The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-12-20

To the Editor of the Trbune:
Sin: VIII you allow me hearing
relation to those prosecuted and pros
cuted Republicans of South Carolin
whom the Tribune encouraged to stan
firm while the electoral vote OF the Stat
should be counted for Hayes and Vince
/, er, but for whom il has no words OF chez
nor even demands justice and fair trla
at the hands of Wade Hampton and hi
officials, to whose honor and tender mel
cies they were committed by the polio
of an Administration, to place which ii
power they had been urged to risk, ant
did risk, their regulations and thei
lives After the United States flag wa
hauled down in South Carolina by ar
rangement with the rebel bankrupt
4 Wade Hampton, twice traitor in arms
once in 1861, conquered, a second time
I in 1917, defiant and triumphant; there
were in the State liable to criminal pun
| ishment:
/. Alleged dishonest Republican off
cials subject to the rebel State courts.
2. Undoubted negro-murderers; who
killed their victims solely to prevent
Hayes from being President, and were
therefore amenable to Federal laws and
process
now THE NEGRo-MURDERERs HAVE BEEN
TREATED.
The negro-murderers were promptly
forgiven. The South Carolina Legisla-
ture memorialized President Hayes to
grant them amnesty. The response was
as follows:
To Governor Wade Hampton:
he has instructed the District-Attorney OF South
Carolina to prepare for trial only three indict-
.s .iie.s AZ tg EliShIon cttse, anu " hollly the
parties IN all other cases that they need not
prepare for trial. 1t is possible that only one
case will be tried. The indictments were found
by grand jury composed of both political par
ties, which seem to Justify the assumption that
the prosecutions are not partisan. / agree with
you that a general amnesty should extend to
all political offenses, except those which are of
the grayest character. II. b. HAYES.
Washington, d. C., May u, 1871.
There were no political offenders then
under indictment in South Carolina, that
/ am aware OF, except for murders Of
Hayes Republicans; and what of those
can be considered as not of the gravest
character, / cannot conceive, unless pos
sibly those where the chiyalric Southern
er has refrained from mutilating the
bodies With such letter as this be-
fore the Southern juries there was as
little possibility of any conviction by
Southern jury of the high-toned butchers
OF Hamburg and Ellenton, as there was
Of convicting Jefferson Davis Of treason
after Horace Greeley had signed his bail
bond and Andrew johnson had employ
ed eminent counsel not to prosecute him.
To make immunity and amnesty more
sure, however. when the unhanged South
Carolina traitor returned from his North
ern tour, where he had been introduced
as that great and good man, Wade
Hampton" he carried with him as part
ing donation of peace and conciliation
the appointment, as United States Dis
trict Attorney, Of q renegade Republican
and assistant Democrat, one Northrop,
who proceeded to select as his assistant
bitter Democrat, a relative Of Wade
Hampton; and thereupon the South Car.
olina murderers, who should have been
tried in the dock, became the masters OF
the United States Courts, and the am
nesty promised to Wade Hampton was
fulfilled.
HOW ACCUSED REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN
TREATED.
While complete amnesty, security and
political power to butchers of Republi-
cans has thus been obtained, what steps
have been taken by the Administration
or any Northern Republicans to secure a
fair trial to the accused South Carolina
upon whom Wade Hampton
and his infuriated blood hounds have
turned with savage ferocity? A Con
gresham has heen dragged from Wash
ington and convicted and incarcerated
Two Republican officials have been SEN
fenced and imprisoned, and a United
States Senator is threatened with SINH
lar fate. Are these things being fairly
done are the accused having fair trials?
are they being prosecuted solely from a
love of justice and according to a correct
Of the criminal laws, and
not as measures Of political persecution,
revenge and ferocity? If they are, moth
ing need be said nor can be done about
it; but if not, the Republicans of the
North need to give the subject careful
investigation, and to take manly and
action.
1t may be an unpopular work to say
anything in seeming defence of carpet
bag Republicans accused of thievery and
it is undoubtedly easier for
Northern Republicans to turn to them a
deaf ear, to say that they are a bad lot
and to let Wade Hampton and his minis
ters of justice convey them speedily in
to the penitentiaries. But such is not the
duty OF the Republican party nor of the
Tribune. Whatever these men have
done, they are entitled to fair trials
Are they having them? If not, they
should be secured for them, or those Re
publicans who are enjoying emoluments
and high honors obtained for them in
part by the fidelity and courage Of these
men, now betrayed, surrendered, accused
and in peril, should return their thirty
pieces OF silver and 60 and hang them
selves.
undertake to say that the South Car
olina Republicans, now pursued by that
great and good man, Wade Hampton,
and his Attorney General Conner are not
having fair trials. The convictions are
being secured by means of a political
crusade and campaign, carried on by
masses OF infuriated Democrats, who
swarm the court houses, intimidate the
witnesses and colored jurymen, and greet
with applause and cheers the rendition
of the verdicts of guilty. The witnesses
are confessed scoundrels, granted immu-
nifty for falsely swearing into prs OBJ
noxious Republicans and protecting Dem.
ocratic thieves. Will you look at the
facts in one case-that Of l.. Cass Carpen-
ter?
CARPENTERS TRIAL
Mr.. Carpenter ran for Congress last
Fall; has been a prominent editor, and
in 1870 published The Daily Union, at
Columbia, and edited The Daily Rcpubli-
can, at Charleston. He has been con-
convicted and imprisoned for forgery in
altering, in 1872, an account against the
State from S720 to 81, ,72O. Here is the
account:
COLUMBIA, :. G., Dec. 10, 1871.
Mcssrs. Woodruff & Jones,
Clerks General Assembly
To The Daily Union, DIR.
To publishing laws regulating lusur-
auce Policies in daily and weekly. sl,s20 %
We hereby certify that the within account is
correct and remains uuuaId- 1l -.O OO