The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-24
A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON.

A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON.
Advance Report OF the Address Delivered
at Springfield by ex.Gov. d. n. Chamber
lain, OF South Carolina.
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1 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, I deeply feel the significance
of the request. Could our representative
men be brought more frequently into
contact with the masses of your people,
could We oftener meet, as to-day, to ex-
change congratulations on the perma-
nency Of the glorious fabric which our
fathers builded, and to join in the ex'
preston of sentiments appropriate to this
occasion, know that much of the mis-
understanding, jealousy and suspiciousha,,
tired that now ALLEVIATE the sections would
disappear like the sulphurous smoke OF
wonder cannon that lately doomed.
Therefore, I come willingly and frankly,
in the true spirit of the Fourth of July,
bringing to Massachusetts the friendly and
sisterly greeting Of my own beloved
South Carolina.
For South Carolina, the State of my
adoption and choice, is also the State OF
nv love. Born and bred elsewhere, with
family ties and domestic associations else
where, l, nevertheless, yielded up to her
my love and loyalty when l entered her
palmetto-fringed borders in the dark
days of reconstruction. l went there
without money, without political infu'
ence, without previous acquaintance with
the people among whom had cast my
lot, but fortified with strong moral pur-
pose, and animated by sacred mlssiona-
~ spirit, I stood by South Carolina
through all the vicissitudes of the expe-
riment of universal sufrage--an expert
ment fraught with much personal dam
ger, but Of transcendently great impor-
tance to civilization. I stood by South
Carolina while her citizens grew
poorer aud poorer, and only left her
when unavoidable circumstances COM
PEELED the painful separation of our
ways. It 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
mitted within her borders still binds me
to her sunlit groves and smiling cities
with a bond of exceeding strength.
Therefore, as q represent tatiyes South
Carolinian, ! thank you, men OF Massa-
chusetts, for the compliment which you
have paid to my cherished State. An
exile thanks you from the bottom of his
loyal heart. Whatever may haye been
my political course during the happy and
eventful years spent at Columbia, l feel
that at least brought away the afec.
tionate solicitude of my neighbors. !
feel that they remember me. and will
continue to remember me. l know that
they are anxious to get me back. !
know that they recall my disinterested
acts as Attorney General, and afterwards
as reform Governor, with emotions of the
liyeliest character. They never can and
| never will forget the days when ], 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 oi
motive, exercised permanent influence
upon the destinies of the beloved State.
They still recall my official utterance,
lofty, ringing and patriotic, as when /
wrote, "There is an indefinite verge fol-
expansion of power before US. 1t is pro.
posed to buy SS5O,OOO worth Of Green.
Vile and Columbia stock. This, with
the $433,O 900 of stock held by the State
will give complete control to us. We
shall have in Greenville and Columbia
16S miles, in Laurens 81, and in Spar.
tanburg and Union 70 miles-in all 26s
miles-equipped and running. Put g
FIRST mortgage of $4,000 mile on this
sell the bonds at IS or 80, and the bal
ance, after paying all outlays for cost:
and repairs, is immense-over S2,OO0,'
600. There is mint of money in this
or I am q .toolP
Nor can it ever be forgotten that al
| the darkest hour of South Carolina's
darkest day, when a burden of debt wa:
crushing the people of South Carolina te
the earth and grinding their estates
and homesteads into the dust, wher
the black cloud of a State debt o.
twenty-six millions filled the whole
sky and darkened the future, wher
able financiers like Parker and Nose;
and Cardozo were in despair, when the
people were on the point of revolution
| I, clear-headed and selfpossessed, the
ruling spirit of the storm, flooded Wal
street with fraudulent paper, and calmly
wrote to Kimpton in my letter of Sep
tember 8, 1870 the memorable words
"Do the commissions foot up pretty UeH'
Eh?"
Fellow-citizens of Massachusetts, dc
you wonder that the people of South Car
olina are anxious to get me back But il
cannot be. An iEexorable fate and 6
very considerable interest in my OWE
personal liberty keep ne far away from
her beloved borders. 1 must remain ar
exile, consoling myself as best ! can with
the mitigating reflection that John Pat
terson was wrong-there is no more good
stealing in South Carolina.--New Yorl