The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-12

who have ever sympathized with tn
principles of tho Republican party tha
such pol:rj deserves, upon all iega
and constitutional grounds, the condem
nation whiCn have pronounced Upon it
"But when we look further and inquire
what other defenscs Of this policy arc Of
fercd, we are Lost In MAKE of eubterfliges
contradictions, falschOods, fallaclcs ant
inanities. Conspicuous in this list is ths
claim made by the President himself and
echoed by his defenders, that this presi
dental policy is in accord with the plat
form Of the Republican party, with the
Presidents letter of acceptance, and with
his known views at the time o. his fOmi.
nation and during the canvass. | cal
this the chief OF subterfugcs, if not OF
falsehoods. / confess | cannot under
stand or measure the a2dacity which
prompts such claim. When. where, by
whom, before the nomination, or after 1t
during the canvass or during the long
agony of suspense which succeeded the
canvass, will you find from President
Hayes OF any representative of him or oi
the Republican party, high or low, hint
Of such q policy? 1t cannot be found
Never till the country heard with amaze.
mcnt the first whisperings of the mrchin
ations of Stanley Matthews aud the Ohio
clique who stood nearest the President, .
the 5asest passage have ever read in
our political history,-did any portion Of
the public or Of the Republican party
imagine that the President would enter
upon such a policy or course of action
II is impossible to ovcrstate this general
fact. Especially is it impossible to over
state the deliberate, lOng-cOntinucd, I'm.
rcmittcd efforts, made at every stage OF
the struggle from November to March
i, to inspire tNc Southern Republicans
with fidelity to the Republican cause.
If doubts arose, with electric speed came
new assurances that Hayes, if elected,
culd vindicatc the rights of those who
were fighting his battles at the South. Is
TIC despicablc suggestion here made that
President Hayes knew nothing of all this
Sir, it is incredible. He did know it ;
and he stood by, willing to see men risk
lug, by day and by night, for mouths
which seemed longer than years, their
lives; ay, losing their lives by hundreds,
10 lift him to the Presidency, upon lying
assurances, if what he now says be true,
that he would protect aud rescue them
by the great powers of the Office he should
receive. Every man who stood near to
the President, every man whom the pub
lie had right to regard as his faithful
representative, Joined in these assurances
assurances which carried no doubtful
meaning-assurancc which meant to the
beleaguorcd and fainting soldiers ON those
outposts of freedom, that succor and help
would come if only they defended to the
last tho ground which they had won.
Sir, when think of these things, my
heart grows hot with indignation, and a
curse comes unbidden to my lips, for the
men who thus played with the blood of
brave men and women as the gambler
plays with his dice. Such treachcry
passes my comprehension. l should ex-
pect that those who engaged in it would
hear echoes like those which greeted the
ears of the terrified Alonzo when all ma
ture seemed breaking into voice to herald
his crime:
o, II Is monstrons monstrous!
Tho winds did siLg Il to t me !; aud the thunder
The name Of Prosper II did bass ASS my n trespass.
"No, fellow-citizens, know not how
long his policy may have been meditated
in the secrecy of the Presidents own
raind. do know that lie did not hint
it, he would not have dared to hint it to
tha country, at any hour from the time
he was & nascent candidate for his nomi-
nation till he sat in the seat of the Presi-
dent"
Gov. Chamberlain next took up the
claim that the President is only carrying
out the Republican platform, which pro-
claims the permanent pacification of the
South to be great duty of the party, ex-
plains that he wrote that section himself,
declares that everybody knows that "the
unanimous voice of the convention Was
for the Immediate and vigorous exercise
of all the powers of the government in
repressing violence and protecting the
rights of every man at the South" and
ipdulgcs in this rcminiscence in proof:
''Ihe committee On resolutions at Cincin-
natl, composed Of one member from each
State, met for conference and discussion.
After remaining in session till late nour,
it was determined to appoint small SUBJ
committee, to whom should be intrusted
the work of preparing platform to be
submitted to the whole committee on the
following morning. had the honor to
be named Upon the subcommittee, and /
we'll remember that the venerable Col.
Richard w. Thompson of Indiana, now
the secretary of the navy, just as the SUBJ
committee were Withdrawing to enter
upon their work, said: Gentlemen, I
have attended ten consecutive national
conventions, and must leave this work
to younger mon; but let me say cne word
10 you VINO are ON the subcommittee.
We must win in this fight. Deal eau
tions!y with -. currency question. Give
us something, if necessary, on civil SER
vice. Satisfy our Pacific friends, if you
can, on the Chinese question. But on
the Southern question let our Southern
friends turning toward me) haue anything
they scant. My people, and the people
of the West, want Southern Republicans,
white and black, protected, and they want
an end put finally to the violence and
lawlessness which exists at the South I"
Gov. Chamberlain equally denied that
the Presidents letter of acceptance fore
Swallowed his policy, and in proof ap-
pealed to every man who has any knowl-
edge of the spirit and tone &C The cam
Paign. II appeal to the Presidents own
sons, that it was the Southern Question
and the Republican doctrine of complete
protection to oil men at the South, which
was the foremost issue in lsie canvass, the
question upon which the party must rely
for success. And when the canvass was
ended, and defeat was believed 20 have
como to our party, the words of the Pres
ident, the only words of President Hayes
which ever really touched the heart OF
the country, were expressions of regret
that the result must be so disastrous to
the colored race at the South and to
Southern Republicans. l need not tell
you,. fellow. citizens, how deeply those
words touched the hearts of those of us