The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-22

Be appointed BY Hampton, tHo by Cham
,be.lain and one by General: :Ruger.
$50 Ninth-Hampton and Chamberlain
shall agree to abide by the result of the
election and guarantees the preservation
Of the peace on the part of their respec-
tive partisans, ssRf.l
THEsPRoJECT FOB A9NEw ELECTION IN
IoUIsIANAAND SOUTH CAROLINA:
Mr.. Blaine is credited to-day with a
new scheme fer muddhng1 the Southern
question and keeping not only Louisiana
and South Carolina, but the whole conn-
try in, an up aproar of politics for at least
anotherfeW months. ;It is to hold new
elections in the two unfortunate States.
Butt justicato Mr. Blaine demands that
itshaH be known thatItbat, ,astute states
man. Senator Patterson; of South Caro-;
Ina: igthss author of this scheme. BE
took the trouble to lay it formally before
hsfPfesident to-day; and, as there was
an allusion, to it in the morning and eve-
ming, ,papers here, the plan has been gen.
erally discussed to-day. All the carpet
baggers like it, and it has the favor of all
those who want the Southern question
unsettief AID who are at their wits ends
to devise some way to defeat, or ut least 20
delay, the Presidents purpose to settle it.
Mr.. kellogg, in conversation on the sub
iect to-nipht, said he had heard Of the
. :pfoposition; and if. Governor Packard
We're allowed TO manage the details it
would be acceptable to the republican
party in Louisiana so far as is known.
On the other hand, all who sincerely de-
sire The settlement of the Southern qnes
ton oppose it. as ssasdeYice eminently cal
culated to defeat settlement and to keep
tie people of the two States and Of the
whole ,cohntry in hot water. ~.
A prominsnt republican Senator said
about it this evening that it was a plan
entirely without, merit, without the least
color .of. law, and which could not be
carried out without direct violation of
the laws and constitutions of the two
States. Congress, he held, even if it were
in session, would have no authority to
command new election in State. The
laws ofthe two States, do not authorize q
new election. There is no lawful way of
doing it, and if it were done the result
would not be entitled to any ones re-
spect, and would settle nothing. He
added that no bargains, arrangements or
Investigations were necessary TO settle
the questions which disturb Louisiana
and South Carolina. The President can
settle it at once, be said; by ordering tie
Troops not to interfere. in the local gov
ernments. He does not need to. do any
thing, but only, to stop. doing-that is
all. He is now doing something-name-
iy..interfering with the process of local
seIf-goverEment in those States. He has
only to stop doing and the Southern
question disappears at once. .4o
Judge Mackey says this evening, con-
cetning the Patterson plan. for new
election, that he is authorized to speak
for Governor Hampton, and to say that
he wonld utterly refuse to agree to new
election, as not only was he elected, but
his title has been. affirmed by the courts.
MoreofaS Ho1person could take. title
under such new election, because the
State constitution provides for special
election only in one contingency, and
that iss IN case of a contest before the
Legislature, when the two houses fail to
come to the same decision. The State
constitution having been ratified by Con-
gress Under the reconstruction acts, itshas
all the. force of an act. Of Congress, and
no act of the Executive or of private
parties could make special election le-
gal or of binding force on the citizens
unless held in conformity with the con.
stitution. . The very first act performed
tbysuch .anfimpzovised Governor would
be.called in question in the courts and
would result in oyerthrowing his title.
The planters and people all over the
State are now engaged in putting IN
their crops. Anew election in April or
MAY would disorganize the labor and
sacrifice the entire crop. For eight
months the people have been subjected
tothe greatest strain. Business all over
the State has been utterly paralyzed, and
industry greatly disorganized. To con.
tinue and increase all the evils from
which the State has so long suffered by
ordering new, election would be- to put
almost cruefloss On the people of the
State of both colors, and no one to whom
the best interests of the State are dear,
would even think of so disastrous a
scheme. He adds that the persons who
suggest this scheme of q new election
have no interest personal or OF property
in the State. He desires, however, to
correct a statement,he made some time
ago that Senator Patterson had no prop
erty, interests in the State of South Caro-
lima. ,as he has since ascertained that he
owns a small dnnghill fowl, which he has
left charge Of Mr.. Baldwin, q worthy
citizen Of Columbia.
Senator Patterson says this evening
his scheme Of new election has the zeal.
Gus support of Mr.. Blaine and of several
othe. republican Senators. Rumors are
also carefully spread about that the
President fayors it and even that he is
the inventor of it, and some false reports
to this effect have gone from here to the
press. Mr.. Patterson's modesty leading
him to conceal his own merits as the real
inventor.
The President has patiently listened to
allithe plans which have been submitted
to him by men of all shades of politics,
and he has committed himself to none.
The carpet baggers have filled the town
and Senate with stories that the Presi-