Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1876-09-07
Gen. Gary,s Anderson speech.

Week W OSll. 0dT AuueESOH SpoCSd'
Mark his able argument concerning the
legality of sending U. s. troops among
us at such time as this:
Mr. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN:
In response to your courteous invita-
ton, am here to-day to participate i'll
your grand ratification of the nomination
by the National Democracy of Tilden
! aud Hendricks, for the Offices of Presi-
dent and Vice. President of the United
States; and OF the nomination by the
Democracy of this State, of Hampton
and Simpson, for Governor and Lieuten.
ant-Governor Of South Carolina.
I appreciate it as a grateful privilege,
to unite with the Banner County of the
Democracy of this State, in giving ex
preston of unqualified approval to the
selections of such distinguished stand
ard bearers of our Party. In the dark
and gloomy period that we have just
passed through, during The administra
ton of our State Government by the
carpet-bagger Scott, the scalawag Moses,
and the willy charlatan Chamberlain the
answering devotion of tho gallant
sons of Anderson, to principle in prefer
ence to policy, has cheered the spirit Of
the men of old Edgofield whilst battling
for the great cause of Democracy and
the redemption of our State. The action
of the National Democracy in adopting
Platform expressive of the time-hon-
ored tenets Of our Party, has successful
ly rekindled the spirit of lT76 upon the
Centennial altar of our common country.
There has been two parties in the United
States since the adoption Of our Consti-
tuition. The names have at times changed,
but the great dividing distinction has
been upon the construction OF tho Con-
stitution. Hamilton, who was imbued
with the traditions Of monarchical gov
eminent, did not possess that originality
of thought that enabled him to free him
self from the hereditary idea of strong
aud central government, in which all
power was placed, and in which all the
rights of the States were consolidated.
He could not appreciate that the States
reserved those powers that were not
delegated to the National Government.
The genius of Madison and Jefferson, in
the famous Kentucky and Virginia Reso-
lutions OF l79S, gave the initial c)nstruc-
-, nf
States. That construction has been APP
proved and elaborated by Mr.. Calhoun
in his discourse upon the Constitution
and Government Of the United States.
This construction has embodied the GEN.
trail principles of the Democratic party
throughout its varied fortunes; and this
onstruction can alone protect the people
Of the United States from such bold,
avs ricious, unscrupulous, bad man"
as ne who now occupies the Executive
Chlir of the American Republic.
The opposite construction OF the Con-
stitution, would perpetuate this govern
ment in the power of q political faction
that has corrupted its foundations, filled
| its Offices of trust with thieves and plum
derers, and made its name by word and
a reproach among the nations Of the
| earth. IT'S perpetuation IN power would
be the loss Of our liberties by the con-
version of this great Republic into a
corrupt and loathsoine empire. am
glad to announce to you that the recent
decision of Chief Justice Waite, of the
| United States Supreme Court, in the
celebrated case of the United States
Plaintiffs in errors, against VIM J Crnk-
shanks, VIM. ID. Irwin and John 2.
| Hudnot, was made in conformity with
the construction Of the Constitution
placed upon it by the Democratic party,
| wherein lie uses the following language,
"the government of the United States is
one of delegated powers alone. Its au-
thority is defined and limited by the
Constitution. All powers not granted
20 it by(that instr rument are reserved to
the stsfes or the Aeoplo." 1t is gras!-
flying fact, alike TO Democrats and Radi-
calls, that the Chief Justice of the United
States holds the scales OF justice with an
impartial hand, that the erlnine of his
high Office is pure and unstaincd by the
universal corruption that has surround
ed him. With such a Chief Justice and
with Democratic Congress, there is
we'll founded hope that the liberties of
the people may yet be protected and
preserved; that the office of President of
the United States will soon be wrested
from one who has tarnisLed the sword
of an American soldier, who has dis
graced and dishonored the highest Office
of the American statesmen. The plume
of tho great military chieltain, which has
50 often been lowered for the sake of gain;
the robes of the executive Office, which
have been so continuously stained in the
purlieus of a corrupt party; will have
to give way to the great civic leader clad
in the white habiliments Of "Peace and
Honesty" with the glorious motto of
Reform inscribed upon Lis banner. The
patriotic voice of the American people
welcome his coming and proclaim in
trumpet tones that Samuel j. Tilden
will be the successor Of u. S. Grant as
president of the United States of America.
The great objects that we hope to effect by
Reform in the National Government
through our leaders and our party, are,
first, the publication of the civil service
department, by putting and retaining
there none but competent and honest
men by regarding the Offices as great
public trust, to be administered for the
benefit of the people whose servants they
are, and not as places for relatives and
friends with personal perquisites attach
ed thereto. We hope to overrule the
precedent established by Grant in the
first four years Of his administration, in
making his oftics ~ personal one and in
PRODUCING nopofism in its woxst form
into every department Of tho Govern.
|-hent. President Grant having exhaust
cd the supply of relatives and kinsmen
in the first four years Of his administra-
lion, in his last four, has inaugurated
the practice Of placing in office his con-
federates in crimo, those who had been
engaged with him III robbing and plum
dering the government. Living exam
Piles of this, custom aud unblushing cor