Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-15
CAROLINA POLITICS.
Conference Of the Powers That Be 1t
Columbia.
APPEAL FROM THE GOVERNOR.
People of the Palmetto state Called
ON to Act vigorousIy-sharp lnvec-
tive Against Con and sImonton,
Hampton and Butler.

coming election, which, under Judg,
Cons decision. must lie held with an
open ballot. Tillman and Irby and NC"
Laurin and all the leaders are here. Troy
State Executive Committee meets to-mor'
row to take action looking TO the mainte-
nance OF white supremacy. Tiiiman is az
the Executive Mansion in consultation
with Governor Evans. 1t looks now AS II
stormy times are ahead. Tonight the
Governor issued the following pronuncia-
mento bearing on States rights and Fede-
raj interference:
..Fellow- Citizens.-In 1855, after the
bloodiest struggle for principle IN tne ms. MS
tory of the world. South Carolinians iai9
down their arms and accepted In good
faith-the results OF the war The state
was put under martial law, ana uhner lIe
reconstruction act the ignorant saves
whose letters had Just been broken,
manipulated by carpet-bagers from the
four quarters Of the earth. were placeu
In entire control OF our state GOVERN
ment. After a farce or an elecuol Ioi
delegates 10 a constitutional convention,
the constitution which has been our or
ganic law since 1865 WAS adopted al the
dictate OF General Candy. The conIltlons
which followed. and the results OF pitci,is
Ignorance and vice in the control OF tne
government are known OF all men. ms
condition lasted until 1876, when the op-
preston ard misgovernment mo ISL sl
dered our people so desperate that VIII VIII
one impulse they asserted their nlahiloou
and overthrow the despotism OF the car
pet-baggers, and resumed control or the
States affairs.
STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
while the constitutonality OF the re-
construction act was never quesuOne1 py
US, because we were powerless 10 resis. :,
the question OF State sovereignty, WITHIN
the limits prescribed In the Constitution,
i'm accordance with southern interpre Ia
ton, has since been affirmed by repeated
decisions OF the Supreme Court or the
United States. That court even as
serted that the States had never DeSh
out OF the Union. thereby indirectly de-
claring invalid the acts OF Congress ve-
admitting them after reconstruction. Tpe
right of a State TO manage ara direct lts
internal affairs. without national inter
ference, Is recognized throughout the
Union. and it is no peculiar or speclai
claim on the part OF South Carolina 20
exercise that Right so long as ner State
officers and her General Assembly Opey
the Constitution. q the Uni1ed stats ~
ard the laws of Congress. This IL so
well recognized that | do not propose
to discuss il further. but feel that we can
safely rely upon the integrity ana patriot
ism OF the Supreme Court judges 10 re-
affirm and maintain II.
''rhe people Of South Carolina have al
WAYS been law abiding. and respect the
Constitution and courts OF the United
States. but when the judges OF those
courts wantOnly invade and trample
under foot the recognized rights OF our
people. guaranteed by the Federal Con-
stitution, they have a right 70 assert
themselves and maintain their sovereign
~ and Independence. This they nave
ever done and will continue TO do, ana
will resist with all the means within
their power the usurpatiOn and tyranny
OF partisan politicians IN high plac. 5.
who disgrace the judicial ernine. We
cannot nor have we the desire to resort
TO arms 10 resist. their unjust DEGREES.
but we can and will expect the unite
efforts OF liberty-loving people to foil other
conspirators who are plotting TO over
throw our civilization. In this Struggle
we confidently rely on this sympathy ara
moral support Of lovers OF good govern
ment and States rights Throughout me
Union. The sovereignty OF the States
within their proper spheres Is as dear 10
Massachusetts and Ohio as il Il 10 South
Carolina and the principle cannot o.
struck down here without receiving a
mortal blow elsewhere.
at is unfortunate that the passions and
prejudices excited during the war in re-
gard to the negro should influence the
opinions and feelings Of Judges IN dealing
with this vital principle, but ii viii follow
that. II the principle is once destroyed
Tits country will be convulsed with a
revolution fec the restoration Of the
liberties OF white men that will far
eclipse that other fatal struggle for the
emancipation OF the blacks.
WHITE SUPREMACY.
THE restoration Of white supremacy in
1876 placed IN office and In the leadership
of the affairs OF the State Wade Hampton.
as Governor and afterwards as nited
States Senator. and ". 9. Butter as
United States Senator: Charles II. simon
ton chairman OF the Judiciary Committee
81 If.n sfrf =
tlves. later District and Circuit judge
OF the United states Court, and John
c Sheppard. Speaker OF the House OF
Representative, Lieutenant Governor.
and Afterwards Governor In ~ under
the leadership Of these men, the Lsgisla-
ture passed the laws known as the cleo
ton and registration acts designed Ia
preserve white supremacy and white
mans government These laws worked
admirably, and up to this proceeding no
complaint has ever been heard or their
Injustice oppression. or crimlnality The
citizen who dared raise mis- voice against
them was denounced "a an enemy or MS
State Those who were too young 10
hold office and take part In such affairs
were taught 10 respect these men as
patriots. and their handlwork as the
palladium OF our liberties.
This regime becoming arrogant ara
distasteful 10 majority or our people
and repugnant 10 the policy of our In
stitutions, was overthrown. and the peo-
ole in $50 bv the election Of Il. II. Till
man as Governor, declared that IL was
not their intention TO create an oligarchy
when in 1876 they threw OF the yoke
Of the negro and the carpot-bagger. TWO
attempts have been made 10 reverse
this verdict OF the people. but II mas been
sustained each time with vehement de-
termination.
ELECTION LAWS
1.-THE reform movement had nothing
10 do with the election and registra-
ton laws We received them as a legacy
from the administration OF lss2. We have
upheld them as the acts Of the people
and as constitutional means OF seif-pre-
servation. Some OF the men VINO ar,
responsible for. and who have enjoyed
the benefits and honors OF office under
these laws, have turned upon their State
since their retirement. BY an appeal
TO one OF the bitterest enemies OF south
ern Civilizations politician who disgraces
Court and masquerades rs judge
they have succeeded in having the
registration laws declared unconst!-
tutonal. null. and VOID. The chief
argument made before him was
the defamation OF your state, and in
suit. II insult could come from such a
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
Islander heaped upon the State by coun-
sci for the plaintiffs was only surpassed
by that OF the Judge in his document
STYLED a decree in equity.
but the pity OF it. the humiliation
and the shame Of Il are yet 20 bs told.
Reside this Jeffreys 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 Representatives Of South Caro-
lima, and In whose handwriting part OF
your registration laws exists IN our
archives there ne sat. wearing alike the
judicial ermine. hearing his State de-
famed. his comrades in arms denouncec
as reh?ls, and his own handlworh
adjudged a crime. n the law was a
crime. was he not the criminal? Should
his head have not been bent and his
eyes moist with tears OF humiliation
Alas, they were not. With a Mephist0-
phslsan grin on his wrinkled face, he
rOdded assent 10 the most infamous docu-
nent ever emanating from a court In
equity. while the black audience ex-
claimed: "A Daniel has come 10 Judgment
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