The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-03

ocracy, as IE,e true organ Of any political
party should perish, or be above the suspi-
cion of yenality. Its editor should be one
who would esteem the honor and power of
his position as some reward for his tolls, and
who would in the name of Democracy, at
all times and under all circumstances
q. "Hcw to the line,
Let the chips fnll where they may"
But the most discouraging drawbacks for
the Democracy from my outlook, are the
absence of an acknowledged leader and the
presence of distracted counsels i'll the ranks
of the Old Guard. Although We have no
recognized leader, there are thousand aspi-
rants for the position, and it is their rival
ries, their iealousies, their chickering's that
have brought US to our present deplorable
guerilla and private warfare.
So inexorably determined have the Radi-
Gals been to punish and oppress South Caro-
lima that it is doubtful whether any Captain
could have led us out of the wilderness up
to this time Therefore, large charity should
be felt and practiced by Carolina Democrats
toward each others political opinions and
conduct since reconstruction commenced.
Where every man of conquered people
should be presumed equally sincere and
patriotic, in presence of victorious and
unrelentinG enemy, faults or defects should
both be forgiven and forgotten. With pa
triots the time for coquetting with Radical
ism, or with what more properly might be
styled Cha1nberlanism, in South Carolina is
passed. We have been duped often enough
and long enough by the Trojan Horse of
reform. Why should we cultivate an ALI.
ance with Chamberlain, Carpenter and other
slippery Radicals, only to be betrayed in the
future as in the past; only to be again de-
feated by our manly people scorning to rati-
fly such q revolving and unnatural alliance
1t may safely be assumed that Chamber
lain is mareyerings for the possibilities OF
Vice Presidential nomination, and that he
some times dreams of Succeeding Grant, as
the more corrupt in principle and the moro
adroit In intrigue politician is now the
better chance he stands of reaching high
Office. That Chamberlain also purposes to
be reelected Governor II possible, no one
can question, but the certain, fixed, objective
point OF all our astute Governors operations
is the United States Senate, which explains
in part his pardon from the Penitentiary of
the negro thief Dublin J. Walker, who cnlls
himself State Senator from Chester. As
Dublin holds over, he has one vote to give
for gratitude, although he may have been
pardoned for knowing too many Of his
Excellency's. secrets. ,.. f...
Chamberlain, however, has stolen enough
from the State to afford to be honest now,
and if the black infamy of his character
could be white-washed by the recognition Of
gentlemen, he would gladly obtain social
status by doing the honest men of the State
some service in return for their sending him
to the Senate, but he would do it only for
the Senatorship or for some other stipulated
price, as he always means business, without
caring for such paltry things as principle,
honor, or honesty.
Moreover, he is young, well educated, am
bilious and wealthy. He is, therefore, not
ready to end his career of greatness and
knowing that Radicalism is on the wane /;
that his negro-loving party is likely to find
its Waterloo at the approaching Presidential
election, he would desert to the Democratic
camp now If we would only agree to reward
him for his treason. But if We refuse to
reward him, he will do all the harm he can.
Let him do it. One consolation is that he
can do no worse than he has done. He hos
at once NOR, head and less heart than all
the e,rpet-baggers of the State put together.
He has been our evil genius for the last
eight years. Then. no more of him, and
when he persists in offering ''gifts, let every
Carolinian reply by making the only poetical
quotation which Mr.. Calhoun was over
known to cite:
"Timeo Danaos ct dona ferentes."
The pure and illustrious Governor always
talks for the Democrats to-day and pork' for
the Radicals tomorrow. He tried to delude
Democrats with fine speeches about fidelity
to trusts, low taxation, honest administra.
ton and similar good things,syet he could
by his casting vote deposit large amount Of
the impoverished States funds in Solomon's
private bank, which soon after failed for the
good of the Radical party in general and of
Chamberlain in particular. I could ennu-
merate fifty distinct transactions to demon
strate that all his reformism ends in acords,
while all his Radicalism ends in acts. But
let short exposition Of his double-dealing
in the late election of Circuit Judges suffice
to display the hollowness of his reform pro-
fessions and the cunningness of his hand at
wire pulling. -.
He either worked or he did not work to
have Moses and Whipper elected. 1t mat
ters not which. But it is obvious to stu
dent of carpet-bag nature that he planned
the whole scheme of the judicial elections.
He confesses that on the eve of those all
important elections, he quit his post OF
Reformer- General at Columbia, and set of
for Greenyille to have one Of his sweet and
promising talks with the Democrats. But
he does not likewise confess as he ought
that at his departure he left his lieutenant,
big-mustached, staggering Judge Carpenter
in charge Of carpet-bag interests at the Capt.
tai. Carpenter is unquestionably second in
command of South Cnrolina carpet-baggers,
and he but acted as Chamberlain's ieuten-
ant in the ill-stared Union Reform campaign
of 1870.
BY conducting the judicial elections as
they did, the carpet-baggers aimed to accom-
plish three objects. First, to re-elect the
rotten Judges whose seats were vacant.
Second, to defeat the reelection of the good
and able Judge Maher, because they were
tired of hearing him called "the just"
Third. to manufacture carpet-bag capital