The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-02-03
Give Him Rope Enough I

| uay was unexpectedly appropriate
and becoming, says the Charleston
News and Courior. II had been feared
that Whipper would have somo little
regard for tho dignity Of the Office to
which ho supposed himself to havo
! been elected; but he had evidently
, determined to prove to the public, IN
his own way, his fitness for the Bench.
The one mistake was that Whipper
nominally aspires to DO Judge in
South Carolina, instead of Dahomoy
or Ashanto. Speaking so as to provo
his qualifications as judge of an Afri>
can tribunal, he failed to justify the
opinions of the besotted Radicals who
attempted to mako him Judge in a
civilized land. There may have been
method in this madness. 1t is the
aim of Whirper and Elliott and LESS
lie to build up an African Dominion
in tho low country of South Carolina,
and, perhaps, Whipper wished to
provo his ability to play tho part of
Mumbo Jumbo. lie was not drunk
with whislSoy. 1t is duo to Whipper
to say that. The obsccurity, the inu
solonco, the mendacity and tho Of.
frontory which marked his speech,
belong to him in his sober moments.
When drunk, wholly or IN part, he is
less savage and ferocious, and, thore-
fore, loss natural.
Whipper assures the public that he
will die before he will resign. This
is welcome news. Tho resignation OF
Whipper would have look cd like the
faint dawn OF sonso and prudence in
his mind and that of his rascnlly co
hort. 1t would have been q mere
form, as Whippor cannot resign an
Office that ho does not hold; and it is
best fer tho cause of good government
that Whipper and his friends should
porscvcrc to tho end in their blind
folly, for any sign ofrcpcntancc might
have led somo crodulous persons to
suppose that Tho villains who com.
passed the election of Whppcr and
Moses and Virgins had changed their
spots if not their skin. Whippcr,
then, will not rcsign TO that ho is
| bound.
1t evidently cid not enter into
Whippor's mind that his life or death
is Of no consequence TO anybody but
himself; and that his harangucs will
neither haston nor retard the action
Of the people. There was no vacancy
on the Bench to which Whipper could
be elected. Judge Reed, under the
Constitution, holds office until 1878,
and Whipper is not commissioned by
the Governor because Judge Reed al
ready holds tho Office that Whippor
claims. OF coulso Whippor will go
to the Courts. That is expected and
provided for. The law and tho Con-
stitution arc against him; yet it is
conceivable that the Supreme Court
may decide in his favor. But that
will not, by any means, give him his
scat. No decision Of any Court will
force the people of the Charleston
Circuit to accept or submit to Whip>
pcr as their Judge. hoy will exhaust
evcry peaceful remedy before they
try any othor Prevention, in their
opinion, is better than cure. But thoy
will have the cure, if the Courts fail
thom. The people are pledged pubs
licly to this, and any who doubted tho
wisdom Of that determination on Tuos
day, doubt it no longor to day.
Whippor's speech will make an ok
cellent tract for circulation amongst
those who, led asLray by so>called
philanthrophy, havc boen willing to
place tho Southern States in tho pow.
or of just such persons as Whipper.
And we should like thom to ask
themselves the question: How many
years Of restraint and good example
would be required to fit Whipper for
even the rational exercise of the pri-
vileges OF the ballot? That such q man
should be maker of laws for honest
people, that he should sit i'm iudpment