The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-01-18
70 alaring Misstatement.

No Glaring Misststement.
In the Spartanburg Herald of this week there
is long Communication upon the late "Reve
nue. RAID in this County, dated "Bogansvillc
Township, Union County, Jan. II, 1873, and
signed "Citizsns of BogansviiISx 4 Township"
which commences withs inflow the
-Asspas0 owxkhipss siTreek n xalariua
,miss,S Z Tst appssrs8 in The Union
TIMES in rsgafd to q Revenue Raid, as we see
you copied il ingood faith, he having published
it, as you say, on the statement of nm "Eye
Witness" At the close of the article in the
BRAID is q req6st that zee rcpublish it.
in the first place, if there were "glarng mis-
Statements in our report of the affair. the peo.
pie Of Boeansville Township should have cor
rected Them through the same channel. They
know full we'll that we are ever ready to cor
rect any errors that arc made by us editorally;
but as they have chosen another vehicle and
used anything but courteous terms toward us
VIC do not feel inclined TO republished that mr.
ticle.
In the next place we can find no glaring mis-
statements in our report, after comparing il with
the article published in the Herald and also with
one, manuscript, now before US, which a citizen
Of ssssssli!la Township Aes requested " e, &
We gasethe two reports that were prevalent
in the community at the time, while the main
Charleston papers, some days before they al,-
peared in the TINES, and we then stated that we
did not know which to believe. IF the "ctizens
of Bogansvilc' were so anxious to correct the
gldriny misstdtcmeats, why did they single out
the TIMES rs the only paper in which those
gidriny misstdtements were made? And why did
they ignore the TINES by publishing their reply
in another paper.
The only discrepancies of any Importance that
we can discover incur short account, when COM
pared with The long article in the Herald, is
where we say the stamps on the tobacco boxes
were so affixed as made it easy TO evade the law,
but in the report above that we state exactly
what "Citizens of Bogansville' state, that the
stamps werf soaked with water and could bo
easily renewed, and the officers took them from
the boxes, and then arrested the negro and Mr.
Hill. AS to The brutal treatment of MIR. Hill,
making an ugly wound in his head with gun,
which SGes ~ discovered until after the officers
left, alths ir. Hill had been hand cuifed an
hour ha he was released, and, therefore
could nd assibly have been able to wipe away
the bloOd-e purposely refraincd from saying
anything aSoltit. as we thought it would not
bear criticism. Why, one man told us that Mr..
Hills head $as badly cut and bled profuscly.
The facHis, according to our way of thinking,
the Citizens of Bogansvillc Township-at least
those engaged in the ailair-have not been ben
eftcd by thSeommunication in the Herald On
the contrarywe believe it has done them some
harm, and we arc not very often wrong about
suGh. matters. ,Itis our candid epini nion-and We
grScNf6r What may 1t be considercd worth ~
"Citizens of Bogansville" has been mere
said than was prudent about it, and said, too,
by the party in most danger. In such cases,
"the least said, the sooner ended is the best
motto.
Our neighbor Of the Herald last week did US
injustice by first publishing only one of the re-
ports we gave and also in assuming that we OBJ
tained that report from an eye witness.