and, bottling huge Kan.
sas grasshopper in bottle of brandy. as
a type;of. the "informer,"' he, went into
the disaffected district and swept it like
whirlwind.. That was all the argument
needed. In their hatred of the spies
they forgot their animosity to Vance.
A candidate for United State. Senator
in Georgia busted himself in asking for
general pardon for all offenders against
the revenue laws, and it was gravely said
that this action would secure to him the
unanimous support Of the members from
the mountain counties.
1,oorx, c.r,Y,rcy q 3, STI<,rp ArED
The most careful ebsersers anticipate
a long and bloody struggle in The coming
attempt to extipguish the dislillers. 1t
will be marked By mauS murderous
ambuscade. many deadly midnight
struggle. The people of these infested
counties have been badly treated. The
corrupt and inefficient corps of deputies
have been, time and again, charged wit
the most infamous outrages, many Of
which are true beyond question. Many
innocent men have been wantonly dis
turbed and whole communities embit-
tered aud angered, ut the cruelty and
meanness of these deputies and inform
ers. There have been numberless fights
already. There, is hardly a deputy in
active service who has not been wounded
time and again. The distillers usually
escape with slight injury. They gener-
ally outnumber the deputies and put
them to flight, or, having to fly them
selves, find ready and easy retreat in any
iof the thousand mountain Businesses with
which they are familiar and which are
inaccessible to strangers and even i'm
pregnableztoea oeanSarmed troops "a hun
dred OF 90 Of these twiry athletes lacat.
tered about in this chain ofSnonntains
and possessing the active sympathy of
the entire population, will make it ex-
ceedingly interesting to a regiment OF
soldiers before they are taken. ,,, -..,,.,I
The killing of Emery by a soldier, who
took the body of the murdered man and
carried it off and bid itin aswamp, is the
climaxiofa long list of grievances, ,,some
imaginary, but more real, that has infL-
rated them.
The firing on this company of soldiers,
quietly encamped in a yard at night,
shows that very ugly spirit is aroused.
While the distillers treated the deputies
and informers cruelty often, putting all
sorts of indignities on them, they have
never before resisted, much less attacked,
regular United States soldiers. The dar-
ing and audacioIus spirit inspired BY their
wild mountain life has evidently taken
possession of the crooked" men. They
will not give up their enormously profita.
BILE business, so we'll suited to their habits,
without stern resistance. ..laex -
THE STATE, AUTHORITIES.
It is needless to say that the authori-
ties of the State and the great mass ofthe
people denounce lawlessness in every
shape, and that Governor Colquitt will
do all that can be done to bring the MUIR
derers of Lieutenant Mcintyre to JUS
tice.
The first thing that ahould be done in
this matter is to remove the whole corps
of deputies now serving and put in good
men. whom the people respect, and whose
hands will, be upheld. The, reply of
MarshalIS lISmy,hf Ia most admirable officer
by the way to this suggestion, was. 70
"But cannot get the class of men you
speak of to serve as deputies. They con.
slider the business disreputable and will.
have nothing to do with it."
It would certainly be we'll if the col.
lection of the revenue tax could be put
in the hands Of the people thoroughly in
sympathy with the communities from
which they are collected. :,
- Vanderbiles golden sesret-mind
your own business.
Good agricultural lands can be had
in Elnrida for 81 o. nor acre