The Tipton advertiser., 1876-11-02

W ITl fl0l-bANfAe1
Of negroes at Hamburg. and Edgfeld,
and ElIenton ocecured, from the Solid
South was sent up almost deafening
outcry Of the desperation to which the
White-Liners were reduced by the
villianics Of carpet-bag misrule. The
logic of il was that these excused the
slaughter of the blaeks.-which they
might have done about as Tweed's
fhreveries would have excused the in
discriminate slaughter Of New York
Democrats by plundered Taxpayers
reduced 10 desperation by the Boss
misrule. When Wade Hampton de-
cIared that, by the Eternal, South
Carolina should he ruled by her native
sons, and his rifie-clGbs entered upon
the canvass to make that threat good
by going cunning after negroes, the
carpet -hag thieyery which had resiuc-
Ell the patient and long-~Gffering
Whife-Liner- to desperation was also
dwelt upon. There VA. more Of it when
Gen" NJ. c. Butler. Of Georgia, in
vaded South Carolina to reinforce the
rifie-eIubs in that work. Now that
troops have been sent there To- di-perse
and di.arnI the rifie-cIuts- and put
stop to WhiIe-Line cunning after the
..nigg.r-. = there i more than ever
outcry against the carpet-bag mi-rule
4 -kss. IN
ton. And thi. putting stop 10 the
massacre Of blacks by the white- 70
driven 10 desperation i denounced by
Democratic press and orator..
And vet what ha- becn the car
| pet-bag misrule in south Carolina un-
/ der the Chamberlain Administration
which until few weeks since WA
earnestly supported by the Democratic
press and the Democratic party Of the
State? One Of the first things done by
GOV. Chamberlain on his accession to
office was 10 reduce the expenses OF
the Executive Department 80 as to
make a saving for his term Of Sl0l 40.
Next he made vigorous, determined
assault upon the Printing Ring, made
| UP Of thieves Of both parties, and sue
csesled in breaking it up, thereby say
| ing s5l2. AIS to the State. By courage
ous exercise Of the veto power lac de-
| feated the funding steal, saving 10 the
state SO. 90 in funding the floating
debt, and effected reduction in the
| legislative expenses for his term OF
/ $50, SO, and in the general contingent
expenses Of s355, 90. The reduction
during his Administration has been
sl,7ls,4Ss, "a compared with the Adj
ninistration Of hi. predecessor. Moses,
truly representative carpet-haggcr.
Goy. Chamberlain went further He
refused to commission Whipper and
Nn-aSs who secured their election =
Judges through bribery of the Legis-
lature; he refused to commission the no.
torious incompetent aud corrupt Re
publicans, and removed number of
such from Office, appointing in their
stead in a number Of Instances Of i'm
portant official trust old resident Dom
ocrats, because of their unduubt,d
character and high qualifications
The result was, that the worst elc-
ment--the real arpet-bagger- in his
own party-itauded against him or
gave uncertain support 10 hisNdniin-
istration, which the white population
Of the State almost without dissent.
indorsei a, -ignaIized hy thorough,
genuine reform.
There il no cirpet-hag thicycry in
South Carolina To drive the White
Liners to desperation. II was ''the
example Of Mississippi" aud their bit
ter, unrelenting hostility to the Fif-
teenth Amendment, and their pur-
pose to run the State anyhow that
they might kick the nigger out Of poll
itics, that made them desperate and
led 10 the organization Of the rifle
clubs and the shotgun canvass II il
because Gov. Chamberlain, who.e Adj
ministration they have endorsed and
applaided throughout, has denounced
the WhiteLinc massacres, that they
now denounce his Administration ~
carpet-bag misruie. The desperation
to which they have been driven j.
simply the desperate endcavor Of the
old Confederate element toobtain eon-
troll o! the State by the ,hot-gun.-~
They were reduced To somewhat -inlI-
lar desperation in l,Gl. but TnoIe
Sam soldier relieved them of that
| desperation, a., If need bc, they will
of the present deportation lhao1Go
7ri5aaC.