Daily Republican., 1880-10-02
THE PRoaIBurION TICKET.
a Temperance MAN for Gar rneld
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

O Prohibitionist Of the most radical
school, TO give his reasons for not sup.
porting Neal Dow for the Presidency
on 1880i
II the temperance vote was anything
like evenly divided between the great
parties, the Prohibition vote would be
Of small importance this year, but, un-
fortunately, this is not the case. More
than 30 per cent Of II will come from
one party, and by Just SO much aid the
other. Small as this vote may be, In
some OF the close States, like New. York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana,
1t may turn the scale in favor Of
party that few temperance men would
like to see 10 control Of the Govern
ment.
The Democratic party OF Thomas JEFF.
ferson and ALdrew Jackson was pa.
triotic, Nstisual party, but the party
OF Jefferson Dagis, Robert Lss, Robert
! Toomts, Wade Hampton an3 General
Hancock Is q sectional party, pledged
to the advancement OF sectional inter-
ssts and the overthrow Of all that was
accomplished by the terrible Rebellion,
legal slavery alone excepted. They do
not now seek the establishment Of sla
very, because free labor is found TO be
more profitable than slave labor. This
party holds that the Reconstruction
Acts OF the National Legislature, in
Guiding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
Amendments to the Constitution, are
unconstitutional, revolutionary and
void" This, says Wade Hampton, Is
my plank In the (Dsmocrstic) platform.
And null and void they haze made
them in every State over which, by
fraud or violence, they have secured
control. Thousands Of colored men
have been murdered in cold blood be-
cause they ventured to exercise the
rights guaranteed to them by the Con-
stitution and the Reconstruction acts Of
Congress, and praot' cally they have NO
redress. The United States Courts can
not punish domestic murder, and the
State Courts will not do 1t. Even white
natives of many Of the Southern States
can with safety only vote on one side.
The free voluntary exercises OF the
rights of freemen exposes them 10 the
greatest dangers. B. +. Perry, late
Provisional Governor of South Carolina,
in recent address, said "The return
Of the Republican party to power in
South Carolina must be prevented, "let
the consequence be what they may"
This Ia Q call TO the Rifle Clubs and Ku-
Klux to repest their 6endish cruelties
Of 1871 and 1876.
HOW SOUTH CAROLINA WAS MADE DEMO.
CRATIC. ..
The shotgun policy Of Wade Hamp-
ton 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, the Rev.
B. r. Randolph, with seven bullets at
midday in a public gathering in Edge
field County. 1t brought death to the
Hon. Joseph Crews In Laurens County,
and to the 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, lsw.abiding
citizens Of Spartanburg County, at the
time my home. No one was punished
for any one ofthese or for the hundreds
of other murders In South Carolina,
perpetrated TO thwart the purposes OF
the United States Government in giving
the franchise to the freedmen.
Governor Perry also says: 'The
poor, miserable white man VINO tries to
restore the Radical party to power in
South Carolina should be socially Ostra-
cissd and not spoken to on the streets;
he should be treated as an enemy OF
his race Ghosts humsni generis." The
colored man should be told that If he
will vote TO place rogues and scoundrels
( all Republicsnsl in power, no honor-
able Democrat will elAploy him in any
way. Social ostracism for the white
man and no employment tor the colored
should be resolved upon and adhered
to throughout the State" Such is the
intolerant spirit of the Southern party
now seeking, through General Hancock,
tha control Of the General Gover"ment.
With a majority Of more than 30 900,
South Carolina Republicans dare not
put State ticket in the field.
Governor Perry, Wade Hampton and
other leaders intend to forcs all to sup
port their party or leave the State.
Death ia the penalty for disobedisnce.
MANY have left the South, who, on ac-
count OF climate, went there, as l did
long before the war. Others, on :"
FOOLS errand," after the war, thinking
that peace meant the right to live in
apy State without disabilities. Finding
their lives in hourly danger, some have
left for safer climes.
CAUsR AiGHBR THAN PROHIBITION.
VIII temperance men, even indirect
ly, aid such q party Of intolerance,
violence, murder and every other mama
bic crime to gain ascendency In the
Nation? Did Northern men understand
the true condition OF things South, and
the purpose Of the leaders, no one
would bs found 80 lied TO party that he
would risk the Government In such
ha ds. But It is very difficult for fair,
honest men, In politics as well as ID
trade. to realize that such condition
OF things exist as / and thousands OF
rssidsnts there know to be true. The
author of I" A Fool's Errand" has not
overarawn the picture. Had written
Of tho "Invisibls Empire" l should
have felt compelled to shade more
heavily. The difference Is, Judge Tour
gee lived in North Carolina and [ in
sou.h Carolina. II the Ku.Klux were
fisuds in North Carolina they were
areh .tiends In South Carolina.