The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-04-14
PATTERSON ON THE RAMPAGE.
Honest John" Proposes to Vote to Seat
Senator Butler.

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WAsu1Ssros, April 1O.-Tho Star
has this: Senator Patterson was at
tho White House this morning to
have q final interview with the
President and protest against the
removal of tho, troops at Columbia.
Owing to the Cabinet being in ses-
sion he did not SEQ the President.
Ho is quite discouraged to-day.
Although he has sent repeated telo-
grams to Chamberlain, he has failed
to receive response. He said to-
day: "You hear that bell striking
IL o'clock? It sounds the deathx
lxnell of the Republican party in tho
South" Patterson is apprehensive
that Chamberlain has weakened, and
that he will abdicate and leave the
State House and give up the
archives of the State without a
struggle. He says that Chamber.
lain left hero last week with plenty
of nerve and backbone, and meant
to hang on. He thinks that when
Chamberlain reached homo he found
the action Of the President in de-
Gliding to withdraw the troops had
thrown the party into "a, panic, and
he had nothing 70 rally. sYou see,"
said PATTERSON, s'our1 party down
there isn't like the party you fellows
have been used to at the North.
We,yise., the Republican party in
the South, We're created by M act
OF Congress-, and the negroes asso-
ciaths the government and the
troops with the party. Now if you
take the troops away the party goes
up, for the negroes there think the
government has deserted them Now
if Hayes had gone into office with q
good round majority, and hadn't
needed the vote of South Carolina
and Louisiana, why he could have
pursued his Southern policy with
botter grace; but the Republicans of
the South have shed blood for the
party, and hence the ingratitude is
all the moro cutting. And yet what
do you think 2" said Patterson.
"Why, because I tell those fellows
that l am going to vote to let Butler
into the Senate, they say T am q
Democrat. Yet Hayes recognizes
Hampton, who is Democrat, and
thus destroys all my political
chances, and wants me to keep But
Ter out of the Senate. Well, I aint
going to do it with my vote. I will
just tell the friends of Hayes that I
will see them in - first. Why"
continued Patterson, "this fellow
Hampton would put mo in the psni-
tentiary If he could. They have
been making their boasts in Colum-
bia that they have to build one
or two more penitentiaries
to accommodate the carpet
baggers You see," said Patterson,
"that Cainhoy massacre was god.
send for US. I tell you if it hadn't
been for that massacre we should
have lost Charleston County, and
Hyes could not have carried the
State. Why, we lost one hundred
and sixty Republicans killed during
the campaign, and over seven hun
dred arrests were made, but I un~
d rstand that arrangements In, @
boen made with Hampton to mol
pros. ull the cases. tell you what
We carpet-baggers ought to do, why
we ought all to resign and let the
Democrats get the Senate" Afriend
here suggested that Senator Spen-
Ger had said he be - if he was
going to resign. Patterson, con-
tinuing: Well, we ought to all re-
sign. I can't understand what
Hayes is driving at." The friend
said lie could. "Why, he is selling
out his party. Talk about divi-
ding the Democratic party, at the
South ! Why it's all moonshine.
Hayes knows it is. He is deliber-
atoly selling out his party, and it is
givon, out that he will divide the
Southern Democrats so that the
real infamy of thhe apostacy will be
surrounded with this glamour, and
the people won't see the real object
in ALI foulness. He has sold us out. ;
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