The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-08
Our hope of reform is not in Mr. Chamber

lain or his former associates. Lie neither can
nor dares attempt to do any thing in that di-
recton. His present. course may succeed IN
putting the Conservatives to sleep, and making
them more easy victims, but it can do nothing
more And this, too, when the whole civilized
world is looking at South Carolina in amaze
meut as a State turned over to robbers of every
color and fast sinking to a condition of bar
barism. This has aroused the sympathy of
the Northern white people as we'll as their
patriotism. They cannot see their own color
degraded and ruined simply for the sake of
another race, having an equal chance in the
battle of life and the same opportunities of
material prosperity Nor can the lovers of the
republican principle patiently look on its pre-
cipitation into such a sewer as all law, decency
and morals have fallen under the adm;nistra-
tion of the laws which have prevailed here
ever since 1863 Their sympathy and patriot
ism are aroused, and the mighty powers of the
Northern white people are about being put
forth to rescue US from the horrible fate under
which we have so long been suffering. Can
we afford to say to them that our danger is past
and that reconstruction has at last proved itself
success? Can we consent to live under its
dark and hideous shadow so long as we have
life enough to protest against it, and invoke
the spirit of civil liberty as it exists in the
more favored sections to shed the light of its
life-g giving beams upon the darkness which
surrounds US? No! With an unscrupulous
enemy at our very door, it is no time to sleep
we must watch more carefully than ever we
must continue to sound the alarm until all
danger is removed, and that can only be when
the Conservatives and Republicans who pay
the taxes can also make the laws which regu-
late their disbursement
And yet the writer deeply regrets that he
cannot believe with those who have confidence
in Mr.. Chamberlain. 1t would be a great re-
lief to shake off the apprehensons which dis
turb ones tranquility and sleep the sleep of
peace after so many years of disquiet and un-
rest. But the lessons of human experience
teach us that for Mr.. O. to stab those who sup
ported him, and with whom he has been so
long associated on apparently the most friendly
and intimate terms, would be more than we
could expect. It would be no less than a
moral miracle! That any of us should hest
tate to believe what is asked from US, is no
more than Mr.. G. should be prepared for, for
we have suffered enough from pretended friends
to listen to the dictates of proper caution.
Should coming events demonstrate that even
this miracle has really happened, there is not
Conservative in South Carolina that will not
make ample amends to the hero whom he has
suspected unjusty. We want to find deliv-
crer, and give him our hearts best affections.
If Mr.. Chamberlain should prove by his acts,
as we'll as his professions, that he is a character
from whom the worst of men can expect no
aid in their viainous schemes, he will see the
Conservatives focking around him to the very
last man, when they are sure he is an exile
from the camp of our enemies and not spy.
We shall anxiously await development, hoping
for the best and preparing for the worst.
1t is pleasant to see that such men as Reed,
Frierson, Shaw and Parmele have been called
into service, in great degree through the in
strumentality of the Governor; but he did the
same and much more for Cardozo, who has not
yet gained the confidence of the public.
Whether these are crumbs, artfully thrown
out as decoys, remains to be seen. At present,
it makes the heart sick to look at the virtue
and intelligence of the Conservatives so COM
pletely ignored, whilst their houses, over which
they are no longer masters, are filled with
strangers of every color, and the doors are
slammed in the faces of the only people who
have the right to enter! Mr.. Chamberlain
says he has not appointed Conservatives be-
cause they don't desire to be appointed. In
this he is sadly mistaken, for there are hun
dreds of them all over the State who would
prefer to discharge the duties of the county
Offices without one cent of compensation rather
than to witness the fraud and mismanagement
now prevailing through the appointments
made in Difference to Whittemore and his
crowd Nor are we so blind as not to see that
these men are going to remain in Office just so
long as they can be of service in elections; /;
and we believe that the only reform in reserve
for us is the success of this crowd in all the
plundering schemes they want, only moistened
by the tears of the Governor, that the Conserv-
ativcs may lie quietly in the cradle, under the
soothing of his apparent sympathy, until the
very last dollar is wrung from them they have
in the world
In this section of the country many of those
who hold different opinions were Mr.. Cham
berlain's supporters-offico holders, rejoicing
in the fatness of taxes paid by the hard work
ing poor man, and seemingly contented with
the prospects before them of losing their office
through Mr.. Chamberlains instrumentality,
and his love for the Conservatives. This en-
dorsement of Mr.. Chamberlain is not entirely
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