CAROLINA RIFLE CLUB CHARLESTON, S.C. JULY 30TH, 1869. BY C. IRVINE WALKER, VICE PRES. 1869-1873. PRESIDENT 1873-1877

[Charleston?, 1904. 78, [12] pp. Original printed wrappers and staples. Untrimmed, wrappers lightly worn, Very Good plus. A 1904 event, mentioned in the Preface, is the most recent date noted in this book.

The author seeks to assure that "justice is done" to "those men, honored him with their command and followed through the dangers and troubles of 1876," a turbulent era which restored White Supremacy to South Carolina and the election of Wade Hampton as Governor. The Rifle Club is praised "for the practical prevention of aggressions on the part of he negro race, under the vile leadership of Northern Adventurers, which would have led to bloodshed."
Reconstruction was "beyond doubt, the glomiest era in the life of the people of South Carolina. . . Twelve years of bitter humiliation, of struggle against poverty and privation, of anxiety, of danger, and of universal distress and anguish." The African Slaves were "wholly incapable of freedom," and roamed "incontrollable idleness and vice. . . The negro became insolent and aggressive in his conduct towards his white employers, and generally toward all native white men, women and children."
To the rescue of the beleaguered whites came the Carolina Rifle Club, "a volunteer private police force to guard their own women and children and their own lives and liberty." Because President Hayes has recognized Wade Hampton as the legitimate Governor of South Carolina, the Carolina Rifle Club may honorably disband.
OCLC 910960 [18] as of June 2025. See IV Turnbull 78 and 93 for 1877 and 1878 items with this title.