The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-03

Ig1o well h1oWu u1au you "Sh0 0ASNeSo
Governor of the State two or three years
ago 'by-th most corrupt wing of your
party and in opposition to the wishes
and exertions ofall The respectable men
of both parties. In the course of few
short months you denounced these cor
rupttepartisans lin sunmeasured terms.
You declared yourself reformer, and
said that your former friends and sup
porters were too corrupt to hold public
offices. You spoke Of the imminent dan
ger to the civilization of the Huguenot
and Puritan, the Round Head and Cava-
lier. Many good men were deceived by
your artful hypocrisy, You declared that
you would not ACCEPT nomination tor
reelection by the corrupt wing of the
Radicafparty. But as soon as the Dem"
ocratic party had made their nomination
for Governor, you said to Judge Cooke,
as he testified before the Congressional
committee, that you would see to it that
Corbin's diabolical scheme Of having
thirty or forty negroes killed to stop the
enthusiasm in favor of Hampton should
be carried out Such an expression of
fendish treachery would have done credit
to the darkest days of the Spanish inqui.
sition,eor the bloodiest leaders of Saint
Bartholemew's massacrel You then ap-
pealed TO the corrupt leaders of your
party, whom you had so scornfully de-
nounced. for their support, and was re-
nominated by them -
You commence your address by the
utterance of a truth, a disgraceful truth
to the people of South Carolina, and the
only truth which it contains. You were
"by the qoiW Of the Republican party
made Governor of the State in 1874"
The next sentence, that you were elected
to the3s Office again last fall, is a
most notorious falsehood, known to be
such by every one, so declared by Ethe
Supreme Court of the State and every
Circuit Judge on the bench. The Presi-
dent of the United States and his entire
Cabinet have tacitly admitted it to be
false, and the whole press and American
people believe it to be false. The votes
returned by the managers of election,
after all the. frauds and repeating of your
voters, show that Governor Hampton was
elected by majority of ten to twelve
hundred votes, ten or fifteen thousand OF
the most respectable Of your own party
voting for him. And yet you have the
audacity to say, in the face of all these
facts, that you were reelected, and when
driven from the Office by the scorn and
contempt of the people and the decree OF
the courts, you still sign your name, ID.
81. Chamberlain, Governor of South Car
olina."
In the language of the arraignment Of
8 murderer and traitor, none but one
"devoid of all social duty, and with
heart fatally bent on mischief" could
have uttered such atrocious falsehoods as
you have done in the following sen
tences: "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 ex-
ercised rights solemnly granted to them
by the nation You were driven from |
your homes, denied employment, robbed
of the earnings of your honest industry,
hunted for your lives like: wild beasts,
your families outraged and scattered for
no ofense, except your peaceful and tlrm
determination to exercise your political
rights" ,ssG5|
These monstrous falsehoods you have
published in the face of the concurrent
testimony Of the military authorities Of
fhe United States in South Carolina and
all honest, truthful men Of both parties
that the election was orderly, quiet and
peaceful. There was no violence or out
break at any poll in the State, nor was
there the sill ghtest disturbance after the
election. It is true that, in pursuance of
your wicked and damnable designs dis
closed to Judge Cooke, there were riots
and bloodshed before the election at
Hamburg, Aiken, Combahee, Charleston
and lCainhoy, in, which your own part
sans were the aggressors in every instance.
Instead of attempting to suppress these