The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21

cord before he, came into Office. He had
desired secret session, and Ethe, paFty
might yet findsit to their Disadvantage
flat thsy1had T@ lisaahsdsto Hin before
Me canvass was closeds I have been
warned, snd BE, that Whatever IsInay
say will dDno good ,Sas. Govefnbrsg gham-
.berlaiu has evenly ysEfH v6tes that would
stand byehim ifihe Wis Proved guilt9sof
larceny. Great God1 is that the position
of the members who talk so much of love
of party2 have undertaken grave re-
-sPeasibiillity, but 4-shah- h-perforn it-as-my
sacred duty. I believe God has directed
me right and Il shaH not do one,single
thing to destroy that party whose banner
l have marched under for years. I do
not oppose Governor Chamberlain on
account Of his reform am willing. AM 4
entitled to stand With him on any plank
in the. platform of'.the: party. Does it
follow that, because Governor Chamber
lain has elevated the character of the
public officers ofthe State, and given new
life to the-Republican administration ID
this State, that he can put his hand upon
his. heart and say; like, the Pharisee Of
DID,, "Thank God, Dam not as othermen. 7
Can .,he say. that he is without tsinJ! that
in no instance has helviolaged the lawin
undertaking to set aside. the .law4making
branch of-the government; that IN NJ,
instance has he usurped the'rights of the
judicial department of the State; thathe
has: in no single instance set himselfiup
as a, dictator by virtually closing the Su-
preme Court,of the State' :'s'Z'":' 80
Elliott then presented letter written
ia 1870, by Chamberlain to Miles G. Par
ker. Elliott explained that at the time
this letter was written CardozO and De-
lany were candidates for the United
States Senate. MI Cardozo;' had just
then been ruined fbya conspiracy in
which he was induced to take the seal of
the State to New Yerk to seal bonds. He
then read the letter, as follows: .r#
# LAuRENs iIjp lens q. r., -;, 1870.
Dear Parker: Yours Of, 2lst received
this evening. j was glad to hear from
you. There is nothing of special inter:
est now. For a few, days we have, had
some. fears Of an outbreak in Laurens and
Newberry, but the danger is over. About
the United States senatorship ] didn't
know what to say. I am very we'll salts
fed with my present Office, but my posi-
ton is just this If my friends wish me
to be q candidate tp keep the party from
going over to r,egF;osiisn, I shall, if it is to
defeat such a calamity, consent to run.
''a''r D. d. CHAMBERLA1N.
Elliott then went! on to say that if Gov
ernor, Chamberlain had stopped there he
wonld not have been alarmed, but when
he,repudiated Moses and Whipper, elec'
ted by q Republican Legislature, allow
ing his passions to influence him in over
stepping his authority, and, again acting
as umpire ;at Spartanburg in a debate
upon the question whether it would be
best to cofonize the negroes, and again
excluding the negroes from the Centen:
NAL board of commissioners; how could
he be blamed for distrustingihim. !. =
G. G.. Bowen then, evidently fearing
that secrets were about to slip out in the
shape of nuts for the Democratic press to
crack, moved that the Convention 90 in,
to secret session, but the motion was lost
by vote of'643 to 53}. 'e''' .'.,f'' p.
Elliott then continued, particularly adj
dressing himself to a discussion of the
legal right of Governor Chamberlain te
refuse to commission Moses aud Whipper
and then spoke of Chamberlain's dis
patch to the New England Society, in
which he called upon the Roundheadi
and Cavaliers to rise up in the defence oi
civilization. Elliott was evidently very
much hampered. He was between two
fres-his desire to let; out all he had, an6
his fear lest in the event of Chamberlain'E
nomination his disclosures might prove
damaging to his beloved party. The
consequence was that he made the big
gest failure of his life, and had better
have said nothing. He was after a secret
session, and if he had succeeded there's
no knowing what mig ght have come out
Gov. Chamberlain declined to make 6
speech in reply to Elliott's harangue, ane
contented himself with answering in de-
tail the questions which had been al
ready. propoundedT to him, and other
which were asked of him by diferen
delegates in the. course of bis remarks
he stated, in substance, in reply to Ell
lott last night, that he had been inform
ed, and had been, indeed, forewarned fol
weeks, that it was proposed that, in thi'
convention, in the event Of his name be
ing offered in nomination, not only to at
tack his official career, but his private
and personal character. he had nothing
to fear from such source, but he desired
to state here, for the information of th'
convention, that he had been approached
within few days with two proposition
on the subject: One was that he coult
purchase the suppression of the threaten
ed disclosures with money, and the othe
was a promise that such attack would no
be made if he would promise to lend hi
influence in favor of the Blue Ridge scril
and conversion bonds if elected. He hat
rejected both propositions with scorn, ant
would refuse Office thousand times Owe
if that was the price to be paid for it
denied briefly, but directly, that he hat
taken any active part on the debate a
Wofford Colleagues only there as {
spectator. He explained the fact of hi
having appointed white men only on th'
| Centennial commission by saying that h
had done so after consultation with Gen
Hawley and other friends who though
feeling f e % in the State against mixed com
mission, and of the fact that the whites
| alone had anything exhibited at Phila
delphia, and he was anxious to hay
South Carolina represented there: III
defended his action as to Moses and Whip
per, and said he would 60 further thar
Elliott and declare his belief that as Gov
ernor his acts were amenable ito critica
review by the Supreme Court of the State
and he would accept their decision a
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