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

lngly nervous, wrathy, &C., since the
election, and continues to pour forth
spleen against the people of South Caro-
lima. His latest exploit is a telegram to
the Department of Justice, which is pub
lished in the New York Tribune, stating
that many of the witnesses against per-
sons who have committed or attempted
to commit frauds in the election in Aiken
county are in danger of being killed, to
prevent them from t'stifying in Court.
The Ex-Governor might as we'll leave off
his bloody shirt campaign. He cannot
make any further political capital of his
statements, for the country has become
too we'll acquainted with him and his
governing proclivities. He had better
telegraph that Gen. Hampton will be in
augurated Governor of South Carolina in
a few days, and that from that time for
ward the rights of every man will be pro-
tccted, 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 ofhis 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 as Governor al
lowed the strikes on sne Combahee, the
riot in Charleston, and the Cainhoy
slaughter, to go unferreted out and un-
punished, should not run we'll. It 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-
fered most in these riots, and hundreds of
colored 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
tice to the perpetrators of crime. They
voted for Hampton because they recog-
nize in him the champion of equal rights
and justice to all men.
The distinguished Chancellor Kent, in
his Commentaries on American Law,
published in the year 1926, in speaking
of the election or appointment of the
President Of the Upited States, said:
"The mode of his appointment presented
one of the most dific,llt 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 jeopardized, by a
struggle for power among themselves, it
will be upon this very subject of the
choice of President. This is the ques-
ton which is eventually to test the good
ness, and try the strength of the Consti-
tuition" If now few corrupt men,
known as the Board of State Canvassers,
- the States of Louisiana, Florida, and
Sou.h 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 suchea
precedent be permitted, all subsequent
elections of President will be placedtun
der the control of few bad men inreach
State, and the voice of the peoples disre,
garded. SSsaG1'
Ex-Gov. Chamberlain claims to have
received theatening letter recently, and
our contemporary, the Columbia Register,
characterizes the letter in proper terms il
it emanated from Democratic pen, but
we do not believe any Democrat wrote
such letter to the Ex-Governor, and il
he has received such q 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
4 document in his pocket, the sleek.
tongued Chamberlain can weave quite an
entertaining yarn for the amusement o.
his bloody-shirt co campaigners and thcil
admirers, about the lawlessncss of ou1
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 peo
pie care to hcroise this ex-exaltcd ol1!cla
at this time. We prefer that he shoult
return as speedily as possible to obscure
tv in Massachusetts. If he remains here
however, he is in 40 danger from our cit
liens, but the Nemesis Of violated justice
may summon him to the bar of our courts
to answer the charges which Elliott pro
fesses to be able to sustain, and to make
restitution to tha. Treasury which h'
either helped to deplete, or as Attorne!
General, allowed others, unwhippcd o
justice, to rob without mercy.
A postmaster has been elected as pres
idential clcctor in Vermont and Orcgo!
by the Republicans, and two Fedora
offlce-holders are on their ticket in Louis
lana. The Constitution declares thes
officers ineligible, but then the he
pubicans do not care for that The