The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-08-03
Gen. Butler Replies to the Governor
through the New York Herald, and
ExcOriates the Slanderer. =, 81,
EDeEFIELD s. C.. JULY 81. 187

EDGEFlELD, .. VI, July AlJ IoIO' -
T5 the Editor Of the ~ Y. Herald. u, 80,
I have Just read Gov. Chamberlin's
fancy sketch of the Hamburg Horror"
addressed to Senator Robertson, at Wash
ington. After few rhetoriealAo Aourishes,
his Excellency says: "Such acts call for
condemnation and punishment I en-
tiTely agree with him, and if he does not
take steps at once to have them condemn
ed and punished, he should be hurled
from the position which his imbecility
disgraces. I have been the object and
target of Radical malignity, and assigned
position in this affair similar to that of
Sitting Bull in the Custer massacre. I
have been slandered and traduced by the
Governors emissaries fol. doing nothing
more than my very plain and simple du-
ty, and / now challenge him to begin his
legal investigation. He knows my resi-
dence, and he knows that tho presence of
u. s. soldiers is notnecessar- for, my ar
rest, or that of any other whit nan who
was at Hamburg. And befo1e that in
vestigation closes, ifI do not show that
the negroes were the sggressors, and the
whites not to blame, that the emissaries
of bis Excellency, were the instigators of
the riot, and that his appointees could
have prevented and did not prevent it,
that the company called militia was not
militia, but band of rioters and high
waymen, and that he is responsible for it
If I do not show all this, and show be.
sides condition of affairs at Hamburg
under Radical government pretending
to be civilized, which would almost dis
grace the purlieus of Comassee settle
ment, I will undertake personally to an-
swer for the death of every man, white
and black, who fell in that riot. 9t-.
! No man knows better than Governor
Chamberlain that what he states in that
communication to Senator Robertson is
false in every essential particular. No
one knows better than himself that he
has published it in the bloody-shirt out
rage interest. But no matter whether he
has or not, make him a very practical
proposition, and he shall not euade II. 'l''
High sounding phrases such as he in.
dulges in, are better suited to another era
of our, history, when people were more
prone to be Influenced by sickly senti-
mentality, when Radical Cant and Radi-
tcal falsehood had larger and more will
ing and attentive audiences. The. Amer:
iican people are becoming eminently
practical, almost prosy in their pursuit OF
facts. '''- 49, re-
! As you aptly suggest in your editorial,
"sThe Governors campaign rhetoric is
another thing. Let him hunt up the
criminals concerned and punish them
If as. he says the. e.whites Of South Carolina
ireprobate the outrage, let the Governor
test their indignation by Furnishing the
offenders" The rhapsodies Of q partisan.
politician, fatally bent on perpetuating
his personal supremacy and the power of
his party, is one thing, and the manly
discharge of duty by the. Goyernorsofsa q
aohole State, IN, the, interest of all, is an;
other. His .Excellency has chosen the
role of the partisan, at the expense of his
Official responsibility, ard9f he does not
make good his oath of Office, to see that
the laws are executed, let him stand con-
fessed 8 charlatan who would gamble
with the dearest rights Of the people Of
the commonwealth, and barter away the
fair name of the Statsc to the iend that
D. a. Chamberlain may continue to wear
the Gubernatorial robes of a State which
he cannot or does not govern. =
Yours; Go, @
III G. BUTLER,