The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-20
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Chamberlain has just issued the
following address, retiring from
the contest for the Governor
ship:
To the Republicans OF South Carolina:
BY your choice was N ade Gov
ernor of this State in 1874. At
the election on the 7th of No
yenber last / was again by your
votes elected to the same Office.
Ny title to the office, upon every
legal and moral ground, is to-day
clear and perfect. BY the re-
cent decision and action of the
President of the United States /
find myself unable longer to main
tain my official rights with a pros
pect of final success, and I hereby
annouce to you that 1 am nnwill-
ing to prolong a struggle which
can only bring futher suffering
upon those who engage in it.
In announcing this conclusion
it is my duty to say for you that
the Republicans of South Carolina
entered upon their recent politi.
cal struggle for the maintenance
of their political and civil rights
constituting beyond question a
largo majority of the lawful votes
of the State. You allied yourself
YES with that political party whose
central inspiring principle has
been the civil and political free
dom of all men under the consti-
tuition and laws of our country.
Bv heroic efforts and sacrifices,
which the just verdict of history
will rescue from the cowardly
scorn now cast upon them by pol
litical placemen and traders, you
secured the electoral vote of South
Carolina for Hayes and Wheeler.
In accomplishing this result you
became the victims of persecution
and injustice. From authentic
evidence it is shown that no less
than one hundred of your num-
Der 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
years of honest industry, hunted
for your lives like wild beasts,
your families outraged and scatter
ed for no offence except your
peaceful and firm determination
to exercise your political rights.
You trusted, as you had a right
to trust, that if by such efforts
you established the lawful supre-
macy of your Political party in
the nation, the government of the
United States, in the discharge of
its constitutional duty, would pro-
tect the lawful government of the
State from overthrow at the
hands of your political enemies.
From causes patent to all men
and questioned by none who re
gard truth, you have been unable
to overcome the unlawful COM
binations which have opposed the
practical working of the govern
ment which you have established.
For many weary months you
have waited for your deliverance.
When the long struggle for the
Presidency was in progress you
were eXhorted by every represen-
tative and organ of the national
Republican party to keep your
allegiance true to that party, in
order that your deliverance from
the hands of your oppressors
might be certain and complete.
Not the faintest whisper of the
possibility of disappointment on
these hopes and promises ever
reached YOU while the struggle
was pending.
To-day, April 10 by order of the
President, whom your votes rescu-
ed from overwhelming defeat. the
government of the United States
abandons you, deliberately with
draws from you its support, with
the full knowledge that the law
full government of tie State
will be speedily overthrow, by a
new Interpretation of the con-
stitution of the United States,
at variance alike with the previous
practices Of the government and
with the decision of the Supreme
Court. The Executive of the Unit
ed States evades the duty o: aser-
tanning which of two rival State
Governors is the lawful one, and
by the withdrawal of troops now
protecting the State from domes-
tic violence, abandons the lawful
government to struggle with an
insurrectionary force too powerful
to be resisted.
The grounds of policy upon
which such action is defended are
startling. 1t is said that the
North is weary of long Southern
troubles. 1t was weary too of
long troubles which sprung from
the stupendous 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 duty until
through a conflict which racked
and agonized the nation the great
crime was put away and freedom
was ordained for all.
1t is said that if a majority of
the people are unable by physical
force to maintain their rights,
they must be left TO political SER
vitude. Is this q doctrine ever
before heard in our history? If
it shall prevail its consequences
viii not long be confined to South
Carolina and Louisiana.
1t is said a Democratic House
of Representative will refuse an
appropriation for the army Of the
United States if the lawful gov
erment of South Carolina is
maintained by the military forces.
The submission to such coercion
means the degeneracy of the po-
litical party or people which en-
dures it. A government, worthy
the name of political party and
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