The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-11
The Troops Move Out of the State
House-Chamberlain Withdraws
from the Contest.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 10.
The troops moved out of the state house
at noon. Chamberlain has just issued the
following address retiring from the contest
for the governorship:
To the republicans of South Carolina +
By your choice 1 was made governor of
this state in 1874. AT the election in No
vember 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 perfect. By the recent
decision and action of the president | find
myself unable longer to maintain my OFF,
clal rights with a ! prospect of 1Dal success,
and l hereby announce to you that | am
unwilling to prolong the struggle which
can only bring further suffering upon those
who engage in it. Announcing this con-
%clusion, it is my duty TO say for you that
the republicans OF South Carolina entered
upon their recent political struggle for the
maintenance Of political and civil rights
constituting beyond question a large ma
jority of the lawful voters of the state. You
allied yourselves with that political party
whose central and inspiring principle has
hitherto been the civil and political free
dom 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 ecorn now
cast upon them by political placemen and
traders, you secured the electoral vote of
South Carolina for Hayes aud Wheeler. In
accomplishing this result you became vic
TINS of every form of prosecution and in
jury. From authentic evidence it is shown
that nc less than one hundred OF your
number were murdered because they were
faithful to their principles, and exercised
the rights tolemnly 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 beats, your
families outraged and scattered, for no Of
Tense except yonr peaceful and firm deter
mination to exercise your political rights.
You trusted, as you had a right to trust,
that il 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 constitution
al duty would protect the lawful govern
ment of the state from overthrow at the
hands of your political enemies. From
causes patent to all men and questioned by
none who regard the truth, you have been
unable to overcome the unlawful combina-
tons 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 deliverance. While the long strug-
gle for the presidency was in progress you
were exhorted by every representative and
organ of the national republican patty 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 in these hopes
and promises ever reached you while the
struggle was pending. To-day by order of
the president, whom your votes alone res
cued from overwhelming defeat, the gov
eminent of the United States sbandons
you deliberately, withdraws from
you its support with full knowledge
that the lawful government of the state
will be speedily overthrow. BY a new
Interpretation of the constitution, at vari-
ancc 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 ascertain
ing which Of the two rival state govern
ments is the lawful one, and by the with
drawal of troops o protecting the state
from domestic violence, abandons the law
full state government to a struggle with an
insurrectlonary force too powerful to be
resisted. The grounds of the policy upon
which this action is defended are startling.
1t is said that the North is weary of the
long southern troubles which sprung from
the stupendous crime of chatter slavery,
and longs for repose.
ALL QUIET AT
BALTIMORE, April 10.
A special dispatch from Columbi, s. c.,
says no excitement is manifested over the
approaching evacuation of the state house.
Hampton's wish Il a. no one Should go
near the building until the questions at is
sue are finally settled, will doubtless be
strictly regarded.
~oHAMBKRLAIN's OFFICERS STEP DOWN N
OUT.
To ID. Ii. Chamberlain, Governor of South
Carolina
Dear Sir Recurring to the views sew
orally expressed by US during the personal
conference which we had the honor to hold
with You yesterday in regard to the politi-
cal complications which have grown out of
the late canvass in this slate, we beg leave
to apprise you formally of the conclusion
which we have reached after mature deliber-
alton and the greatest reflection we have