Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19

of sleep, told how certain man, being sheik,
found himself, for his pride, made poor fish.
erman; that he lived as one for six years bring
ing up family and working hard, and how,
upon waking up from his long dream, so short
time had he been asleep, that the narrow
necked gourd bottle, filled with water, which
he knew he overturned as he fell asleep, had
not time to empty ITSELF How fast the soul
travels when the body is asleep! Often, when
we awake, we shrink from going back into the
dull routine of sordid existence, regrettiDg
the pleasanter life of dreamland. How is it
that sometimes when We 60 to strange place
we fancy that We have seen it before3 Is it
possible that when one has been asleep the
soul has foated away, seen the place and has
the memory of it which 90 surprises US? In
word, how far dual is the life of man, how
far not?
CHAMBERLAIN'S ADDRESS.
The following is the full text of Chamber
lain's address on relinquishing the contest for
the Governorship
To the Republicans Of South Carolina:
By your will l was made Governor of this
State in 1874. At the election on the 7th of
November last, I was again, by your votes,
elected to the same Office. My title to the
Office, upon every legal and moral ground, is
today clear and perfect. By the recent de-
cision and action of the President of the
United States, find myself unable longer 70
maintain my official rights with the prospect
of final success, and hereby announce to you
that 1 am unwilling to prolong q struggle
which can only bring further suffering upon
those who engage in it. I
In announcing this conclusion. it is my duty
to say for you that the Republicans of South
Carolina entered upon their recent political
struggle for the maintenance Of their political
and civil rights. Constituting, beyond ques-
ton, large majority of the lawful voters of
the State, you allied yourselves with that po--
litical party whose central and inspiring prin.
ciple has hitherto been the civil and political
freedom of all men under the constitution and
laws of our country. BY heroic efforts and
sacrifices which the just verdict Of history will
rescue from the cowardly scorn now cast
upon them by political placemeu and traders,
YOU secured the electoral vote of South Caro-
lima for Hayes and Wheeler. In accomplish
ing this result you became the victims of every
form of persecution and injury. F rom au-
thentic evidence, it is shown that not less than
one hundred of your number were murdered
because they were faithful to their principles
and exercised rights solemnly guaranteed to
them by the nation. You we're denied en-
ployment, driven from your homes, robbed of
the earnings of years of honest industry, hun
ted for your lives like wild beasts your fam
lilies outraged and scattered, for no o6euse
except your peaceful and firm determination
to exercise your political rights. You trusted,
as you had right to trust, that if by such
efforts you established the lawful supremacy
of your political party in the nation, the gov
ernnent of the United States, in the discharge
of its constitutional duty, would protect the
lawful government of the State from over
throw at the hands of your political enemies.
From causes, patent to all men and questioned
by none who regard truth, you have been
unable to overcome the unlawful combinations
and obstacles which have opposed the prac-
tical supremacy of the government which your
votes have established. For many weary
months you have waited for your deliverance
While the long struggle for the Presidency
was in progress, you we're exhorted by every
representative and organ of the national Re-
publican party to keep your allegiance true
to that party in order that your delverance
from the hands of your oppressors might be
certain and complete. Not the faintest whis-
per of the possibility of disappointment in
these hopes aud promises ever reached you
while the struggle was pending. To-day,
April 10, 1877, by the order of the President
whom your votes alone rescued from over
whelming defeat, the government of the Uni
ted States abandons you; deliberately with.
draws from you its support, with the full
knowledge that the lawful government of the
State will be speedily overthrown.
By new Interpretation Of the constitution
of the United States, at variance alike with
the previous practice of the government and
the decision of the Supreme Court, the Execu.
tive of the United States evades the duty of
ascertaining which of two rival State govern
mepts is the lawful one, and by the withdraw
al of troops now protecting the State from do
mestic violence, abandons the lawful State gov
ernment to struggle with insurrectionary
forces too powerful to be resisted. The grounds
of policy upon which such action is defended
are startling.
tits said that the North is weary of the long
Southern troubles. 1t was weary, too, of the
long troubles which sprung from the stupen
dous crime of chattel slavery and longed for
repose 1t sought to cover them from sight
by wicked compromises with the wrong which
disturbed its peace; but God held it to its, du-
ty until, throug gh conflict which rocked and
agonized the nation, the great crime was put
away and freedom was ordained for all.
1t is said that if majority of the people of
State are unable by physical force to main.
tain their rights, they must be left to political
servitude. Is this doctrine ever before heard
in our history? Ifit shall prevail, its conse-
quences will not long be confined to South
Carolina or Louisiana.
1t is said that Democratic House of Rep
resentatives will refuse an appropriation for
the army of the United States if the lawful
government of South Carolina is maintained
By the military forces. Submission to such
coercion mark the degeneraey of the political
party or people which endures it. "A go2ern-
ment worthy the name, a political party 6tt
WELD power, never before blancheds at such
threat.
But the edict has gone forth. No argu-
ments or consideration which your friends
could present have suficed to avert the dig
aster. No effective means of resistance to tie
consummation of the wrong are left. The
struggle can be prolonged. My strict legal
rights are of course wholly unaffected by the
action of the President. No court of the STATE
has Jurisdiction to pass upon the title to my
Office. No lawful Legislature can be convened