The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-01

s"u sh6osOH tuO 1coplcS tHty nave totu
4: iissHssEt h s Rs9p!e s;css s;As;fSsa aud car
:hey aTs charged With hsT::;S :.ke:: f=y
fos 3fsningi PaE3dns granted by the gov
eI1Went, Uiit5 having ipiiiaeTsd, Iuo:-
fo1ding Sisi3etS Ihdes cover 6f 4&ss; with
having inanlted women and maltTeated
PeDs 9na they ?re couseIyegtly desgiase
and hated with the utmost bitterness.
So thorough 10 the public hatred of these
fellows that tho sentiment OF the people
Is always against them and with the dis
til!ers. IG this way an apparent respec-
liability is gwen 10 the iawiess practice
that has encouraged hundreds Of people
otherwise perfectly respectable to embark
init. Whole communities who have no
interest Whatever in ecFooked's whiBkey
yet bympatfiize 90 thoroughly with the
djs.illers as against the "informers" that
they hinder the latter in their search in
every way ffequently combining to!ride
him on rail, duck him in mill pond
or treat him TO suit Of tar aud
feathers.
THE PBESIDEETIAL CONTES1.
Indeed, It is hardly too much to say
that this matter of illicit distiIlinp went
very far toward deciding the late Presi-
Dental contest, as follows: In North
Carolina Zeb Vance, who bore the Tilden
banner as gubsrnatoriai candidate, was
exceedingly unpopular. in the Western
counties. As che war Governor Of North
Carolina he had prosecuted these Union
hogbacks with great severity and they
were thoroughly incensed with him. e
was said that he even put their wives to
torture 20 make then,a tell-wheEe- their
husbands were. the Senatorial con-
tsssteE 1874, afte: lance hGsracsi y< eile
dpHlnahpn@sf the EDemoefeu6l elhsd9,
the tneaterss from these cauhtids U0its5,
and, joining with the Republicans,
elected Norman. 1t was believed that
thcae counties would vote against Van ,
and thus give the State to Settle aid
Hayes. Vance, however, prepared a
bitter invection against the system of
revenue spies, and, bottling huge Kan
sas grasshopper In a bottle Of brandy, as
type Of the ''in(urmer," he went into
the disaffected district and swept II like
q whirlwind. That WIS all the argument
needed. In their hatred of tho xpieh
they forgot their nnimnsi.y to Vance.
A candidate for United State. Senator
in Georgia busted himself III asking for
n general pardon for all offender. against
tho revenue lave, and it waa ernveiy snid
that this action would secure to him the
/, unanimoua support Of the members from
the mountain counties
BLOODY STRUGGLE ANTICIPATED.
The mpet careful 6breryers .antie;pate
II long and bloody ntruEale in The cunline
attempt To extinguish the dstilers. II
will be marked by maus q murderous
ambuscade. many n deadly midnight
struggle. The people of these infented
counties have been badly treated. The
corrupt and inefficient corps uf deputies
have been, time and again, cimiged with
the na1st Infamous oitrages, tnany ol
which are true beyond question. Many
innocent men have been wantonly dis.
turbed and whole communities embi..
tered and apgered, Ut the crnel.y and
meanness of these deputies aud inform
erB. There have been numberless fights
already. There, 10 hardly, deputy in
active service who Ras not been wounded
time and again. The distillers usually
escape with slight injury. They gener.
ally outnumber the deputies and put
them to fight, or, having tn fly them.
jlselves, find ready aud easy retreat in any
of the thousaEd mountain Businesses will,
which they are familiar and which are
inaccessible to strangers and even i'm
pregRah!e=so -enzass.ed tseecs a hm.,
dred of Hp af thdbe ssiiry &tsilSteS ItsAt.
tered Hbqus inl tits chain sfsSnolin..hf hfns
and possessing the active aympaahy oi
tho entire population. will make it ex.
ceetingly interesting to regiment of
soldiers before they are taken.
The killing of Emery by q soldier, Who
took the body of the murdered man and
carried it Oft and hid it in swamp, is the
climax OF a long list Of grievances, some
imaginary, but more real, that has inf.
rated them.
The firing on this company of so!dieFs,
quietly encaniped In o yard at uikbt,
shows that very ugly spirit 10 aroused.
Whilo the distillera trea:ed the deputies
and informers cruelty often. putting oil
sorts Of iudignities on them, they hav5
never before resisted, much less attacked,
regular United States soli;ers. The dar.
ing and audscious spirit .:.spired Ey their
wild mountain life has evidently taken
possession of the "cr0oked" men. Thev
will net give up their enormously profita.
bic buoiness, 60 we'll suited to their habits.
without stern Resistance t.rs
THE STATE, AUTHORITIES.
Az 40 uSSoiCco " Day tuat Tue uutuOFl-
ties Of the State and the great mass of the
people denounce lawiessneas In every
shape, and that Governor Colquitt will
do all that can be done to bring the mur.
dorers of Lieutenant Mcintyre to jus
tice.
The first thing that ahould be denc In
this matter is TO remove the whole corps
of deputies now serving and pus ia good
men. whom the people respect, and whose
hands will, be upheld. The reply of
MerShAl liSAyihf(a most stlfitrSbse effi1ef
by the way to this euggestion, vas: IT.
"Rut ! cannot get the class OF men you
speak of 60 serye 90 deputfes. They, com
cider the busineas disreputahle and will
have nothing % do with t." il
Il would certainly be we'll IL the COL.
lection Of the revenue tax could DO put
in the hands OF the people thoroughly in
sympathy with Tbs ehpfmpnitiee !frqTal
which they are collected. :.
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