The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-18

| lmmeQlaLely upon tne uutieo Va VIC onooJ
while Ostendorf resorts to an appeal to
the Supreme Court. Should the Supreme
Court sustain the decision of the Court
| below, Mr.. Whitman holds over until
another regular election be held or an
extra election be ordered. But If the
Supreme Court should reverse the decis-
ion of Judge Reed, then Ostendorf will
enter upon the duties of the Office, and
will be entitled to all the fees, &C., which
have accrued during Mr.. Williman's oc-
cupancy of the Office.
Sonth Cardinals Senator, Gen. n. C.
Butler.
No one supposes that the Democratic
Legislature of South Carolina either
would or could please the Northern
Radicals in their choice Of United
States Senator. The vials of their wrath
were all ready to be poured out upon the
devoted head Of any gentleman, thus
honored by the legal Legislature of the
Palmetto State. It is not to be wondered
at, therefore, that all the barrel organs of
the Grant dynasty are abusing, to the
best of their ability, the distinguishes !
soldier and statesman who will alone rep
resent South Carolina in the United
States Senate .ft.. the fourth of March
next In this section Gen. Butler is
known to us all as one of the most moder-
ate and conservative men in South Caro-
lima, and knowing this fact, it is not nec-
essary for US to enlarge upon it. But we
take pleasure in reproducing from the
Philadelphia Times, journal thoroughly
independent in politics, the following ar
ticle. In speaking Of General Buffers
career and antecedents, it says:
"And what are the facts? Mr.. Butler
is highly cultured South Carolinian,
who has ever been conspicuous for bis
conservative counsels and actions. He
served under Hampton during the rebel
lion, lost leg at Brandy Station, rose to
the rank of Major-General in the insur-
gent army by his merits as soldier, and,
like a.l brave men on both sides, when
The war ended he bowed to the arbitra-
rneut of the sword, and has ever been in
accord with Hampton in teaching, alike
by 'precept and example, submission to
the government in the generous spirit
that Is due from faithful citizenship. He
was at Hamburg on professional business
on the day. of the horrible butchery, and;
as the preliminary hearing proved, had
no part in. the bloody affair, except to
make exhaustive efforts to maintain the
peace. But his prominence as citizen
made him an inviting target for those
who sought to turn cowardly murder to
political advantage, instead of judicially
ascertaining the truth and Furnishing the
guilty, and his name has been insepara-
bly interviewer with that revolving TRACE
dy. Gov. Chamberlain was then the un-
disputed Governor of South Carolina,
with the regular troops practically at his
command, with his State militia armed
and absolutely under his orders, with Re-
publican judges in every judicial district,
and with Republican machinery for the
selection of jurors. He had but to CON-
mand the law, whose agencies were al
in political accord with himself, to en-
force swift Judgment against the murder
ers. for atrocious murderers there were at
Hamburg beyond question. But that
did not suit the purpose of the man who
was charged with the preservation of the
peace of the State and the enforcement
Of the laws. Instead of summoning the
tlaw to assert its majesty, he rushed away
to Washington and called for more
troops" with dramatic flourish to fire the
| Northern heart. In public letter he
associated the name of Mr.. Butler with
the massacre, to which the accused pub
licly answered that he was innocent, that
be was voluntarily in the hands of the
law, and that he challenged prompt and
searching judicial investigation of the
murderous affair, so that the innocent
should be acquitted aud the guilty pun
ished. Nor did Mr.. Butler, like Cover.
nor Chamberlain, stop with newspaper
proclamation. At the earliest moment
he appeared before a Republican judge
and asked-not for his discharge, but for
| reference of the case to the proper tri-
bunal for the most exhaustive investiga-
ton. The Republican Judge held this
| "red.handed rufian," this "moving spirit
in the bloodiest deed recorded in our
modern history" to bail in the sum of
one thousand dollars for his appearance
at the court for trial. This was last mid
summer, and why has he not been tried :?
Why has the Republican Governor not
made his Republican judge. call in his
Republican jurors and try Mr. Butler for
the Hamburg massacre? Five blacks
were horribly butchered after they had
been captured and disarmed. There
must be clear case of most diabolical
| murder against some parties, aud if Mr..
Butler aided or abetted the murderers, he
is equally guilty with them alike in law
and morals, and why has he not been
tried? He has publicly challenged
Chamberlain to try him before all the
Chamberlain legal machinery, and be
! gave notice that he would then uud there
show who were the real authors of the
Hamburg tragedy that he hnd striven
most earnestly to prevent. 1t was this
notice that made Chamberlain retreat
from the trial of Butler. 1t was the fear
that Butler would prove that the Ham
burg massacre was c0ncocted and forced
to cons,mmation by political leaders
most trusted in the counsels OF Chamber
lain, and that it would be established
before Republican court aud Repub-
lican Jury that the Hamburg outbreak
was one of the deliberately planned fea-
lures Of the Chamberlain political CAIN
yaign to arouse the country, furnish an
excuse to place South Carolina under
martial law and thus insure new lease
of carpet-bag power in that State. From
August last until now Mr.. Butler has
defied Chamberlain in his own courts,
and as yet he is without any to accuse
him ut the bar of justice. Such is the
truth OF MIR. Buffers association with the
Hamburg burchery so far as the public
eau Judge frou, ali impartial hearing o.
both Sides"
So long as this distinguished Caroliniar
is thus 'nown to the enlightened pres:
and people OF the North, he can afford tt
D pass over iu silence the petty moutbinl
, Of those Radical papers whose politica
creed begins and ends with hatred to tn
South aud iAr people.