Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1879-01-04
O. Striking Letter.
What P resident Cooke, of Clalin Univer-
sity, has 10 Say About Bull-Dozing and
the Tissue Rumpus.
From The Springfield Republican.
ORAEGEBURG, S. c.,
December 49,, 1878.

.Iy Dear Friend Mcrrium: Your
letter Of the 10Th instant was duly
received and contents noted. There
is some ground for the excite ment
HOW prevailing at the North about
the politics Of the South; but not half
as much LAS the Northern papers
represent.
The government OF this State had,
sin &c rccnnstluction, been in the
hands Of carret-hsggers, joined by II
few ~unprincipl,d natives, up to with,
in two years; since then it has been Il
home rilc ip the hands of Democrats.
When President Hayes removed the
army from the State. Il considerable
number of the Northern adventures
were left disappointed aud with occu-
patton gone. AS a class they are
doing ali they can to provoke til c
South. They wish to be martyrs,
that they may inhame the North;
hoping thereby to r~c-cstablish bayo-
net governmsnt; then will Othello's
occupation return. When CORES.
pondents of the Northern press come
down here. they are taken in hand
by these disappointed ones, who re
filled with hate toward Southern
people. TO use a Hibernicism,
They ate them, they s'ape them, they
drink Them" and the next number
Of the papers such o espond snts
represent will come out ut the N nth
with all the distortion and c"loring
Of the facts which these disapp ,intel
liaters y invent.
Nearly or quite all the reports
about bull,dozin5 aud breakin, up
Republican meetings bef~re election
we're. the creations and colorings o f
these men, Ihose trade It IS to keep
up sectional hate. The wish was, in
most cases, father to the thought.
Holding botE Democratic and Re-
publican meetings the ,me day and
at the same place was u hazardous
experiment, and frequently led to
little petty street q%a.rrels, which
were sure TO be mAgnitied anl pub.
llshed rs the breaking up Of Re-
publ a meeting. Such was the
affair At Sum .er, which made ST. large
a stir at the North. When Governor
Hampton learned that both parties
were to hold u meeting at Sumter at
the same time, he SEN two of his
most trusty State officials with in
structions not to allow under II cir
Gu instances any interference with the
Republican meeting. Now all this
cry about bull-dozing aud violence IS
dropped, because the case will fail on
that charge.
But when we come to the charge
offlling the ballot.b,x,s with "ti4su.
tallots,' somebody undoubtedly
ought to plead guilty" But before
we pass sentence Of the deepest C m
dcmnutIon on the act, we ought in
justice TO consider the poverty aud
deep humil alton which the Southern
people have suffered; and also tn ke
Into account the Irritation which these
have produced. Negro rule has b zen
u failure in all the States. a d under
the leadership ofunprincipled ndven
tu7ers from the North, it has been
worse than a failure; it has been
downright robbery, amounting to
millions, which the people are now
taxed to pay.
Two years ago the people Of this
state, smarting under the evils that
were upon them, took the State
Government into their own hands.
In this transfer there was rs little
violence as could have heen expected;
far less thar there would have been
but for the .nas:er-mind that coniroll-
ed the whole movement. The State
Cove rnment was entrusted to n Of
the kindest, wisest and most humane
of her cltizens-Gen Wade Hump.
ton. During his administration the
rights Of all men have been respected.
The colorcd man has been cared for
y tendcrly. Taxes have been
levied to provide means for his edu-
cation: ommon schools have been