The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-07
THE SITUATION.

Ihe changes whlch took place during
the past week were much more favorable
to the Democrats than to the Radicals.
The attempt 10 subject the State to the
government Of the Federal military has
been only partially successful. Grant
and his suppliant tools, Chamberlain and
Ruger, have done all they could to in
volve the State in bloodshed and war,
and thus enable them to declare mar
tial law, set aside the verdict OF the
people at the polls and establish gov
ernment of their own, sustained by the
bayonet. In this they have been disap-
pointed by the exercise of profound dis
crction on the part of the Democrats and
their appeal to the Courts to establish
the truth, justice and equity of their
cause. Chamberlain knows that Gen.
Hampton has clear and decided MAORI
ty of the popular vote, and he has relied
on the vileness and dishonesty of the
State Board of Canvasscrs to count him
in and the United States military to sus-
tain him. He will be declared duly
elected by the bogus Legislature and
sworn in as Governor, but his right to the
Office will never be acknowledged by
either the people or the Courts of the
State. No act passed by the rump Leg
islature can or will be enforced, not one
cent Of taxes can be collected, and his
government must prove failure. His
Legislature was unconstitutionally or
ganized, and no act Of theirs performed
under that organization has any force or
validity. The Democratic House was
organized in accordance with the consti-
tuition and laws of the State, having
more than the constitutional quorum, and
since its organization six Republicans
have left the rump and united with them.
They expect more to do so, and if only
one more should come to them they
would have majority of the whole mum.
Der, without counting Edgefeld and
Laurens. Under these circumstances the
Democrats are not only hopeful, but feel
sanguine of success, and that Hampton
will be inaugurated Governor of the
State. The fagrant frauds of the County
Commissioners and the State Board of
Canvassers are so patent that they can
never succeed if they be submitted to an
intelligent and honest House of Repre-.
sentatives. If the Radicals PERSIST in
their efforts to control the government,
the matter will be decided by the Courts
sooner or later, and Gen. Hampton de-
clared duly elected, and the people will
then see that he is placed in the guberna-
torial chair, to which their votes have
called him.
Since writing the above, kilograms in
form us that the Radical Senate and
House, on Tuesday last, declared Cham
berlain elected Governor by 8, l45 MAORI
ty, and that he would be inaugurated on
the next day, Wednesday, by the bayonet
House and Senate. This result was
reached by throwing out Edgefeld and
Laurens counties. AS soon as this in
fanny was perpetratcd by rabblc of vii
lainous corn-feId negroes, the Democratic
Senators withdrew from that body. The
rump Legislature is now composed of
ignorant negroes, with few disreputable
scallawags and carpet-baggers, and their
proceedings will hereafter be null and
void, and not regarded either by the
people or the Courts. Gen. Hampton
declared i'll speech on Tuesday that he
would be Governor, or we would have a
Military Governor. He was then pre-
pairing his inaugural address, which he
hoped to deliver from the State House
steps on the next day.
The situation is encouraging to the
Democrats, for the government as con-
stituted is fraud and cheat, and utterly
powerless to perform any of the func-
tons of government, and its acts Will not
be worth the paper upon which they are
written