The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-14
BRAZEN IMPUDENCE.
Chambcrlaiu's Pretended Inaugural
Address.

chambcrIain's Pretended inaugural
i Address.
Gentlemen Of the Senate and House of Pen-
resentdtires:
| accept the Office TO which, BY the
y ice of u majority of the people of this
State, have u second time been called
with full knowledge of the grave re.
sponsibilities and difficulties by which it
is now attended. No considerations. ex-
cept the clearest cor, ictious of duty.
would be sufficient to induce me to accent
this great trust under the circumstances,
which now surround us. regaid the
present hour in South Carolina as II crisis
at which no patriotic citizen should
shrink from any post TO which public
duty may call him. In my sober indy.
Inent orr present struggle is in defence
OF the foundations of our government and
institutions. If We fail now, our govern
ment-the government Of South Carolina
will no longer rest on the consent of
the governed, expressed by free vote of
majority of our people. IL our oppo-
nents triumph care not under what
gnise of legal forms-wc shall witness the
overthrow of FREQ government in our
State.
My chief personal anxiety, is that /
may have the firmncss and wisdom to net
i'll n manner worthy of the great interests
so largely committed 10 my keeping.
My chief public care tall be 10 contrib
ute my utmost efforts to defend the
rights, to guard the peace and to promote
the welfare Of all the people Of our
State.
The constant occupation of my time
wit. ether duties which could not post.
pone, has prevented ME from preparing
the usual statements and recommends.
tions respecting our public affairs. At
the earliest practicable day l will dis
charge this duty. Our greatest interest,
our most commanding duty now, is to
stand firmly, each in his appointed place,
against the aggressions and allurements
of our political opponents Our position
up to the present time, has been within
the clear limits Of our constitution and
laws. No.hins hu. tie cowardice or
weakness or treachery of our or. FRIENDS.
can rob us of the victory. state what
facts show, what overwhelming evidence
proves, when say that five yield now,
we shall witness the consummation of n
deliberate and cruel conspiracy on tho
part of the Democratic party of this State
tp, overcome by brute force the political
will of majority of twenty thousand of
the lawful voters of this Slate.
l have mourned over public abuses
which have heretofore arisen here. I
have, according 10 the measure of INV
ability, labured to make the conduct of
our public affairs honest aud honorable.
hut / stand appalled, ut the crimes
against freedom against public order,
against good government, nay, against
government itself, which our recent po-
iitIcal experience here has presented.
laiid ain the more appalled, when l see
the north, that portion Of our country
which is secure in its freedom and civi!
order, and che great political party which
has controlled the Republic for sixteen
years, divided in its sym npathies and judg-
nIent upon such questions. 1t is written
in blood on the pnges of our recent mn.
t,onal history. that no government can
rest with safety upon the enforced slavery
or degradation Of race. In the full
blaze OF that great cxampeof retribntive
Justice which swept away half u million
nf the. beet lives OF ouT country we zee the
American people divided by party lines
upon the question OF the disfranchise-
ment and degradation of the same race
whose physical freedom was purchased
at such a cost, And. what is more aston
iahipg, still, there are Republicans who
permit the errors which have attended
the first effUrts of this race in self govern
ment to chill their sympathies 10 such an
extent that they stand coldly by and
practically say that the peace Of political
servitudc is better than the abuses and
deiseuiet which newly acquired freedom
has brousha. - 'Ys.- .5n l1- Ii
I denounce the conduct Of the recent
election. on the part of our politicnl OPP
p9nnenuts in this State, ,ss-a vast brutal
Outrage. Fraud, pro'crfp,ion. ihtimida.
ton IN all forms. violence, ranging
through ali its degrees, up TO wanron
murder, we're. its effective methods. The
circumstances under which we have ns-
semblcd to-day show us how nearly sue
eessfal has been this great conspiracy.
1t is for US, in the face Of all dangers, ia
the face of false or, timid friends, in the
face of open enemies, to show that we
nnderatand the cause in which we are en-
gagged, ,thd that no earthly sacrifice is too
great to secure its triumph. .HA a.Asa.
The gentleman who was my opponent
for this Office in the late election, has re-
Gently declared, as am credibly in
formed that he holds not only the peace
ofthis city and State, but my life, in his
hand. i do not doubt the truth of his
statement. Neither the public peace nor
the life of any man who now opposes the
consnlnmation of this policy fraud and
violence is safe from the assaults Of those
who have enforced that policy.
Ny life can easily BE taken. have
held it, in the judgment of all my friends
here, by Grail tenure for the last three
months. But there is one thing no man
in South Carolina can do, however pow
erful or desperate he may be, and that is
70 cause me to, abate my hatred or cease
my most vigorous resistance to this Mt
tempted overthrow and enslaven,ent' of a
majority of the people of Sou H. Carolina.
Here stand l can do no otherwise :;
God be my helper" Wife and children,
nearer to me than care the ruddy drops
that visit my sad heari"Aall other Gun
sidrrations, must give way before the sol
emu duly to resist the final SUCCESS ofthat
monstrous outrage, Under whose black
shadow NE are assembled TO day.
= In London, a Jew has been charged
with the murder of jew 1t is said
that this is the frat time such thing has