The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-27

Sumner, a Wilson, a Whittier, and that
host of heroes that had adorned the land
of his birth, and yet from the hour that
he took his seat as Governor of South
Carolina he has never failed to betray a
political friend or favor political enc
my. Is there anything blacker than this :?
Swift says: "He that calls man un-
grateful sums up all the evil that man
can be guilty Of" and I pronounce Dan
iel 81. Chamberlain the most ungrateful
wretch that ever walked the earth, or
breathed the air of heaven.
The ghost in Hamlet, when he appear
ed to his son, announced that he was con-
tlemned to walk by night and be confined
i'm fire by day until all the crimes done
in nature were burned and purged away.
IF that doctrine is true, and the edict
should 20. forth that Daniel II. Chamber
lain and F. J. Moses, Jr., should expiate
their political crimes" Moses would be a
saint in heaven when Daniel, II. Cham
berlain would be in hell bowling.
pass from this. do not believe that
the charges made were intended for Ell
ther Moses or Wiggin; the real thrust
was aimed at the negro, who has been
the source of trouble for almost CEN
tury in this country, both; in Church
and State, in the halls of Congress, in
Sabbath schools, stage coaches and rail-
road cars. He could not even walk the
streets without insult or injury. Just so
long as he stands ready with brush in
hand to black boots, or play the part of
cook;or waiter, this prejudice will not
manifest itself; so long as he can. be
called by the familiar names of Sam,
Dick or Jake. But just as soon as he
raise, his head above the position of
menial, he is made the object of Demo
cratic spleen all over the country. 1t
comes from that class of men and from
that same spirit that, in $780, brought a
war upon this country and cost the North
half a million of her bravest sons, and
that spirit that cost the South about an
equal number of, the flower of her youth
and manhood. 1t will exist. until this
class will be taught to respect real worth
and manhood without regard to race or
color. We have met this prejudice be-
fore. 1t was this spirit that murdered
Loyeioy on the banks of. the Missouri /;
that fractured the skull of Benjamin
Lundey, in the streets of Baltimore i;
dragged William Lloyd Garrison by the
neck through the streets of Boston. 1t
caused the many riots that has blackened
The history of the cities of New York,
Philadelphia, Detroit and elsewhere. We
have also met it here with the lust for
power added to it, which has resulted in
fhe murder of hundreds, among whom
are Dill, Martin, Randolph and o host of
others.
But, Mr.. Speaker, I rely upon the Re-
publican party to meet the exigency in
the future as it has in the past.
When this spirit became so rife as to
cause the Southern members in the Ma
tional Halls of legislation to throw off
their official robes and return to their
homes, the Republican party maintained
it's dignity. ., They came'home and worked
themselves up into frenzy, just like the
old Charleston fossils did at Hibernian
Hall few nights ago, one of whom,
when he was fifteen years younger; no
mule team could drag into the war.
They get together and talk fight, but /
do not believe they mean it.
After the issues of the war were settled,
we met this same spirit, and within sound
of my voice, but not in this House, they
passed what were. known as the black
laws, for they were blacker than the an
gels of hell. Again the Republican party
came to the rescue, and the question was
put as to how they could best protect the
negroes, and they put them in position
to protect themselves by putting into
their hands the ballot.
That errors have been committed, we
do not deny, but it is an historic fact that
errors have been committed in all govern
ments. That a people situated rs we
were, surrounded by disafection, spleen
and prejudice on the one side, and on the
other by the treachery of such men as
Daniel Fl. Chamberlain, that we should
have committed errors, should naturally
be expected. With all our errors, we
have yet Republican party in South
Carolina which they sought to destroy;
and that it should stand up before them
to-day in more powerful shape than it
has ever done, is the cause of all their
weeping and whining.
This man, Daniel H. Chamberlain, has
been placed in a position that he is re-
quired by law to commission those who
are elected officers of the State. he is
playing into the hands of the Democracy
BY refusing to do that which the Consti-
tuition requires of him; and many ask
what is to be done in this emergency.
I am far from having any fears for the
result of his action in this case. l will
not enter into discussion of the legal
aspect of this matter. Daniel H. Cham
berlain is required by the constitution to
sign the commissions of all State officers,
and when he comes to the conclusion
that he will not perform that which the
laws require of him, he places himself IN
the position of perjured wretch. 1t is
one of those cases in which any black-
hearted traitor can attempt to defeat the
will of the people, but take it that the
will of the people cannot be defeated,
and the man who undertakes 10 establish
anarchy and confusion assumes the re-
sponsibility of bringing about revolu-
ton in any government of which he may
form part; and if the constitution re-
quires him to sign a commission, when
he refuses he places himself in the posi-
ton of perjured villain, and in the
position of q traitor to the will of the
neople. He may be able to purchase the
Democratic journals to sustain him, and
even buy the silence of Republican
journals, but this will not serve his pur-
pose. ,:L.
is too deeply seated in the hearts of the
American people ever to permit one man
to set himself above the law and assume
to dictate to those who have elevated him
to place and power. The spirit that, in
the reign of Charles l, overturned the
throne, stripped the altar Of its orna,
ments, beheaded the King and declared
ct.x..1l ord protoct0r ~ still abroad