The Van Buren Press

The Charleston News and Courier calls upon those who are charging that frauds were committed by the Democrats at the late election to submit their accusations to a judicial test. It says "The courts are open in South Carolina. All the officers are Republicans and the assistant district attorney is as bitter as gall. They can arrest whom they please, for they can get what affidavits they want. The accused are ready to stand their trial. They rely on their innocence and an impartial jury. What we demand for them is, that, when they shall have been tried and acquitted in the courts, they shall not be arraigned again, at the bar of Northern public opinion, shaped by a sensational and prejudiced press."