Year: 1874




GREEN AND DELANEY.


On being introduced to the Independent
Republican Convention in Charleston, after
the nominations had been made, Judge Green,
the nominee for Governor, spoke as follows:


"Gentlemsn Of the Independent Convention:
TO have been chosen by you, unanimously, to
be your standard.bearer in the contest IN
which we are about to engage, fills my heart
with mingled feelings Of pride and gratitude.
I Icheerfully acknowledge the position assigned
me, and return to you, for the honor, my SIN
cere thanks. I am not unmindful OF the diff
culties which lie in our path. We are about
to beard the lion in his den. We intend, If
we succeed, to drive from place and power
those who have disgraced themselves and the
people they represent. By reason OF the plum
der they have taken from the public treasury,
and the political power they possess, our task
is a formidable one, and expect, IN this con-
test, that every honest Republican will do his
duty. 1t is true, gentlemen, that am weak
in body, but, battling in cause like this, l
feel that I can appeal with confidence tor
strength to that Great Being who loveth JUS
tice and hateth iniquity.


"You are all aware, gentlemen, that no mat
ter what ability, what integrity, what industry
I may bring to the Executive Department if
elected, my efforts must, to a certain extent,
prove without fruit, unless I have the hearty
cooperation of the legislative branch OF the
government Be it your duty, then, when
You return to your homes, to endeavor to i'm
press upon your people the necessity of send
ing, as their representatives, men who can
appreciate the high trust given to them, and
who are competent to execute it; not men
that loiter around the State House, and idly
spend their time, in the hope that the public
plunderers will start some scheme which,
while it may put few dollars into their own
pockets, gives license to our enemies to rob US
of thousands.


III should be elected, I will give you an
administration governed and controlled by
law. The light by which shall guide my
feet shall be shed by the Constitution and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof. And hnal'
", gentlemen, if success shall crown our glo-
rious cause, and should victory perch upon
our banners, I, here and now, pledge myself
that all the administrative ability that pos.
sess shall be devoted to the task Of raising up
again the PROSTATE form Of our dear old moth
er State of binding up with tenderness her
wounds and bruises, and of wiping from her
brow the shame and sorrow which have been
put upon it by the acts Of wicked, cruel men,
some of whom, be it said 10 their eternal
shame, are children of the soil of South Car
olina. 1t shall be the lofty aim of my ad'
ministration to bring back the roses of health
and beauty to her cheek, and to restore to her
her ancient name and fame--to rehabilitate
her in that garb of honor which was once oul
pride and glory. And in the performance Of
this act of filial duty, shall earnestly invoke
the aid of all who truly love and honor South
Carolina.


Major Delaney, the candidate for Lieuten
ant Governor, being introduced as "the honest
exemplar of the honest colored men of South
Carolina" addressed the Convention in the
following speech:


tsThis is one of the most extraordinary oc
casions of my life. I have not words to ex
press my gratitude to you for this manifesto
ton of your regard and confidence in nomina
ting me for the second office in the gift OF the
people of South Carolina. I have but little
to say to you now, for you have already heard
me frequently upon the various phases OF oul
relations to each other but this much will
say to you, that have entered into this great
movement with no other design than, if, elect
ed, to second, to the utmost extent, the integ
rty of the Chief Magistrate of the State.
will 90 further than this; will pledge all ol
the intelligence, all of the powers of intellect
that 1 possess, all of the integrity of charac
ter, to bring about between the two peoples
in this State, black and white, those relations
thatshall tend to the promotion of each Others
mutual welfare. I shall not act Gin the sense
in which it is understood) as party man. :!
shall know no other party than that which
shall have for its object the interest of the
whole people, black and white, Of the State oi
South Carolina. | shall strive to correct, sc
far as nv own race is concerned, one or two
errors in the Republican party as it formerly
existed We are now standing upon a ne"
platform, so far as party acts are concerned
In our party, there were three points of con-
sideration: 1st. We were formed as a Re
publican party in contradistinction to the
Democratic party; next, we were taught hrs'
and foremost an antagonism to the Democrat
ic party, which, as whole party, was all
right. Next, we had factions in our own
party, which was all wrong; and next, one
part of our party was taught as fundamen'
tai principle that they must stand in direct
hostility to one portion of the people which
formed the community in which they lived
I shall endeavor to correct this. 1t is my
province to say that, because, when l look
upon my race, see that it has all and every
thing to lose in contest such as might be
brought about by antagonism Of races. This
being true, I have but one more remark tc
make. do not intend to lower my standard
of manhood in regard to the claim of my race
one single step. I do not intend to recede
from the rights that have been given us by
the benefcence of just Congress of the ma
ton one single hairs breadth; but l do in
tend, in demanding all this, to demand the
same equal rights and justice to every citizen
black and white of the State of South Caro-
lima. And upon this line I will fight it out
if it takes all winter.


The Charleston News and Courier publishes
the subjoined sketch of the candidates:


JUDGE JOHN T. GREEN,


of Sumter, the candidate Of the Independent
Republican party for Governor Of the State
is the son of the Rev. Henry D. Green, OF
Mechanicsville, Sumter county, S. c., loca!
Methodist preacher, successful planter, and
a man held in the highest esteem by all classes
of the community in which he lived. Judge
Green was born in Mechanicsville, on October
1S, 1927. At an early age he entered the