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Joint Discussion,
WHAT COL. HASKELL SAID TO
COW. CHAMBERLAIN.

This letter was delivered to Governor
Chamberlain on 10Th September, and he
has failed to give a reply, although the
publication has been delayed to give
him full time:
Rooms STATE Dem. En-. COMMITTEE.
CoLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. IS, 1876.
To h< Ercellency Daniel H.. Chamber
luin, C6lumbia, S. c.
SiR.-I beg leave to render to YOU, in
behalf of Gen. Wade Hampton and the
other nominees upon the State Demo
cratic ticket, and in pursuance of the
spirit manifested in the card i>sued on
23d August by the State Democratic FIX
~1ecutiye Committee, an invitation to at
tend the Democratic mass meetings
which are being held in succession in
each county in the State. The order i u
which they follow, together with the
dates, appears in nearly all ofthe papers
lin the State. You are invited to te pres.
lent and to join in the discussion. You
ARE aware that the canvass is a warm one,
land that your party and your Of
,fcial course are charged with having in
;ficted great wrongs upon the people
whose interests it was your duty to pro.
mote. That is the nature Of political
discussion under such circumstances
but you are at the same time we'll aware
that the people you are invited to adj
dress are, by nature and by habit, quitt
and law-abiding, and that so far from
rudeue-s or violence, you will personally
receive nothing but courteous treatment,
however bitterly your political and OF
fetal course may be asailed.
Ion will call to mind that on 18th
instant | gave this invitation to you
verbally, and your reply was that you
appreciated the attention. but your
policy for the campaign had not been
fixed that personal matters required you
to go tn the North ; that your absence
would be for probably eight days, and
you could not give Your positive answer
until after 20 lr return. l learned yes
i~tenlay that you had returned, and beg
leave, as | said, to formally extend to you
this invitation, assuring you that if you
accept it your appearance before the
Democracy throughout this State will be
to yourself as Governor Almost pleasing
refuation of the slanderons charges
which constantly are published against
our party in some newspapers which
claim to be your political organs, and
also in the Northern papers, backed by
the name Ex-senator Patterson or some
other person, who claims to be your
political friend and exponent. Wedeem
1t due to you and ourselves that these
charges be either contradicted by your
denial of them or looked into by your
going in person to ascertain the truth.
You do not hold the position of candi-
date only you are also Governor Of
this State ; and while as a mere candidate
you may not be bound to correct charges
which your followers make against your
opponents, though you know them to be
false, you are as Governor and candidate
bound by your g~ubernatorial pledge and
honor to prevent your followers using
the sanction of your official silence to
sustain these charges against your oppo.
nents, when the charges allege the over
throw Of the peace and dignity of the
State, which you are sworn to defend
As instances of the class of ISLANDERS 10
which l refer, l beg leave to cite the fol-
lowing:
WASHINGTON, September G..
It is reported here, upon what is
deemed good authority, that parties in
New York have agreed to ship Chamber.
lain 10000 stand of arms to arm the
blacks in South Carolina. This is ore
of Chamberlaiu's tricks to curry favor
with the blacks and be r%enominated.
The arms will be landed in Charleston
on the 11tb instant, the day before the
meeting of the Republican State Conven,
ton. While here, Chamberlain was very
bitter in his denunciation of the South
Carolina whites, calling them ku klu:
scoundrels. &c.-New York San.
WASHINGTON, September 6.
Governor Chamberlain, oiSouth Caro-
lima. has just returned from another
visit to this city to confer with the au'
thorities upon sending troops to that
State. The Governor WAS noisy in his
deunnciations Of such men as Haskell,
Hampton, Gary, ex.G Governor Perry and
others, whom he charges are on the eve
of precipitatipg another rebellion. He
makes the idle boast that he has proof
that Butler and Hampton were at the
head Of the Hamburg riot, and he ex-
poets in less than two months TO have
them tried. The Governor declared to
a prominent South Carolina politician
last night that he was done With reform
talk, and hereafter the Legislature would
find DO barrier in him. The Governor
has made arrangements to have 10000
stand of arms sent down to arm The
blacks. The arms will be landed in
Charleston ON the 18th instant, the day
previous to the meeting Of the Radical
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