Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-30
TEMPERANCE and Garfield.


President Of the South Carolina Univcr-
sity and now Principal Of the Riverside
Seminary, New York, has addressed a
letter to the Tribune, which is published
in that paper, giving reasons why he, a
lifelong advocate of prohibition, shall
vote for Garfield in preference to Neal
Dow, and urging other prohibitionists to
do likewise. The appeal of Dr. Cum
mings is very forcible. He knows from
actual contact and experience with the
Solid South the crimes which it has com
mitted in the name of democracy and
what is its purpose if Hancock shall be
elected. He says: 1.-The party Of Jeffer-
son Davis, Robert Lee, Robert Toombs,
Wade Hampton and General Hancock is
sectional party. pledged to the advance
ment of sectional interests and the over
throw of all that was accomplished by the
terrible Rebellion, legal slavery alone ex-
copied. They do not now seek the estab-
lishment of slavery. because free labor is
found 10 be more profitable than slave
labor. This party holds that the Recon
struction Acts of the National Legislature.
including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments 10 the Constitution,
are unconstitutional, revolutionary and
void This. says Wade Hampton, is my
plank in the (democratic) platform. And
null and void they have made them in
every State over which, by fraud or vio
lence, they have secured control. Thous-
ands of colored men have been murdered
in cold blood because they vontured to
exercise the rights guaranteed to them by
the Constitution and the Reconstruction
acts Of Congress, and practically they
have no redress. The United States
courts cannot punish domestic murder,
and the State courts will not do it, Even
white natives of many of the Southern
States can with safety only vote on one
side. The free voluntary exercise of the
rights of freedom exposes them to the
greatest dangers. H. +. Perry. late Pro-
visional Governor of South Carolina, in
recent address, said: The return of the
republican party to power in South Caro-
lima must be prevented. let The consequent
ses be mha they may This Is call to
the Rifle Clubs and ku-Klux to repeat
their fiendsh cruelties of 1871 and 1876.
The shotgun policy OF Wade Hampton
resulted in the murder of more than one
hundred voters in Aiken county, South
Carolina. in 1876. 1t pierced the heart of
that noble youth, Rev. b. f. Randolph.
with seven bullets at midday in public
gathering in Edgefield county. 1t brought
death to the Hon. Joseph Crews in Lau-
rens county, and to Hon. Alexander Brice
in Oconee county. 1t took from their beds
and murdered Andrew johnson. Esq, the
Rev. Wallace Fowler, and the Rev. Lewis
Thompson. all quiet, law-abiding citizens
of Spartanburg county. at the time my
home. No one was punished for any one
of these or for the hundreds of other muir
ders in South Carolina. perpetratcd to
thwart the purposes of the United States
Government in giving the franchise to the
freedman
After stating other facts showing the
brutality of the South towards white and
colored people who are republicans. and
its determination to get control of the
government at all hazards. DR. Cummings
inquiries: "Will temperance men, even
indirectly. aid such party of intolerance.
violence. murder and every other namable
crime to gain ascendency in the Nation
Did Northern men understand the true
condit ion of things South, and the pur-
pose of the leaders, not one would be
found so tied to party that he would risk
the government in such hands. But it is
very difficult for fair. honest men. in pol
tics as well as in trade. TO realize that
such a condition of things exists as and
thousands of residents there know to be
true. The author OF A Fools Errand'
has not overdrawn the picture. Had
written the Invisible Empire should
have felt compelled to shade more heavily.
The difference is. Judge Tourgee lived in
North Carolina and in South Carolina.
II the ku-klux were iieuds in North Caro-
lima they We're arch-iiends in South
.'Will temperance men help thema l
cannot. nor even throw away my vote by
casting it for the great. good Neal Dow"
We believe there are few prohibitionists
IN Maine who will east their votes for the
prohibition candidate for President. If
any are thinking Of doing so they should
consider whist DR.. Cummings says above,
md adopt The wiser course of casting their
Iote for Garfield.