The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-09-12
Bloody Shirt Talk.

One OF Lue puLTlOtlC eAcTJlOlS vi
"those patriotic men who now constitute
majority of the House of Representa-
tives"-to use the language of the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Michi-
gan-was directed towards crippling the
United States army. At the last session
they carried an amendment to the army
bill which forbade its use in enforcing
the revenue laws.
patriotism" so abounds in the South
ern States that the Democracy propose
to take the government wholly into their
own hands, so far rs taxes on whiskey
are concerned. They shoot down the
officers of internal revenue, rescue the
violators of the law from Jail, aud pre-.
vent the removal from State courts to
United States courts of the cases arising
out Of these crimes. One Judge Kershaw
of South Carolina plainly declares that
the State government is bigger than the
whole American union, and that the
violators of the whiskey tax shall not be
arrested within his precinctl
Another patriotic" jlfrist, named
Mackey, released the red handed MUIR
derer Redmond, for whom a reward had
been offered in both the Carolinas, and
raises bulwark by committing him for
some petty otfense in order to shield him
from the United States authorities,
pending negotiations between Governor
Hampton and President Hayes to pro-
cure amnesty for such persons and all
others in like manner charged"
Here we have a miserable little nest
of traitors in the old Palmetto State
assuming to negotiate as separate and
Independent power with the nation which
squeiched them, and only make mis-
take in not blotting out their political
existence forever.
Mackey reports to Governor Hampton
that "the grand jury have indicted FIVE
of the United States revenue officers and
deputy marshals for having committed
aggravating assaults upon unoffending
citizens and they will be tried as soon as
apprehended." These "unoffending cit
liens" were three men who had been
rescued by the ruffian Redmond from
Jail, where they were confined for open
violations of the law. Four more reve-
nue. officers have been arrested and i'm
prisoned on an indictment for murder,
because in self-defense they killed a
violator of the laws who had fired at
them as they were seeking to arrest him.
The South Carolina press rejoices over
the amnesty extended to all offenders
against the ku klux laws, who may now
return with safety to their homes; and
it also calls for amnesty to be extended
to the illicit distillers Of South Carolina.
Here is chance for some more "patri-
otic exertions" from those patriotic
men" who are being so highly compli-
mented by Northern Democrats in the
interests Of the illicit distillers of whiskey
and the Confederate butchers of revenue
officers. Down with the laws against
illegal distillers How could the Demo-
cratic party exist in the South if "those
patriotic men" did not guard and uphold
the whiskey interest? Men of the North
are rigidly held to the payment of all
taxes, while men of the South are so
much more patriotic" that they can
defy the officers of the law, and be ap-
plauded for it by Democratic authorities,
whenever they kill negroes to carry an
election, or kill revenue officers to escape
a tax on whiskey.
Let the loyal States of the union con-
tinue patiently to pay taxes and elect
doughfaces to Congress while the old
rebel States "beat' the tax collectors
and elect Confederate brigadiers to COM
maud the doughface crowd in Congress.
This will be Patriotism" rs defined in
Northern Democratic talk and Southern
Democratic action.-Lansing Mich.) Re
publican.