Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-24
THE LIBERAL ELECTORAL TICKER
FOB SOUTH CAROLINA.
An Address to the People of the State.
TO tile People of South Carolina j.:

TO tile People of South Carolina
On the 5th of November the people
Of South Carolina, in common with the
people of all the United States, will be
called upon to elect President and Vice
President to serve for the ensuing four
years.
The course that has been pursued by
the present administration has been so
subversiye of all local selfgovernment,
and hostile to the rights and liberties of
the citizen, as to have excited the great
est apprehensions for the safety of our
free institutions, and has aroused the
intelligent and Conservative masses of
the nation to united and determined
effort to secure, if possible, the govern
ment from the hands of its present auda
cious and unscrupulous rulers, and bring
it back to its constitutional bearings.
More than this-so alarming and wide
spread has been the growth Of corrup-
ton in high places as to have tainted all
the fountains of public justice, and SO
reckless the use of corrupt instrumentali-
ties by public officials as to undermine
every principle of honor and honesty in
the breast of the people, and prepare the
way for the rapid and almost sure decay
of all public virtue.
To arrest the spread of these evil and
dangerous tendencies, and to save to the
Deop.e the substance as well as form of a
constitutional republic, the citizens of all
classes and parties have organized holy,
firm and indestruchble alliance in behalf
of purity in government and sympathy
and reconciliation between sections.
The cardinal principles of this move
ment were promulgated from Cincin-
natl on the first of last May, and SOL
emnly ratified by the Democracy ofthe
whole Union in general convention on
the 9th Of July.
Horace Greeley, of New York, and
B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, chosen
as the standard bearers of this cause,
have been hailed with patriotic enthu-
siasm by the friends of Jaw, order and
well regulated liberty throughout the
entire land. The principles which
have been emblazoned upon our banner
in the hopeful words of our illustrious
candidate cannot die, but must and
will survive even defeat, if defeat were
possible.
South Carolina recognizing this as
the only movement in the present cris-
is calculated to overthrowa monstrous
Capitalization, and to secure to the
present generation the blessings of a
Just and free government, has, through
a convention of her people, recorded
her adhesion and pledges her support
to the movement.
While we are not permitted to speak
the language of assured victory
to the people in this state, it is,
nevertheless, our solemn duty to ad-
jure them by their enlightened love of
country and their devotions to its in
to summon to their aid that
highest fortitude in man, cf ss&elsty 20 !
even in the midst Of dlsas-
Ter, and rallying, around our colors,
give 10 our candidates manly, a gen.
erous and united support.
Animated by the foregoing senti-
ments, and profoundly sensible of the
devolved upon them, and |
to insure the action which is recon-
mended, the State central executive
of the Democratic and Lib
eral Republican parties, after joint |
conference, have determined, under the
auspices Of the undersigned represent
Dg this State in the national executive
committees Of the two parties, to pre-
sent to the people of South Carolina
and invoke their suffrages for the fol-
lowing ticket of electors:
State at Large-M. P. O'Connor, Of
Charleston; W. II. Wallace, of Union;
S. 4. Pearce, of Richland.
First District-W. W. Walker, of
Georgetown.
Second District-JOhnson Hagood,
of Barnwell.
Third Djstrict-Simeon Fair Of New
berry.
Fourth Distinctly. r. Robertson,
of Fairfield
THos. Y. SlMoNs,
National Dem. Executive Committee.
S. A. PEARCE,
National Lib Rep. Executive Com
mittee.