Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1878 — The Scuth Carolina Programme. [ARTICLE]

The Scuth Carolina Programme.

Information from the Abbeville dutrief in Souih Carolina is to the Effect that tho. democrats have already begifri a system of teiToi-istu to prevent the republicans from organizing for political purposes. Several of the Ideal papers of-that section aro charging that the republicans of that vieittity have completed a ticket, and that it W already being circulated secretly among tfi’e' colored voters, and upon thia curious charge an attempt is being made to stir up the white citizens to tuko this matter its baud and act in time and vigorously. Its the Edgefield district, one of the local newspapers, in commenting upon this reported secret action on the part of the republicans, says tint the same thing is feared in Edgeficld county, and upon this urges that tw.» republicans, who are supposed to bo leaders 1u t!Tis“mbvenient, should, if they 'Jared to lift their heads or fingers in political machinations, be seized and hung. To use its own wirds: “Yes, we mean exactly what we say. If those named and others ever dare ti inangnrnte political schemes in Edgefield again, let us Kang them. Nut ,on‘y our own self-respect, but our safety demands it, and that Without masks or disguise.-- Wagfiinjtan SjitcitH to t'incimum Gazette,