The herald., 1895-05-15
Remarkable Address of South
Cardinals Governor
STATE SOVEREIGNTY URGED
Decisions in the State Dispensary Cases
the Cause
The Governor Claims the People Have Right
to Assert Themselves and Maintain
Their independence
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
COLUMBIA, s. c., May 14.-Governor
Evans has issued a lengthy address to the
citizens of South Carolina, in which he
deals very harshly with the recent de-
cisions in the dispensary and registration
cases.
He refers to the political history of
his state since the war. and argues FOR the
right of the state to manage and direct
its internal affairs without national in
reference.
He continues: 1.-THE people OF South
Carolina have always been law-abiding
and respect the constitution and courts of
the United States. But when the judges
OF those courts want to invade and trample
under foot the recognized right of our
people guaranteed by the federal constitu-
tion. the people have q right to assert
themelves and maintain their sovereignty
and independence. This they have ever
done. and Will continue to do. and will re-
sist with all the means within their power
the usurpation and tyranny of partisan
politicians in high places who disgrace
the judicial ermine. We cannot nor have
we the desire to resort to arms to resist
his unjust decree. but we can and will
exert the united efforts of liberty. glowing
people to thwart the conspirators who are
pioocih6 " ONVApuioW Jul CltlllLdblOHs LII
this struggle we confidently rely on the
sympathy and moral support of all lovers
OF good government and states rights
throughout the Union.
"By an appeal to one of the bitterest
enemies CT southern civilization, poll
tician who disgraces the judicial erm inc
OF the United States court, masquerades
as judge, they have succeeded in having
the registration laws declared unconsti.
tutional. null and void. The chief argu-
ment made before him was the defama-
tion of your state and insult if insult can
come from such source, to your state
officers. Under this decree the doors
have been thrown open and the ballot
again placed in the hands of every man.
white or black, of the age of 81 years.
The abuse and SANDER heaped upon the
state by the counsel OF the plaintiff was
only surpassed by that of the Judge in his
document styled a decree in equity.
But the pity of it, the humiliation and
shame of it is yet to be told. Besides this
Jeffries on the bench sat an old man
whose head was gray. who had fought on
the field OF battle for states rights. who
| had been speaker of the house of repre-
scntatives of South Carolina,. anG in
whose handwriting part of your regis
! traiton laws exist in your archives. There
he sat. wearing the judicial ermine,
hearing his state DETAINED, his comrades
in arms denounced as rebels and his own
handlwork denounced as crime. If the
law was crime, was he not criminal?
Should his head not have been bent2
With a Mephistophelean and wrinkled
face he would assent to the most infam-
Gus document ever emanating from a
court of equity, while the black audience
exclaimed: "A Daniel has come to judg.
ment. Yea. q Daniel.
Governor Evans concludes with an as
sertion that the issue is now between
black and white and urges citizens to see
that white men, not white men W ith
black hearts. nor negroes shall control the
constitutional convention.
II will not call the legislature to-
gether." he says. they could do moth
ing. An appeal will be taken to the su-
preme court of the United States but
under the red tape and technicalities sur
rounding it a decision cannot be had in
time to affect election of delegates. 1t
must be free, open fight. Iappeal to
the sovereign people of South Carolina to
protect their homes and liberties.
The government of the people must
and shall be perpetuated and we are
ready to lead the right under the white
mans flag