THE NEWS & COURIER, Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 19, 1876  The front page begins with over half a column on: "Black Bandits At Bay" "A Train Wrecked and Fired Into by Negroes" "Origin of the Trouble..." with further subheads.
Also on the front page: "Crook's Command In Trouble le - A March Through a Desert--Hostile Indians and Want of Food".
Page 2 has a notice supporting Samuel J. Tilden for President.
Eight pages, very nice condition.

Background: The front-page coverage in The News & Courier on September 19, 1876, detailing a train ambushed by "Black Bandits" near Jackson Station, is historically significant as a documented artifact of the "Edgefield Plan"—a deliberate, violent media and paramilitary strategy used by white Southern Democrats to overthrow Reconstruction and disenfranchise Black voters ahead of the 1876 election. This specific reporting refers to a critical flashpoint during the Ellenton Riot (or Ellenton Massacre), which ignited days earlier along the Port Royal Railroad when white paramilitary "Red Shirts" weaponized rumors of a crime to launch a massive campaign of terror. In response to hundreds of armed white vigilantes swarming the region via the railroad, a group of local Black men desperately attempted to defend their community and halt the influx of invaders by tearing up tracks and firing upon a train near Jackson Station on the night of September 15–16. By completely inverting the truth—framing this desperate act of community defense as an unprovoked assault by lawless "bandits"—The News & Courier provided the vital ideological cover needed to justify the subsequent slaughter of an estimated 30 to 100 Black citizens (including state legislator Simon Coker), successfully weaponizing sensationalist journalism to terrorize Republican voters, collapse South Carolina's Reconstruction government, and usher in the oppressive era of Jim Crow segregation.