The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-06

courts lot punishment. II nave CommiIIeu
an immoral. unjust or unfaithful act, let me be
brought before the people who have known
and tried me.
Allow me, in this connection, to present the
statement of some Of the most prominent gen.
tlemen in the place Of my residence, which
will show how much of truth there Is in the
heralded accusations so industr!ously circu-
lated to my detriment:
DARLINGTON, s. c., June o. 1870.
"7o tbhon IL may concern:
1--WE, tile undersigned, take: pleasure IN saying
that we have been intimately acquainted with
the Hon. b. +. Whittemore for the past five years
No man has done so much IN his private and pub
lie minstration to aid the poor, TO clothe the
naked, feed the hungry, educate the ignorant, In
struct the people In general as he; and he has
been malgned at home and abroad because OF
his unninching devotion 10 the. cause OF hu-
manitg.
HE has been untiring In erecting school
houses In the First Congressional District, and 1t
has been due to his personal energy, his constant
appeals for help, as we'll as the liberal gifss from
his own purse, that the wants Of many have been
relieved.
"lIIs private character aud public virtues with
US are unquestioued.
ale has been the advocate OF equal and exact
rights TO all men, anu the former enemies or the
government will naturally SANDER such friend
oi.the masses TO accomplish their own foul ends.
Rev s. P. BRocKENroN.
JONATHAN WRIGHT, Chairman Of Board of
JACKSON A. SMITH. County Commissioner
JOHN LUNNRY, State Senator.
]. G. GATTtN, Trial Justice.
JoURDAN LXN0, Member OF Assembly.
GEORGE LUNNEY, Postmaster.
JAMES NJ. BROWN, Probate Judge.n
This should be regarded with rs much credit
as "the special" scandals OF the flying Bohe-
mians who, with green spectacles. gather their
material from the diseased-dlscomflted
conciled-unrepentant enemy of the coun-
try; the present order Of things; for, certainly.
those who have been my neighbors are better
qualified to speak of me than those who are
afar of. either by distance, sympathy or politi-
cal affinity.
It will be matter of wonder, no doubt, why
I have not before noticed "the scandal and
falsehood" so widely circulated. In answer to
which will say, that have been engaged in
o campaign which has been unparalleled In
abuse and severity. could not spare the time
to refute all the falsehoods so mallciously
trumpeted against me. had to meet them In
the canvass; the press Of the country printed
and reprinted them; my enemies used them as
far as they could; and yet l was reelected by
S499 majority, to represent constituency as
honest, as capable Of judging OF the merits OF
any question before them where their own in
terests are at stake, as any in the land
come now to the matter which first brought
me prominently before the country, viz. my
connection with the so-ca!led sale OF tne
cadetships.n do not attempt 10 justify what
is regarded criminal in the disposition OF pub
lie tavors. do, however, emphatically assert
that no criminal intent or corrupt desire moved
or actuated me in my cOnTerring the recon-
mendatlons for the appointment Of the young
men to the military or naval academies. NO
evidence exists to show It; no witness has tes-
titled to such yenality. Nor did for per
sonal gain, benefit, or reward, directly OF lndi-
rectly, receive q farthing 'tor the procure
ment of any office or place under the govern
friends of the cadets, suffered them to give
material aid to the people of my district for
educational and other purposes which poverty
and suffering would suggest. / did not cover
up my transaction. ] believed the Intention,
which always precedes and qualities an act,
would be weighed as well as the act itself. l
had no desire to conceal my connection with
the unfortunate affair. Had / thought 1t would
have led to such result, would have severed
my right hand before engaging IN it.
Meaning then no wrong, my conscience IS
still void of offence, and am sure any Judicial
tribunal, where justice holds its even scales,
would acquit me of any criminal intention
and discharge me from the odium; which
some men, who are not troubled with flight
seek to fasten upon me.
What complain OF Is, that have not yet
been heard in my own defence, except before
nv constituents, who have reversed the deci-
sion of those who declared me "unworthy' a
seat among them on the report and resolution
of committee, whose sittings were secret,
whose rulings were hasty, and whose charity
was harsh as its charman's persecution.
I complain OF the duplcity and deception OF
General Logan. who, after he had prosecuted
me beyond The limit Of civilized or Parliamen-
,ary precedent, told me that 'he was sorry |
hat his committee did not report resolution |
Of censure instead Of feXpulsion; that he did not |
believe my intention wrong; that he hoped |
would be returned to Congress, and he would |
De the first man to welcome my return"
This he cannot deny, for others heard him |
leclare the same thing, and Samuel Lee, OF
South Carolina, gentleman whose word has |
never vet been questioned, has, In an affidavit |
llready widely published, shown how those
Who are so careful of their company can ialsi-
y their utterances.
I complain OF the unjust, Indecent and un
constitutional disposition OF my credentials by
he same savage statesman" who falsifed
history, law, precelents, everything, to carry
his persecution to barbarollS end. COM
)lain of the utter disregard OF my rights, the
lights of my c9nstitllenls--thc great principles
which underie our representative form oil gov
l complain of the arbitrary return OF my ere
lentials; the insult thrown in the face Of 1871
700 constituents, their disranchisement, exclu-
ion from representation, total and complete
lbrogation OF their delegated, legislated i'm
nunities.
/ complain of the complete disregard of rea-
ION, law and justice; the denial OF time, argll-
nent, research, which has resulted In estab-
ishing precedent fatal to the liberties, the
lights Of the people-the choice of electors
\ precedent that will prove thorn in legisla-
ion, an inducement not only 10 irregular pro-
,edures, but an usurpation Of all that makes our
Republican ideas the boast of the world:
The House Of Commons, one hundred years
Lgo, by its arbitrary encroachments upon the
fghts of the Britons, furnished warning
Igainst like usurpatlons; but Congress has dis
egarded it. General Logan and his adhe-
ents have given us record which must yet |