The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-24
A FOURTH OF JULY ORAT1oN.
Advance Report of the Address Delivered
at Springfield by ex.Gov. ID. III. Chamber.
lain, OF South Carolina.

| a. oPShBhe'u W eA"0Ov. ~, IL. CnHInDCr-
lain, of South Carolina.
FELLOW. CITIZENS: have been ASKED,
as Southerner, to address you of the
North on this anniversary day Of the
birth of our common Union. AS a
Southerner, | deeply feel the significance
of the request. Could our representative
men be brought more frequently into
contact with the masses of your people,
could VIC oftener meet, as to-day, to ex.
change congratulations on the perma-
rency Of the glorious fabric which our
fathers buildcd, and to join in the ex
preston of sentiments appropriate to this
occasion, | know that much Of the mis-
understanding, jealousy and ndsuspicousha-
tired that now alicnate the sections would
disappear Ike the Hnlphureus smoke of
Therefore / come willingly and frankly,
bringingto Massachusetts, the friendly and
sisteIly greeting Of my own beloved
South Carolina.
For South Carolina, the State Of my
adoption and choice, is also the State of
my love. Born and bred elsewhere, with
family ties and domestic associations else
where, ], nevertheless, yielded up to her
my love and loyalty when entered her
palmctto-fringed borders in the dark
days of reconstruction. went there
without money, without political inilu.
cnce, without previous acquaintance with
the people among whom / had cast my
lot, but fortified with strong moral pur-
pose, and animated by sacred missiona.
ry spirit, stood by South Carolina
through all the vcisstudcs Of the expe-
rimcht of universal suffragc-an expert
mcnt fraught with much personal dam
ger, but of transcendently great impor-
tance TO civilization. stood by South
Carolina while her citizens grew
poorer aud poorer, and only left her
| when unavoidable circumstances COM
pclled the painful separation Of our
ways. 1t is true that my residence is no
longer in South Carolina; true that my
professional and personal interests now
centre elsewhere, yet my heart is still
there, and an Indictment for felony COM
! mittcd within her borders still binds me
to her sunlit groves and smiling cities
| with bond of exceeding strength.
Therefore, as n representatives South
CaroliDian, thank you, men of Massa-
| chusetts, for the compliment which you
have paid 10 my cherished State. An
exile thanks you from the bottom of his
loyal heart. Whatever may have been
my political course during the happy and
eventful years spent n: Columbia, feel
that at least brought away the afTec.
tionate solicitude OF my neighbors. /
| feel that they remember me. and will
continue to remember me. ! know that
they are anxious to get me back.
know that they recall my disinterested
acts as Attorney General, and afterwards
AZ reform Governor, with emotions of the
liveliest character. They never cen and
never will forget the days when I, sur
rounded by men like Moses and Parker
and Neagle, and Cardozo and Honest
John Patterson, but nominating them all
by the force of intellect and purity of
motive, exercised permanent influence
upon iiho dicstiiiie5 of tile beloved State.
They still recall my official utterance,
lofty, ringing and patriotic, as when
wrote, There is an indefinite verge for
expansion of power before us. 1t is pro-
posed to buy $350,000 worth OF Green
vile and Columbia stock. This, with
the $4S3,000 Of stock held by the State,
will give complete control to Ii We
shall have in Grcenville and umbia
168 miles, in Laurens 81, aud Spar
tanburg aud Union 20 miles-ih all 269
miles-equipped and running. Put o
first mortgage of $40, 900 mile on this,
sell the bonds at 85 or 90, and the bal
ance, after paying all outlays for costs
and repairs, is immense-over S2,000,-
900. There is mint of money in this
or am a .}ooi!'
Nor can it ever be forgotten that at
the darkest hour of South Carolna's 8
darkest day, when burden of debt was
crushing the people of South Carolina to
the earth and grinding their estates
and homesteads into the dust, when
the black cloud of State debt of
twenty.six millions filled the whole
sky and darkeued the future, when
able financiers like Parker and Moses
and Cardozo were in despair, when the
people we're on the point of revolution,
L, clearheaded and seif-possessed, the
ruling spirit Of the storm. flooded Wall
street with fraudulent pa per, aud calmly
wrote to Kimpton in my letter of Sep
tember 3. 1870 the memorable words !:
"Do the commissions Jo,f up pretty ,ceNF
En-?
Fellow. citizens of Massachusetts, do
you wonder that the people of South Car
olina are anxious to get inc back But it
cannot be. An inexorable fate and q
very considerable interest in my own
personal liberty Keep ne far away from
her beloved borders. [ must remain an
exile, consoling myself as best can with
tho mitigating reflection that John Pat
| terson was wrong-there is no more good
| stealing in South Carolina.-Ne,u York
| Sun.
A Rows Dp ,r-r,CIy JoCC youth