The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-15

Columbia, S. c., May 14.-Governor
Evans has issued a lengthy address to
fhe citizens Of South Carolina, in
which he deals very harshly with the
recent decisions in the dtspensary 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 interference.
He continued: THE people of South
Carolina have always been law abid-
ing, and respect the constitution and
courts of the United States; but when
the judges of those courts want only
30 invade and trample under foot the
recognized right of our people, guaran.
teed by the federal constitution, they
ilaYe a. right to assert themselves and
maintain their sovereignty and indie
pendence. This. they have ever done
and viii continue ito do, and will resist
with al the means within their power
the uSurpaTOn and tyranny Of partisan
politicians in high places who disgrace
the judicial ermine. We cannot nor
have we the desire to resort to arms
10 resist this unjust decree, but we
can and will exert the united effort of
G. liberty loving people to thwaTt the
conSpHatorS who are plotting to over
Throw our civilization. In this struggle
we confidently rely on the sympathy
and moral support of all lovers of good
government and states rights througl,-
out the Union.
BY an appeal to one of the bitter
est enemies Of southern civilization, a
politician who disgraces the judicial
ermins OF the United States In order
te masquerade as judge, they have
succeeded in having the registration
laws declared unconstitutional, null
and void. The chief argument made
before him was the defamation of
your state and insult. if 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 black, of the age |
of p 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 Il, the humiliation |
and the shame of it is yet to be told. |
Besides this Jeffries on the bench sat |
an old man whose head was grey, |
who had fought on the field Of battle |
for states rights, who has been speaker
of the house Of representative Of
South Carolina, and in whose hand
writing part OF your registration laws
exist in your archives. There he sat
wearing judicial ermIne, hearing his
state DETAINED, his comrades in arms
denounced as rebels and his own
iandiwork adjudged as a crime. If
the law was a crime, was he not a
criminal? Should his head have not
been bent and his eyes moist with
tears of humiliation? Alas, they
were not. With a Mephistophelean
and wrinkled face he would assent to
the most infamous document ever
emanating from court of equity,
while the black audience exclaimed:
"a Daniel has come to judgment. Yea,
a Daniel"
Governor Evans concludes with an
assertion that the issue is now be-
tween black and white and urges citi-
zens to see that white men, not
white men with black hearts, nor
negroes shall control the constitu-
tional convention.
II will not call the legislature to-
gether," he says, they could do moth
ing An appeal will be taken to the
supreme court OF the United States,
but under the red tape and technical
tiles surrounding it, a decision cannot
be had in time to effect the election of
delegates. 1t must be a free open
fight. I appeal to the sovereign peo-
homes and liberties.
THE government of the people must
and shall be perpetuated and we are
ready TO lead the fight under the white
mans fight"