Year: 1872

services rendered? No lodging of this. Let
it bring into disrepute whom it may, give us
the facts backed by iacontrovertible proof.
The people demand it! They have a right to
know"


In reply to this he said that the opinion
seemed to be current that the armed force
fund had something to do with the Adjutant-
Generals office because it was for military
purposes but the fact was that nobody had
ANYTHING to do with the drafts upon that fund
but the Governor. AS to the eleven thousand
dollars of the armed force fund which were
charged to him between November, 1871, and
June, 1872, it had nothing to do with any
transactions during that period, and was not
paid out at that time. That money was paid
to him for legitimate militar7 expenses and
for the use of the Adjutant- Generals depart
ment in the summer Of 1871, fully one year
ago. The Governor at that time gave him
two warrants upon the State Treasury one tor
five thousand dollars, and the other for six
thousand dollars, but there was no money in
the Treasury to pay the warrants and they had
to be discounted. They were accordingly dis
counted, and last winter, when there was mon
ey in the Treasury, the parties who held them
brought them forward, and they were charged
on the Treasury books as though they had been
paid out at that time and to him. For all those
facts the proofs were or file in the Treasurers
and Adjutant.G Generals Office; they were such
proofs as public officer had right to offer.
Ifthose proofs were net sufficient, he could
only say that no citizen of the State was safe
from the charges of malicious or envious per-
sons.


In reply to the charge of issuing fraudulent
pay certificates, he fell back on the report of
Treasurer Parker and declared that that doc
ument would prove concusively that the
charge was untrue and he took occasion pub
licly to brand the men who made it as infa-
NOUS liars. He also demanded them to pro-
duce the evidence upon which their assertions
were based, and show to the people Of South
Carolina whether he had been issuing fraudu-
lent pay certificates, or whether his accusers
had been lying.


As has already been said by an eloquent
speaker: 'Let the dead past bury its dead"
Let US look forward to new havens of rest,
and let us take up this poor old State, strip
from its person the elements Of discord that
have gathered there in the past, and carry her
forward on newer and hi CHER plan of civili-
zation. No matter what part the white people
take in this contest; whether they fold their
arms in apathy, or come forward and help US,
I pledge you that their rights and liberties
shall never be impugned or ;Dfringed upon by
our administration.


NV fellow.citizens, do as you think best.
All that I can do is to beg, to conjure you to
take part and help US to redeem our beloved
State. Let us all so act that, when the day
of election is over, we may all perform our
personal and official duties, remembering that
we haveno peoplein South Carolina who have
the right to be our enemies. We spoke in
earnest when we adopted this platform under
which we propose to march. 1t contains no
bid for votes-no deluslve promises. We in
tend to carry it out, no matter what errors it
may force us to acknowledge. By the living
God, as long as there is spot in this old
State to stand upon, the Republican party
will carry out that platform in every particu-
lar. We propose to rescue these lands that
have been purchased for the homeless. We
propose to lift from our shoulders that infer
nal bonded debt under which we have been
laboring so long and so heavily. We propose
to do away with the financial agent in the city
of New York-to do away with credit in New
York. We will seek for credit and respect
in the hearts of our own people, by showing
them that the money they pay into the Golfers
of the State is properly expended. Doing this
we shall no longer find it necessary to 60 to
northern climes to seek credit. We intend
to have the strictest system of economy in
South Carolina, and to learn lessons from the
experience through which we have gone. l
trust in God that when the news Of the elec-
tion is waited throughout the country, the
Northern, Western and Eastern States will
find that there exists such state of feeling
between the two races in this State that re-
construction will never be needed. Great
cheering