Orangeburg news and times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-1877, 1877-07-21
Chamberlain on Hayes.

| specch n residential pollcy, II
the term is descriptive, is all anomaly
and offensc; itsavors os bad faith; it
has Il native and historical order of
trcacherY and intrigue. But fellow
citizens, what is the Presidents South
crn policy? In point of physical or
external fact, it consists i'll withdraw
ing the military forces of the United
States from the points in South Caro-
lima and Louisiana where they had
been stationed for the protection and
support Of the lawful governments of
those States. In point Of immediate,
torcsccn and intended consequence, it
consists in the overthrow and lie
struction Of those State governments
AMI the substitution in their stead of
certain other organic tons called
State governments. III npoint Of actual,
present results, it consists in the
abandonment of Southern Republic
cans, and especially the colorcd race,
to the control and rule not only Of
tic Democratic party, but of that
class at the South which regarded
slavery us Il divine institution, which
wagcd four years of destructive war
for its perpctIation, which steadily
opposed citizenship and suffrage for
the ncgro-in word, class whose
traditions, principles and history are
opposed to every step and feature of
what Rcpub!icans call our national
progress since 1866 In point Of gen
.cral political and moral insignifi-
cance, it consists in the proclamation
to the country and the world that the
will Of the majority Of the voters Of Il
5 ate lawfully and regularly express
cd is 10 longer the ruling power III
our States, and hat The constitutions
III guarantee to every State in this
ULion ola republican form ofgovcrn-
ment and ofpro!cction against domcs-
lIc violence is hcnccforlh Intellectual
aud worthless. / could frame IN ex
cusc for James Buchanan. He was
The dccaying fruit Of half !, century
OF Northern subscrvicncc to Southern
dlctatlon-thc poor dregs Of Il worn.
out politician, whose life had been
spent in covering submission 10 the
will of those whom he was now called
to confront; but what shall be slid of
this President, educated by the event,
OF the last seventeen years, the lon q
and pcrilous struggle to save the ma
lion to freedom and justice, the re-
preventative of II party whose life and
Inspiration in every hour Of its cx-
lstcnce has been political justice and
freedom for all American citizens a
President who had literally climbed
to his high seat over the dead bodies
OF hundreds Of loyal men in Louisi.
ana who had met death in forms fir
more trying than any battle field in
order that the liberty Of which they
Tad tasted might be kept for their
children? james Buchanan could
say he negotiated with those who
were i'll arms against the United
States i'll order that he might hy
peaceful agencies preserve the intep
rity Of the Union and avert fratri-
cilai war. This President enters up.
on his negotiations with those vii 0
";e i'll arms against the lawful govern
mcnt Of Louisiana, III order til az he
might the more surely betray the
friends who had trusted him aud the
cause he was sworn to uphold. N ow,
fcllow-citizens, exercise the right Of
an American citizen n-no morc-when
| say that n review Of this chapter Of
our history leaves me in no doubt
that the real purpose Of the Louisi-
ana commission and Of the whole
conduct Of the Louisiana case by the
President was to accomplish the over.
throw, Of Governor Packard and his
authority. Called upon under the
constitution and laws Of the country,
as its Chief Executive, to discharge a
grave public duty-a duty essential