The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-02-10
Chamberlain to Morton.

shirt notoriety, yindicating himself |
'gainst the charge of trying to give
The State government into the hands
Of the Democrats, and nearly all tho
papers in South Carolina have gone
into into OBSTACLES over that letter.
But for the life of us VIC cannot sec
what joy thoy can extract from it.
The whole burden of the Govern
or's song is to perpotuate tho ascen..
dency of the Republican party in the
State. He talks about unloading that
party of Whipper, Moses and tho rest
OF the thievs; but whom we consider
the material of which that party is
made up, we think it is moro likely
that tho party will unload Chant ber-
lain or any honest man than that it
will suffer ono of it's pets to be put
out.
Governor Chamberlain stands IN the
road of other leaders of his party,
and while he is only one they are nu
merous, unprincipled and desperately
malicious. Already we sec them
"backing down" from their opon op-
position to him, and assuming a desire
to conciliato his favor but it is mere
assumption-tho leopard cannot
change its spots. They already sec
thoy cannot prevent his second term
as Governor, but they will use him
TO keep themselves in power, and
when an opportunity offers they will
unload him into the U. S. Senate or q
Judges chair, and then have the gov
ornmont IN their hands again.
We do praise Gov. Chamberlain for
tho many good deeds he has done to
reform the State government, and it is
not Gov. Chamberlain that we oppose,
but tho Republican party to which he
belongs, for it is composed of the very
worst elements of our population
Talk about unloading Whipper, Mos
os, Elliott, Leslie and such, why they
arc the pets of the party, and tho
leaders of it's majority, whose ignor>
anco and natural cupdiLy will not al
low thom to rightly appreciate the
necessity for a strict adhcranco to
honesty, particularly in public affairs,
consequently they mover ask or care
about tho moral or intellectual status
of their leaders. Thoy are taught to
look upon official positions as the
means of living easy and having
plenty of greenbacks, aud their COR
rupt leaders flattor and gull them with
promises Of both. No matter how of
ton those promises arc broken, or how
bad tho characters of their pet leaders
may bo, they cannot or will not SEQ
any wrong in them. In fact they
have not the remotest idea Of moral
character. A thief, q highwayman or
an incendary, loses no social or po-
litical caste with thom oven after sorv-
ing q term in the rcnitcntiary; but he
is looked upon more as u martyr than
corrupt william, and his past conduct
would in no wise be considered an
obstacle in the way of their voting to
place him in any political position of
trust or honor We point to the Leg.
islaturc for proof of what we say, for
perhaps that body represents an aver
age Of tho morality Of tho Republican
party in this State. Would any set
of men possessing tho least spark Of
moral honesty, or entertaining the
shadow Of an appreciation of tho ne
cossity for moral character in nigh Of
ficlal positions, have eloctod Moses and
Whipper Circuit Judges? Never
And that is tho character Of tho
party for which Chamberlain is works
ing to keep in power in. this State,
and for which the Democratic papers
arc praisng him. When wo see
Whippor fighting against Whippor,
Moses against Moses, and Elliott a.
gainst Elliott, then, and not till then,
will VIC boliovo the Republican party
CAN bo unloadcd Of thieves. Union
Times.
Although we give tho Governor
praise for many good acts, yet we
cannot praise him for his appoint