New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-19
EX-GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN REBUKED.

IN
A FORMER CONSTITUENT TAKES HIM TO TASK FOR
PROVING FALSE TO HIS owN RECORD.
To me Hon. D. II. CHAMBERLAIN.
SIR: Your friends in South Carolina re-
gret TO read your Sunday letter in The Neo YORK. Times
denoancing Mr. Blaine and the Republican party We do
not understand the attitude You in relation TO our
National nominee From your frequent appearance III
the newspapers at time intermedling In the Miohc
campaign and politics in Virginia, then calling CONFER
ences Of socallcd Independents In next ad
dressing open letters to the Chicago Convention advising
the seating O, certain contesting delegation and finally
your OF Sunday declaring that is the
clear duty ~ every patriot to make the defeat oil the en-
eago ticket the supreme aim OF all his political activity
from all these things reluctantly conclude that since
Won have failed rs the OF the Republican party
Won now seek TO be its destroyer, its eXecutioner
This may pltrl0tsm and worthy OF the supreme ann
of all your political activity; hut II this is so your views
must have changed since 1876 when we stood by you as
the Republican nominee at the Peril of our lives ana the
Jeopardy OF our regulations You know how 1t was them
how Is IL changed nowl
'Awhen Won brand Blaine Logan and Malone as Goths
and huckstcrs who have captured the Republican party
You deame the party tultfy yourself and dhonor your
record We. in South Carolina where you had Your
political birth and grew National prominence, have the
right to remind y0u that in 1874 and again In 1876 In
depeudents" and Performers" In South Carolina de-
family denounced you. threatened you and routed YOU
DO you forget all this Yet amid 1t all the true Repub-
cans the honest men, the loyal stOodby you to the
DEATH believing and hoping you were innocent Of the
grave charges alleged against You by some of your own
party and the allied refOrmers."
when you donOunce Blaine you give sanction 10 inc
methods of you enemies here, and by their methods
strive TO sacrifice Repubcansm, which many of us have
often heard you coqucny and soemny swear to defend
with your blood and your life If need be- Have we not
the right to expect that you and your reform faction
will renrn the generous mantle of party charity and Re
publican fraternity which has sheltered you from
political storms and foul weahcrl Have we not the right
10 exact from you. what yOu hayo so frequently ana
fOrclby demanded from your opposition mere your III
DEPENDENT reform opposition, 10 sttnu ny the party
first last and al the timei If that was SCUM,
doctrine when you were the noliueo i4I a1 i ~, ~
South Carolina, why is 1t not sound doctrine now
when Blaine is nominee for the highest Office III the
right in South Carolina and wrong IN New-forki
But you assert in dcnOuncing Blaine, that you are
citizen not pohtlcih rms assertion ii to
tally with the great effort You are now nlihlhg 10
organize a party OF Independent ReiormcrS or Sonic
other nOadescrpts who to be neither Democrats nor
Republicans nor Greenbackcrs, hut possibly reformed
dcmagOcues and political pharseeS ana general cfauk
You are calling through The Times upon the patriots of
the Nation and upon all honest men TO Ialy
your rally and Democratic success results are you SUN
only citizen. not politiciani st.. ... 49,, =,
Sow a. a citizen you the right unqnestlOncd III
New-YOrk. to vote You may choose ana nave yolr
vote counted. But as politician you can nave no ls
either I'm New York South Carolina independently
remain in the Republican party ana from ts vantage
ground attempt to stab Its ho9iees ana denver y to
menty denounced independents " traitors IN south
Carolina, aud NewI or you say; have no hest
taon have had none, am sure will have none, IN iOi
lowing the spcctng and noble example OF The Times
in its ndeucndeuce. This is treason 10 party III SCUM
Carolina. YOU told How has II become patriotism III
New York;
We cannot will not follow You in the devious ways You
are now frcadng WAYS 81 darkness. and disaster without
the consolation OF being in the right We Will pod along
the Old, plain way where you lett us IN the spring OF
Isl ust as the flowers be;n to bloom and grass to
grow on the graves of who stood by You In 1876
We are here still. holding the tort on short rfuons
though you have gone out to daily with the enemy We
shall look your only when our political fields
become again ripe In the meantime we are sofa iof
Jim Baine and Jack Logan and tie Republican party,
and don't you ever forget it. WARREN X. MARSHALL
Charleston. S. g., June ~, 1851.