Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-29
HONAH IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
HOW THE CANVASS IS CONDUCTED.
Senator Bdyard's Dsfence-What the 'Rqds'
and 'Nigs' Must do TO Lire in Peace
Il Sample Tissue Ballot Fraud
The Red Shirts.

bers than that at Columbia. There
was a large procession of mounted
men, among whom were about one
hundred and fifty Red Shirts. Mr..
Bayard delivered his Columbia speech
almost verbatim. He introduced a
new feature, however, in the shape OF
defense of the five citizens of An
derson who in 1866 murdered in cold
blood ten Union soldiers who had
been left to guard some cotton be-
longing to the Confederate govern
ment, but which had been seized by
the United States troops. This mur-
der took place Just over the Georgia
line, and the bodies of the murdered
men were thrown into the Savannah
river. The charge of murder against
these men, two of whom sat ON the
platform by Mr.. Bayard's side, was,
he said, utterly absurd; and he
charged that the Government, in find
ing them guilty of murder by a court
martial presided over by General
Sickles, was guilty of an act of un-
justifiable oppression He himself,
prompted by the spirit of mercy, ap-
piled for and obtained a writ of ha-
beas corpus, and the courts took
charge of the criminals, who were
soon after pardoned by President
johnson After this Mr.. Bayard at
once found himself in full accord
with his audience. He came nearer
being "a bull-dozer than ever before in
his life; and l venture to say that il
he stays much longer in South Caro-
lima he will become imbued with the
spirit of intolerance which prevails
here among the Democrats. Speak
ing of the Independent movement,
winch at the worst is but a protest
against the solid Democracy and its
tyrannical sway, Mr.. Bayard used
these significant words: There are
such things as treason to a party,
which is as foul as treason to the
country" He went over his hard
money argument again very elabor-
orately, but in the midst of it he was
interrupted by row between Red
Shirt and a policeman, and nearly
half his audience went off to see the
fun.
Senator Butler followed with rat
tling attack on the Republican party,
and a defense of secession and rebel
lion. To undo the damage caused by
ID. Wyatt Aikens recent structures on
the Democracy of the North he ex-
tolled Vallandigham, Pendleton, Voor-
hees, Thurman, Fernando Wood and
Samuel S. Cox as heroes whose deeds
of moral courage far outshone those
of Hampton. Lamar, Gordon and the
rest OF the Confederates in the field
The men of the South, he said, only
had the North to meet in battle. The
noble Copperhead had foes in front
and in the rear.
The speeches of Senator Butler
and Congressman O'Connor at Co
lumbia struck the keynote of the
campaign, SO far as the treatment OF
RAIDS and niggers" is concerned
The negro is to be cajoled by flattery,
bribed with small gifts, piled with
whisky-all to gain his adhesion to
the Democratic party-and finally, il
he votes with the ''Rads, his vote
will be thrown out. That is the whole
of it. The white Republican will mol
be molested if be has the discretion tC
keep his mouth shut and stay at home
But if he does mingle in politics, tber
he is to be ostracised, his business is .c
be broken up. and without the firing Of a
gun or a resort to actual violence, be j.
to be taught that the freedom to ex
press ones opinions does not exist il
this State, except on the banners exhib'
tied at the mass meetings of the pemo
cratic party. A leading Democrat oI
Greenville, "Governor" Perry, former.
ly distinguished leader of Red Shir
bands, has written letter to the Green
vile .Neus, In which be says: "Th'
poor, miserable, unprincipled white mar
who tries to restore the Radical party
to power in South Carolina should b'
socially ostracised, and not even spokeI
to on the streets. He should be treat.
ed as an enemy to his race. The col
ored man should be told that his lead.
ers are making a tool of him only Il
gratlfy their pitiable ambition, and fol
the chance of stealing his hard earn
ings. He should be told, too, that i
be will vote to place rogues and scoun
drels in Office and in power, no honOra
bic Democrat will employ him in any
way. This should be resolved on ant
adhered to throughout the State-sc
cial ostracism for the white man, anC
no employment for the colored man ,
These are potent weapons in the band
of the Southern white people. Tax,
away from the helpless negro his cbanc,
of employment and be would starve t.
death. But perhaps it may be saiC
these are but threats made in momen
of passion and will not be carried ou
by those whole-souled, hospitable mer
of the South toward the blacks, whom
they care for so tenderly But it hal
been done, and is invariably being don,
wherever negroes have disobeyed III,
injunotions of their employers. A gen
tleman of Greenville told me that b,
has seen a negro's little household be
lOngings set out into the road and him
self and family turned out in the colo
TO shift for themselves for no Grim,
greater than the exercise of the fire,
ballot about which Southern Democrat.
make so much clamor. And the socia
ostracism which is the portion Of the
white people is by no means light in
Fiction. If Its victim has a store, be
will find his customers leaving him; il
physician, be will lose his practice
if mechanic, he will fail to get EN-.
ployment; and if school teacher,
then God help him! All the details ol
voting nv the tissue haIlots have lono