The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-05-03

"oulu HoC accept nomination Tor
reelection by the corrupt wing of
the Radical party. But as soon as
the Democratic party had made their
nomination for Governor, you said to
Judge Cook, as he testified before
the Congressional Committee, that
you would see to it that Corbin's
diabolical scheme Of having thirty
Or forty negroes killed to stop the
enthusiasm in favor Of Hampton
should be carried out! Such an ex-
preston of fendish treachery would
have done credit to the darkest days
of the Spanish inquisition, or the
hlUodiest leaders of Saint Barthole-
news massacre! You then appealed
to the corrupt leaders of your party,
whom you had so scornfully de-
nounced for their support, and was
renominated by theml
You commence your address by
the utterance of truth, a disgrace-
tul truth to the people of South Carr
olina, and the only truth which it
contains. You were "by the will OF
the Republican party made Governor
of the State in 1874" The next sen
tence, that you were elected to the
same Office again last fall, is mes:
notorious talsehood, known TO be such
by every one, 80 declared by the Su-
preme Court of the State and every
Circuit Judge on the bench. The
President of the United States and
his entire Cabinet have tacitly ad
mite | it to be false, and the whole
pless and American people believe it
to be false. The votes returned by
the managers Of election, after all
the frauds and repeating of yonr vo-
ters, show that Governor Hampton
was ell cted by maj ority OF ten to
twelve hundred votes, ten or fifteen
thousand of the most respectable OF
your own party voting for him. And
yet you have the audacity to say, in
the face of all these facts, that you
were reelected, and when driven
from the office by the scorn and con-.
tempt Of the people and the decree
of the courts, you still sign your
name, I'D. Fl. Chamberlain, Govern.
or of South Carolina"
In the language of the arraign-
ment OF a murderer and traitor, none
but one "devoid Of all social duty,
and with heart fatally bent on mis-,
chief," could have uttered such afro.
cious falsehoods as you have dono in
the following sentences: "From au-
thentic evidence it is shown that not
less than one hundred of your mum
Der were murdered because they
we're faithful to their principles, and
exercised rights solemnly granted to
them by the nationl You were driv.
on from your homes, denied employ
ment, robbed of the earnings Of your
honest industry, hunted for yonr lives
like wild beaste, your families out
ragged and scattered for no ofense,
except your peaceful and firm deter.
mination to exercise your political
rights"
These monetrous falsehoods you
have published in the face of the
concurrent testimony OF the military
authorities of the United States iD
South Carolina and all honest, truth
ful men of both parties that the cleo
ton was orderly, quiet and peaceful.
There was no violence or outbreak at
any poll in the State; nor was thcro
the slightest disturbance after the
election. 1t is true that, in pursu-
ance Of your wicked and damnable
designs disclosed to Judge Cooke,
there were rivts and bloodshed before
the election at Hamburg, Aiken,
Combahee, Charleston and Cainhoy,
in which your own partidans were
the aggressors in every instance. In
stead Vt attempting to suppress these