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home from dance, and it was suggested that
they go by ''old man Thompson's" house The
only offence of Thompson was his color He
and his wife were beaten fearfully, and q son
was shot, and was not at last accounts expect
ed to recover. There is nothing political in
this, but the outrage shows the spirit from
which springs the partisan hatred of the South
towards the colored voter and the Republican
party.
1t will not be said that Wade Hampton. Gov
ernor OF South Carolina, is not a representa-
tive Democrat. In recent address ut Staun-
ton, Va, where he and Gov. Vance had gone
to assist in healing the breach between Vir-
ginia Democrats, he said:
"He Vance has come, like me, to appeal to you
not to forsake us in the hour of need. Consider
lchdt Lee and Jackson ic0u!d do they diice.
These are the same principles for rhieh they fought
for Ioar years. Remember the men who poured
forth their life-blood on Virginias soil and do not
abandon them now. Remember that upon your
vote depends the success ef the Democratic ticket"
He came, he said as zone of the veterans of
the confederacy who had shared the perils of
war with the sons of Virginia, and was jealous
of the honor and proud of the glorious heritage
bequeathed to heI by her Lee and her Stone
UdU JQcks0n." lie came, also, "as a Demo-
crat and southern soldier who looks back to
the time when he shared with you privations
and Sufferings in the Army of Virginia"
He asked if Virginia would sacrifice the
south, which is he said, to sacrifice the possess
sion of the national government? He had
stood for four years by the side of Virginians
seeking to overthrow the national government
and he knew the stuff they were made Of
Would they now falter and prove recreant to
the exalted teachings, the ennobing aspira-
tions of the glorious past?
The ''solid SOUTH supports Hancock, be-
cause it believes that with him as 2. esident it
can obtain the ruling hand again. Ii cares
nothing for what he may say, feeling sure of
its own, as it did when buchanan went into
the White House in 1851. Once in while
newspaper voices the real opinion of Southern
politicians. The following, which we find in
the Columbia IS. c. Register for August 6, is
specimen of this free talk:
We cannot agree with General Hancock when he
refers to the thirteenth and fourteenth amend
ments of the constitution as embodying the results
of the war. We do not believe that the fourteenth
amendment was in any sense legitimate result Of
the war, nor. i'll one point of view, do regard
the thirteenth amendment necessary result
either. We believe the fourteenth amendment a
piece Of partisan conspiracy the part of the Re
publieans to obtain and hold political mastery at
the south on the reconstruction ofe the southern
states, aud we regard it as a revolutionary and ir
regular interpolation.int the great federal com
pact.
We have not entered into the question of
census frauds in the south, which may be de-
batable; but there are strong grounds for be-
lieving that the returns have been "doctOred,"
so as to swell the population and secure upoh
lit an increased representation in Congress.
One of the most conservative Democratic
papers III lut SOutH Is lH0 .OHdfleStOu NEWS
and Courier, and it virtually admits all that
we have said as to the partisan hate existing
in many parts of the south. OF South Caro-
lima it says, after eautioning the red-shirt bri-
gade: lr
"Ihe Democracy will carry the election in No
vember. There is no doubt of that. But they viii
carry it without interfering with Republican meetl
ings, and without budozing of any soIt, actual or
implied. They viii carry the election by using in
telligently the power and influence which superior
knowledge, means and experience always give"
If it is possible to carry South Carolina and
every other Southern State-t though it cannot
be done-the Republicans and the people of
the North will be satisfied. That is all they
want-a fair, free ballot everywhere.
AS we have said, there has been no federal
interferences in the South in four years by
soldiers But agents of the government have
been sent there to prevent frauds upon the rev.
enue, and the report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shows that during these four
years % revenue officers have been killed and
55 arrested while breaking up Illicit dstilleries
Here is the same reckless, lawless, murderous
spirit which makes the South its worst enemy
in all things, of which the Democratic papers
of the North so loudly complain of the Repup-
lican prrty