The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-06

the Republican party has ruled the State.
No such government has ever before
shocked the civilized world. No people
have ever endured so much so patiently
and so long. We have never even organ
lied for resistance. We have sought re-
lief through conciliation and compro-
mise; and I do not condemn it. I say
it was we'll; for had it not been tried,
there are those who would have claimed
that it was tho true remedy and the sole
panacea for all our ills. We have tried
it, and have demonstrated by failure its
utter inefficiency. Loud cheering.] -.
When Governor Chamberlain stumped
the State in his canvass for Governor, he
pledged himself to Reform, and to lift
from the Republican party of the nation
and the State the odium and reproach of
South Carolina politics. His party
cheered him TO the echo, and held him
forth US their champion, and his speech
as the expression of the will of fthe party to
purify itself. But no sooner does he at
tempt to maintain his pledged faith and
lift his party from the slough of corrup-
ton, than they repudiate his counsels,
defeat his plans, and crown their infamy
by inflicting upon the people of this State
a degradation greater than ever yet i'm
posed. Loud applause. The election
Of Moses and Whipper was the legislative
answer to his effort to reform the party
from within.
All that stands now between us and the
degradation of the bench is s'the wise and
bold action of the Governor. He stands
erect, bearing the wrath of his own party,
to maintain unbroken his pledge of re-
form. As he is true to his duty, let us be
true to ours and stand firmly and united
ly by him in support of the right. 1t is
the path of duty; it is the path of wis.,
dom and Of safety. Loud cheers.
There are two courses open: Abject
submission to this and the worse yet to
come, or firm, determined resistance.
[Cheers. I would not be here tonight
if had not faith and hope in the future.
Loud cheers. Just so strong as is my
conviction of the moral government Of
the world, of the sure triumph of wisdom,
truth and right, over ignorance, falsehood
and wrong, just so deep and settled is my
conviction that the State can be saved.
Wild cheering. But it cannot be saved
by resolutions, by popular applause or
popular assemblies. 1t can be saved only
as every great and good thing is accom-
plished, by acork-hard, earnest, persist
ent woodwork into which the whole
heart and manhood is infused, work de-
spite all obstacles, work that means to
win and will not be defeated. Tremen-
dous cheering.] There must be organ
ization, thorough, complete, ever the
whole State, to sweep from power those
who have betrayed the trust which was
confded to them. Every man, young
and old, from the mountains To the sea-
board, must be organized, ready and will
ling to meet every issue as it may arise,
and to hold the next election as the para
mount duty of the hour, that to which
every interest must be subordinate, and
every difference of opinion sacrificed.
[Cheers.l Secure the election, and the
rest will followl [Cheers.] Permit me
now to submit, for your consideration,
the following address and resolutions,
which express, we believe, the feelings
and the determination of this commu-
nifty:
THE PLATFORM.
We have assembled to confer upon q
condition of affairs as grave as ever i'm
perilled the peace and well-being of any
community.
The foundation of society is a pure
Judiciary, and its corruption, or perver.
sion to evil purposes, destroys the last
hope Of securing to a people protection
and liberty.
The action of the Legislature in elect
ing, as judges, w. J. Whipper and F
J. Moses, j., men whose proper place
in a courthouse is the criminals dock,
is an insult to every honest citizen and
a violation of every safeguard which the
law affords to lifey liberty and proper
But this action is not in itself the full
measure of the evil that confronts us
Bad as it is, its graver aspects is in what
IL SlgnlueS.
We recognize in the recent judicial
elections the ascendency and control OF
the worst elements of the political party
which. governs the State. Actuated by a
RELENTLESS hate based upon race, and stim-
ulated by the prospect of "plunder and
revenge" they have repudiated all re-
straint, and inaugurated a policy which
inevitably leads to the destruction of de-
cent government, ruins the material in
terests of the State, and imperils our
yery civilization. Under such a condi-
ton of things, Law ceases to protect,
and Government itself becomes the op.
pressor.
What shall we do to avert the destruc-
ton which must surely result from the
contamination of the policy thus inau'
gurated?
Since 1868 the Conservative citizens
of this State have put aside party obliga-
tions and the hopes of party ascendency
have put no party ticket in the field, but
have sought and hoped for peace, stabil-
ity and pure government through the Re-
publican party. They have striyen not
to antagonize, but to harmonic, conflict
ing races, interests and opinions, patient
| " waiting to obtain, as the fruits of their
forbearance, the blessings of good gov
ernment. :,
In every form in which the effort could
be made it has been tried, and when
through the wise, firm and patriotic AL,
ministration of Governor Chamberlain,
the end seemed about to be obtained, a
Republican Legislature repudiates the
honest eferts of Republican Governor.
impatiently resents his control, and with
a recklessness born ofignorance and hate,
| aa.ax,ita the State to q career deStructl,le