The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-13
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All that passed ia not known, but il is
known tina. the Sheriff returned to Che,
raw without making the arrest, and that
he refuses to render any sort of an er
planation for his non. performance OF
duty.
Thus the matter rests. Thus i, will
rest for courage has fled to the bushes
and justice is a corpse in Chesterfield
County.
We will not too readily censure Sheriff
Spotford. Perhaps he may know wha,
he is doing, but We venture to say. were
Began Cash poor man, he would nov,
be in jail A wonderful immunity in.
deed does wealth give, if its possessor
may murder poor men at will and then
DEFY the law.
We hear that Coz. Cash is one of Snof.
ford's bondsmen. We do not know il
this is true, but if it is true. il nav ex.
plaln the mystery Of brave Spoffords q
nion.perior,mance of duty, for he is
known to be courageous man. who has
never before shrunk from duty or uuailed
in the face Of danger.
We go SO far as TO say, however that
Cash will not be arrested. After awhile
he will name the terms of his surrender
Will be allowed bail and will go unwhip.
pea OF justice. If lie ever has trial it
Will be but shameless, brazen. faced
mockery. He will bo acquitted with
honor, and will be turned loose like q
mad bull upon the com .nunity, to murder
other innocent, unofiending men una.
wares and to make widows and orphans
at his brutal pleasure.
We have always denounced the North
ern outcry, "Lawlessness in the South. !"
aS q shane, an imposition, wrong but
we are at last forced t., admi. that il ia
mo- alto. ether a bugbear in some parts Of
tnt South at lesst, and in Chesterfield
County, South Carolina, especially. In
That County Ean who mas lived in open
defiance of the law for years is allowed
to enter the principal town in broad open
daylight, walk up behind the Chief Of
Police and shoot him down like dog,
while a private citizen falls pierced
through and through by random shot.
In his flight, he passes three sworn po.
licemen, who make no effort to arrest.
When few brave, law abiding citizens
desire to pursue and capture the assassin,
the Deputy Sheriff refuses to lead them,
falls upon his knees and beseecIes iiholl,
to do nothing so rash. Tbs Sheriff of
the County, with a warrant in his pock-
ct, goes to the house where the fugitive
is secreted, but, instead of arresting tho
outlaw, drinks with the outlaws father.
who commends the crime, and, coming
away, refuses TO speak upon the subject.
That is the state of affairs in Chester.
field County, and it is blackenine,
damning shame upon the County whose
proud boast is its chivalry.
The truth of the matter is that honest.
peaceable, law. observing men are in the
minority in that County. There is a
predominating element, naturally lawless
in spirit, whose desire is to live unre-
stricted and to be governed only BY the
bent OF its own inclinations. This ele.
ment is proud of the Cashes, and prefers
to be subject to their imperial will rather
than to recognize the majesty of the law
and to see that the law is enforced.
Were this not true, the Cashes could
not behave as they do, aud the last out.
rage would not be permitted to pass with
out an effort being made to bring the
guilty to justice.
Two-thirds of the people in Chester.
field County are in sympathy with the
Cashes. Every half hour, day and night,
a runner posts from Cheraw to their rem.
devious to inform them of what il said
and done. Every change in the condi-
ton of the wounded men is promptly re-
ported, and they are informed from day
to lay of every shade OF public scnti-
ment better than any two men in the
County.
Those who would execute justice are
silenced if not intimidated, and while it
is intimated that there is deep-rooted
determination among the good people of
that outraged community not to let the
crime 60 unpunished, yet we fear their
numbers arc too limited for them to do
anything.
THIRSTING FOR MORE GORE.
Cash, we hear from good authority,
swears TO have the blood Of the editor of
the Inteiligencer. He is welcome to it,
but if he comes to Wadesboro after it,
We shall always feel in future that our
existence in this world has not been
passed without the accomplishment of
sone good.