The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
Chamberlain'S Troubles.

49, A'SuhClu says, Ill IllC ClllClu-
natl Commercial:
Chamberlain is conspicuously the
one South Carolina Republican who
has never used politics to make
money. His Republicanism is from
| conviction, and he has done all that
mortal man could do to make it re-
spectacle in that State. He has was
ted his law practice, endangered his
life, and fooled away all his money
trying to be Governor, and not be-
cause he wanted TO be, or because the
place was desirable, but he got in
to the harness, and from his view of
things there was no way but to pull
through. His instincts as a refor-
mer are so earnest, and his desire to
make the Republican name respecta-
bic in South Carolina 50 strong, that
he went before the Legislature and
urged them to reduce his own salary
to $4,000, beginning in the work of
retrenchment. He pleaded for econ
omy and reform with tears in his
eyes, and for the selection of decent
and competent men for Judges. But
talk Of this sort to the South Caro-.
lima Legislature is about as effective
as the reading Of Watts hymns to a
drove of mules. In the face of these
appeals the Legislature one day took
advantage of the Governors absence
and elected Moses and Whipper to
the two most important Circuit
judgeShips in the State. They did it
openly, detiantly, and for the pur.
pose of showing Chamberlain that he
could not rule the roost with his re.
form ideas. He would not sign the
commissions of these chaps for
Judges" He protested that the
civilization of the Cavalier and the
Roundhead were in peril. The Leg
islature, never having heard OF the
Cavalier and the ROundhead, conclu.
ded that they had been Generals in
the rebel army, and that Chamber
lain had gone pell nell into the
Democratic party. He was SO un-
popular that he was not allowed to
speak at Orangeburg, the misguided
blacks driving him from the platform
with boots and yells, and wild cries
that he had sold out to the DemOc-
racy, and was II longer the black
mans friend. Nothing but the
matchless cruelty of the Democrats
in seeking to overcome 80, 600 black
majority by the shot gun drove the
Republicans into a nomination of
Chamberlain.
He has been serving as Governor
the past four months without pay
and without prospect of pay. His
treasury is empty. Tens of thous-
ands Of dollars have rolled into
Hamptsn's Golfers, because the tax.
paying portion Of the com nunity
recognize him, while Chamberlain s
treasury has received but nine hun
dred dollars. Chamberlain to-day
owes two thousand dollars to one of
the Columbia banks, money bOr-
rowed to pay his personal expenses
while acting as Governor. Nothing
but stubborn will and the clearest
convictions would cause him to make
so many sacrifices as he has in his
warfare against the corruptions of his
own party and the aggressive cruelty
decided ability and culture-a grad
uate of Yale-and was pronounced
by the late Reverdy johnson to be
one of the best lawyers in America.
He has an interesting family, and
the relief they will feel should his
claim to the Governorship be deci-
ded adversely cannot be measured in
words. For months his devoted
wife has lived in daily and nightly
dread that the hand of an assassin
would take her husband. He dare
not walk the streets of Columbia,
and the tread of Federal sentinels is
ever heard in front of his apartments
at the Capitol. He has been for
three fourths of a year in perfect
hell on earth. He was at the head
of a government that could do moth
ing but exist in lifeless way, under
the protection of Federal bayonets.
What satisfaction is snch a life to Il
cultivated, quiet, domestic man, a
natural scholar and student. having
little in common with South Caro-
lima politics and pistols"
In Prussia out of 1000 births 100
are illegitimate; in Southern Ger
many, 200 out of 1000 are illegiti-
mate. In France, 50 frivolous and
corrupt" the illegitimate births are
but 20 in 1000; in England there are
but GO. In Upper Austria the pro-