The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-04
Chamberlain on Compromise.


Chamberlain respecting compromise
of the political difficulties in this State.
It,seens that Daniel is opposed to- any
arrangement for settlement which
leaves him out Of f,tsl} the guberngant'oe'F;ial
Office:
Governor Cham berlain was interview
ed. yesterday respecting the recent re.
ports of compromise of the; present
difficulties here. Being asked if he was
responsible for any offers of compromise,
he answered that he was not--tbat he
had never suggested or authorized the
suggestion of compromise.ar,s,:
Being asked, to give bis. views of the
question of "a compromise, he answered
that' lie saw no room for any compromise:
There might be surrender, but of com.
promise, meaning by: the term, a mutual
yielding Of. advantage. there eou ID be
none. The governorship was the straget-
iG aim. of each party That office alone
commanded the whole situation!' - =
The Governor continued 81 have alto
purpose in holding my present position,
except.to prevent the success of q great
crime, namely, the success of the Demo
cratic party here, conducted on the plan
of brute force. l despise the man who
would not fight for such cause: and |
have much more respect for Gary and
Butler than I Have for Republicans who
want to purchase peace by, consenting to
recognize as vafId the apparent results OF
the late campaign. II is precisely like
the conduct of the Union: from
1850 to 1860. They were ready always
to sacrifice for the Union the'very things
the Union was framed to secure, namely,
liberty, justice, good government. ust
so do we hear n great deal about the
sacred forms of law, but. very little
about the sacred substance of justice.
L. do not intend to break the lawor to
overstep the law, but: ]. do intend to 7ex-
haust all lawful remedies aud defences
before I yield, and if l haveto choose
between the letter and the spirit of the
law, shall choose the spirit" = 20" )
The Governor was asked it, he ,;llt,d
seen. the report that he would accept the
United States senatorship if 3 compro:
mise could be effected. He answered
that such a story;!was absurd. There
we're many reasons Why such report
could not be true. In The. first place.
there was no such place to bargain away.
Mr.. Corbin was duly elected to that place,
and no one else cjuld be- elected until a
vacancy arose.: In the second place, ne
1.-THE Governor) would not be candidate
for the. place under any circumstances.
."Finally," said the. Governor, ~ want it
distinctly understood that will accept
no office or place, great or small as the
result of yielding my present position.
shall be Governor or nothing, and it is
an insult to me to suggest that l should
take any office as the price or reward OF
result of giving up this contest. Il am
not trading in my position, nor shall !
allow others to trade for me-" .-.:
In order that our readers may under
stand the foregoing illusions to a COM
promise, we append an extract. from the
correspondence of the Charleston News
and Courier, upon which the remarks of
Chamberlain are predicated: II.
"A meeting was held last night at which
forty odd Republicans were present, and
it was resolved that a proposition be sub
mitted to the Democrats for the appoint
ment of committee of five Democrats
and Ave Republicans who should meet at
an early day for a conference, to see if a
compromise cannot be effected and peace
restored. The committee is to consist OF
liberal men or both sides, and an elev-
enth member will be elected by the com
mittee. >,
Two propositions will be submitted to
the committee: The first is, to give the
Democrats Hampton for Governor, Wal
lace as Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives and majority in the House,
Hagood, Dem. as comptroller, and
Thompson, Dem as superintendent OF
education, aud to give Hampton the
power to appoint an attorney general,
who shall be neither Elliott nor Conner.
On the other hand, the Republicans are
to have Chamberlain for the United
States Senate, Gleaves for Lieutenant
Governor, and President of the Senate,
their present members in the Senate, ad-
mitting the Democratic senators from
Laurens and Abbeville, and ordering a
new election for senator from Edge6eld
The Republicans shall have their candi'
dates as State treasurer, adjutant and in
spector general aud secretary of State,
and Mackey to be made chairman Of The
committee of ways and means. The
General Assembly, when ..ireconvened
shall. be, bound to enact no party legisla'
ton beyond the passage of a registration
law, and a law repeaIing the act giving
| the board of State canvassers any right
to declare an election. That, in appoint.
ing. county officers, the, Governor shall
appoint Democrats in the counties car
ried by Democrats at the last election
and Republicans in the counties carried
by them. That in all State and muni!
cipa elections, the commissioners. o
election shall be voted for by the people
and the tickets arranged so that the mi
nority party shall have minority on the
board of canvassers.
The second proposition is that Cham
berlain be Governor and Hampton go tc
the United States Senate; the Demo
Gratis to have Wallace as Speaker. and 4
majority in the Houseef Representatives
The arrangement of the Senate to be the
same as stated in the first proposition
The Democrats have Gen. Conner. for
attorney general and q majority of the
State officers, giving the Republicans
only the treasurer and the adjutant ahd
inspector. general. The same arrange
ment, as before, to hnld in regard ite
county appointments. In both propnsi
tons a condition is that the LAWS enacted
by the present Legislature be declared
Comptroller-General Dunn, Senator
Viii, emore and several other prominenl
Republicans are very anxious that either
one or the other of these propositions be
discussed and adopted, and it is very
probable that committee will be ap
pointed from both sides. No formal
proposition has been made hy either party
as yet, but even if the proposed scheme
comes to naught the desire for compro,
mise is full of Significance.