The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1881-01-26

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TIE CONDITION or OFFAIREIELD.
Colorcd Man AbrOnd Drplorcs Hostility
Between the Naccs-Kcmoving Ills Fears.
WAsHINGT0N, ID. g., Jan. Is.
MeSsrs. EdiorS: Grant ne space to
say that the existing spirit Of hostility
which is SO prevalent between the two
classes in my county has stirred my
heart 70 its very depths.
In your last two or three issues
have seen things recorded against
men Of high distinction that my heart
| refuses to accept and my lips hesitate
to declare.
IT has been said that tic colorcd man
| is not capable Of self-govcrnnent.
| Flow far this is true, and how far it is
! not. is not left for me To decide. But
sLilice il TO say. that history has record
"i no race That has made such nobic
progress in So limited Il time in intel
l"ciual. social and moral cultivation as
, III" race 10 Which | am so closely
allied.
The great Disadvantage among our
people is lhc iact: OF cducatinn. II is
to DC hoped that the culorcd schools
are filling up these arih,iencicS,' smts
7 that the teachers are drfng all in their
! power to have cducaiion, morality and
= Christianity NOR" generally tliilusrd
50 as To make rs i5riicr citizens. ! be-
Ee|r, wherever education and unrc-
strict;u II ecdnn arc allowed full scope
60 exercise ,hcir united influence. and
peace and Qui",uuc exist, Il great inl-
provrmcm is thc certain result
We desire your aid in cllancipating
us from the chains OF the ignorance
that! is SO prevalent in our county.
And let us so live together as 10 show
an unhrlicving North that VIC arc not
divrSIcd of those qualifications wtlich
characterize ,ncn capable Of good GOV
crnmcnt and good citizenship; but
that we arc steadily marching onward
to the plains Of emincnce and peos-
pcrity. CLARENCE bIIIAR5.
: We publish the above communica-
ton from an intelligent coIo-cG main
OF good character, who is studying in
Howard University. He seems dis.
turbcd about the condition Of affairs
down here. We take plcaSil.t in say
ing that matters arc now progressing
smoothly in Fairfield, and us far as VIC
know there is no hostility between the
races. A numbcr Of arrests have been
aladc since The election, but they arc
upon the atli,llvits Of iIcnry Johnson,
Noah johnson, Alex. Go0dG and Tom
Brown, whose character billiard
knows as well as We do. They arc
kept in ColunLia by Federal authori-
ties and made TO grind out tNIsc aflida-
Wits so that these marsials and COM
missioncrs can make money. That is
all there is OF It,. But tor those scoun-
drcls, who disgrace their race, there
| would be no trouble in thc county.
We will also add that he is right in not
believing the charges recorded against
the gentlemen arrested, as will be
abundantly proved if they ever come
TO trial. They arc charged With
obstrucling voters. The best answer"
to this is that over eleven hundred
votes were pollcd ut this pace--a full
vote. 'HhG fact is that Henry johnson
masscd about two thousand voters at
, Winnsboro from an parts Of the colln-
ty SO as TO capture the polls, vote and
go to other placcs to repeat, and ty
challenging, the Democrats kept them
down to the usual number.
Again, the Democrats were not
fighting against Garfield. They knew
that Hancock could carry tho State
even if Fairfield went Republican as
it did in 1876. But at the foot Of the
Garfield ticket was the following:
"For Senator, Israel Byrd; for the
House, Henry Johnson, JohTM Mar
tin and Isaac Miller" The last three
had been kicked overheard, by the COL
orcd people long before the Democrats
came into power. TO let them be
elected by Henry Johnsnn's tactics
was to plunge the State back into that
"barbarisn,' from which she had
emerged. Ninc-tcnths oi'thc colorcd
voters couldn't read, end could not
j separate the Garfield Ticket from the
tin pan tied to its tail, and we are
sorry to say chat some who could read
and write wrote Ike Millcr's name on
the tickets instead of Isaac Purcclps,
who was too respectable TO be found
in that crowd.
Some Of the colorcd teachers refused
to vote for this disgfacc!nl ticket.
Others did, it is said. Now, we ask
any respectable colorcd man Of intclli-
gencc whether they will do much to
raise their people out Of the ruts!
i In conclusion, we would say, if ali