The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-24


mon with ourselves, you are attached,
and whose success in the past in this
State las been ennob'ei by your in
tellise ns and useful serVices. We have
the honor to be, very RESPECTFULLY,
yours, Robert B. Elliott,
Attorney General.
Thomas G. Damn,
Comptroller General.
F. L. Cardozo,
Treasurer.
Il. E. Hsyne.
Secretary of State.
John r. Tolbert,
Superintendent of Education.
James Kennedy,
AGjutaut and Insr ector General.
Tie following is the address Of Mr..
Cbasobe rlain:
To the Republican Of South Carolina:
By your will I was made governor Of
this State in 1874 At the election on
the 7th of November last l was sgain
by your votes, elected to the same
cfice. My title to the Office, upon
every legal and moral ground, is today
clear and perfect. By the recent do.
cision and action Of the pres dent of
the Uai,ed States l fod myself unable
longer to maintain my official rights
with the prospects of final success, and
] hereby announce to you that / am
unwilling to Trolong struggle which
can only bring further suffering upon
those who engage in it.
In announcing this conclusion, it is
my duty to ssy for you that the Rspub-
licans of South Carolina entered upon
their recent political struggle for the
main rtenance Of their political and civil
rights. Constituting, beyond question,
q lsrEe majority Of the lawful voters of
the State, you allied yourselves with
that political party whose central and
inspiring principles has hitherto been
the civil and political freedom Of all
men under the constitution and laws
Of QUE country. By heroic efforts and
sacrifices which the just verdict of his
tory will rescue from the cowsrdly
scorn now cast upon them by political
placemen and traders, you secured the
electoral vote Of South Carolins for
Hayes and Wheeler. In accomplishing
this result you became the victims of
every form Of persecution and injury.
From authentic evidence it is shown
that not less than one hundred Of your
number were murdered because they
were faithful to their principles and
exercised rights solennly guaranteed
to item by the nation. You were de-
nied employment. driven from your
homes, robbed Of the earnings of years
Of honest industry, hunted for your
li7es like wild beasts, your families
outraged and scattered, for no offenss
except your peaceful and firm deter
mination to exercise your political
rights. You trusted, as you had a
righ5 to trust, that if 5v such ef,rts
you established the lawful supremacy
of your political party in the nation, the
government Of the United States, in
the discharge Of it's constitutional duty,
would protect the lawful government Of
the State from overthrow at the hands
Of your political enemies. From causes,
patent to all men and questioned by
none who regard truth, you have been
unable to overcome the unlawful COM
bination aud obstacles which have op
posed the practical supremacy Of the
government which your votes haYe
established. For many weary months
you have waited for your deliversnce.
While the long struggle for the .prcsi-
dency Wss in progress you were exhort-
ed by every representative and organ Of
the national Republican party to keep
your allegiance true to that psrty in
order that your deliverance from the
hands Of your oppressors might be GER
tain and complete. Not the faintest
whisper Of the possibility of dlaappoint-
ment in these hopes and promises ever
reached you while the struggle was
pending. Today, April 10, 1877, by
the order Of the president whom your
votes alone rescued from overwhelming
defeat, the government Of the United
States sbandons you; deliberately with
draws from you its support, with the
full knowledge that the lawful govern
nent Of the State will be speedily over
thrown.
By a new INTERPRETATION Of the con-
stituticn Of the United States, at vsri
ance alike with the previous practice
Of the government sad with the decis
ions Of the supreme court, the eZecu-
tive of the United States e7ades the
duty Of ascertaining which of two rival
State governments is the lawful one
and By the Withdrawal of troops now
protecting the State from domestic
violence sbandons the lawful State gov
ernment to struggle with insurrec-
tionary forces too powerful to be re-
sisted. The grounds Of policy upon
which such action is defended are
startling.
It is said that the north is weary Of
the long southern troubles. It was
weary, too, of the long troubles which
sprung from the stupendous crime of
cbattel slavery and longed for repose.
1t sought to cover them from sight by
wicked compromises with the wrong
Whi,h disturbed its peace, but God held
it to is duty, until through conflict
which rocked and agonized the nation,
the great crime was put away and free
dom was ordained for all.
It is said that if majority Of the
people Of State are unable by physi-
cal :.oroe to naintain their rights, they
rnust he left IN nnliticel servit1de. Is