The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-03-30

spssk Carolins, thM many pssblS - bsGjxhiss
- believe th>t susl rseegsitisa h asosssasy 10
sssab,Ishsd Cor Hampioa,s . sssim 10 IN oass.
notwithstanding majority ofsths votes Of the
people elected him TO %. go -
No doubt the senihOldsss- aud .Republican
eshee-holders the country would BE- yisassd
IL they could make the people believe such rscog-
milton was not only necessary bqf bs&sacIsl 10
the country. II would bs n - 4Srds
| ths, establishment Of aTconsoHdsfJ Syts4kest
over the United States, and. for them, the pres
ent 10 the most propitions time. By the most
glaring high handed frauds they have wrested
the government from the people, and feel safe
in their controlling power for the next four years
solidate the whole machiner, Of government at
Washington, now, or during the administration
Of Hayes and the power Of the bondholders will
be irrevocably established.
II the people Of any State once submit to the
fatal dogma that Governor Of State must
be recognized as such ty the President Of the
United States, it will be but quick short step,
for the narplots of the party in power to take.
to convince the people that a Governors Com
mission must be "sgued, sealed and delivered"
at Washington, before he will be allowed to per-
form the duties Of his Office.
This delusion Of Presidential recognition
reaches even further back than that. 1t says to
| over voter when he goes to the polls "you may,
deposit your ballot for whom you please Ind elect
the man of your choice Governor, but unless
that choice shall be in accordance with the wish
es and interests of the party in power ut Wash
ington. he will not be recognized, and therefore,
will not be your Governor"
Hayes has no more to do with recognizing
Hampton as Governor of South Carolina than tho
Queen of England. A majority of the people
Of this State elected him, and they arc the only
parties to whom he has any right to look for
recognition. lie knows and appreciates that as
we'll any man can, and it remains for the pco-
| pie to ratify their votes at tho ballot box, by
clinging to him, with all the ardor of true citi-
zens and al! the means at their command, until
his enemies and the enemies Of good government
shall be compelled to remove all obstacles to the
full exercise of his authority.
Such, in our opinion, must be the result. The
vacillnting policy of Hayes nm his advisers may
protrnct the day, but the delay is becoming irk-
some to the whole country and the Injustice will
not be submitted to much longer.
The delay in removing the troops from the
State House land that is all that is necessary to
be done) is, no doubt in the hope hat some COM
promise may be affected by which Chamberlain
or some Of his followers may secure some prom
inent position, either in tho State government
or in the U. $. Senate.
In every political compromise heretofore the
democrats of the South have lost every inch os
ground they had gained. 1t is not the policy
Of the Republicans to entertain compromise
until they find they have all to gain and nothing
to lose by it. The Louisiana compromise. four
years ago, gave the Republicans the fraudulent
Returning Board that manipulated the vote of
that State for Hayes. in defiance of 900 majori-
ty against him. The compromises made in this
State for ten years came very near annihila;ing
the democratic party and now that we have fair
ly and honorably elected an honest and acceptable e
State Government, it will not do to give ono iota
of what we have gained.
| 1t is very clear that majority of the voters
elected Hampton Governor of South Carolina :
and it is equally clear that n Majority of tho
ted States. The people of South Carolina rccoc-
nizc liampton rs their Governor, and they will
have no other. Mr. Hayes is not so sure in his
| position, and before he assumes the prerocative
of recognizing Hampton, he should ask himself
whether the people Of the United States tru-
ly acknowledge him as their legally elected Pres
| idcnt.
Had Tldcn been supported, after his election,
with the same devotion and unanimity, by the
Northern Democracy, rs Hampton is by the peo-
pie of South Carolina Hayes would not now be
assuming the functions of the Presidential office
One disgraces the whole country by accepting
i.s highest once through perjury and fraud the
other is an honored representative of devoted
majority Of n sovereign State.
The people must set their faces as flints against
any compromise whatever Hampton is opposed
to it, and we must stregthcn his hands by uni
ted determination to stand by him at every haz
ard We must determine to pay no taxes to any
but the Hampton government, to recognize nc
| appointces bat those holding Commissions from
Hampton, and in every other way possible the
people must recognize government of this
State but that of which Hampton is the head
And this determination must be so united, so
firm and so unmstakeable that neither Hayes
nor Chamberlain shall be encouraged to hope
that any compromise will be submitted to. Let
the people stand firm let all the people stand
| firm.
G1y" We give this week a letter from Hayes
to Gov. Hampton and d. II. Chamberlain, ask
ing the two latter to meet the former In Wash
ington either in person, or by n confidential