The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-23

are maze 1Of pOHtlcal eHecC, ana
not in order that offenders shall be
punished. The brutality with
which colored Democrats are treat-
cd confirms, and rivets fast, the
conviction that the game is to force
back the colored people into tho
political stews from which they havo
escaped. TO cap the climax, tho
prosecuting officer, in every case of
violating the Election law, is L. ".
NJ. Mackey, who, in his double part
Of Assistant District Attorney and
ex-candidato for Congress, can pro-
mote his personal aims, till his
pocket, crafty his spite, and make
himsoIf worthy of the consideration
of the party leaders, whenever they
have bone to throw to thoir hun~
cry servitors.
We have no desire to say what is
unkind or ungenerous but wo arc
compelled to believe that President
Hayes is either wretchedly insin~
cere, or is the dupe of the crafty
spirits who hover about him. The
arrests that have been made in
South Carolina are not in conson-
ance with the letter of Attorney
General Devens to District Attor-
ney Northrop, dated October 3,
1878, in which he directs that,
when there is "sutlicicnt evidence"
that the Election laws have been
violated, the warrants Of arrests
shall be issued by "some firm and
impartial United States Commits
sioner.' Where is there "suficient
evidence" to justify the arrests that
have been made Who would
venture to call Wiggin. firm, or
Lee or Hutchinson impartial !"
The Attorney General also said:
Gin no case will you permit any
warrants to be wantonly and care
lessly issued The laws are to be
executed firmly, but always fairly
and impartially." Warrants have
been wantonly and carelessly issued,
and the laws arc not executed fairly
or impartially. The people of this
State know it. They see that
under the pretext of protecting the
meek Radicals in the exercise of
thoir rights and privileges, the
rights of the Democracy are
trampled upon. There is no reme-
dy except "civil processes" ie the
State Courts. The Democracy do
not intend to follow the example
set in Ohio and Indiana, and lynch
those who give offence. They hold,
with the President, that violations
of the law should be puni1hed by
"civil processes. And the fullest
power of the State laws, framed by
Radicals and as stringent as the
Federal laws, will be exerted to
bring to justice tho willing perjur-
ors employed to vex and harry the
people. The State can stand it,
South Carolina can take caro- of her
citizens, white and colored. False
swearing will not avail to convict
respectable citizens in tho United
States Court, and they who perjure
themselves will take short road to
the State Penitentiary. The State
will go farther. There are hundreds
Of criminals in South Carolina who
are allowed to go free, in conformi-
ty with "the conciliation policy" Of
the Hampton Administration. They
and their Northern friends have not
responded as they should to our
"good intentions" and it will not
take long to put few score of the
big and little rogues in Jail, by
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policy" be indeed a failure. The
Radicals generally, and tho colored'
people particularly, havo infinitely
more to lose than any other class,
by tho arrests for suppositions Of
fences in this State. The pleasant
vices Of the Radicals are the whips
with which we scourge them. And,
unless Mr.. Hayes compel his officers
to be fair aud impartial, the dance
will soon begin. 70. 3. "
A young man at st. Paul, Mimi,
found, on going to mind reading
entertainment, that his two rivals
had taken seats on either side of
his sweetheart. Being sensible
young man, he sent up their names
to the mind.reader as eligible sub
jects wheroon to test his art, and
when, amid the acclamations of the
audience, his rivals mounted ssthe
penitential platform and proceeded
to make themselves ridiculous, he
triumphantly took his seat beside
the lady.
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