The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-25

". vi. Nlt\1l'Nc-N
r. n. MCCASLAN.
For Coroner.
S. w. COCHRAN.
The Presidents "Cut and Drled''
Proclamation.
It seems to he we'll authenticated
that on the evening succeeding the
late meeting at Newberry, after the
,"bold grenadiers" who attended that
meeting had returned to Columbia and
had been cioseted several hours with
the Governor Of the State, that Il
lengthy report was telegraphed to
Washington and early on the follow
ing morning the proclamation Of the
President was t~elcgraphed to Column
bia and was in the hands of the Gov
>ernor. 1t is equally apparent that
this was part of a c%oncocted and pre-
concerted scheme and that upon
receiving the report of the Newberry
meeting the "cut end dried' procla-
nation was duly issued. 1t was no
doubt confidently expected that the
good people of Abbeville and Edge
field Counties would aggravate the
necessity for the issuance Of the pro-
clamation and that matters and things
generally would show to the world and
the rest of mankind that these coun-
ties, and especially ours, were in a
&c condition of Instruction.
The report Of the meeting in Able
willie to be seen elsewhere in our col
umns and the brutal assassination
of young Gilmer, and the %wounding
of Yeldell and Outz by Radical BUSH
whackers whilst peacefully returning
to their homes on the public highway,
after the Edgefield meeting, will go
far to show, if indeed they do not con
vince the public judgment of the
country that our people ''are more
. sinned against than SHINING" We
have been satisfied for the past forty
davs that the Republican leaders in
this State by withholding their nomi-
nations, by declining the canvass and
by refusing to meet II speakers in
fair and open discussion, have virtual
Nv despaired of carrying the State by
. ordinary means and we are not there
fore surprised to witness this miserable
resort on their part to State and Fed
. eral proclanati0ns. The Constitution
of the United States which the Presi-
dent has sworn to support and within
the provisions of which, we presume,
he ought to encamp, provides "that
'thc United States shall guarantee to
.every State in this Union a Republi-
'.can form of Government and shall
"protcct each of them against inva-
'sion: and OH application Of the Leg
''islature, or Of the Executive, when
1.-THE Legislature cannot be convened,
against domestic violence"
This is the provision of the Consti-
tuition under which the President of
the United States claims to intervene
in our State affairs, for there is no 9TH
- er that gives him the pretense of the
right of interference.
Conceding to him and to Governor
Chamberlain the right to judge of the
impossibility of converting the Gener-
al Assembly, which, we modestly
suggest, being composed Of cit
liens of the State for the most
part, &C.. P. Leslie, and 9TH
er., being notable exceptions, but
not a majority, they might be brought
together as speedily as troops could be
brought from Boston Harbor, Oswego,
and other distant points.
We say as speedily, for the President
in his proclamation has interpolated
the phrase ''in time" 1t is not used
in the section of the Constitution quot
ed above. an time" for what? For
the election? That was nearly three
weeks off. What emergency requir-
ed this immediate action on the part
of the President? What emergency
so pressing that the Legislature, ever
ready to sit, and always reluctant to
adjourn. could not have time to reach
the capital?
Is it possible that Gov. Chamberlain
was unwilling to trust the Legislature
in this cnacrgency? Is it true
that he feels that he has for
feited the support of those Dem
ocrats Of whom he prated to Sen
ator Morton in his open letter, as tho
supporters of his reform measures and
without whose aid he acknowledges
that those brilliant (?) results could
not have been achieved? 1t looks so
But apart from this matter O.
..'tine" and V of the distrust of the
Legislature, let us recur again to the
words Of the Constitution cited above
1.-The United States shall guaran
tee,n &c.
1t is a..bold bald assumption Of pow
or by the President of the United
States to issue such proclamation
Is he the United States? Louis thu
XIV, q monarch and q tyrant, claim
cd sanction for his usurpations Of au
tbority by saying, II am the state
But what American citizen is willing
in this the Centennial! year of the
Country's Independence to allow THU
servant of the people the right to say
nm the United States! Such an as
sertion gives credence to the rumol
hat HAYES is to be taken down even
vet and Ulysses the [ put up.
Our condition is such that these
1hinrs do not so much affect us. South
Carolina is in such a case that any
change would be to her advantage
,,ot so however with her more pros
nerons sisters and it is from them tina,
I've look for an indignant and over
wbelmino uprising against this mon
strous and unlawful assumption o'
powcr by the Chief Executive.
The precedent must DC feariui tc
their contemplation and this bitter
cup of which we are compelled &c
drink may soon be commended te
their lips. r.
,1arn.tion is like an Indian boomer
anp will return to those who have is,
Sned il. Tilden and Hendricks, ilins-
rating the Cause of Reform and Con-
.sti,ntiouul Government in the Union
,vilI yujn thousands of votes by this
nrucinnatiun ; and the cry Of Hamp'