The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02

perfected. 1t is generally understood
that Il supreme effort is to be made
to defeat the Republican candidate
by importing voters from this Dis
trict in large numbers, under the
pretence that the persons thus sent
to Montgomery county are only tenn
porary residents Of the District lie
committee appointed tonight will
| call upOn all prominent Democrats of
this city for contributions with
which to accomplish their purpose.
WADE HAMPTON's CAMPAIGN.
WASHINGTON, October % The
President and Attorney General
Devens continue to receive daily APP
peals from Southern Republicans for
protection in their political rights.
1t appears that as election day ap-
proaches the condition of the Re
publicans in all the SOuther States
| becomes more critical. That their
Acknowledgement has already been
accomplished by their political oppo-
nents is an assured fact. The "vic-
| tory is won in advance ofthe battle"
writes one Democrat from South
Carolina, and the Republican,
hemned in on every side by the muir
derOus red shirts" and the 10 al
courts, and all the machinery of the
State Government arraigned against
them, admit that they have ADAM
doned the contest. A private letter
from a gentleman who first went to
South Carolina as a surgeon to
Union regiment, and who married
and settled there, says: 1--WE are
not allowed to hold any meetings.
Even our conventions are broken up
by the red-shirt Democracy. Re
pubiicans can no longer exercise their
political and party right in South
Carolina than they could in Russia
or China. Freedom in the South is
a sham and a reproach to the Ameri-
can nation. Appeal to the courts.
you would say. Bosh! You might
as well appeal to the devil to protect
you in your religious rights. They
openly declare that no Republican
meetings shall be Held, and when
ever any have been attempted they
have been violentlybroken up"
That all this is strictly true there
can be no doubt. And being true,
what a commentary upon free gov
eminent that such things should be
Governor Hampton's Attorney Cen
eral was here the other day, and his
mission was to assure the President
that the reports of the outrage at
Sumter, and of the reign of terror
that prevails in Carolina, is all ex-
aggeratiOn and "bloody- shirt talk :"
that everything is quiet; peace and
harmony; that the negroes all
worship Hampton. and are rallying
around his standard that the laws
are being rcligiously obeyed that
the Republicans have not been dis
tured in the enjoyment Of their rights,
nor will be, and that Governor
HamptOn's pledges to the President
will be faithfully carried out
AT the very hour that Attorney
General Hannan was talking to the
President, Governor Hampton was
addressing a large meeting at Hamp-
ton Court House, and urging them to
renewed efforts against the common
enemy, the Republican party. The
men before him were armed with
rifles and dressed in red-shirts.
When Governor Hampton himself
encourages these armed men, whose
very uniforms are synonymous of
bloodshed and violence, to overrun
the State at will, break up Republic
can meetings and Danish leading Re-
publicanS from their homes, what is
to be expected from less prominent
and unpledged Democrats ?
NEW AnUrpTJSEMENrs