The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-12

OTHER STATE OFFICIALS, SURREND-
ERs THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH
CAROLINA TO WADE HAMPTON.
On Saturday the 18th instant Cover
nor Chamberlain returned from Wash
ingtOn to Columbia, South Carolina.
and the Telegraph brought the report
that he had concluded not to give up
the State House, but to defend it with
militia after the troops were Withdrawn
and to fight his claims to the Govern
ship in the Courts.
On the 10th, the other State Officials,
Robt. B. Elliott, Attorney General,
Thos. G. Dunn, Comptroller General,
Sohn r. Tolbert, superintendent OF
Education,
f. t. Cardoza, Treasurer South
Carolina.
James Kennedy, Adjutant and In
spector General.
III. E. Haynes, Secretary Of State,
wrote to Governor Chamberlain and,
after referring to the views severally
expressed by them in conference with
the Governor the day before in rela-
ton to the political complications
which have grown out Of the late can
vass in the State, say, we beg leave to
apprise you formally Of the conclusions
we have reached after the mature
deliberation and gravest reflection
which we have been able to bestOW
upon the subject. Whilst we are no
less inspired with admiration for the
dignifed and resolute manner in which
you consistently maintained your
claims to the gubernatorial chair, by
virtue Of the election held in NOvem-
Der last, than we are solemnly impress
ed with the validity Of your title to the
office, we are unanimous in the belief
that to prolong contest in the absence
Of that moral aid to which we feel
ourselves and our party
JUSTLY ENTITLED
as the hands of the national admins
tration, installed in large measure
through the same agencies which are
now held to be insufficient for our
maintenance, will be to incur the
responsibility Of keeping alive partisan
prejudices, which are in last degree
detrimental to the best interests Of
the people Of the State, and perhaps Of
precipitating physical conflict that
could have but one result to our de-
fenceless constituency.
On the 10th Governor Chamberlain
issued an address to the people of
South Carolina announcing his with
drawel from the struggle and giving
his reasons for withdrawing. We take
from the address the following extracts:
To tbeRepubZic011s Of South Carolina:
BY your choice was made Governor
Of this state in 1874. At the election
on the 18th Of November last | was
again by your votes elected to the
same office. My title to the office upon
every legal and moral ground is today
clear and perfect. By the recent
decision and action Of the President of
the United States, find myself unable
longer to maintain my official rights
with a prospect Of success, and [ here
by announce to you that [ am unWill-
ing to prolong q struggle which can
only bring further suffering upon those
who engage in it.
Z gu secured the electoral vote of South
Carolina for Hayes and Wheeler. In
accomplishing this result you became
victims of every form of
PERSECUTION AND INJURY.
From authentic evidence it is shoWn|
that no less than 100 of your number
were murdered because they were
faithful to their principles, and exercis-
ed the rights solemnly guaranteed to
them by the nation. You were deni-
ed employment driven from your
homes, robbed Of the earnings of years
.Of honest industry, hunted for your
lives like wild beasts, your families
outraged and scattered for no offenseI
except your peaceful and firm deter
mination to exercise your political
rights. You trusted, as you had a
right to trust, that if by such efforts
you established the lawful supremacy
of your political party in the nation,
the government Of the United States
in the discharge of its constitutional
duty would protect the lawful govern
ment of the state from being over
thrown at the hands of your political
enemies
4 x &
To-day, April 10, 1877, by order of
the President, whom your votes alone
rescued from overwhelming defeat, the
government Of the United States
ABANDONS YOU DELIBERATELY;
Wlthdraws from you it's support, with
the full knowledge that the lawful
government of the State will be speed
lily overthroWn by new Interpretation
OF the constitution of the United
States, at variance alike with the pre-
Vlous practices of the government, and
with the decisions Of the Supreme
| Court.
X X Il
But the edict has gone forth. No,
arguments OF considerations which
your friends could present have suffic-
eel TO avert disaster. No effective means
! OF resistance to the cOnS1mm alton of