The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-02-10
Chamberlain's Letter.

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ton, dated January %, says:
Governor Chamberlain's letter to
Senator Morton, which it appears
was published without the Senators
knowledge, is creating a good deal Of
comment here, as it is all over the
country. 1t appeared in the New
York Herald, and was reproduced in
the Washington Chronicle, which
latter fact creates some surprise. OF
course here everything is politics, is
looked upon and estimated from the
standpoint of the President makers
there are two factions OF the Repub-
lican party; ono, the Radical, beaded
in Congress by Morton and Blaine,
which waves the bloody shirt and
hopes to sweep the country with tha';
the other bears a banner with the
strange device-"Reform."
Now, this letter of Governor Cham
oerlain ls bombshell among the
Morton Blaine Radicals They see
that they too will have to cry reform
or else South Carolina will go, as tue
Governor says, to the Democrats
next fall; and with it, says the New
York Tribune, three or four of the
doubtful Northern States. Either
give up Whipper or get whipped, is
what the Tribune says the party will
be obliged to do. There seems little
reason, at this stage Of the campaign
at least, to question the expectation
among Office holders here that Press
ldent Grant will be the next nominee
at Cincinnati next June. But Gov
ernor Chamberlain has declared
against third term; so that, 30 far
as South Carolina is concerned, Grant
might just as we'll support Whipper
and Moses. But, should Grant fail
OF the nomination, Morton seems to
stand next. What then2 Then we
shall have the amazing spectacle of
the Mephistopheles faced monster
with tho banner Of reform in one
hand and the bloody shirt in the oth-
or, dragging his hideous legs over the
race course towards the White
House.
But all conjectures as to the nomi
nations are of course the vagpest sort
conJectures to day. This letter about
Whipper and Moses is an ugly nut
for the president makers to crack.
The best and timeliest vindication
OF Governor Chamberlain's refusal to
commission Whipper comes in the
shape of Whipper's speech about it
in the Legislature the other day.
There is another matter pert aiming
more Immediately to the matter of
State reform, that they may be of in.
terest to our people in Columbia. The
bond of Mr.. i. Cass Carpenter, as
Collector of Internal Revenue, it ap,
pears, has been sent back by tha de-
partment here because not sufficient
The Office is one requiring bond of
$4,000. The insufliciency of the
bond can be readily remedied no
donbt, and that is not the matter of
the moment. 1t is a matter Of pain
tul surprise to al, the friends of genu
inc State reform here in Washington
that such citizens as Mr.. J, p. South.
ern, whose name is on Carpenters
bond, should give that kind of aid
and support to such fellow as this.
1t Is idle for our people to expect
Governor Chamberlain, or arv5ody
else, to succeed in Wrestling the State
from the grasp of the unprincipled
scoundrtS who are plundering it, if
our citizens do not cooperate in the
work so far at least as to refuse direct
support to snch men as this Carpen-
ter. Is he not the correspondent of
the Washington Chronicle, who, sew
en- or eight years ago, wrote from
Columbia to that paper that our poo
pie were "set ofpoltroons and COW