The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-07
NEWS FROM COLUMBIA.
DOINGS or THE LAWFUL AND UN.
LAWFUL HOUSES.
From the Columbia Register.
COLUMBIA, Friday Dec. /, 1876.

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COLUMBIA, Friday Dec. l, 1876.
All night long on Thursday night the
members of the lawful as we'll as the
members Of the bogus Legislature re-
mained in the hall of the House Of Rep
rescu.ativcs-Gen. Wallace, the Speaker
of the lawful House, remaining at his
post almost continually, being relieved
for short periods only by the Democratic
members. Mackey, too, WAS on hand,
and occasionally changed places with
some of the sable statesmen of his own
way of thinking, or acting, at any rate.
About half-past 8, Judge I. J. Mackey,
of the Sixth Circuit, entered the hall,
walked upon the Speakers stand at the
request of some personal friends, and de-
livered speech of an hour and half in
length. Many of the members were
asleep when the Judge began, but were
pretty wide awake by the time he got
we'll under way.
After this spcech, many Of the men,
bers resumed their snoring, and contin-
ued at the pleasant pastime until long
after day; while others moved about the
hall, chatting, smoking, and some writing,
while others read.
Numbers of the low country, "rurial"
members, continued to deliver speeches
upon al sorts of subjects until just pre-
vious to u o'clock m. yesterday, just pre-
vious to which hour Mr.. Austin, of
Greenville, moved an adjournment. The
motion was put by General Wallace and
carried, the Democratic members alone
voting. Mackey's bogus crowd were put
through the same process, and both
Houses being presumed to have reassem-
bled, the Clerk of each was ordered to
call the roll, which they did at the same
time.
After the calling of the roll, General
Wallace ordered the minutes of the pre-
vious days session to be read, when some
one moved that lhe reading be dispensed
with.
Mackey issued the same order for the
rump with similar result.
Mackey's rump House had no quorum.
General Wallace called for bills, re-
ports, resolutions, motions, presentments
of grand juries. &C., as the first thing in
order. There was no business under
these heads.
Hamilton, of Beaufort, came into the
hall about this time, and in reply to an
"insinuendo" uttered in an undertone,
remarked that this business was going
too far, and he was afraid it would break
up in row.
Reed, the raving member, didn't want
any row, but if there was to be any, he
wanted to be found "thar."
Ha milton obtained the floor and made
sensible and earnest appeal to the Re-
pubicans of the rump to beware of what
they were doing. He again denounced
their conduct in admitting the unheard-
of delegation from Barnwell, and I'M
plorcd them to do what was right, as he
intended to do.
During the whole time Of the delivery
of HamiIton's speech, which was quite a
long one, he was weeping, his manner
evidently convincing every one around
him, of both parties, of his sincerity and
honesty of purpose.
Mr.. Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, q
fne-looking man and good speaker, next
took the floor, and appealed to tho Radi-
Gals to agree to submit to some SOL Of a
compromise. He paid a glowing COM
plimcnt to Hamilton, whom he termed
"a brave, honest and patriotic man"
He then offered a resolution, which he
stated had been inspired by Hamilton's
evident sincerity and nobleness of nature,
of which he had given such strong evil
dence in his appeal to the less intellect
ual members of his race and party. The
resolution was to the effect that COM
mittee of three Democrats and three Re-
publicans be appointed from the House,
with like number from each party in
the Senate, forming in all committee
of twelve, to Immediately assemble and
confer for the purpose of seeing if all
matters of difference could not be solved.
The resolution was read and sent to
the Speakers stand.
Immediately after its reading, CAN'T,
of Beaufort, which county seems always
to send its quota of bad men to the Leg
islature, moved that the Committee on
Privileges and Elections be requested to
make their report.
This fellow CAN'T is one of the ultra
Radicals of the House, and is not only
one of the worst representatives of his
race, but about one of the worst their in
terests could possibly be entrusted to.
He is q full-blooded negro, ignorant,
coarse and brutal in appearance. He
presents the appearance of one who edu-
cation and contact with superior race
will improve but slowly, if at all.
Old "Shuv-'em-up" Humbert, of Dar-
lington, now arose for one of his long
winded talks; such an one as he has been
famous fo. during the eight years in
which he has been member "ob dis
House," and an attempt to report it YER
batim would ruin the understanding of
the best stenographer on the continent.
He wanted to know, among other things,
what had become of the white "Repub-
likins?" "Dey is all fleeing from U.s."
"What we gwine do if you 'bolishcs our
schools and our universities, and puts
the chilun outen de door~ His remarks,
which were pretty much in keeping with
the above, occupied about an hour and a
half, and everybody seemed glad when he
got through. Old "Shuv- -'em-up" is one
Of Cadetship-seller Whittemore's pupils.
At the close of this tangled up ha-
rangue, Mr.. Orr offered resolution that
it was not the purpose of the Democratic
members of this House to in any way in
terlere with the electoral vote OF the
State, and disclaimed either the DISPOSE
ton or authority to do so. This resOlu-
tior was prompted no doubt by knowl
edge that some such idea had gotten into
the thick heads of the Radical members,
and their minds should be disabused Of
it at once; but you might as we'll have
talked to the bubbling waters of the
muddy Congaree and bid them cease to
flow, for all the good it did or effect it
had upon them.
Keith, of Darlington, an ultra Radical,
then got the floor, and rambled on for an
hour or more, quoting passages from the
Bible, and lining out hymns, in the old
plantation style, concluding with the
campaign song:
"a CHARGE IN keen have