The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-11

To Hon. WADE HAMPTON.


Columbia, April 10.-The U. S.
troops were formed in line and moved
out of the state house at noon to-day.
Chamberlain has just issued the fol.
lowing address, retiring from the con-
test for the governorship:
TO the Republicans of South Carolina.
BY your choice was made governor
of this state in 1874. In the election
Of last November was again, by your
votes elected to the same office. Ny
title to Office upon every legal and moral
ground is to-day as clear and perfect.
BY the recent decision and action of the
President of the United States / find
myself unable longer to maintain my
official rights with prospect of final
success, and hereby announce to you
that am unwilling to prolong a strug-
gle which can only bring further suf-
fering upon those who engage in it.
In announcing this conclusion, it is
my duty to say for you that the Repub-
licans of South Carolina entered upon
their political struggle for the mainte-
nance of their political and civil rights,
constituting beyond question a large
majority of the lawful votes of the
state. You allied yourself with that
political party whose central and in
spring principle has hitherto been the
civil and political freedom of all men
under the constitution and laws of our
country, by the heroic efforts and sacri-
fees which the Just verdict of history
will rescue from the cowardly scorn
now cast upon them by political place
men and traders.
You secured the electoral vote of
South Carolina for Hayes and Wheeler.
Ipgaccomplishing this result you became
the victims of every form of persecu-
ton and injury. From authentic evil
dence it is shown that no less than
eight hundred of your number were muir
dered because they were faithful to their
principles and exercised the rights
solemnly guaranteed to them by the ma
ton. You were denied employment,
driven from your homes, robbed of the
earnings of years of honest industry.
For many months you have waited for
your deliverance; while the long strug-
gle for the presidency was in progress
you were exhorted by every representa-
tive and organ of the national Republi-
can party to keep your allegiance true
to that party in order that your delive-
rance from the hands of your oppres-
sors might be certain and complete.
Not the faintest whisper of the posi-.
bility of disappointment in these hopes
and promises reached. you while the
struggle was pending. To-day, April
10th, by order of the President, whom
your votes alone rescued from over.
whelming defeat, the governments of the
United State abandons you and de-
liberately withdraws from you its sup
port, with the full knowledge that the
lawful government of the state will be
speedily overthrown.
By new Interpretation of the Con.
stitution of the United States, at vari.
ance alike with the previous practices
Of the government and with the de-
cision of the Supreme court, the Execu-
tive of the United States evades the
duty of ascertaining which of the two
rival state governments is the lawful
one, and by the withdrawal Of the
troops now protecting the state from
domestic violence, abandons the lawful
state government to struggle with in
surrectionary force too powerful to bt
resisted. The grounds of the policy
upon which such action, is dependent
are startling. 1t is said that the NORTH
is weary of the long Southern troubles
1t was weary too Of the long troubles
which sprang from stupendous slavery
and longed for repose; it sought to cover
them from sight by wicked compro
misses with the wrong which disturbed
its peace; but God held it to its duty
till, through the conflict which rocked
and agonized the nation, the great
crime was put away and freedom wa.
ordained for all. 1t is said that if ,
majority Of the people of a state are un
able by physical force to maintain thei,
rights they must be left to political ser