The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-04-26
keeping alive partisan prsjadieosW WbiSk33
5hro in tho last degree detrimeptat to
the best intereets az tia f)8ODlB Of Tho,

render OF prlnclple, nor ItB motive DO
misspprehonded by the great body Of
that political party to which, in com
mon with ourselves, you are attached,
and whose kucooss in the past in this
State has been onnob,ed by your in
tollige mt and useful eorvices. Wo hayo
tho honor to bo, very respectfully,
yours, Robert B. Elliott,
Attorney General.
Thomas q. Dunn,
Comptroller General,
i, l.. Cardozo,
Treasurer.
II. %. Hsyno, (.
Secretary of State.
John r. Tolbert,
Superintendent Of Education.
Jamos Konnody,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Tho following 10 tho address Of Mr..
Chant bcrlain:
To the Republican Of South Carolina:
Byy will was made governor Of
this State in 1874 At tho election on
tho 7th of November last | was again
by your votes, oleoted to the same
cffice. My title 10 the office, upon
every legal and moral ground, is today
clear and perfect. BY tho reoont do.
eision and action Of the pres don't Of
the United States fnd mysolf unable
longer to maintain my official rights
with tho prospects Of final success, and
J hereby announce to you that l am
unwilling to lrolong struggle which
can only bring further suffering upon
those who engage in it.
In announcing this conclusion. it is
my duty to say for you that the Repub
lioans Of South Carolina entered upon
thoir recent political struggle for tho
maintenance Of their political and OWL
rightg. Constituting, beyond question,
large majority Of Tim lawful voters Of
tho State, you allied yourselves with
that political party whose central and
inspiring principles has hitherto boon
tho OWL and political Freedom Of all
mon under the constitution and laws
Of our country. By heroic efforts aud
sacrifices which the just verdict Of his.
tory will rescue from tho oowardly
scorn now cast upon them by political
plaoemen and traders, you secured tho
electoral vote of South Carolina for
Hayes and Wheelor. In accomplishing
this result you became tho victims Of
every form OF persecution aud injury.
From authentic evidence it is shown
that not less than ono hundred of your
number were murdered bsoause they
were faithful to their principles and
exercised rights solemnly guaranteed
to them by the nation. You wore dc.
MED employment, driven from your
homes, robbed of the earnings Of years
Of honost industry, hunted for your
lives like wild boasts, your families
outraged and scattered, for no offenso
except your peaceful and firm deter.
mination to exeroiso your political
rights. You trusted, as you had a
right to truat, that if bv such efforts
YOU established the lawful supremacy
of your political party in tho nation, the
government Of tho United States, in
tho discharge Of it's constitutional duty,
would protect tho lawful government Of
the S,ato from overthrow at the hands
of your political onomies. From oauses,
patent to all mon and questioned by
mono who regard truth, you have beon
unable to overcome the unlawful CON-
bination aud obstacles which have on
posed the practical supremacy Of tho
government which your votes have
established. Eor many woary months
you have waited for your deliveranoe.
While tho long struggle for the prosi.
dcnoy was in progross you wero exhort.
cd by oyory represent ntativo and organ of
tho national Republican party to keep
your allegiance true to that party in
order that your dolivorance from tho
hands Of your oppressors might bo Ger.
tain and complete. Not the faintost
whisper Of tho possibility of dlsappoint-
ment in theso hopes and promises ever
reached you while the struggle was
ponding. Today, April 10, 1877, by
tho order of the president whom your
votes alone rescued from overwhelming
dofcat, the government Of tho United
States abandons you; deliberately with.
draws from you it's support, with tho
full knowledge that tho lawful govern.
mont Of the State will be speedily over
thrown.
By a new INTERPRETATION Of the con.
stitution Of the United States, at yari
anoo alike with the previous PRACTICE
of tho government and with the deois
ions'o tho aupreme court, tho exoou
two of the United States evades the
duty of ascortaining which Of two rival
State governments is tho lawful ono
and by the withdrawal Of troops now
protecting tho State from domestic
violence abandons tho lawful State gov
ernmont to struggle with insurreo.
Etlonary forces too powerful to be re-
pisted. Tho grounds Of policy upon
which -seuoh action is defended arc
startling.
It is said that the north is wosfy of
the long southern troubles. It was
woary, too, Of the long troubles which
sprung from tho stupendous ofime of
chattol slavoly and longod for repose.
1t sought to cover thom from sight by
wicked compromises with tho wrong
which disturbed it's poaoe, but Col held
it to iss duty, until through conflict
1hich rocked and agonizod tho nation,
the great orimc was put away and free
dom was ordained for all.
II is said that if q majority Of tho
people Of State are unable by physi.
cal forco to maintain their rights, they
must be loft to political servitude. Is
this doctrine evcr before hoard in our
history? II it shall prevail, it's con-
sequenoos will not long be coniinod to
South Carolina or Louisiana !.
1t is aaid that q Democratic house of