The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26

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distinguished consideration from burg
lar who had been captured in his house,
and who was now in the custody of the
police on his way to Jail. John was anx-
ious to make his peace with Hampton
complete, and it occurred to his feeble
mind that it would help him in Hamp-
toms estimation to denounce his late as
sociate, Chamberlain, which he forthwith
proceeded to do. The Star, that after
noon, speaking of it, remarked with a
grave humor peculiarly its own, that "the
Interview was very cordial on both sides,
and lasted as much as fifteen minutes"
According to the best information that
I can obtain, Johns "fealty to Hanap-
ton" lasted about twenty-four hours; but
as that is longer than he was ever before
known to mediate an honest association,
we should give him due credit for it:
But the next day he got among his old
associates-Kellogg, Bill Chandler, a
fellow named Painter, who is to journal
ism what John is to politics, and the
balance of that crew-and they told John
that he had acted the d-n fool.
John didn't know but he had. How
ever, it amounted to nothing, because he
had made no pledges that he could not
easily 60 back on.
Then these fellows told John that he
had been too fast; that the whole situa-
ton had changed that Chamberlain had
gone to New York to make arrangements
to raise funds for the purpose of resisting
Hampton to the bitter end, and that the
sympathies of the whole North would be
with Chamberlain
Thereupon, as soon as Chamberlain re-
turned from New York, John fastened
to assure him that he must take no notice
of what had passed between himself and
Hampton, and that he (John) had never
had the remotest idea of deserting him
chamberlain I presume Chamberlain
who at least knows what constitutes
manhood, and who, whatever he may be,
is not an idiot like John-received the
latter's "pledges of fealty" in much the
same spirit as Hampton had done few
days earlier.
In the meantime, however, the younger
Patterson, whose name is 'Si," and who
is currently supposed to be son of John,
had been going about among, the news,
paper correspondents, stating that he had
the original of an address to the people
of the United States, signed by Hampton,
Butler, Conner and one or two other con-
servatives, and by his father, John, G. G.
Bowen and others, on the part of the
"Republicans" of South Carolina. Isl"
came to me Saturday night and told me
he had man at work copying that letter
and would be able to furnish copies to
the various news bureaux the next day.
But it did not come to hand. 1 don't
know that there is any such letter in ex-
istence, or that there ever was one; for |
have nothing but 81 Patterson's word for it,
which is not generally considered legal
tender for fact. But if the letter ever
did exist, and if Hampton entrusted it
to young Patterson for publication, as
the latter told me, then it was suppressed
here at the instance of John, who, be-
tween the signing and the copying of it,
had effected one of his lightning changes
of political base. But, if it had been
published, John would not have been
embarrassed, because he could easily have
announced to-day that he was a liar yes
terday and had q new set Of views for
Tomorrow everybody would have
believed him, so far as yesterday was con-
cerned.
Thus, having suppress that letter.
supposing for the sake of argument that
81 Patterson's word for it indicated its
existence-John set out to aid the niger
Elliott in his scheme to raise funds to
enable the Republicans of South Caro-
lima" to "resist the taxpayers rebellion" :"
By the way, notice as you 60 along how
admirably that phase Of Elliott's chimes
in with the rest of the comedy-this
roaring farce entitled "The Carpet bag
gers Last Fraud, OF the Deliverance of
South Carolina"
The Bill Chandler and Painter afore-
said now put into Johns wooden head
the brilliant notion that it would be a
cute thing to 60 up to the White House
and solicit contribution to that fund Of
Elhott's from Hayes himself. So John
Immediately went out upon the street and
told everybody he met-or at least every
body who would permit him to speak to
them in public-how he intended to 60
up to the White House and bulldoze
Hayes.
Of course Hayes was apprised of it,
and so when John went up to the Execu-
tive Mansion the next day, the President
was Every busy" and declined to see
him. At last 12 o'clock came, and with
it the news that Chamberlain's proposed
resistance" had flashed in the pan and
that the Taxpayers rebellion" was q
success. John glanced hurriedly over
the afternoon paper which contained the
news, and then underwent another me-
tamorphosis.
"Chamberlain was a id sneak. His
courage had all oozed out of him as soon
as he got to Columbia. Hayes had sold
out the men who elected him and was a
Cd id And he
| (John) would live to dance on his Hayes
grave. He would vote to admit Butler
to the Senate. He would do all he could
to give the Senate to the Democrats
| except resign; lie WIS no' qulIe utau
enough for that. And so on for quantity
But the theme is tiresome. Ones sides
get sore between laughing at Johns buff
! foonery and cursing his baseness.
should suppose that Calhoun would turn
in his tomb and kick his coffin all to
pieces at the degradation of his success
sion. But John will soon vanish. Moth
ing is left of him but a bad smell now,
and the atmosphere will soon absorb
that 4. G. BUELL..
ANEcDorE OF Mr.. L1NcoLN.-A new
story of Mr.. Lincoln is related by cor
respondent of Haper's Magazine. This
gentleman called upon Mr.: Lincoln soon
after he was installed, and while await
ING the Presidents leisure in walked sew
eral officers of the Spanish navy to pay a
| r;e;t of oourtasv to the American ruler