Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-13
South CarO1ina-Its Status.

The following letter is published from a
South Carolina Republican, and prominent
in the Cincinnati Commercial. It is taken
to be a true reflex OF the political status of
the State, and as such is entitled to con-
siderate perusal:
COLUMBIA, S. c., May 10, 1879.
SR-It nav interest your Northern
friends TO he Informed of the condition Of
noliticsl affairs in this State. The recent
convictions before the United States Court
at Charleston have had a most salutary eff
feet. greatly dispiriting the rife-club Dem
ocracV and inspiut1ng Republicans TO rally
and be prepared to carry South Carolina
for the Republican Presidential nominee in
1880. Never was our party better organ
lied in this State than at present. The
negroes are a unit in their determination
to Stand by the party which knocked of
their shackles and restored them to man
hood. They have q majority of thirty
thousand, and unless the rifie-elub system
and tissue-ballot frauds are resorted to, this
State will as assuredly be carried for the
Republican ticket in 1881 as viii Massa-
chusetts or Iowa. The Democrats know
his fact and hence they sare endeayOring
ito bribe the Republican leaders. Senators
HAMPTON and Butler have been importuned
to get Colonel E. w. M. 1ackey out of the
State BY all means, hence those Senators
are now endeavoring to have him nomin-
afed as Chief Justice Of Utah, in lien of
Major Corbin, whom the Senate has de-
eIined to confirm. For my part, I am. of
the opinion that the Democracy will not
dare to invoke the aid Of rifle-clubs and
tissue-ballots in the next Presidential con-
test. The eyes Of the nation will be upon
them and any preparation which thev NAV
make to carry the State by force will be-
come noised abroad, and will do their marty
incalcuable harm in the North.
The negroes feel that their liberties are
at stake, and should they be denied free
and fair election in 1880, they will emigrate
from the State on Rldsss. The emiOrstion
movement in this State is being hello in
allowance until after the Presidential cleo
ton. Should the role Of 1875 and 1878 he
e-enacted they viii move out and leave a
bowling wilderness behind them. This le-
termination on the part Of the blacks has
been brought to the notice of the Demo- |
cratic leaders, and unless they are bent
upon wrecking all future prospects of tbe |
Democratic party, and on bringing rnin
up,on the State, they viii make haste slowly |
to practice that species Of intimidation and |
fraud which has caused them to become a |
stencil in the nostrils Of the law-abidin0 |
North. It is known to many Republioa6
leaders here that the Democratic mana0ers |
are willing to enter into a Compromise for
1880, to-wit: They are willing to offer no /
resistance to the Republicans for the Fleo, |
toral ticket, and for seats in Congress- from, i
the First, Second and Fifth Disfricfs In
other words, they are willing to give in
everything save the control of the Ststs /
Government, and two Congressman Now
as TO the Presidential candidates. we are ali /
a unit for either Grant or John Sherman
The name Of Grant is tower of strength.
but our Republicans are equally as strong |
for Sherman. The average South Carolina |
negro swears by the name Of Sherman. as
the Musselman does by the sword of the
Prophet It was Sherman who liberated /
them 1860, and they are enthusiastic when
ever they alude to either Of the Shermans.
Win the name OF John Sherman ahonest
money anu ialt elections" inscribed upon /
our Naaonai banner in 1880, such would |
be tne enthusiasm created among South
ern Republicans that the Demoo,.so,, =;
South Carolina, Florida and North Ccyroii IL
ma would offer no practical resistance ana
Those men who held Office
under President Grant, and who have been
the most earnest advocates of third term.
have all left the State, and even should
they return next Spring will find them
selves destitute Of sufficient influence TO be
elected to the National Convention, We
design electing new set Of delegates, who
wil be pledged by the Convention to vote
for the most available man, who will GER
talnly be John Sherman. We care but lit
tie down here about the financial question
but the man who has saved millions 10 tbs
Government by his splendid manaoement
Is Tar more available in the great North and
West than a third term candidate even
though that candidate be the peerless Gem
erll Grant As Mr.. Turgot won tie plaud.
its of the French for his financial manage
ment, handing his name down to future gen.
ertions as having been the greatest of
French statesmen, so has John Sherman
himself to all honest Americans.
and future generations will regard him as
having been without peer In the times in