The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
THIN PB0PLE TRIUMPHANT.
The State Restored and Troops With
draWn-Chamberlain's Address Severe
on Hayes He SurTenders to Hampton.

draWn-Chamberlain's Address Severe
on Hayes He Surrenders to Hampton.
Troops Withdrawn.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April 10.
/ The United States troops we're formed
in line and moved out ofthe State House
at noon to-day.
Chamberlaln's Address.
Chamberlain has justiss the follow
ing address in retiring from the contest
for governorshiP:
10 the Republicans of South Carolina:
BY your choice was made Governor
of this State in 1874 AT the election on
the 9TH of November last was again by
your votes elected to the same Office My
title to the Office upon every legal and
moral ground is to-day as clear and per-
feet. BY the recent decision and action
of the "Presdent" of the United States /
find myself unable longer to maintain my
! official rights with the prospect Of final
success, and l hereby announce to you
that am unwilling to prolong struggle
which can only bring further suffering
upon those who engage in it.
Announcing this conclusion, it is my
duty to say for you that the Republicans
of South Carolina entered upon their re-
cent political struggle for the mainten-
ance of their political and civil rights,
constituting beyond question large ma
iority of the lawful votes of the state.
You allied yourselves with that political
party whose central and inspiring princi-
pie has hitherto been the civil aud politi-
cal freedom Of all men under the Consti-
tuition and laws of our country.
By the heroic efforts and sacrifices
which a Just verdict of history will relieve
from the cowardly scorn now cast upon
them by political place-men ana traders,
you secured the electoral vote of South
Carolina for Hayes and Wheeler. In &C.
compishing this result you became the
victims of every form of persecution and
injury. From authentic evidence it is
shown that no less than one hundred of
your own number were murdered because
they were faithful to their principles and
exercised the rights sOlemnly guaranteed
to them by the nation.
You were denied employment, driven
from your homes, robbed of the earnings
of wears of honest industry, hunted for
your lives like wild beasts, your families
outraged and scattered for no offense ex-
cept your peaceful and firm determine
ton 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 government of the Uni
ted States in the discharge of its constitu.
tional duty would protect the lawful gov
ernment of the state from the overthrow |
at the hands of your political enemies
from causes patent to all men and ques.
toned by none who regard the truth.
You have been unable to overthrow |
the unlawful combinations and obstacles
which have opposed the practical suple-
macy of the government which your
votes have established. For many weary
months you have waited for your deliv
ance. While the long struggle for the
presidency was in progress you were ex'
horted by every representative and organ
of the national Republican party to keep
your allegiance true to that party in Or
der that your deliverance from the hands
of your oppressors might be certain and
complete. Not the faintest whisper of
the possibility Of disappointment in these
hopes and promises ever reached you
while the struggle was pending.
To-day, April 10th, 1877, by the order
of the president" whom yonr votes
alone rescued from overwhelming defeat,
the government of the United States
abandons you deliberately, withdraws
from you its support, with the full knowl-
edge that the lawful government of the
state will be speedily overthrown by a
new Interpretation of the constitution OF
the United States, at variance alike with
previous practices of the government and
with the decision of the Supreme Court.
The Executive" of the United States
evades the duty Of ascertaining which of
the two rival state governments is the
lawful one, and by withdrawal of the
troops now protecting the state from do
mestic violence abandons the lawful state
government to struggle with an lnsur-
rectionary force too powerful to be resist
ed. The grounds of policy upon which
the action is defended are startling
1t is said that the North is weary oFthe
long Southern troubles. 1t was weary,
too, of the long troubles which sprung
from the stupendous crime of chattel
slavery, and longed for repose. It sought
to cover them from sight by wicked com.
promises with the wrong which disturbed
its peace, but God held it to its duty until
through conflict which rocked and ago.
nized the nation the great crime vas put
away and freedom was ordained for all.
Its said that if the majority ofthe peo-
ple of the state are unable by physical
force to maintain their rights they must
be left to political servitude. Is this a
doctrine ever before heard in our history |
Ifit shall prevail its consequence will not
long be confined to South Carolina or
Louisiana.
1t is said Democratic House OF Repre-
will refuse an appropri alton
for the army of the United States If the
awful government of South Carolina is
by military forces. The sub
mission TO such coercion markD the de-
yeneracy of the political party pr people
which enduresit; government worthy
If the name of a political party, ht to
WELD power, never before blsnched at
such threat.
But the edict has gone forth; no argu-
nents or considerations which your
iriends could present have Suficed TO