Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-06-13
the sLLENToM CONSPIRACY
TRIAL.

| lne IOllOWluS 40 thO ACSuAe ~ S"'
Ellenton trial, as given by our dis
patches:
Chief Justice Waite summoned The
Jury in the Ellenton cases into court
and found, on interrogating them
that they could only agree upon q
verdict in the case of one of the elev.
en- persons charged with conspiracy
This was Abner w. Atkinson, man
over sixty years of age, who was nc.
quilted. The Judge then discharged
tho jury, and the ten remaining pris-
oners were released on giving bonds
for their appearance at the next term
| of court. Counsel think it unlikely
that these cases will ever again be
tried. It is now known that the jury
stood six to six on the question Of
general acquittal, the six whites being
for, and the six blacks against. The
black jurymen, however, were will
ling to agree on verdict Of convict
ing two Of the accused and acquitting
all the rest, but to this the six whites
would not consent.
As plainly and as certainly as the
sun shines Of a bright summer day to
the knowledge Of all men having
eyes to see, just 80 sure was there o
we'll concocted plan, conspiracy, in
which, at least some if not all, of the
accused participated, to carry the
Edgcfield district for the democracy
by any means, however wrongful,
outrageous or merciless. That crimes
were committed by these conspira-
tors in their attempt to attain their
object, which would disgrace decent
barbarians, there can be no possible
doubt.
Yet, people who were the earliest
fire-brand in the rebellion, and who,
since its close, have been pandered to
and pardoned of every offense, and
who have latterly been placated- by
yielding to them everything they have
demanded, steel their judgments and
consciences up to the point of deliber-
ately refusing, under oath, to recog-
nize that any oflense has been COM
mittcd, and deliberately, long after
passion has had time to subside, set
at defiance facts and law.
1t is thus plainly apparent that
whatever else has been the effect up
OH the white people of South Caroli-
na by the Presidents policy, it has
not so conciliated them but that they
will deliberately violate their oaths
and shield the perpetrators of the
darkest crimes from punishment. 1t
was in 1861 forcgone conclusion that
our South Carolina fellow citizens, in
their blindness, in their madness,
would force upon us great intestine
war. This they did did it by reason
of their devotion to human slavery
their opposition to democracy and TO
the common brotherhood of man. As
a consequence the bosom Of destruc-
tion swept over their homes. Now
they still retain their old blindness
and madness, and with the colored
people among them, and even in
ajority in the State with no
probability of ever separating the
races, the whites still keep up the
fight. Thus they seem determined TO
force con6ictwith the colored race.
A very few years Will bring it about
under the present policy Of the whites.
The world will say when that conflict
comes, that the whites have forced it
upon their opponents, and that they
deserve chastisement. The aristocrat-
ic, anti-democratic, and yet so-called
democratic party of South Carolina,
are laying the foundation for another
terrible scourge to come upon them,
and this time it will be a domestic
scourge, and at their own doors. If
no other education will do them and
be successful, then it will be accorded
TO them. The whites will not always
monopolize the brain, nor, indeed, the
wealth, but these will be divided be-
tween the races. The muscle is al.
ready under dark skin.