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The Abbeville Banner
By W. W. Farrow.

Terms- Three Dollars a year, in advance. No subscriptions taken for less than six months.

Wednesday, September 30, 1868.

Facts for the Colored People.

The government of the United States, under the rule of the Radicals, who profess to be your best friends, has spent within three years, fifteen hundred millions of dollars; that is at the rate of a million and a half of dollars every day. And yet the debt of the United States is greater to-day than it was three months ago. Ought you not to ask, what has become of all this money? If a man owes a large sum of money, and is known to receive a great deal of money, and yet does not pay his debts, do you not come to the conclusion that he must make bad use of his money if he is known to spend it? Why do you not come to the same conclusion about the Radicals? They have received hundreds of millions of dollars and spent them without paying the heavy debt of the country, and this they cannot deny. They could have paid off one-half of the debt of the country by this time. You ought to ask the Radicals why they have not done so? They may tell you that the expenses of the government have been very great. But were these necessary? Take just one item. They have kept up an army of fifty-six thousand men, at a cost o one hundred millions of dollars. in a single year. Is such an army necessary in time of peace? 
The Democrats of Congress tried to get the army brought down to thirty thousand men; but only three Radicals voted for it. This reaction would have saved for the county about forty millions of dollars. We could go over the whole list of expenditures, and show you how large sums of money might have been saved on every item, every year, since the close of the war. 
You know something about the Freedmen's Bureau. But have you any idea what that Bureau has cost? In 1866, the Radicals voted for it about seven millions of dollars, and in 1867 nearly four millions. A good deal more has been appropriated to the Bureau since. What has the Bureau done for the colored people in return for the fifteen or twenty millions of dollars, which it has cost the people? If the Bureau has done much for you, as the Bureau agent to put down on paper the amount of money that has actually gone into the hands of the colored people, and give good proof of his statements. Then get him to that has been paid to the ((illegible)) officers, agents, clerks, and so on. You will be apt to find out that, while the colored people have received only a small part of the fifteen or twenty millions which the Bureau has cost, the Bureau officers, agents and clerks have pocketed the far greater part of the money. It is a very easy thing for a Radical to appear as the friends of the colored people, when he is getting a good salary by it. He would be apt to turn Democrat, if he thought that the Democrats would give him a better salary. 
But where does all the fifteen hundred millions of dollars which the Radicals have spent in three years come from? Do the colored people know that they have had to pay their share of that vast sum? We wish to remind them of something that we Radicals think of you, and how they feel towards you. Radical white men will tell you ail sorts of tales to make you vote for Grant and Colfax; but they will take care not to tell you about what Helper has written. Nor will they tell you what calculations they have made,as to what is to become of the colored people hereafter. They look upon  you as a doomed race of peple. They expect you to be exterminated like the Indians. Yet they pat you on the back, and tell you that they are your friends. They want you to help, as long as you can, to keep them in power, so that they may raise millions upon millions of money, by heavy taxation, in order to put it into their own pockets, instead of paying the debts of the government. 
What do you think of the scalawag Legislature in Columbia, staying there sixty days, at six dollars a day? Do you know that this one meeting of the scalawags will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that taxes must be raised on order to pay the debt? In former times, when white men formed the Legislature, they finished their business in about twenty days, each member receiving four dollars a day. You see that the scalawags in the Legislature are following the example of the scalawags in Congress. What do they care for heavy taxes, or for the poor man at home, while they can get fat salaries and have little or nothing to do? We know that the colored people are not inclined to listen to us; but we wish that, for their own sakes, they would consider facts, and try to save themselves before it is too late. 
Their Radical masters will soon grind them to powder. 

Pauperism. 

A recent publication makes some startling revelations, as to the increase of pauperism in New York State. From 1831 to 1865, according to the census, the population increased only 90 per cent., while pauperism increased 900 per cent. There are now 10 paupers for one in 1831. In that year one person in 123 received relief. In 1836 one in 17, an increase of sevenfold in 25 years. It is reported that very recently there were 60,000 persons out o[[f]] employment in the city of New York alone, while flour was $14 per barrel. Not less than $5,000,000 are annually spent in that city for charitable purposes. What a fearful picture! But who can be at a loss to account for this state of things. Leaving out of view the operation of other causes, there are three, the influence of which must be acknowledged, viz: the great immigration of foreigners into that State; the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, [[illegible]] in our issue of last week and the oppression of labor by capital. The professed philanthropists of the Northern States are beginning to open their eyes to the miseries and the corruption of society among them. But they propose no remedy. They have sown to the wind, and they are reaping the whirlwind. Poverty and crime in its most disgusting and fearful forms stare them in the face, and frighten them from their self complacency, as the most prosperous and the most virtuous people on the globe. No community can disregard Divine laws, and escape the prevalence of poverty, corruption and crime. Not satisfied with the moral ruin brought upon themselves by outraging the laws of God, the Northern people have sought to prepare us to share the same fate with themselves. Notwithstanding the [[cut off]]

The Indians-The Negroes. 

In consequence of the measures adopted to open railroad communication with the Pacific coast, by means of the Union Pacific Railroad [[Corp?]] working westwardly from Omaha, and by the Central Pacific Railroad, working eastwardly from San Francisco, the Northwestern Indians became very much excited, under the apprehension that their hunting grounds would be destroyed, and their favorite game driven out of the country. Commissioners of peace were sent out to treat with the Indians; and they succeeded in quelling their fears, as well as the disturbances that had arisen by the promise of large appropriations for their benefit, on the part of the government. Under this promise, the Indians agreed to remain peaceable and to protect the railroads. But Congress failed to furnish the funds necessary to carry out the provisions of the treaties, into which the Indians had entered. They waited for money and provision; but money and provision were not forthcoming. The Chiefs became indignant at this manifest want of faith, on the part of the government. Hency they have roused the feelings of their tribes by the exposure of the fraul that has been practiced upon them. There is now great danger of an Indian war in the Northwest. But what will be the issue? Does any sane man imagine that all of the Indians in the country united can withstand the superior intelligence, skill and number of the white people? What must inevitably be the result of this "war of races?" An answer is furnished by the history of the past. Where are the famous Six Nations? Where are the Creeks? Where the Catawbas, the Cherokees, the Seminoles? A miserable remnant only remains of powerful tribes that once claimed possession of all the lands East of the Appalachian range. 

Occasions for war upon them have been sought and made by the superior race, and they have almost wholly disappeared. Humanity fancied that the deserts and mountain fastnesses of the far West and Northwest would remain to them, undisturbed. But nothing can withstand the rapacity of the Yankee. He must have the mineral lands, on which the Indian now hunts the buffalo, and in order to get the Indian out of the way, he will provoke him to hostilities, and after cheating, murder him. The Indian tribes on this continent are doomed to final extinction. The same fate awaits the negroes. Fair promises may be made to them; but like the Indians, they will find the Yankee false. They were stolen from their native country, Africa, by the Yankees; and when it was discovered that they did not suit their purposes as laborers they were set free and [[white?]] laborers employed in their stead.
They have since been stolen from their former masters, in order that they may be the more readily removed out of the way. The Yankee does not intend to allow the negroes to possess this land. He means that the negro shall share the fate of the Indian. The covetousness of the Yankee is equal to any cruelty that may be needed for its gratification. Let the colored people beware.  

Swift Retribution.

It will be remembered by our readers that Mrs. Surratt was hanged as anaccomplice in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Bingham, who took such an active part in the impeachment of his successor, was very active in the prosecution of Mrs. Surratt, and has been, repeatedly, charged with complicity in the murder of that woman, whose innocence has been made ap-[[parent]] [[cut off]]

The Funeral of Gussie Golding.

On Friday last,a large assemblage of our citizens convened in the Methodist Church, of this place, to pay their respect of the little girl, whose name we have written above, and to manifest their sympathy for the heart-stricken mother in her sore bereavement. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. DuBose, Rector of the Episcopal Church here, who read the beautiful service of that Church in a most impressive manner, and delivered a very appropriate and touching discourse. It is difficult to realize that the blithe, kind-hearted little Gussie is gone; that the bright eyes and sweet face, which ever attracted our gaze, as she tripped joyously along our streets, will be seen by us no more. 

The lovely bus, so young and fair, 
Called hence by early doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower 
In paradise would bloom.

Most truthfully did God's minister direct the mouner to the consolations of our holy religion, and portray the character of the suffering monarch of Israel as an example for [[?]] by bereaved parents. Well may we say, in the beautiful words of the poet:

O, weep not for the dead !
Rather, O rather give the tear,
To those that darkly linger
When all besides are fled;
Weep for the spirit withering
In its cold cheerless sorrowing;
Weep for the young and lovey one
That rain darkly revels on;
But never be a tear-drop shed 
For them, the pure, enfranchised dead. 

[FOR THE ABBEVILLE BANNEr.]

MR. EDITOR: Accompanying this note are two instruments of writing, which please publish for the edification of the public. 
The first is an extract from the "Bureau's" monthly report of August last. With one of the cases in this report I am familiar, viz: that of Wiley Jones. This case is doubtless with malice aforethought falsely reported, for no "white person" had ever been suspected by either whites or blacks, and to-day, after every possible investigation, suspicion strongly rests upon a black man, and, in all probability, upon the very scoundrel from whom that greater scoundrel - DeKnight-received his information. 

The second is a verbatim et literatim copy of a letter written from Abbeville C. H., to a colored man in Columbia. Read it, Mr. Editor: read it, my fellow-citizens, and reflect whether the public welfare does not demand the arrest of this cosmopolitan [[illegible]]
Fairfield in the late mongrel convention; he now proposes to represent Abbeville on another battle-field. Shall he do it? Does policy demand that we should still further crouch before the roaring lion? Does not self-preservation goad us to beard him in his den? Verbum sat. 
Respectfully, 
D. WYATT AIKEN.

Exracts from W. F. DeKnight's Report of Bureau Affairs in Abbeville County, for the month of August, 1868.
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"My report of outrages by whites against freedmen exhibits 18 cases, in which violence was resorted to ; but it is safe to presume that not one-half of such cases that occur are ever heard from. 
The general condition of affairs in the [[cut off]]

The next day, on complaint being made to me, I had the requisite warrant issued here and placed in the bands of the Sheriff to be executed. Three days after, the officer sent out a Deputy, who returned and reported that Hutcherson had left, and although he was at the time in the neighborhood, where he continues, to be seen, and still threatens to kill the freedmen, and notwithstanding I have even threatened to indict the Sheriff, nothing whatever has since been done. 

The freedmen in the vicinity have several times expressed a desire to capture him themselves, but I have dissuaded them, in order to prevent the collision which would result; but just here is where they are placed at the worst disadvantage, for had the white man been injured by the black, and had the latter even really fled, he would have been hunted down like a wild beast, until caught, when it is hard to say what else would not have followed. 

In addition to this case there are several others of almost as grave a character which stand precisely the same, the Sheriff for over a month having had the proper warrants in his pocket without doing a thing. All of these cases have been previously reported. In a great many instances where warrants have been written out by the several magistrates, for various assaults, &c., on the plea of their not having any Constables, they are never executed, and it is often the case that the magistrates themselves, by their persistent persuasions, absolutely constrain the freedmen to withdraw their complaints altogther-this is a common every day occurrence, even where murder was contemplated ; for instance. 

On the night of the 25th, Alfred Ellis, colored, was, without any cause, shot at by Lee Russell, the Town Marshal, on the street, with an express desire to kill him, and still on complaint being by my direction made to Squire McCord, of this place, he got the parties "to make up the difficulty." Query, here again-what would have been the consequences had the parties to this affair been reversed?

It will be seen from my report of outrages for the month, that in the case of the shooting of Henry Shird, freedman, by Dennis Stacy, white, no arrest has yet been made, and I may add in all probability never will be. 

The 17th case reported is that of the killing of the Wylie Jones, an old freedman, by some white person unknown, on the night of the 25th, about two miles out from Cokesbury. It appears the intention must have been to kill his son-in-law, for whom he was mistaken, who has taken a somewhat active part in the ranks of the Republican party. The old man hearing a horseman approaching his son-in-law's house, where he was staying, and thinking it must be some friend of his who had passed by in the early part of the evening, whom he wished to see, he got up and went to the door, where he was immediately shot at and hit in three different places, with buckshot, his assailant at once making off. He lingered but a few moments after and then died of his wounds. I do not know that any particular person is suspected as having committed this foul deed, and of course nothing is being done to ferret out the murderer. 
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The 4th of September, Jeff Buchanan, freedman, was shot dead by Wm. Tolbert, white, at Buck-, 12 miles from Abbe-[[cut off]]

GROCERIES!
PROVISIONS, HARDWARE, 
CUTLERY, &c.

THOS. EAKIN

WOULD respectfully announce that he is now receiving his FALL SUPPLIES of GROCERIES and PROVISIONS, HARDWARE and CUTLERY, SHOES, HATS, &c., which have been purchased for cash by an experienced buyer. He hazards nothing in saying that he can sell as cheap as any Merchant this side of Charleston. His motto is, in fact, "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." The Stock was purchased in Charleston, New York and Baltimore, and embraces everything usually kept in a FIRST CLASS GROCERY STORE. The attention of the trading public is respectfully invited to the following, viz:

BAGGING, ROPE AND TWINE,
SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES,
CONFECTIONERIES, all kinds,
WINES AND LIQUORS, ALL KINDS, 
Tobacco and Segars,
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, 
SAWS, FILES, BRACES AND BITTS,
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
WITH MANY OTHER ARTICLES USELESS TO MENTION. 

The Stock will be kept supplied with the best Goods, and purchasers may rely upon it, that it is the design to keep nothing but the best, at small profits, which must be paid for when sold, or a strict compliance with the contract if short time is allowed. It must be apparent to every man of sense, who intends to deal fairly, that a Merchant cannot keep up his supplies without prompt payment. And to this end, all are exhorted, without respect to persons, to come up and pay for what they have consumed during the past nine months and previous. 
Respectfully, 
THOS. EAKIN. 
Sept 30 48 tf

To the Secretary of the Democratic Club at Abbeville Court House. 
WHITE HALL, S.C., Sept. 23, 1868

DEAR SIR: I am instructed by the Democratic Club at White Hall to present for the consideration of your Club the following resolutions, viz: 
The White Hall Democratic Club, being profoundly impressed with the great importance of defeating the Radical party in the pending Presidential election; believing that the policy and the principles of that party are inimical to Constitutional liberty and subversive of the best interests of the country, and if not defeated, will sooner or later involved the country in irretrievable ruin. We, therefore, consider it the solemn duty of every citizen, who desires to promote the prosperity of his country, not only to vote, but to persuade all others to vot the Democratic ticket in all National and State elections. And whereas, we believe that the colored people, who at present comprise a majority of the voting population, adhere ignorantly and not maliciously to the Radical party. Be it, therefore, 
Resolved, 1: By the White Hall Democratic Club, that we are opposed to the enactment of any law, or the adoption of any measure that would oppress the colored people, but we are of opinion, that in consequence of their present ignorant condition, they, as a class, are not prepared to exercise intelligently the right of sufferage. 
Resolved, 2. That for the purpose of enlight- [[cut off]]

We are indebted to Col. H. T. Peake, Superintendeny of the South Carolina Railroad, for complimentary favors. 
Tax-payers will observe the notice of S. A. Hodges, Tax Collector, in another column of this issue. 

NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
I HEREBY give notice, that I will be at Abbelville, C.H., on Sale day in October next, and the day following for the purpose of collecting the third quarterly return of taxes, on merchandise, manufactures, &c. 
S.A. HODGES, 
TAX COLLECTOR. 
Sept. 25 1868-25 2t. 

Mapes'
SUP. PHOSPHATE OF LIME.

I WILL keep constantly on hand a supply of this valuable MANURE, having been appointed Agent for the same at this place and Cokesbury. 
GEO. T. RADCLIFFE, 

HOdges' Depot.