The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-19
ROBERT B. ELLIOTT,
Attorney General.
THOMAS G.zDUNN,
iia2C Comptroller General.
!. FL.OARD0zo,g n.
Treasurer.
Il H. E. H1YNE, :. -
& II 8 Secretary of State.
I'D JOHN r. ToLBERT, =

Superintendent of Education.
~ - JAMES KENNEDY,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
The following is the address of Mr..
Chamberlain:
To the Republicans of South. Carolina: Z.
By your ae;N i was made Governor of
this State in 1874, At, the. election on
the7th cfNoYembef last I was again, by
your votes, elected to- the same Office.
My title TO the Office, upon every legal
and moral ground, is to-day clear and
perfect. By the recent decision and ac-
tion of the President Of the United States
I find myself unable longer to maintain
my official rights with The prospect of
final success, and I hereby announce to
you that l. am unwilling to prolong a
struggle which can only. bring further
suffering upon those who engage in it.
In announcing this conclusion, it is my
duty to aytfor you that the Republicans
of South Carolina entered upon their re-
cent political struggle for the mainte-
nance ftheir political and civil rights.
Constituting, beyond question, large
majority of:the lawful voters of the State,
you allied yourselves with that political
party whose central and inspiring prin-
ciple has hitherto been the civil and
political freedom of all men under the
constitution and laws of our country.
BY heroic efforts and sacrifices which the
Just verdict of history will rescue from
the cowardly scorn now cast upon them
by political placemen and traders, you
secured the electoral vote of South Caro-
lima for Hayes and Wheeler. In accom-
plishing this result you became the VIC
tims of every form of persecution and in
jury. From authentic evidence it is
shown that not less than one hundred of
your number were murdered because
they were faithful to their principles and
exercised 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 scat
tered, for no ofense except your peaceful
and firm determination to exercise your
political rights. You trusted, as you had
right Is trust, that if by such efforts
you established the lawful supremacy of
your political party in the nation, the
government Of the United States, in the
discharge of its constitutional duty,
would protect, the lawful government of
the State from overthrow at the hands of
your politieafs enemies. Il From causes,
patent to all men and questioned bynone
who regard truth, you have been unable
to overcome the unlawful combinations
and obstacles which have opposed the
practical supremacy of the government
which your votes have established. For
many weary months you have waited for
your deliyerance. While the long strug-
gle for the Presidency was in progress
you were exhorted by every representa-
tive and organ of the national Republican
party to keep your allegiance true to that
party in order. that your deliyerance from
the hands of your oppressors might be
certain and complete. Not the faintest
whisper of the possibility of disappoint-
ment in these hopes and promises ever
reached you while the struggle was pend
ing. To-day, April 10, 1877, by the
order of the President whom your votes
alone rescued from overwhelming defeat,
the government of the United States
absndons you; deliberately withdraws
from youits support, with the full knowl-
edge that the lawful government of the
State will be speedily oyerthrown.
By new Interpretation of the consti.
tuition of the United States, at variance
alike with the previous practice of the
government and with the decisions of the
Supreme Court, the Executive of the
United States evades the duty of ascer.
tanning which of two rival State govern.
ments is the lawful one, and by the
withdrawal of troops now protecting the
State from domestic violence abandons
the lawful State government to struggle
with insurrectionary forces too powerful to
be resisted. The grounds of policy upon
which such action is defended are start.
ling.
It is said that the North is weary Of
the long Southern troubles. 1t was
weary, too, of the long troubles which
sprung from the stupendous crime o.
chattel slavery and longed for repose. [,
sought to cover them from sight by wick
ed Compromises with the wrong which
disturbed its peace, but God held it to its
duty until, through q conflict which
rocked and sgonized the nation, the great
crime was put away and freedom was or
dained for all.
It is said that if majority of the peo.
ple of a State are unable by physical