New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-19

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ftETC~T a SOUTH GAR0LLHAs s&E !
In the interests Of peace and order, and
upon the legitimate appeals of Governor
Chamberlain to power greater than his
!. own, the President of the United States
acting under constitutional provisions for
the suppression of.local disturbances, has
been compelled h this centennial year to
issue proclamation of warning against
the bands Of unlawfully armed men which
infest the turbulent and unhappy State Of
South Carolina. That such proclama-
ton has been made necessary by the hot
headed rifle rangers Of the Palmetto State
is disgrace which falls upon every State
in the Union. But the forces marshaled
under General Gary and Wade Hampton
would not avoid such . punishment - has
been visited UPON them, and the action
of the President was not unexpected.
Governor Chamberlain is conservative
man, and has the respect Of every good
citizen in his Stata. He was strongly sup
ported for denomination on tho Demo
cratic ticket BY such papers As the Charles
ton Ns,es and Courier, but was dis
tanced BY the men on horseback.
The Hampton campaign has been one
| Of the most brutal on record. The Ham !
| burg massacre is but m instance of the
unlicensed killing practiced in the State
Governor Chamberlain, by speech and by
proclamation, has appealed to the rough |
riders to iay down their arms; but they
de6ed him and his authority. He sx-
hausted every means in his power to re-
store peace and order.. bat With no good |
result. There was nothing left for him |
to do. q chief executive sworn to per-
form his duty, but to appeal to the
national government for aid; and there
was lekt NO alternative for the President
but to crush the rebellion BY the use OF
means ct his disposal We say rebellion,
because the cavalry companies which are
armed and ride to murder in South Caro-
lima, independent of militia organiza-
tons, are organized in violation Of State
lava They are 20 numerous and power
ful q to defeat the State government in
all attempts to disarm them; they arc in
open rebellion against the State govern
ment, and against the official and Legal
mandates Of . conservative Governor I
whose seat i not contested. It remains
10 be seen whether OF not South Carolina I
will declare itself now in rebellion
against the United States. II
The reputation of South Carolina is q
not good. Az colony it was full of dis
'rder, frequently changing its Governors. s
n 1882 the same State opposed the tariff q
avs, asserting that the whole system of
protection was unjust and unconstitu- G
ional, and she then issued an ordinance b
declaring the tariff laws null and void" n
nd more than that prepared to resist Il
heir enforcement, threatening to secede q
rom the Union if any attempt were made 81
D carry out these laws" That was an v
pen rebellion against the government of Il
be United States; it was an illustration "
T the effects of the States rights doctrines g
radled and nursed there, which be- Il
anne 80. formidable when it grew up, if
pread, and made solid South endeavor d
0 destroy the Union of States by the last 81
reat rebellion. Nothing but the firm el
and and prompt action of President
ackson silenced the voices and guns of .
be South Carolina nullifers in 1882.
hey were subdued, because the South -
'as not solid then in opposition to tariff ID
rejection. The rebels of 1882 did not C
ield in the doctrine of the right to a
scede, but their feelings were soothed d.
absequently BY Mr.. Clay's compromise O
i'll, which provided for gradual reduc- -
on OF the tariff .
In November, 1860, Abraham Lincoln ~
as elected President of the United m
tates, in spite of the solid slaveholdine a,
outh. As soon as the votes were counted, of
le nullifers, absorbed by the Democra- L.
c party, saw . chance for q great re- to
sllion, one that should be based on the hi
aveholding interests of the entire South, tn
I'd make all slave States Confederates in
10 treason. A convention was called in =.
'uth Carolina, under the style of "A f..
'vereign Convention of the People," lit
hich indicated the States rights and re- he
'llious character Of the meeting. On tn
e twentieth Of December, 1860, the . !
vereign convention of the people of su
nth Carolina passed an ordinance of Sc ,o'
ssion from the Union, becoming the 70
lad, front and prime mover of the great w. ~,
bellion which was to follow. Other a.,
ates did not resolve to go out of the in,
MON until the following month; Louisi. of
q as late as the twenty-sixth of January, str
d Texas, February l, 1861. The South or,
not become solid as Democratic pc
'nfederacy until the State delegates met iol
Montgomery, Alabama, on the fourth MI
February, 1861, and formed new con- sa'
tuition under the mama If tho sro,foa