Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-11


ty whose control and inspiring princi'
pie has hitherto been the civil and po-
litical freedom of all men under the
| Constitution and laws of our country,
BY heroic efforts and sacrifices, which
the just verdict of history will rescue
from the cowardly scorn now casl
upon them by political placement and
traders, you secured the electoral vote
Of South Carolina for Hayes and
Wheeler. In accomplishing this result
you became the victims of every form
Of persecution and injury. From au-
thentic evidence it is shown hat no
less than 500 of your number were
murdered because faithful to their
principles i'm exercising the rights
guaranteed them by the nation; de-
MED employment; driven from your
homes; robbed of the earnings OF
years of honest industry; hunted for
your lives like wild beasts; families
outraged and scattered for no offense
but a peaceful, firm determination to
exercise your political rights. You
trusted, as you bad a right to trust,
that if by those 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 government of this State
from overthrow by political enemies.
From causes patent to all, and ques-
toned by non who regard the truth,
you have been unable to over
come the unlawful combinations
and distractions which opposed
the practical supremacy of the govern
;nent which your votes established.
For many weary months you have
waited for your deliverence. While
the long struggle for the presidency
was in progress you were exhorted
by every representative and organ OF
the national Republican party to keep
your allegiance true to that party in
order that your deliverence from the
hands of your oppressors might be
certain and complete. Not the faintest
whisper Of the possibility of disap.
pointment in these hopes and prom
ices ever reached you while the strug-
gle was pending. To-day, April 10th
by order of the President, whom your
votes alone rescued from Overwhelm-
ing defeat, the Government Of the
United States absndons you, deliber-
ately withdraws from you its support,
with the full knowledge that the law
full government of the State will be
overthrown. BY a new Interpretation
of the Constitution of the United
States, at varience alike with the pre-
vious practice of the Government and
with the decisions of the Supreme
Court, the Executive of the United
States evades the duty of ascertaining
which of the two rival governments is
the lawful one, and by the withdrawal
of the troops now protecting the State
from domestic violence adandons the
lawful State government to struggle
with an discretionary force too pow
erful to be resisted. The grounds of
the policy upon which such action is
depended are startling. 1t is said that
the North Is weary of the long South
cru troubles. 1t was weary too of the
%stupendous crime of slavery and
longed for repose. 1t sought to cover
them from sight by wicked compro-
misses with wrong which disturbed
it's peace, but God held it to its duty
until through the conflict which racked
and agonized the nation the great
crime vas put away and freedom or
dained for all. 1t is said that if a ma
jority of the people of a State are uu-
able physically to maintain their rights
they must be left to political servitude.
Is this a doctrine ever before heard in
our history? If il must prevail the
consequences will not long be confined
to South Carolina or Louisiana. By
the action of the President no Court of
the State has Jurisdiction to pass upon
the title to my office, and no lawful
Legislature can be convened except
upon my call. II the use of these
lowers promised ultimate success to
our cause, / should not shrink from
any sacrifice which might confront me.
1t is a cause which by the light of
reason and conscience a man might
we'll lay down his life for, but TO my
mind my present responsibility in
wolves the consideration OF the effect
my action might have OH those whose
representative l am. 1 have hitherto
been willing to ask you, Republicans
of South Carolina, to risk all dangers
and endure all hardships until relief
come from the Government of the
United States. That relief will never
come, and l can not ask you to follow
me further. In my judgment l can
not longer serve you by further re-
sistance to the impending calamity.
With gratitude to God for the measure
of Endurance with which he has hith-
erto inspired me; with gratitude to you
for your boundless condolences; with
profound admiration for your match
less fidelity to the cause in which we
have struggled, / now announce to you
and to the people of the State that
shall no longer actively assert my
right to the office of Governor of South
Carolina. The motives and pu. pose OF
the President of the United States in
the policy which compels me to pur-
sue my present course, are unques-
tionably honorable and patriotic. ]
devoutly pray that events may vindi-
cate the wisdom of his action, and that
peace. justice, freedom and prosperity
may hereafter be the portion of every
citizen of South Carolina.
lSiHned]:
ID. H.. CHAMBERLAIN,
Governor of South Carolina.
Correspondence Between Hampton
and Chamberlain.
COLUMBIA, s. c., April 10.