The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
Wednesday, April "a, 1895.
Paid to Damn Their Mother.


Circuit Court, at his home in West
Virginia, last Saturday, issued a tenn
porary Injunction against the Super
visor Of Richland county, the effect
ofwhich if made permanent will be
to declare our registration laws in
valid, and throw open the doors for
every man to vote regardless of for
mer restrictions. Apenitentiary con-
vict will have as much right to cast
his ballot as the most honorable citi-
zen in this State. It will certainly
be a remarkable condition. All that
the white men of South Carolina
fought for in 1876, and for which
they .risked their property, their lives
and their liberty will be cast aside at
a single stroke Of Judge COTS pen if
his injunction be made permanent and
he is sustained therein.
The white men of this State, suffer
ing under the humiliation of scala
wag and negro domination, bore their
suffering until it could no longer be
endured, rose up in 1875, and with
one united and mighty effort, in the
face of the world and in spite of Fed
eral bayonets, threw off the oppress-
i've yoke and scattered their oppress-
ors to the four corners of f-tthe earth.
When the shackleso Of oppression were
finally broken and we were once
mos5 a free people, we naturally,
with grateful hearts, bestowed high
honors upon many who were conspic-
uous in the deliyerance, and in order
that We would never have to undergo
the trying experiences of the past,
our possession to the government was
-cinched by laws which we
thought made the supremacy
of the white man sure. Now
in full control of every depart
ment of our government we 60 on
from year to year; election after
election is held and the State pros
pers; every industry in the State is
pushed until South Carolina ranks
among the best in Union. Our chos-
en- leaders cautioned as to keep our
ranks solid, telling US it was our only
hope. They even taught US to look
upon any man as traitor who would
desert our ranks, even characterizing
such as being worse thanIthe corrupt
horda we had hurled from spow-
er. Those trusted leaders taught US
to discountenance any man with So
cial ostracism who would raise his
voice TO disrupt our political organi-
zation. The men whom the people
placed in power continued to rule
until 1890, and we worked along in a |
beaten track. But in 1890 the peo-
pie grew restless and desired q !
change Of leaders and from among
them plain farmer was chosen. He
had hard fight. Every inch of
ground was contested with an obsti-
macy such as was never before wit
messed in this State. The people til
umphed within the regular organiza-
ton, but few of the defeated would |
not have it so; they went on to the |
general election with an Independent
candidate and again the people tn
umphed. The fght did not stopI
then. The new leaders took charge
OF the government aad from that 7
TINE until now constant fight has
been waged against them.
The malcontents of the defeated
faction finding themselves unable to
regain the confidence OF the people,
and not being able to come into pow
er BY the machinery they had made
themselves, are now resorting to, and
consorting with the enemy to disrupt
The government which is the only Sc
surity for the white people in this
State. |.
Among those whom we find en-
aeayoring to bring about ruin, are
some OF the very men the people !
raised from poverty to aMuence {
through the election machinery
which exists now, and which they II
seek to destroy. We find among t
;hem some who were loudest in their (
condemnation when one dared even
. criticize. Look at the spectacle! K
George W. Dargan, recently bene- |,
iciary of the present election ma I
shinery and the peoples generosity, II
now the leading counsel for Joshua Y
3 wilson, the negro contestant oils
ne seat in Congress to which the IS
white people elected John L. Nc i
Laurin. Dargan is endeavoring to take h
away from US our representative and {
oist upon US a negro. Then we see s
Charles NJ. Douglas, who stood up in Il
convention of white men in f
Columbia, and with eyes up S
lifted, swore, that before he
would raise his hand to do ought to (
eopardize white supremacy, he hoped {
shat Almighty God would strike his t
.rm paralyzed at his side" Yet the i
anne Douglass appeared before a c
ederal circuit court to besmear his I
,wn people and invoke the power Of S
hat court to restore the conditions S
which his people would like to eface Ii
rom memory. a
It may be argued that these men S
re.only acting in professional ca y
'acity, but. .tha. would not mitigatethe C
fense. It matters not whether a Z
nan works injury upon his people S
or money or Of his own free will, the j,
act OF his aiding in bringing about O
he miserable condition which must c.
ONE if he succeeds is alone to be if
onsidered. A hired assassin is no o
ess an assassin. Are the people Is
hinkinpS Yes. and those now try ie,