The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-13
gan. but intimated that Timmons could
see him If he so desired.

see him if he so desired.
All that passed is not known, but 1t Is
known that the Sheriff returned to Che'
raw without making the arrest, and that
he refuses to render any sort OF an ex.
PLANTATION for his non.performance OF
duty. ~, -,
rest: for courage has fed to the bushes
and Justice is corpse in Chesterfield
County. =, =, -
We will not too readily censure Sheriff
Spofford. Perhaps he may know what
he is doing, but We venture to say, were
Began Cash a poor man, he would now
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. i.
We hear that CO... Cash is one of Spot.
ford's bondsmen. We do not know il
this is true, but if it is true, it may ex'
plain the mystery of brave Spofford's
non. performance of duty, for he is
known to be courageous man, who has
never before shrunk from duty or quailed
in the face of danger.
We 20 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 60 unwhip-
ped of Justice. If he ever has trial it
will be but shameless, brazen-faced
mockery. He will be acquitted with
honor, and will be turned loose like q
mad bull upon the community, to murder
other innocent, unoffending 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 a shame, an imposition, wrong; but
we are at last forced to admit that it is
not altogether bugbear in some parts Of t
the South at least, and in Chesterfield
County, South Carolina, especially. In
that County man who has 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 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 aud capture the assassin,
the Deputy Sheriff refuses to lead them,
falls upon his knees and beseeches them
to do nothing so rash. The Sheriff OF
the County, with warrant in his pock-
ct, goes to the house where the fugitive
is secreted, but, instead of arresting the
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 blackening,
damning shame upon the County whose
proud boast is its chiyalry.
The truth of the matter is that honest,
peaceable, law-observing men are in the
minority in that County. There is q
predomiratipg 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, and 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,
runner posts from Cheraw to their rem.
devious to inform them of what is said
and done. Every change in the condi.
ton of Inc wounded men is promptly re-
ported, and they are informed from day
to day of every shade of public senti-
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 go unpunished, yet we fear their
numbers arc too limited for them to do
anything.