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Saint Thomas (Jamaica) (search for this): chapter 4
the elections. The negroes regarded the troops as sent, not so much to protect them as to intimidate the whites. Every means that could be devised was tried to intimidate colored Democrats, but as this was on the right side, the commissioners took no notice of them. Their object was to keep the polls free for Radical voters. If Democrats were hindered or impeded in the exercise of the franchise it was not worth their notice. Cainhoy. The next serious riot that occurred was in St. Thomas' parish, near the village of Cainhoy, in which eight men were murdered, their bodies being shockingly mutilated. On the 16th October a steamboat left Charleston for Cainhoy, with about sixty Democrats, nearly all white, and about as many Radical negroes, with Bowen, the sheriff of Charleston, at their head. By agreement the meeting at Cainhoy was to be a joint meeting to be addressed alternately by members of both parties. The men from Charleston carried no arms. It had become a univers
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
not do what he had done. It was the old excuse—the same which Grant had made for himself when he had violently expelled half of the House of Representatives of Louisiana, and delivered the State prostrate into the hands of her enemies—his orders had been misunderstood. So with Ruger. His soldiers were put in the State House, noted. The history of the contest between the two parties for the counting of the presidential vote, of the successful operation by which the Returning Board of Louisiana and Florida reversed the votes of those States and gave their votes to Hayes, and the settlement of the question by a special commission elected for that purpose excellence of the plan by which the Republicans proposed to keep power in their own hands by means of Returning Boards. They nullified the votes of Florida and Louisiana without any scruple, and were supported by the Republican party, including a part of the Federal judiciary. So that Hayes was declared elected by a majority of
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e hawked about the streets of New York by a wretched gutter-broker, who was made by Chamberlain the financial agent of the State, and once, in order to expedite business, the Secretary of State, the mulatto Cardoza, went to New York with the great seal of the State in his pocket, to comply with the request of the financial agent. On one occasion three men met at the agent's office, counsellors and advisers of the financial agent of South Carolina, Scott, of Ohio; Parker, the swindler of New Hampshire, Bowen, the god of the Cooper River negroes, and the vote broker, Henly. These, and such as these, sat in council with the financial agent of the State; gave their counsel; determined about the disposal of the money which might be raised, and, doubtless, broke many a vulgar jest upon the misery of the State which they presumed to represent. I dwell upon this matter because I feel that a bare recital of events can never tell but a portion of the truth. It was not a sentiment which le
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
re brought before the Chief-Justice of the United States to answer to a conspiracy to intimidate thire, pacify and report. The troops of the United States were there. The sheriff played into the h should be made the basis of a call on the United States for military assistance. It was more than have always found in the judiciary of the United States a judge who will be a convenient instrumened, to aid with the military forces of the United States, to maintain a Republican government in thnment, and all the available forces of the United States are put at his disposal to wield the destio through the formality of electing Corbin United States Senator, but as Mackey was not Speaker, thhey have usurped. We make no war upon the United States. But they cannot keep them from starving. Governor supported by the bayonets of the United States, and as soon as he was inaugurated he applection of Governor and of President of the United States. State of feeling in South Carolina jus[2 more...]
Orangeburg, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
n other occasions, capable of self control, and Chamberlain might have heard the knell of his hopes in the way in which they submitted to this enormous usurpation. The retiring delegates, sixty-four in number, withdrew to a large hall in Columbia, where, as an undoubted quorum, they organized the House of Representatives by choosing W. H. Wallace their Speaker, and Sloan, Clerk. Whilst organizing they discovered that their numbers had increased to sixty-five by the adherence of Ruder, of Orangeburg. The Radicals intended to take possession of the House and organize, whilst the Democrats would be parleying about the admission of their associates, and in fact before the Democrats had retired the roll was called by Jones, the clerk of the former House. It was then proposed to organize, and a doubt was expressed by a member whether a constitutional quorum was present. Whereupon Mackey asserted that there was a quorum. One hundred and sixteen members had been elected, he said, fifty
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hapter of the history of reconstruction in South Carolina. Paper no. 6—Conclusion. by Professor F. sident for aid to suppress insurrection in South Carolina reached Washington. The President was at every vestige of Republican government in South Carolina. We shall soon see what was his method of having failed to intimidate the people of South Carolina from expressing their opinions at the pollcalled sustaining Republican government in South Carolina. The next scene in the drama shows his mes should be undisturbed. So the people of South Carolina must need be content with the assurance, tous of having the decision made outside of South Carolina. They wanted the President to decide for ption and checks it in its mad career. In South Carolina there was no public opinion. Society was blicanism as it was known to the people of South Carolina. Is it to be wondered at that the white pould be in Democratic hands. The party in South Carolina subsisted only under the shadow of the gov[19 more...]
Elberton (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
th Carolina. Paper no. 6—Conclusion. by Professor F. A. Porcher. The Elberton riots. The next considerable riot has acquired historical importance, as itrned—one negro was killed, the others ran away. The whites then moved towards Elberton. There the negroes had assembled in large numbers, armed, yelling, cursing and threatening the lives of the women and children. In front of Elberton is a deep swamp, which was occupied by the blacks, but they retired before the regular approach of the whites, with the loss of one of their number. The whites camped at Elberton. That night the negroes waylaid at Penn Branch a party of white men and woundetes had dispersed and returned to their homes, there was an end to the riot of Elberton. Several lives had been lost, which ought to have been inquired into. But thhe Governor, and he left the State, taking with him the AttorneyGen-eral. But Elberton promised to yield a rich harvest of crimes, dear to the hearts of the governme
Barnwell (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ncerned in putting it down were brought before the Chief-Justice of the United States to answer to a conspiracy to intimidate the black citizens of Aiken and Barnwell counties, and to prevent them from exercising the elective franchise. Several men of both parties were slain, but the death of a few men was a matter about which theance of the ordinary peace, and that the mandates of the courts were readily obeyed and executed. Judge Wiggins, in whose circuit were the counties of Aiken and Barnwell, replied that writs of arrest were resisted in his circuit, but when pressed for an explanation, reluctantly admitted that such resistance proceeded from negroesswindle, but defied his accusers, threatened to expose their crimes and lodge them in the penitentiary; and he continued to govern and to represent the county of Barnwell as long as he chose. Not only were charges of corruption unavailing to destroy their power among the ignorant masses, they were impotent to weaken their influ
Haverhill (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
State. All officers were displaced; the judiciary destroyed; the whole field cleared for the grand experiment which Republicanism was now going to make in the State. At an election, which was held soon after the adjournment of the Convention, Scott of Ohio, the chief of the Freedman's Bureau, was raised to the office of Governor, and the satrap displaced Governor Orr to make way for him. Chamberlain was made AttorneyGen-eral, and Parker, Treasurer. He had once been a bar-tender in Haverhill, N. H. His house was destroyed by fire, and the insurers refused to pay for the loss; but Parker did not deem it prudent to prosecute his claim. We have seen how he was indicted for embezzlement, and the farcical termination of that prosecution. The Legislature was composed largely of negroes; but in almost every delegation were men, who having come to Carolina to carve out fortunes for themselves, were afterwards known by the significant appellation of carpet-baggers. These were the men
Aiken (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
on employed by the Governor to frame an indictment against the people of the State. The parties concerned in putting it down were brought before the Chief-Justice of the United States to answer to a conspiracy to intimidate the black citizens of Aiken and Barnwell counties, and to prevent them from exercising the elective franchise. Several men of both parties were slain, but the death of a few men was a matter about which the courts need not be troubled, and no inquest was made into the casethe condition of their several circuits. Each judge promptly replied that there was no disturbance of the ordinary peace, and that the mandates of the courts were readily obeyed and executed. Judge Wiggins, in whose circuit were the counties of Aiken and Barnwell, replied that writs of arrest were resisted in his circuit, but when pressed for an explanation, reluctantly admitted that such resistance proceeded from negroes who had been engaged in the Combahee and Elberton riots. Almost simu
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