The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-19
OPrICE OF STATE TREAsupER.


Hon. Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. c.:
SIR-I received, on Saturday evening,
tho 14th instant, n letter subscribed BY
Wade II. Manning, Private Secretary, in
which am Informed that the writer is
directed by you to say, in substance, that
you do not desire to PREJUDICE my claim
to my present Office; tnat Son have indi-
Gated heretofore your opinion of the fu-
tility of my assertion of my official rights !;
and that it would disembarrass the opeJ u
tion of the Executive Department coufi-
ded to my care if l were to retire at once.
I am further informed by the came COM
munication that in the event of my re-
fusing to take tho course above requested,
yUu see nothing in my present position
emitting me to the use Of the rooms and
custody of the records of my office; and
that you cannot consen. to my remaining
i'll my Office; and, finally, that your re-
sponsibility will require you "to prevent
such an obstruction 10 the conduct of tho
government"
I received the foregoing communica-
tion Immediately after an interview held
by me with you in the Executive Cham
bar, in which you voluntarily stated to
me that you would leave the question of
my official rights entirely to the courts,
and that could either occupy my office
or seal it up to remain undisturbed until
decision of the court should be reached.
You can, therefore, judge of my sur
prise, not to speak of other feelings, pro-
duced by the letter Of your private secre.
tary. This feeling is increased when I
call to mind the language used by you
on so many occasions, and notably in n
communication addressed to the Presi-
dent of the United States, US follows: "I
repeat, therefore, that if tho Federal
troops arc Withdrawn from the State
House, there shall be on my part, or that
of my friends, no resort to violence to
assert our claims, but that We shall look
for their maintenance solely to such
peaceful remedies as the constitution and
laws Of the State provide: shall use all
my authority to repress the use or exhi-
bition of force in the settlement of all
disputed questions, and this authority
shall be exercised in such manner that
the peace shall be preserved"
In the face of these pledges, you now
call upon me to relinanish my office and
you inform me of your purpose 20 pre-
vent me from continuing to hold it, 1t
is my duty to remind you that was de-
| clered elected to my present Office by the
Board OF State Canvassers as the result
of tho canvass of the face of ell the re-
turns of the recent election, no returns
being rejected or disallowed in whcle cr
in part. was, thereupon, commissioned
by Governor Chamberlain st q time
when his authority rs Governor was un-
disputed. I Immediately qualified by
taking the oath of Office and filing my
official bond, and I have since been and
! AM bow in the discharge of the duties oi
| nv nfiir-
! ..t 49, duty further to remind You
that under proceedings in quo spGrrdnto
instituted by those who were candidates
upon tho ticket with you, now pending
In the Supreme Court, the exact question
which you now declare yeur purpose t6
! aecide adversely to me, is put in issue