Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-01
wALmALhA, CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY l. 1870

was apprehended, and when there was go
much Interest everywhere concerning the
electoral vote of Florida the troops wore
present to sustain the villainy of the return
ing board which defrauded tho people of
their President. Mr.. Jooes spoke of the
changed condition of the South under
Democratic rule. There was now more
thrift, the public credit had been restored,
aud there was more enterprise than under
the dominion Of the Republicans; all people
had been stimulated in the Improvement of
their condition, and they had awakened &c
new born zeal for public liberty and
determination to preserve it. The people
were now satisfied with this state of gov
ernment.
Mr.. Blaine gave notice that he would
ronew bis amendment to the sixth section.
He then read from tho testimony before
the Teller Committee taken in South Caro-
lima, that numbers of white men came
around the polls firing guns aud frighten-
ing colored men away.
true that within the last three days an
acquittal had been ordered by the presiding
judge in Charleston County in a case de-
Ponu'uS ou JuSt Sucn cViGouce aB ChaC just
read.
Mr.. Blaine said he believed there had
been DISMISSAL upon flaw in the indiot.
ment, but Mr.. Butler insisted that it was
on the evidence. Mr.. Blaine declared the
elections in South Carolina had been mere
travesties on elections. He also character
ihed unfavorably the elections in Louisiana.
MIR. Blaine assertedR8hat there has never
been free election 10 FIVE Southern States
he could name since the Democratic party
got into power. There was no more free
election 10 South Carolina for this Congress
than there would be in a mob of rouRhs
who could capture tho polls in the lower
districts of New York.
Mr.. Butler asked if these election laws
were not on the statute books when these
travesties were carried on.
MIR. Blaine admitted they were, but said
the supervisors and marshals had been
mobbed and Federal authority defed. He
based his statement on the testimony already
referred to before the committee.
MIR. Butler denounced the testimony as
false 80 far as it related to South Carolina
end slid juries in his State had sustained
his assertion.
Yes, said Mr.. Blaine, jury 10 Louisiana
did something or other. TIL. re- vas peace.
ful election there too-only forty or fifty
men slaughtered. and a jury acquitted some
of the murderers.
Jonas Louisiana) asked leave to explain
about the trials in Louisiana. They we're
based upon the very testimony now referred
to and jurics were obtained under the test
oath. The United States District Attorney
conducted the GASES, using the report Of
the Teller Committee as guide 10 ques.
tloning witnesses and the accused we're
acquitted, showing that the testimony was
worthless.
Mr.. Blaine then read testimony to the
effect that the Republicans were not fairly
represented among the commissioners of
election, as appointed under Hampton, aud
that the persons appointed as Republicans
were really Democrats in disguise.
Mr.. Butler said he personally know the
Republican Commissioners in Charleston
County, and asked il Mr.. Blaine would
deny that Col. Montgomery, one of them,
was, Republican. Mr. Montgomery, he
/ said, was for two years or more, the presid.
ing officer of the Republican State Senate.
Mr. Blaine said he didn't knew ANYTHING
| about hir. Montgomery, but would give
"oJ w NV oOudCoi lIOu1 SOIOTduO VINO ulu.
Thereupon Mr.. Teller read from testimo.
ny before his committee, showing that
while MIR. Montgomery had once been a
Republican, he had ceased to act with the
Republicans, and that the board of com
missioners, Of which he was one, had passed
a resolution that no Republican manager of
election should be appointed.
Mr.. Bnttler said that he could not answer
for the political character of men claiming
to be Republicans.
Mr.. Blaine then enlarged on the contrac.
ton of the polling places 10 South Carroll.
ma, making it necessary for voters 10 some
cases to travel from twenty to forty miles to
vote. He said the testimony showed syste.
matte aud wllful fraud upon tho right of
suffrage. In the course Of these remarks
MIR. Blaine took occasion to declare that
Senator Davis who spoke yesterday, had no
traditional right 10 speak for Mr.. Lincoln
and commented unfavorably upon the sena.
torial work of Judge Davis
From tho Philadelphia Times.
The Negro Stampede.
ST. LOUIS, April 18.-Ths negro exo-
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