A SOUTHERN CAMP.
Intlmklatlon In 8outh Caro
llnaThe Whites Under
Arms.
THE DKBlb GR ATS DETERMINED
TO CARRY THE STATE,
Peaceably if they can,
but Forcibly if they
Must,
Wade Hampton's Ap
prenticeship in Mis
sissippi. tFrom t white natlTe of the Ftate wlio tt not He-
punlii an. J
Chabiestox, Oct. 8. One passing through
South Carolina would imagine that it was in a
state or war. It resembles a va.-t armed vamp.
On every green and public square the clung of
mu.-kcts ran be hoard, a? parading infantry
ground their arms. From every old Held rings
out threateningly the note of the bugle or the
booming of the fiild-ptcce, as cavalry and ar
tillery perform their evolutions. The depots
aie crowded with cures of firearms, ordered
from tho Nor'h. The si ores cannot supply the
demand for arms and ammunition, and every
guus.T.ith in the city and blacksmith In the
country is repairing dilapidated weapon. No
one Is seen on the sheets without a repeater or
rifle : and not a day put in town or epy hut
thr. t tiie quick and scattering reports of guns
and pistols us-ed on tnrgrtb In the vicinity,
would lead a stranger to suppose that a skir
mish, if not a battle, was in progress around
him. r is this all. In every part of the
State there arc monster open-air political ina
nvatinge. These meeting are followed by
torchlight parades, or preceded by processions
ol rtile ciubs, cavalry, artillery companies, ami
civilians, marching To the sound of martial mu
sic. Tho speakers. Invariably master spirits of
the Lost C ause, arise anil deliver the most vehe
ment addresses, denouncing: the Republican
Administration and the Republican party, State
and National, und railing on their hearers to
rife. The wildest cheering rings out in re
sponse, mixed with the notes of the hands and
the crashing of cunr-on, and the people disperse
to their homes with war, war tor their cry war
even to the knife.
Whit has caused this i If the Democrats are
to be trusted, it is a grand uprising of iulelli--(Eeui-n
against ignorance, of wealth against non
t'axpaying aggression, ol civilization and refine
ment aguiiisi, Barbarism and degradation. Their
banners bear the inscriptions ol " The Prostrate
State Aroued." " Forbearance has Ceased to be
s Viiiue," Down with the Thieves," " Home
with the Carpel-Bagger," " Honest fiovernmeut
rrDeith." It is, 'they say, a repetition of the.
stirring scenes of iiiti ; an irrepressible uprising
of the people against iiriii-lintr tyrcuny and in
tolerable opnrcic iou ; agiinti outrageous en
crocc;irneut on their right and privileges; a
strike lor liberty or to;- u.-aih ; in short, a second
revolution as momentous as thai of a century
a 50. But, they say, it is a revolution this time
t.ot against foreign domination and rapacity,
but a'ibst an ii tc-tincloc; agr.inst the sub
jection ol 'class to cj.-j, of enlightened property
holding Anglo-Saxon. to a horde ol African
barbarians und r the guidance of unprincipled
fctouriJrels lrum th" Nor'h.
REACTION AOAIMsT CI! AMtlEliLAIX.
Four months bo Ihe ruj,.,i of the graveyard
refined in South Carolina. For the lust lime
s::i'c the wnr th" poople were contented. The
rotten C'overnmi rt. of the carpet-baggers had
I:.-t4 avay. The roller Coventor was no
longer in power. An honvt ruler had been
found 8t last. From the very moment of the
in.;U('lVikn of Governor Chamberlain in De-f-.'-inber.
lil. r-fmni lml been ilie order of the
day. He pvifidci over the people with the cold
neutrality of an impartial judge. The depre
dations of ihe Legislature were forcibly s!0iped
by the veto. The ignorant or corrupt oflii-cis
of the former administrations were relentlessly
removed ; new and cumictcut ni'n, in half I he
inrtanees Demoerat-j, wcii! put in ilieir places.
The taxes were reduced. The installation of
two unscrupulous judges was a: bit.arilv,
though with Rood reason, prohibited by the
liovticor. Xae prostrate Stale was prostate
no longer ; she bad betii raised from the ground.
Ke.-savior had come ; 1). H. Chamberlain wits
the man. The whites were grateful, and were
loud , in their expressions of commenda
tion. ' Their popular institutions of learn
ing made him their orator. The fashionable
clubhand a.'soeiations extended cordial invita
tioi for liira to attend their celebrations and
respond to toasts. The sates of society w ere
fluug open to him, and the haughtiest member
of the old 6outhtru aristocracy nay, even the
ladies delighted to honor him and to entertaiu
him at their houses. The Democratic papers
loudly and generally advocated his re-election.
The Mannings, the l'errys, the Kemhaivs, and
the Simon tons the political leaders of the
whites lent their sanction to the idea. And
though the corrupt element, of the Republican
putty the element vhich he had so remorte-
iesiy thwarted was b.iierly Inimical to the
Krai lit-, yet everything pointed to hi renomi
riitlon by the F.epuoiii a a.-, indorsement by the
f orie.-rvativet, rud triumphant re-election to
the executive office.
But. wouiUriul to relate, this man Is to-day
denounced from every Democratic stump in
Sout.i Carolina as an untriueiplcd adventurer,
nin itious liar, a ringleader in rascality, a eai-pet-fcasjer
ol the carpel -luiRcei. Thy have
b i sl.p ihe do' of w.11 asnust him. Verily, a
change hns conic over the tpiril of their dream.
What st'ad'iil of pMca! seieiae could, tour
months ao, have ventured to predict that it
won! t come to thu r
EFFIXT OF DF.'KVli.UlC RurctSS.
Governor Chamberlain administration, then,
for a year uiid a half was lha coMcn era of
fcouth Carolina pulities. The ueirrbeawere tree,
nfrapehit.d, and undisturbed in their rights,
and yet the whites were conscieniiouslv protec
ted I10111 plunder and H.xh taxes. But Governor
ChainV -rlaiu had not been m power a year when
the XLlVth Contress a-se;i.bledat Washington.
The great tiddl wave of t-ii ha l sent, alare
Peniwratlc ma'oiity to th'f House ol Rejireseu
tatives, and p:o;ninent, amon-' that majority
were many e-Co:ilederate er.eruU. Froiu the
very inomeut it met 1 noticed an unusual
the ugh carefully-concealed agitation unions
the uie-eatinj; aristocracy of this State. For
years their ocupa'.ioii hud been gone. Dis
ci ;ded in politic.!, out of cilice, they had been
co.opelied 10 keep the r.olsclc.-s tenor of their
vv; y aloji; the cool, secucstercd vale of private
life. Cut their priue, it tscnif, had not fallen
with their I'm tuuej. They had been compelled
to keep quist; they complied against their
wills uud held to their old opinion.
They bitterly reflected that they had seen
better dnys and nursed their wrath to keep it
warm. But now aiay of hupediuvncd on thei.i.
They heaid of lieu 11 ill defciiding Audercon
ville and Jcitcrsou in the Cougrcaa of the
Utitvd !:a!6.- They taw t5ouiherucrs once
nioio holiiine; up tiieir heads iu the National
Capital. They could hardly trust their senses.
Aud then they looked around them; all the
"Southern .States were once more D.'iuocratie tx
e pt bouth Carolina mi l Louisiana. These
Mutes alone had Republican Governors and ne
jjru JWMatures. 'liuy alone had not their
il-.p!ie.i-e, Goidons, Luniars, Hills, and Prnc
t..r Kne'.'.s iu Coni'res. Then tiuy reflected on
Misis! pi how her oO.Ouu negro lunjoritv ha I
been transformed into J,OUO Deinoeratie 1.1a
joiiiy by tlm use ol the shut-fun aud revolver.
It was true that they had been relieved from
oppression; that their confessed debt to their
reform Governor whb yet unpaid, and that
while they supported him, as in the past, there
was no dauirer of niisjrovcrnment. But should
they rest contented with this! Why not pet
thr tipper hand at lionie, and then make a des
perate attempt to seize on the reins of power nt
Washington I
RACB COSri.IflTH BAMBt'HO.
Race diflleultlcs became frequent In Edtre
fleld. At. last, in June, six nejrroes, accused of
the murder of two whites, were seined by an
armed bnnd of white men, evidently well or-
?nlzcd, and shot. They were made to face the
oree, and every man, t the word of command,
emptied the contents of his (fiin Into their bo
dies. The affair stirred up much bad blood be
tween the races all over the State. The Repub
licans denounced it, and the Governor, though
he knew it to be useless, oRered a reward for the
apprehension of the lynchers. The strninht
outers and tire-eaters sided with the lynchers.
But so pnellled had the whites become under
Chamberlain that many were found to condemn
the shootinp as cruel, unnecessary, and likely
to pioducc trouble. This afTalr is known as the
lynching of the Harmon murderers.
" General Butler now resolved on a bold, des
perate stroke. It was the massacre at Hamburg.
Every one Is familiar with that horrible tale. I
desire to call attention to the evident premedi
tation of tho whole affair. A Stato militia com
pany composed of netfroes was parading on the
Fourth of July. Two young aristocrats, one of
them a Butler, drove, up tho street in a bunsy.
and instead of turnimr aside demunded that tlio
militia should give way. After some Ineffec
tive, protests this was done. They drove past.
The captain was ere long: Indicted for obstruct
ing the highway. The young men and the father
of one ol 'them were the prosecutors. General
M. C. Butler appeared as their counsel. Hardly
bad they reached the otllee of the Justice when
armed bands of while men began to pour Into
town ; the captain and the company, all residents
of the town, hastily assembled nt their armory
lor consultation. The whites soon made a de
mand on them for their arms ; unable to under
stand the right of a band of rioters to disarm a le
gal military company, and fearful of their treat
ment should they surrender, they refused. Fire
whs opened on them. They returned it after a
half hour. Then hundreds of armed Georgians
hurried over the bridge from Augusta, on the
opposite side of the Savannah river, and joined
in the contest. Finally a cannon was brought
troin Augusta, end the company compelled to
abandon the house. Many of them were cap
tured. Of these, seven were shot iu cold blood,
and the rest turned loose and tired on as they
departed ; aud the rioters, after despoiling the
property of their victims, broke up and de
parted for home. Butler was at the bot
tom of the conspiracy, which will co down
in history with Glencoe and Wyoming, con
demned to the eternal execration of huniauity.
the con-vi:?;tiov.
Butler had calculated weli. The affair stirred
up the passions of thi' races. The straight-out
organs boldly defended it. Every fire-eater de
fended it. They caught at the chance. Country
papers were purchased. Every county wus can
vassed. The passions of the Confederate soldiers
were appealed to. The young men were called
upon to rally to the support, of General M. C.
llutler, who had lost n leg iu defence of South
Carolina, and won honors in the war. The editor
of the -Yci's aiirf Coi'Wer had, as far as he dared,
put the outrage in Its true light. An attempt was
made to throttle him. Gem-nil Gary strove to
engage him in a duel. Mr. Rh-Vit also tried to
foist, upon him an ali'tiir of honor. Both were
thwarted, but at the expense of much influence to
the editor, as a withdrawal from a duel is still
considered cowardly and degradinr in South
Carolina. The organization of D.-mocrutic
clubs, rifle companies, and mounted companies
were rapidly begun. Thotlrc-eatcrs induced all
the young men to join them, and send to Coven
try those who would not. The call on the Presi
dent lor troop by the Governor, though abso
lutely justified by Hamburg, was also used to
stir up animosity. The State Democratic Con
vention wa. called unusuallycarlyby theCeutral
Committer, composed largely of fire-eaters, and
the election of delegate after delegate pledged
to strait-outism in the compromise eounties
Indicated the success of these tremendous efforts.
The convention Dually met on the 15th of
August. The straight-outs were In the ma
jority. Tut so strong was the confidence of the
w hiles in Governor Chamberlain that, notwith
standing all the exertions that had b.en made,
this majority was only a few vote. But it. was
sullieieiit. The convention resolved to nominate
a straight-out liourbon Democratic ticket, and
to make a desperate attempt to carry the Stateon
the Mississippi plan. The ticket was nominated.
Every man on it is an ex-Confedcrutcoilicer and
bears wounds received while iightingagainst the
Fnion. And at the head of it, nominated for
Governor, stands Wade Hampton, the aristocrat
of the liristoerats. the lire-eater of the tire-eaters,
a famous general in the Confederate army,
ihe incarnation of Calhounism, Jeff. Davisism,
ansi-Norlhisin. and Southern intolerance. Aft-'i-the
measure was once re-olvrd upon the dele
gates acted iu concert. Butler, the hero of Ht-m-bitrg,
placed Hampton Iu nomination beloretho
convention. The whites om-e more resolved to
trust them and surrend'-red at discretion. The
convention gave sentence for open war. After
a torchlight procession and a mammoth ratliica
tion meeting the delegates went home with a
full understanding of the methods to be era
ployed. A MASS MEETIXO IX SOfTH CAROLINA..
And by St.Paul! the work has gone on bravely.
Never since the passage of the ordinance of se
cession have there been such scenes in the State.
The whole white population is up in arms and
drilling. Wade Hampton aud his eollengues are
canvassing the State. Everywhere they go there
are mass meetings and torchlight and military
processions, recalling those of lSitci 01 . A wide
spread system of terrorism and intimidation
reigns supreme. The negroes, now so long un
molested that they have come to look upon
freedom as the natural order of things, have
been suddenly awakened from their dream.
They see the military drilliiiii all around them.
Park faces scowl at them when they to abroad.
They hear of secret meetings and gatherings of
their oid-tlme owners. Whisp-rlngs of the
Hrmburg butchery reach them. They hear the
w hites all around them saying that the bottom
rail has been 011 the top long enough that the
darkey has to step dow n and out that Hampton
must be elected. In alarm they call a mass meet
ing of the Republicans for consultation. Their
prominent lucu are invited to be present and
speak. Tha time comes. Thousands are pre
sent. They organize and the speaking begins.
Suddenly a commotion arises. The orator
stop. The tap of the drum and the sound of
the bugle are heard down the road. Two long
columns of white soldiers, armed to thetectli,
mounted and on foot, come filing around the
corner and march to the platform. They push
aside the frightened negroes and select the best
seats. Tiui." leaders, ex-Confederate of.icers,
then mount the platform and demand half the
time for Democratic speakers. It is tremblingly
accorded. A Confederate general arises, de
livers a blood-and-thundei- harangue, telling
the negroes they have been fools long enough,
have got to discard their pre.-mt leaders and
comeback to their old masters, who intend to
carry the election, peaceably if tin. y can, but
.forcibly if they are resisted. A Aepublleun
follows. He is greeted with a storm of hisses
and a deafening yell of derision from the
military. He mutters a few words, every sen
tence being drowned by the hooting. At la-t
a sentiment is uttered loud enough to be
heard. Forthwith an nrnied bully stcp.1 for
ward from the ranks and pronounce that, asser
tion a lie. The speaker dan s not resent the
insult nay, he dares not notice or allude to it.
He taHts on for a while. But the insults, jeers,
Impertinent question:, ie., come faster and
faster, and dually, in alarm for his life, ho re.
binnes his seat. When the hissing has subsided
another Confederate takes the floor. He goes
over the rambling remarks ot the poor Republi
can, pronounces each and every on- of them an
infamous, malicious, damuable lie. and dares
him to arise and say they are not. Thereiswlld
cheering. The Republican, quivering with fc.-.r
and indignation, is foil ed to :-wallow it at ths
point of the bayonet. The other speakers on
his side are treated in the same way. The meet
ing breaks up with three times three and a tiger
for Hampton and Tildcn. Aud such of the ne
groes us have not already lied in alarm are fol
lowed lo their homes by the jeers aud curses ol
tho rificmtu.
VKit.LNI.'E.
But this Is not a.11. The air is filled with re
ports of outrage-! aud murders which never up.
ear in print. No prominent Republican of
either color can safely leave a town. Let a hint
that he intvudtf to ride out iu the vouutry get
wind and he In stlro to be ambuscaded. But
more than this. The whites regard a Republi
can of their color with tenfold the vindictive
ncss with which they look upon tha negro.
Scores of white Republicans are hurrying in
alarm to the newspaper offices to Insert cards In
which they renounce their party and profess
conversion to Democracy. If these men hang
back anil refuse or neglect to join the precinct
club or the nearest military company, their con
duct Is reported to the township meeting. A
committee Is appointed to request an explana
tion. They call on the suspected man at, their
carH'-st convenience. If he be sensible ho will
submit profuse apologies and regrets, and httr
rieilly take up his rifle and follow them to the
drill-room. Three or four white circuit judges
have been dragooned into conformity, and the
crowd of lesser lights threatens to absorb every
white Republican In the State except Governor
Chamberlain and Ihe United States Senators.
"one max killed."
If a white man refuses to Join the precinct
club; If a while man's loyalty to the party Ib
suspected ; if a white Republican persists in ils
opinions, he Is spotted, marked, doomed. He is
scowled at, if ho walks abroad. If he passes a
crowd of loitering whites at a street corner an
ominous silence falls on them till he Is out of
hearing. No warning is given him. No mid
night visits are now paid or Ktiklux missives
despatched. The w hites have found by bitter
experience that such things ore boomerangs,
which return with tenfold force to injure tho
thrower. They manage the matter better now.
They wuit till an obnoxious man whom the.y
have doomed as a victim chances to stand or
pas near them, say on tho public square, at tho
post, office, In a bar-room, on the street. A
crowd of white desperadoes will cluster near
him or follow him. They appear to be drunk,
and begin to quarrel over some silly matter
having nothing to do with polities. Several
bystanders come up mid take sides. Finally
blows are exchanged, pistols drawn, and a
regular free tight occurs. Shots arc llrcd
by" all the party. Yet, strange to any, when
order is restored, it Is found that Lot one of the
combatants is injured, while the poor Republi
can has been struck by several random shots ami
killed. An account of the allray appears In the
press (the press is ulinost wholly Democratic)
under the heading, "Street Row One Man
Killed." Not only are single men picked oir in
this way, but sham tights are arranged by white
ruffians on some non-poiitical pretense, which
swell to the proportion of riots, and in which
several Republican bystanders are killed by
chance shots, while none of the combatants are
hurt. Of course, theatithors of these deeds go
unpunished. In the lint place, it is impossible
to tell w ho fired the shot. Then it is unsafe lor
any one to indict anybody about It, or for the
oliicials to be too zealous in investigating or
prosecuting. But If au assassin does get into
trouble by imprudence, his comrades, who of
course compose most of the bystanders, are called
as witnesses, and swear him out safely by giving
iu doctored testimony.
TnK MI-'SISsTI'l't l'LAX.
I now Bud myself carried back to the time of
secession. Then 110 Southerner dared avow
Union sentiments. Then there were thousands
of them in the South, hut they were ruthlessly
subjected to a system of terrorism, and had to
choose between conformity and almost certain
death ; and with hardly an exception they con
formed. To-day there aro thousands of whites
forced into this Confederate revivaf against their
judgment and inclination ; but they must eon
form or take the consequences. They conform,
and then, to avoid the imputation of iukewarm
ncss, they endeavor to prove their sincerity by
outdoing their comrades in violence. The same
men head this movement who led the State
into secession. They have thoroughly revived
the policy of iniimidntloti. Talk of the
blacks being intimidated I It Is through the in
timidation of the whites that the Intimidation of
the black is rendered possible. The election is
to be carried on tho Mississippi plan : and a part
of the plan, be it remembered, was the Intimida
tion of the whites. Wade Hampton is as much
a Missi.sslppian as a Soulh Carolinian. It, Is true
that he is descended from Carolinians famous
in the Revolution, that his ancestors have al
ways lived iu this State, that he himself is a
citizen of this State, pud that the family home
stead is iu the city of Columbia. Rut besides
the immense estates heownedlu South Carolina
before the war, he had vest demesnes In Missis
sippi and other Southern States. This will not
seem surprising when I mention the fact he pos
sessed 'Ji).O(K) acres of land in fee simple, and
owned 4,000 slaws. Now the war took from him
the bulk of his property. But so much remained
af ter all his losses that he is nt this day the
wealthiest man iu the Southern State.i. Most of
his property now, however, is in Mississippi.
He has abandoned by far the larger part of his
ancestral estates in South Carolina. Though
his home is in Columbia, lie spends half his time
on his plantations in Mississippi. He. has one
plantation there on which hOO of his former
slaves are employed, so well has he been able to
keep up this old-plantation plan w hile the small
farm system has Im-cii becoming well nigh uni
versal. The fact I desire to call attention to is
thi6 : Hampton was in Mississippi prior to the
last election there, which the. Democrats carried
by the shotgun policy. The similarity of the
methods employed by tho Democrats iu the can
vass going on here now, with Hampton as their
leader, forces ine to the conclusion that the ex
periment is to be repeated here.
THE PRESENT ATTITL'DE OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
From a recsnt speech hy lion. Kdwanl ItcPlierson.l
What i.i its present attitude f It is the a;olo
gist of tho wortt political crimes of the ecutury,
the benefits of which it reaches out iu hands
eagerly to clutch. It is the protector of the
Southern miscreant who have planned
and executed, aud are planning and exe
cuting, every outrage, even the most
shocking, upon whole masses of voters, whlto
a well as colored, w hose only offence is an un
willinf ncss to vote the Democratic ticket. This
element of that party has, by intimidation and
violence, wrested State alter State from the
political control preferred by its voters, and is
preparing, by public and shnm'-less means, to
wield thein unitedly for the election of a Presi
dent. This policy was successfully begun in
ISri In Louisir.na, when "Whit a League
Clubs" combine I to " refuse to employ, rent,
lend to, or In any other mann-r give aid, com
fort, or credit to any man, white or black, who
votes against the white me.n'a party." Such is
the respect for the rights of tha laboring and
independent poor felt by the late slaveliolding
class who now constitute the Southern De
mocracy. Combinations to starve labor were
followed by combinations to murder il ; and we
have the authority of so distinguished an oliicial
as Lieutenant General Philip II. Sheridan for
the fact that from to January, llo, over
three thousand persons ha l been killed and
wounded in Louisiana "on account of their
political sentiments." The recent Congressional
report on the election of last year in Mississippi
is confirmatory of the existence of this uelined
and malicious purpose ol the Southern Demo
cracy : and w ho can close his eyes to tho present
enormities' practiced by the same reckless and
desperate class in Soulh Carolina I In most of
the late rebel Slates the freedom of the ballot has
tints been as substantially destroyed as it was
during the administration of Jeiicrson Davis iu
the palmy day of the rebellion. And the men
who are recking w ith the blood of probably ten
thousand innocent victims are held up by ilieir
Northern confederates as com tituting a model
party, fit not only to bear the nation's liouor,
but to "reform" its administration I
First Xunh'rers, Then Robbers.
" IOU AKE A ItADICAL MOOEIt, AND HAVE GOT
TO 1)11!."
The writer of the article from which we make
this extract, iu support of his statement that
utter lawlessness prevails In the South, and that
no man's life is secure, be he white or black,
w ho is known as a Republican, relates the fol
lowing :
As an example, I may refer to the murder of
Simon C)ker, an houestaud well-meaniug black
man w ho represented baruweil county iu the
Legislature. On Tuesday, Seplemb-r il), a riiic
club eom natided by Canuin A. P. Butler, went
to Ellcntou und took a wood Iraiu on tho Port
Royal R-tilri-ad, with whi- h they proceeded to a
station called Uobbiits. Here t.iey found Colter
quietly seated on Ids valhe. and walling for a
train. Some ol them exclaimed, " There's that
itiidleal nigger, Coker." Captain Uutier
went up to hlin, and raid, "Cokcr, I'm the
nigger ruler, and you'va got lo go with ma."
Thru the unfortunate man was surrounded by
Butler's command and draged into oue of the
car of the wood train, wuicu thcu returned to
Ellenton. Arriving there. Cokcr was taken Into
a field about one hundred yards from the road,
and Captain Butler said to him :
" Coker, what's your business f"
" I am a Representative from Barnwell county
to tho 8oulh Carolina Legislature,", was tho
rcplv. , ,,
" All tha better," ssM Buflw, rtbpresenta
tire or no Representative, you ar a Radical
nigger, and have got to die." . .
" For God's sake, give me time to pray," cried
the unhappy negro.
"Certainly," answercTCaptaln Butler; " pray
away, but pray quick."
Coker then knelt down and began to pray.
While ho was in t his position Butler stepped
back six or eight feet and shot at him twice.
Jin foil forward on hts face, bleeding and dying.
Butler then made a sign to Ids men, and six of
them fired into the wounded man. He died.
The men whokilled him took his watch, money,
and gold shirt buttons, and then, leaving the
body to rot, returned lo Robbins. These "facts
are sworn to by three eye-witnesses, w ho s'atn
that Coko's only crime was his Republicanism
IFrom ths Cincinnati Commercial. 1
CAMPAIGN LYRICS.
" Will you walk Into my parlor f said the spider to
tlie fly. ' '
Will yon walk Into my parlor? said ths Kukluz to
tho nl-tgur.
I've a derringer to show you with a very handsome
flparc:
And my brothers w ho are bandits, as Phil Sheridan
woulil sny.
Will do inncii iu entertain you It you'll stop a while
to-Uuy.
Ws have shot-guns, rifles, pistols, knives, would aria
a .Mifloc tirsve:
Bloodli-Miiifls worth a heap of money when you want
to track a stive;
Rope to linnR Yankee schoolmarm when shf won"t
fret up ami pit
Won't yea walk Into my parlor, Mr. Klggcr, Justs
ta?
We have stories, I assure- you, that you really ought
tn hear.
Do enme In Mr. Vljrger. for election flay Is near:
Ami 1 think I night convince you with niy derringer
anil things.
That this rui-seil nigger voting all our Southern
trouble brings.
Orl might, perhaps, persuade yon with a donble-
Ijnrreltetl Run.
We can do your voting for you as our Interests are
one;
And I'm riire you'll not insist, with a derringer In
view.
That the cares ot holding office are desirable for you.
I can show by fncls and figures what dsstructlon to
your race
Must result, as here at Hamburg, when you don't
kep in ymtr place;
And that -rlot" down at Vlcksburg, with a hun
dred I ctiiilit name.
Varied slightly la the details, but resulting Just the
same
Show conclusively to niggers that down South they
have to cense
Holding oflees und voting If they want to Hvo 111
n.aee.
If you've rights to keep we'll keep them, only stay
wlicrs you belong
Hoeing sierar cane and cotton or you'll find your
rlglus are w rong.
So Just w alk Into my parlor, there Is nowhere so se
en re.
For my nrgiunents are deadly, and like vermifuge,
arc saro,
Very sure ami very classic, as in .snp's Hons den.
Whcro the tracks are all pointed Inwards, but not
oue came out aatn.
PoIHIps and Trailc
tlOW TnET AltE COMMXKI) IS TITB SOLID
WllTilKIlN STATE OF SOUTH CAHOLIXA.
Boston Tnmscrtpt.
The ways of Southern politics, in some re
spects clear enough, are still past finding out.
South Carolina Is a Republican State by a ma
jority of many thousands, but the declaration
has gone forth that the Democrats are to take
possession after this year, and the small trad-rs
and jMior laborers have taken the alarm. The
advertising columns of the daily Democratic
papers show how the alarm is maniftsted. The
Charleston Jwirnal of Commerce, R. Barnwell
Illicit, Jr., editor, contains the following :
'' A Caud Until FcnTnnn: Novi'-is I will
reci'Iva applications from those seeking employ
ment, on Mondays, WrDVEsnAvs, and F111
days, and orders from employers for Straight
out Democratic Worklngmen, on TrKsusYS,
Tut'ltsoAVS, and Satlt.days. I am prepared
to furnish Democrats with Democratic labor at
rea.'.ouable wages, to any extent at a moment's
notice. To employ Republicans and starve
Democrats no longer pays. It is a crime, und
w ill be held to strict accountability.
" II. S. TitAntx,
" 75 Broad street."
To understand the effect of an announcement,
of this kind, it must be remembered that the
great nujori'y of Republicans are laborers, and
the majority of Democrats are employers of
labor, in some form or other. Such a notice as
t'lls is, therefore, an appeal to the fears of those
v. ho tire dependent on their daily earnings, and
would rather change their politics than lose
them. It is also a threat against those who re
fuse to surrender. Here is another notice of
the same kind :
" To Orn MmriiAXTJ, Wnvnr Owneus. and
Tiiadksmi:m Guneiiai.i.v : The Worklngmen's
Democratic Association are now preparid to
furnish from one hundred to two hundred able
bodied men for any kind of work. Apply nt
their hall, (jnecn street, near piecliug, from 9
to IS M.: 1 to fi, aud 7 to tt P. M."
This modified form of intimidation is carried
into the various branches of retail trade.
Twenty -one butchers of Charleston unite in a
card, which the J and C'tntrkr prints under
the heading :
' ni TCiiKHs to r.ry rnor."
"Whlke do you Bit l'ont Meat ? To Via
Dtinvei-ti'ie Pfb'.k: The undersigned, butchers
in the Charleston markets, who are earnest sup
porters of tho ciuc of Hampton and 00011
ooveiixmevt, respectfully solicit the custom of
their Democratic fclloiv-eitizns.
' Hocsi:KBRPr.i cax acr thciii Meats from
Democratic llcad-iuartcr i,' Stalls Nos. 49, 5 1,
fi7, and 5S, Lower Market. Also No. 9 and 10,
Cpper Market, i to cents per pound. It, is
not Democratic money alone that wc want, but
Wade Hamptox and RtmiiM."
Paul Trcseott, a good South Carolina name,
adds to the number of hi stalls the information
"Straight-out Democrat;" and T. It. 'fully,
caterer, ' d--si. es to remind the general public
of what his old customers all know, that, he has
been for years a staunch Demoerat, and Is now
a supporter of Hampton and good government."
Surely tho ruling white race, "the natural
leaders," are setting a noble example for their
less fortunete fellow-citizen. If the inarket
inen and household purveyors of any Northern
city were to advertise their wares iri" Jhis way,
toadying to the prejudices of f ' rich cut
tomrs, and threatening Ilieir liwls with the
destruction of their businets unless they
changed tlrir opinions, our rigorous Northern
climate w ould soon be made uncomfortable for
them. The negroes have, indeed, much to learn
and to unlearn when the superior wiilte race
sets them so poor an example.
g?
From a recent speech by Curl Scluirz.
Tin? Democratic rarfy Xorth Swallowed up
hi a Solid Soulh.
It has frerpiently been said thc.t no Northern
Democrat, aUcr voting lor such a bill, will be
ablo to coiuo before hts constituency. latitat
true ? Don't we see things which, under ordi
nary circunibtiinces, would be deemed incredi
ble ! Tho South is now a compact unit again iu
tho Democratic party. At least tho Democratic
party wants to tight us, and In care of a Demo
cratic victory the South will not only bo solidly
Democratic, but it will also remain to for au In
terminabla time. Let mo guy to you, I would
look upon that as a great na'iomil misfortune,
for when, in a republic, political parties are di
vided by geographical and sectional lines, it will
create au unsound and unpatriotic public senti
ment; au I if It were for that reason alone, I
think there w ould be soma impuh.e of patriotism
moving ulinost every one to light araiiut tl?a
Democratic party this fail. Applause. But that
is not the point I want to dit cuss. I say the Dem
ocratic party wants to unlt2 the South once
more as a solid unit upon its sida. In that casa
the Southern people will hold the majority of
I lie Democratic party, and direct it. purposes.
T'aat majority of voles w ill necessarily, as before
the war, give them the control of the party;
they wiil fall at once again Into liieir old seat of
power, and holding the preponderance of luilu
enee in the Democratic party the South will
necessarily insist upon dictating the nomina
tions tor tho Presidency end Vice Presidency in
that organization. In other words, ju a it
wa before our great civil conflict, 110 Northern
"Democrat will have the least "dance for the
Presidency or Vice Presidency uuloss he enjoys
the decided favor ot tho Southern Democracy.
What will be tho consequence of this I Why,
It is evident. Every Northern Congress
man who thinks that there Is some Presi
dential stuff In him, that a Presidential
lightning may strike him aome time, will be very
much Inclined to do that which will be surest
to gain him the favor of his Southern brethren.
60 it is evident that not. only a few but a large
number of Northern Democrats, Impelled by
their ambition, and, I am sorry to say, also Im
pelled by one of those Impulses that seems to be
indigenous to the Democratic mind by the Influ
ence of subserviency to Southern dictation, will
Vote for just such bills ns have been laid before
you by Republican speakers. Sol believe that
a Democratic Administration will, by the very
necesFllles of thp case, be one of the most ex
travaguiit Administration! this country ever
bad. There is still another reaion w hy this w ill
be so. She Southern people, being the prepon
derating power in the councils of the Demo
cratic party, will also dictate its financial poli
cy. The Southern people stand now, compared
with us, in the position of poor relattotn.
In other words, they, being comparatively
poor, und the North comparatively rich, the
North will pay the great mass of taxes and the
South will pay comparatively little. The neces
sary consequence is that those who pay very
little don't feel the burden of an extravagant
Government, and will, therefore, always be In
favor of spending as much money as possible.
You have an illustration of this In the city of
New York. A very large number of your voters
are non-tax payers, a minority of your Voters
are wealthy tax payers; the 11'on-tax payers do
not care a snap of their fingers how much
money Is spent by the city government, and,
therefore, you have always a lavish adminis
tration. Is not that so! Then the same rela
tion will be borne by the South lo the North
as to our national councils, and, therefore, I
repeat, it is by the very necessity of the case
that, a Democratic Administration, governed as
it must be by Southern Influence, w ill ba a mot
extravagant one. Applause.
- , .wai"
Rifle Club IutliiiiuiittoD.
MR. ScnTHZ DKCI.AKKS MILITARY TORCE THE
ONLY KE.MEDY Foil TIIE SHOT-GCX POLICY.
There Is still one other thing I would call
your attention to, and that is the question of
national peace. 1 do not mean to repeat what
I said of my action with regard to the Southern
people, and the impulse of generosity which I
have always followed. Of course 1 did that
with the expectation that satisfactory response
would be eiieited from the other side. We gave
them back their rights with a lavish hand ; we
gave them bnen their rights so shortly after the
rebellion that I ean only repeat w hat 1 have said
before, that the generosity of the American
people has never been equalled by any other
nation l:i tho world In that respect. Wo did it
with the just expectation, or at least the reason
able expectation, that the Southern people, re
ceiving their rights at our hand, might be
counted upon to respect also the rights of
others. 1 am sorry to say that that
expectation has been iu a great measure disap
pointed. When you look nt the State of South
Carolina you will not, deny that the situa
tion of things is exceedingly serious. 1 am the
very last man in thecountry" who would approve
of the presence of troops in the neighborhood
of tho ballot-box, and 1 would stand' by to the
last in the endeavor to secure to every man the
right to vote uninfluenced by force of any kind.
But, as things now stand, if the United States
troops are withdrawn we are pretty t ure to have
anotiier armed force in its place, and that is the
rillc clubs of the South Carolina Reform Democ
racy. 1 believe in reform, gentlemen, but I do
not, believe in the reform of the rifle and the re
volver In the hands of a terrorist. Now, then,
they may succeed possibly In subjugating Re
publican majorities, but one thing I look upon
as perfect iy sure we have, come to the sotilv
ment of ths questions growing out of the war
by debating certain Constitutional provisions.
These Constitutional provision! may, for the
lime being, be overridden in this or that State,
but if the attempt is made which I look for
almost as inevitable In the event of a Demo
cratic victory if the attempt Is made to nullify
them in the whole extent of the Southern
coudtry. I am shre that the loyal people of the
United States of America will not submit to it.
ApplPUFC.
If the attempt bo made upon fuch an isue
between the North and the South, the solid
South 011 one side w ill find u solid North on the
other side ; and liberal cud generous as I may
be when the question is between a solid North
and a solid South, I am on the side of the North
all the time. Applause. I am on the side of
the North, not because I happen to live here,
but. because I believe that the North contains
the Intellectual as well as the moral vitality of
the American Republic a It is now constituted.
Now. gentlemen, looking ut the attempts that,
arc being made in the Sout h, cr.u anybody doubt
that th-y would be greatly encouraged by a
victory of the Democratic party ? Iain sorry I
am obliged to ay it. but still that party stands
In the politics of the country as a continual
threat of reaction np aintt the results of the war ;
and it is my conviction at the. present moment
that the candidates of the Republican parly are
not only the best, but they are the only instru
ments by which the. true interests of the Ameri
can people can be promoted. Applause
POOR TILDEX.
" Tho Washington Co-omVe publishes the fol
lowing list of fees paid to Samuel !. Tildcn in
IViS, ISO',!, aud ISM by the Erie Kailwuy Com
pany :
J. Flslc, Jr., Mnrcii to December, 1SGS,
six tt-ias. sKal uud lucid Hint $117,400 34
Daniel Orewamt J.iioald, several Items,
lejrnl i-.nd Incidents! 4SI.800 00
AV. M. Twscd, Nov9ia:fr -. ISus j-i. i-o 00
W. M. Tweed, Dsceninrr 1, IsrtS Ale 0.1
V. VI. Tweed, Dei einlier 4. Itis 4.:v.0 oi
VV. Tweed, .Tamurv 1-1 .lane, IS'i'J... -.'7.wii: sd
W. VI. Tweed, D mber liiia i'.,o.,u 00
AY. M. Tweed, April S, IS? 1 li,-0 0,1
V. M. Tweed, Jans 1, lSre v C'l
.1,-i.v (i'jiti'l, stcprtnilior a, l7o J'Hi,0' 0 00
lay iVmtlil, IS-qililhr 5, ls7l( ft '.Cefl 00
Iiy lioal !, ScpteinUer , Jt70 44,000 00
V. VI. Twet l, e:penres and conn-.,? I
rce as, ooo oo
V. M. Tweed, expctises ct:4 couivel
fees 73,000 00
W. M. Tweed, expenses and counsel
fees 21. COO CO
$i,oii:,o',o tr,
Not. one cent of this was ever rt turned for
taxation, and ih (lovermaeiit was defrauded
out of it tax upon it.
Betides, these were the receipts from on:
source tha New York and Erie. Hi, fees from
other roads were enormously large, and would
swell the total to several millions.
During th.' year, tri m ISfH to 1?73 he paid
taxes to the United Sta'es on l;ut $15 ':iV or
$15,000 a year, while r.ctu-ally receiving not loss,
probubiy, than live millions.
A. Bayonet Charge.
This is the way Onoral V.. M. Lee, of Nr v
York, ' burrounds" bis audience wherever he
addresses a faun, yivania gathering. It, cap
tures them every time :
Fellow-citizens : My first p'.'.llic appear
ance again-t the Democratic party su. msdj in
the State of Pennsylvania, and 1 have no douLt
that some of you w ere present on that oecus'on.
It was on a warm Sabbath morning in till v,
lW.i, at licit vsburg. The Dsmoer.it iu party at
that time wore a gray uniform, and w is com
manded by my notorious namesake. Then, as
now, it represented the " solid Sotuh." Thtn,
as now, it v.-as determined either to rule or ruin
the nation, and iig triumph on that occa i-m
would have been no lets ii!ea;iojs to the coun
try than its triumph in the present caiLpaiu.
Jus-nFYiATTTSrijL'Ry.
A new explanation of tho reason why Sham
Tildcn refused to help put down rebellion ami
pay his income tax Is glveu lu the New York
" At the eatne time, we must eay that it would
have been much mora creditable to Mr. Tildcn
a? a lawyer and a statesman to huve declined to
!av any income tax at all. An Income tax,
levied as ours was, U a clear Infraction of the
Consiitution of the United States."
This is tho opening of an argument to justify
swindling the (JovernmAut. Mr. Tildcn is un
fortuuate in the briefs of hi defence which he
sends to his advocates.
Will Tilden want to engage the telegraph lines
on the night of Novemlx-r 7 1 Charlie Backaiew
Is able to give the aged reformer some valuable
advice on this ecore.
carl mimi
Upon Southern Claims,
IT IS NOT A RERc PARTISAN CRY.
THERE IS MH IT.
Tho Democratic Party I
Ready to Pay Every Cent
Demended by tha
South.
It has frequently been said by Democr-its hit
in the question of Southern claims there is no
thing but a mere partisan cry. Gentlemen, it is
my sober conviction that, there Is much in it, and
I will tell you why I believe so. The South his
been impoverished by the war. and in conversa
tion with Southern men myself I have found tht
to be their idea : Ifou of the North lnve con
trolled the Government alone since the war;
you have taken out of the publl- trons-ny
millions of dollars to euhsidire stcambost lines'.
You have granted sway millions of acres for
railroads to establish your lines of c-immuni, i
tion. You have aput untold sums of inncv --i
internal improvements , an 1 while you did tluv
we in the South were exposed to all the ravne-s
of the war, and out of which we have eo'ne in n
impoverished condition. Now. thev pry tber'' i
nothing fairer in the world than thr.t we shoi-id
have the same advantages, so us ti get pvn.
lientlemen, you converse with almost every
Southern man on this subject . and P' he fl'is.s ivt,
tell you this before election, be will be esi!;d
enough to s.n.v so ofier, If tiie IleinnrraHc ci:i
didalc Is elected. Wfckt doe.4 I hat. mean f We
have (liteovered In theeotii.se. of time that. ti
policy of granting railrmd grints and subsidis
ing this and that private enterprise was xcc 1
ingly cosily, witboulconferring a corn's ponUinij
punllc benefit.. Therefor, that policy bastoa
great extent been abandoned ; btit I predict in
case of a Democratic vieto-y th.d, thct poll' y
will be renewed and carried on to a more extra
vagant extent by that party when it iponrvj
the controlling power. That Is one point. Th
second point is this : While I was in the ScC2e,
and ever since, a large number nf bills were in
troduced there aiming ot the refunding of ths
cotton tax. You are all aware that during Cm
war wc paid hundreds upon hundreds of mil
lions of tuxes lor the purpose of ke-ping c ir
overnment. alive ar.d ouranni?,, going'. We did
that, having been forced Intoa war by the rebel
States, a war that cost 500,000 precious lives
and thousands of millions of dollars-. Dtlrirg
that, whole tinm the South contributed almost
nothing to the public treasury. There. Is
only one considerable item of tax tint
was levied upon the Southern people,
and that was tho cotton tax, some sixtv
elght million dollars or over. Now they de
mand a restitution of thr.t lav, as it is" pro
posed by some, not to the individuals by whom
the tax was paid, but to tho Southern States as
such. I am a man of very gencrou di position
with regard to the South. 1 thought that whsn
the war was closed the Southern people who
had been in revolt would agaiu become, peace
able und law-abiding citizens, and that genrns
ity was not only a duty, but an act of wivioin
and justice. And so 1 have b"en one of the first
to advocate policy of general amnesty and of
the complete removal of all those political disa
bilities which inconsequence of the rebellion
had been imposed upon a large minthar of
Southern people. In general I advoc.-led a po
licy of generosity and reconciliation t 1 am w ill
ing to be as generous to ihera as anybody, but
when, alter having loreed us into so terrible a
war a war that came near destroying the v?rv
life of this great Republic a war thct has eo erel
the land with mourning, and put 6ucli terrlhl
burdens upon our p-opl" when, after such a
war, having contributed this ItiMo mile to tho
sustenance of this great fabric of or.r im titution,
they demand thnt we thoKld refund every cent
of it, I think ii is a little too much. Arid yet
you arc coolly asked you, the possessors of the
wealth of this country to put your hands into
your pockets so that ?:iS,0.lil.0('i be given back.
I tell you, gentlemen, that it is my honest con.
vlct Ion, should the Democratic party come into
power again, they will inevitably return to ths
South every cent of that money which was con
tributed to the National Treasury in the cotton
intere-st, with Interest too. I tell you candidly
that I fear the Democratic party will be eTced.
ingly generous to their Southern friends in t'oa
way of putting money into their pockets.
A Rerai'il Xol it Prosprctus.
Paid Colonel Ingersoll in bis Cooper Inditu's
speech : " The Republican party comes to you
v.itli its record open, and asks every mm, wo
man, und child in the broad country to read its
every word. And I say to you that there is not
a line, a paragraph, or a page of that record tint
is not only an honor to the Republican pst ty,
but to the human race. On every page of th t
record is written soma great ami glorious n-.
tiou, done either for the liberty of man or th
preservation of our common country. We o: '
everybody to read lis every wold. The Demo
cratic party comes before you with its record
ebved, recording every blot and blur aud stain,
aud treason and slander and malignity, and ist.s
you lo1 to read a tingle word, but to bet lclml
enough to t.ike its infamous promises for IV.'.
future. Allow me to say here thct chiract.-r,
good character, reits upon a record, and not
upon a prospectus."
A Democratic organ say. : " It Is generally
conceded that SamuelJ. Tilden has been Quietly
' laving for ' Tweed." To most perrons it looks
as if Tilden had been " l-jiny for " him. It w.is
loft, to the Republican prejs'nf Now YrrU lo ct
pose his crimes ; and ths credit of his etpture,
according to Minister dishing, must be given to
the Republican Administration.
Republican Electoral Ticket.
STATE
ELECTOES.
BENdiAMIN HARRIS EKEWSTEH,
JOHN TV. CIIALFANT,
TOTTN WELSH,
HENRY D13STON,
CHRISTIAN J. HOFFMANT,
CHARLES THOMPSON JONES
EDWIN H. F1TLER,
JOSLTK W. BARNASD,
BENJAMIN SMITH,
JAC03 KNABB,
JOHN B. 'WAEEEL,
JOSEPH tuo:ias,
ARIO PARDEE,
LEYvUS FITCH,
EDWARD S. 6ILLEUAN,
W ILLIAM CALDER,
MILES L. TRACY,
8. W. STARKWEATHER,
DANIEL J. MOESELL,
JEREMIAH LYONS,
WILLIAM HAY,
WILLIAM CAMERON,
J. B. DONLEY,
DANIEL O'NEILL,
WILLIAM NEEB,
ANDREW B. BEEGER,
SAMUEL M. JACKSON,
JAMES WESTERMAN,
W. W. WILBUR.
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