The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-21

dasired secret session, and the. pSgss
wight yet findsSt to their disadveptagt
tat they bad qat lisssasdto bio fars
warned, esd 10, ttss &lAntsgsr Tmay
gay will dsno G1od ,s SeveEst6re eghani.
heslaiu has seyct8t tx vines 4hxJ3w would
Ysand bsyaim if5he IEEs ffoved. gtiiltgs8.
larceny. Great God! is that the position
Of the members who talk so much of love
Of party? ] have undertaken a grave re.
4 tSPoHsibhaity, but 4-snalI perform ft-as -Eiy
sacred duty. believe God has directed
. Inb right, aYd 4 sAaH not do ono single
thing 10 destfoy tina. party whose banner
II have marched under for years do
not oppose Governor Chamberlain on
account IF his refofrn. + am willing and
entitled 10 stand With him on any plank
in the platform of the party. Does il
fellow that, because Governor Chamber
lain has elevated the character Of the
public officers of the State, and given new
| life 70 the Republican administration ID
this State, that no can put his hand apop
bis heart and say, like the Pharisec OF
old, "Thank God, Dam not as othes men. 7
Can he sag that he Is without sin that
in no instance has he violated the law in
undertaking. to set aside the laS!me.jne
branch Of che government; that in no
instance has he usurped the rights of the
Judicial department Of the State; that he
hrs in no single instance set himself up
as dictator by virtually closing the Su-
pFeme Cours of tha State.
il 1870, by Chamberlain to Niles G. Par
Ler Elicit explained that at the time
this letter was written Cardozo and De.
Ian nOSa S~<s
States Senate. Mr. Cardoz0 had Just
then been ruined by conspiracy in
which he was induced to take the seal OF
the State to New Yerk To seal bonds. He
then read the letter, IA followB:
LAURENs G. H., -, 1870.
Dear Parker: Yours of 2lst received
this evening. vas glad to hear frou
you. There is nothing OF special inter.
est now. For few days We have had
some fears Of an outbreak in Laurens and
Ncwberry, but the danger is over. About
the United States senatorship / didn't
know what to say. am very we'll satis.
fed with my present Office, but my posi-.
tion ib just this: If my friends wish me
to be candidate 70 keep the party from
going over to negroism shall, If it is 10
defeat such calamity. consent to run.
d. II. CHAMBERLAIN.
Elliott then went on to say that if Gov.
ernor Chamberlain had stopped there he
would not have been alarmed, but wher
he repudiated Moses and Whipper, cleo
ted by Republican Legislature, allow
ing mis- passions to influence him in over.
stepping his authority, and again acting
as umpire at Spartanburg In {. debatz
upon the queation whether it would be
best to colonize the negroes, ana agair
excluding the negroes from the Centen
nial board Of commissioners, how coult
ne be blamed for distrusting him.
G. G. Bowen then, evidently fearing
that secrets were about to slip out in tkt
shape of nnta fcr the Democratic press K
crack, moved that the Convention 20 in
to secret session, but the motion was los,
by vote ef'643 to 63i.
Elliott then continued, particularly ad
dress:nS himself TO discussion of the
Legal yight of Governor Chamberlai.. e
refuse to commission Moses aud Whipper
and chen spoke of Cbamberlain's dis
, patch 20 the New England Society, in
which he called upon she Roundheadi
and Cavaliers to rise up in the defence ol
civilization. Elliott vas. evidently =or;
!, much hampered He was between two
fires-his desire to let out all he had, arc
his fear lest ia the event of Chamberlain'l
nomination his disclosures might prove
damaging to his belt we'd party Th,
, consequence waa that he made the big
gest failure Of his life, and had bettel
have said nothing. He was after q secre
session, and IL he had succeeded there,
no knowing what might have come out
Gov. Chamberlain declined to make G
, speech in reply to Elliott's harangue, and
contented himself with answering in de-
tail the question which had been al
ready. propouhdetl to him, anu otherl
which were asked of him by different
| delegates in the course Of his remarks
: lie stated, in substance, in reply to Ell
liott last night, that he had been inform
ed, and bad been, indeed, forewarned fol
weeks, that it was proposed that, in thil
convention, in the event of his name be
ing offered in nomination, not 0nly to at
tack his official career, but his privat,
and personal character. He had nothins
to fear from such source, but he desired
TO state here, for the information of thu
convention, that he had been approached
within few days with two proposition
on the subject: One was that he coult
purchase the suppression of the threaten
ed disclosures with money, and the othel
was promise that such attack would no
be made if he would promise to lend hi
influence in favor of the Blue Ridge scrir
and conversion bonds if elected. He hal
rejected both propositions with scorn, anc
would refuse Office thousand times over
if that was the price to be paid for it
denied briefly, but directly, that he hat
taken any active part on the debate o.
Woford College-was only there as 6
spectator. He explained the fact of hi
having appointed white men only on the
Centennial commission by aging that hs
had done so after consn.tas On with Gen
Havley and other friends who thought
such course expedient in view of Thu
feeling in tho State against liked com
mission, end of the fact that the whites
alone had anything exhibited at Phila.
delphia, and he was anxious to have
South Carolina represented there. Ht
defended his action 90 10 Moses and Whip.
per, and said he w0nld 60 further than
Elliott AND declare his belief that as Gov.
ernor his acts were amenable ito critical
review by the Supreme Court of the State
and he would accept their decision al
final. If the court said t. him "sigr
those commissions" no would sign them
Cheers. He reasserted his strict Re.
publicanism, and repudiated all connec
tioa with the Democracy. He had never
at any time, nor in any case, done any.
thing with view of securing their praise
and If any of his acts had rlet with theiI
approval, it was aimply because thei,
Judgment coincided with his. in those in.
stances. In regard to the charge based
upon the letter, he said he did not re.