The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

'o'' Ni'""'J "Idthy, &C., since Tie
election, and continues to pour forth
spleen against the people of South Caro-
INA. His latest exploit is telegram to
the Department of Justice, which is pub.
llshcd in the New York Tribune, stating
that many of the witnesses against per-
sons who have committed or attempted
70 commit frauds in the election in Aiken
county are in danger of being killed, to
prevent them from testifying in Court.
ihe EA-Governor might as we'll leave off
his bloody shirt campaign. He caunot
make any further political capital of his
statements, for the country has become
too well acquainted with him and h,s
governing prociivities. He had better
telegraph that Gen. Hampton will be in
augurated Governor of South Carolina in
few days, and that from that time for
ward the rights Of every man will be pro-
tcctcd. and no person will be punished in
South Carolina except by the courts of
justice. Hampton as Governor will pro-
tect the people, and that is more than
Chamberlain has done.
Chamberlain ran far behind his ticket
and many are surprised. 1t is natural
enough that the man who could not pro-
tcct the peace and dignity Of the State
without the United States troops should
not run well; that the man who is re-
sponsible for the Hamburg massacre, on
account of his miserable appointments to
Office. should not run we'll that the man
who left the Ellcnton riot in progress and
went North for pleasure, should not run
we'll; that the man who US Governor al
lowed the strikes on the Combahee, the
riot in Charleston, and the Cainhoy
slaughter, to go unferreted ort and un-
punished, should not run we'll. 1t was
the colored race which supported him, it
Is true, but that race loves life and pro-
lection. That race is the one which suf-
fercd most III these riots, and hundreds of
coiored men very sensibly voted against
him, because they feared he would con-
tinue TO allow them to be the victims of
base political plots to advance the Re-
publican cause, without meeting out JUS
ticc to the perpetrators of crime. They
voted for Hampton because they rccog-
nize in him the champion of equal rights
and justice to all men.
The distinguished Chancellor Kent, in
his Commentaries on American Law,
published iii the year 1926, in speaking
of the election or appointment of the
President Of the United States, said:
"The mode of his appointment presented
one of the most difficult and momentous
questions that could have occupied the
deliberations of the Assembly which
framed the Constitution, and if ever the
tranquility OF this nation is to be dis
turbed, and its peace jeopardizrd, by
struggle for power among themselves, it
will be upon this very subject of the
choice of n President. This is the ques-
tion which is eventually to test the good
ness, and Try the strength of the Consti-
tuition" If now q few corrupt men,
known as the Board of State Canvassers,
in the States of Louisiana, Florida, and
South Carolina, electa President by fraud
ulently throwing out the votes of Coun-
ties and Parishes, over the clear and un-
disputed vote of a majority of near three
hundred thousand of the people of the
United States, what becomes of the
strength of the Constitution. If suellsa
precedent be permitted, ell subseNAenk
elections of President viii be placed utss
der the control of a few bad men iueaeh
State, and the voice of the people disrsy
gardcd. sss
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain claims to have
received threatening letter recently, and
our contemporary, the Columbia Register,
charactcrizes the letter in proper terms if
it emanated from Democratic pen, but
we do not believe any Democrat wrote
such letter to the Ex-Governor, and if
he hns received such letter, we believe
some Republican wrote it to him, in or
der to help him out in his slanderous
crusade against our people. With such
q document iii his pocket, the sleek
tongued Chamberlain can weave quite an
entertaining yarn for the amusemen 81
his bloody-shirt CO campt.gners and their
admirers, about the lawessncss of our
people. and the heroic daring he is Civ
ing daily exhibition of in remaining
among the fearful South Carolina "Sioux."
We do not believe any of our pco-
PIE care to hcroise this ex-exalted official
at this time. We prefer that he should
return rs speedily as possible to obscuri-
ty in Massachusetts,. he remains here,
however, he is in I'D danger fror, our cit
izens, but the Nemesis of violated justice
may summon him to the bar of our >uurts,
to answer the charges which Elliott pro-
fesscs to be able to sustain, and to make
restitution to that Treasury which he
either helped to deplete, or as Attorne
General, allowed others, unwhipped OF
! Justice, to rob without mercy.
A postmaster has been elected as pres
idential elcctov in Vermont and Oregon
by the republicans, and two Federal
offlce-holders are on their ticket in Louis.
lana. The Constitution declares thes;
officers inclig ible, but then the Re
publicans do not care for that. They
have become so we'll accustomed to work
ing outside Of the Constitution, that they