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000 li c rc r 4 A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, .NOVEMBER 1, 1876. No. 44. THE HERALL IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, It Newberry, S. C. BY THOS, LFt GRENEKEB Editor and Proprietor. Trerms, $2.50.per slaumr Invariably in Advance. ;-The paper is stopped at the expiration c imne for which it is paid. R7 The 4 mark denotes expiration of sub - criptioni. SPEECH OF COL E. S. KITT. Delivered at NZewberry, on the 16t, of October, 1876. --0 Mr. President and Fellow- ',itizen~s You are in the midst of E. stupen, dous crisis in the political affair.; not only of this State, but of th( entire country; and let no man, whether white or black, think for a moment that he is not directly and seriouizly interested in the result oJ the election which takes place thE 7th day of next November. To-day forty-four millions of people, occu. pying a country extending from thE frozen heights of the Canadas tc the tropical waters of thc Gulf ol Mexico, from the heaving and roll ing billows of the mighty Atlantic to the broad and majestic Pacific. are profoundly stirred in solution of the great problem before us. 150 miles from our coast. To know how you got out of slavery you must know how you got in it. You came here to-day by a certain road; to get back home you will have to travel the same road. Four hun dred years ago there was not a white man nor a black man in all this country. The Eternal Father raised up Christopher Columbus, a man of stupendous genius, who demonstrated to the rulers of the Old World that there was a body of land on this side of the water to balance that en the other side. The King and Queen of Spain fitted out three small ships and told him to take them and go and find it. Af ter days and nights of doubt, anx iety and toil, his ships ploughing the azure waves of unknown seas, he landed upon yonder Southern Island and ran up his flag and erected his cross, and took all of these beautiful lands in the name' of his sovereign. Were any black men there? Not one. Were any white men there ? Not one. Who were there ? The Indians, the children of the forest. I may state a fact here which some of my let tered friei ds may not know. Los Casas, the Span*sh historian, tells us that Christopher Columbus, on his fourth voyage to this part of the world, lying off the port of Santa Gloria, on the Island of Jamaica. where all of his crew sickened with the diseases incident to the climate and were unable to-ido the work, said, "go to Africa and bring the black man here, he cn stand the climate and do the work." Colum bus was the first one who ever pro posed that your race should be brought from your native Africa to this country, and for what ? As the hewers of wood and drawers of water. In this capacity, for 273 years-to 1776-your race served all nations that saw fit to leave the Old and come to the New World. At that time all this country on the Atlantic coast belonged to England. No drums were heard through all these lands save the drums of En gland. No flags rode all the breeze save the flags of England. What occurred in 1776 ? Just what takes place when one of you gets twenty one years old-you feel that you are able to set up for yourself and you do it. At that time the thir teen Colonies, of which this State was one, declared themselves free and independent States. The re sult was a seven years' war, at the end of which they won their liber ties and established their indepen dence. Did the patriot sages of the Revolution give your race that freedom they had won for them selves ? No. When they laiid the foundations of the Government, when they framed, adopted and ratified the Constitution,- they in serted in that instrument a clause making your race slaves by law. Who did it? The North, the South, the East and the West. All alike did it. When you were born, you were born slaves by law. When 'these white people here were born, they were born free men by law. Neither you nor they had anything bo do with it. As you were made slaves by law, to be free men you had to be made free by law. I will now show 'you how that was done. I have just told you that I was elect ed eleven years ago a member from Ith is County to the Legislature of the State. Gen'l Williams, Gen'l Garlington and Major Suber were elected at the same time. Wie, as 1the representatives of your former owners, voted every slave in this County free by law. When I did it I freed 120 of my own. Where is the carpet-bagger or scalawagger who did that? This State 'ratified the thirteenthConstitutional amend ment, about which you have heard so much, and as soon as three fourths of all the States ratified it, 'it became a part of the fundamental law,and your condition was changed from slaves to free men by law. You are now free men by law, and I care not what revolution sweeps over this country, and which side wins, you are forever free men, for your former owners and their rep resentatives ratified the law. You are now not only free men, but you have been advanced to citizenship. 1In this I had no share, being out of power. Yow are now endowed with the highest privilege of the prodes ciizn-the right to vote. Be careful that you do not abuse it. The same responsibility that rests upon the best citizen, now rests upon you. Know that your ballots affect more than yourselves and your families; they affect God and your country. My colored friends, I have moved you up on a line with my white friends and I will now address all together. What was the financial condition of the State eight years ago, when we yielded up the government to the United States authorities and they turned it over to the carpet baggers and scalawaggers ? As you are not familiar, my colored friends, with figures, I will give you a simple illustration in your daily life, that you may clearly un derstand it. Suppose one of you had a three acre cotton patch that you had carefully prepared and planted, and early in May you had a fine stand and a good season upon it. You had time to run around it with the plough; but you are so pressed with other work you have no time to hoe it. Just at this time a man comes along who is hale and strong and tells you he is a first rate cotton hoer, that he can hoe an acre and a half in a day. You agree upon the price and put him at it, returning to your other work. He eats of you a good dinner and supper, and you know all do that. At night you ask him how he got along. He tells you finely; that he finished all you gave him; that the cotton is beautiful. You are delighted, thinking to-morrow you will have all your cotton hoed and be ahead of all your neighbors. You are up early and* go to meas ure off the rest of the patch for him; but before doing so you con clude, like a business man, to see how he did the first acre and a half. When you examine it what do you find? He has cut up three fourths of your cotton and knocked down the limbs and bruised the shins of every stock he left. What would you do with this fellow ? Would you give him the other acre and a half ? Not a bit of it. What will you think when I show you that the carpet-baggers and scala waggers have done the State worse than this man did the acre and a half of cotton-they have cut up every stalk and are now stealing and carrying awvay the soil. When I left the legislature the bonded and floating debt of the State was a little over $6,000,000. The credit of the State was so good that her bonds were at a premium in the market. You know the dif ference between the man who pays you every night when you~'work for him and the man who never pays. The State was like the man who pays every night. A tax levy of $400,000 met every public expenise. The Judiciary was pure and eru dite and the laws were justly en forced in mercy. All were well cared for and protected. How stands the case now ? Instead of $6,000,000 we have a debt of $20, 000,000 or more. Instead of the credit of the State being at a pre mium, she has none at all. Instead of a tax levy of $400,000, we have one of $2,000,000 and over, with a large deficit each year. Notwith standing these vast sums, your public institutions are all languish ing-some of them existing by pri vate charity. Your puiblic build ings are dilapidated; your roads are almost impassible ; your jail in this County is full, and while the Constitution guarantees every one a speedy trial it cannot be had. The regular term of the Court here was adjourned a few days ago be cause there was no money to pay the jurors and witnesses. Although the State appropriated this year $300,000 and the Counties contri buted $200,000 in addition, to the public schools, they have been closed since the 15th day of April. The teachers have gceived only two months' pay. The only men that seem to flourish are the car pet baggers and scalawaggers and a few blacks-their henchmen. How long, my countrymen, will you continue to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for twelve or fifteen villianous office holders in each County of the State ? I have been asked why is every bus iness in the country prostrated and swer is easy when you possess the facts. My countrymen, we are nearly all planters and tillers of the soil. Suppose one of you had a plantation that yielded you $1, 000 annually, and you spent $1,500; how long would you run it? This is exactly what this country has been doing since the Republican I party came into power. Hon. Da vid H. Wells, Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by the closest possible financial calculation esti mated the net earnings of all the capital and labor in the United States in 1869 at $546,000,000. By the same process of calculation he reckoned the taxes in 1870 at $730,000,000-$184,000,000 more than was made in the entire coun try. It cost to govern ourselves $184,000,000 more than we made. The same thing took place in 1871 and 1872. We all know what happened in 1873. Henry Clews & Company failed; when they sus pended they shook 140 out of 1700 National banks in this country. The shock was felt even in the Old World. Why was Henry Clews & Co. the first to fail? It was be cause they invested largely in the carpet-bag bonds of this State and Georgia. Nor will it be surprising when it is known that the carpet baggers, the pets of the Republican party, in eight years sunk $262, 000,000 for thirteen Southern States; more than four States like South Carolina would bring on the block. The next news brought the failure of the large government bankers, Jay Cooke & Co. From that day to this you can scarcely pick up a newspaper but you see it announced that some large capital ist or merchant has suspended. Why is this? It is because confi dence in the commercial world has been destroyed. Why did we run on so long up to 1873? It was be cause every ce lived on long cred it. Now there is very little credit. The Northern merchants have very short credit, if any, beyond the wa ters- Our merchants have very lit tIe credit North ; hence they are limited in their credits with you. Each year we are in a worse condi tion. As bad as it is now, it will be worse next year unless there is a change in the administration of the government. The Republican party, by its corruptions and mal administration of the government, has brought these sorrows and wars unnumbered in the land. The only remedy that can heal the mal ady is a thorough change in every department of the government, both State and Federal, and a re storation of confidence among our people in all sections of the coun try. Without confidence there can be no peace and pt-osperity. Let us, my countrymen, commence it right here. Let us have union amongst ourselves ; let us have friendship ; let us have confidence ; let us have reliance one upon the other. If you have any wants, my colored friends, come up like men and tell them, and let us see if we can not satisfy them. Do not be backward ; come up and let them be known. Come up and help us save the State, now in peril. My colored f-riends, the white people are better friends to you than you are to them, and I can prove it. A large part of the lands in this County are mortgaged to feed you and your families. If you doubt it go to the records in yonder Cou.rt House and you will find true what I say. What ! Just think of a man mortgaging the roof that cov ers his wife and chikMren, to feed and keep you, too ; when you, by your actions, force him into the condition that compels him to do it. You have eyes, and you see not, you have ears, and you hear not. I am here to-day to open your eyes and your ears, that you may see and hear.. The two great parties that divide the country each has a history. Let us turn to the record and see what that history is. The Demo cratic party for nearly sixty years prior to 1860 controlled almost un interruptedly the destinies of the country. ~Uider its benign sway cities, towns and villages sprang up on all sides, railroads ii itersec ted the country in every dir ection, peace, prosperity and hap pinesf nervaded the lnd an t l me ri an American citizen was honore and respected wherever the flag o the Repablic floated. By an un fortunate split in this party in 186( the Republican party obtained con trol of the government. As sooT as iti was installed into power it in augurated the grandest and mos! terrific civil war that ever swepi over the earth. It sent a millior of the "bravest of the brave" to un timely graves, and history will evei hold this party responsible for it for if they had not obtained contro] f the government the war would not have taken place. What has been the history of this party since he war? It struck ten sovereign States from our galaxy and reduced them to pure military despotism and put them under the General of the Armies. It manacled the Supreme Court and curtailed its jurisdiction to prevent its exercise of the high constitutional function entrusted to it of deciding upon the validity of its enactments. It struck with mailed hand the three great fundamental principles of aivil liberty-the writ of habeas cor pus, the trial by jury and the free dom of the press-that oozed up trough the blood of centuries and has come down to us through the unfolding of the ages. Who will ever forget the stupendous crimes of this party in not only suspend ing the writ of habeas corpus in a time of profound peace, but in del egating to the President the powex to do so at his pleasure? Who is so ignorant that he does not know that this party has made the trial by jury a mockery? Who does not remember the bold efforts of Ben jamin F. Butler and, other leaders of this party on the floor of the Federal Congress to stifle the free dom of the press? Nor, my coun trymen, is there a scheme of public plunder that this party has not de vised and executed. The Credil Mobilier, that sent one Vice-Presi dent to the shades of private life and the recent Belknap and safe burglary exposures by the Demo cratic House of Representatives, are of themselves enough to con sign this party forever to the tomt of the Capulets.. Rouse yourselves to a realization of the fact that you are in the midst of a- contest with desperate men who will use every means, fair or foul, to win, for they cannot afford to have their officiel lives exposed, which they know will be done if -Samuel J. Tilden is elected with a Democratic Con gress. I profoundly regret, my country men, that President Grant, who from obscurity, in four years fillei all the earth with his fame as a sol dier, should lend his ~powerful aid to a party guilty of crimes so sta pendous against the rights and lib erties of his country. No man ir ali the ages that have preceded u: ever had opportunities so precioni by deeds of virtue to render hii name immortal and to go down t< his grave covered with the bless ings of his countrymen. These two great parties have re cently met in convention. The: have announced their platform: and have put their standard-beareri in the field. The Republican part: endorses all of its past acts and puts Governor Hayes of Ohio ii the field as its standard--bearer Governor Hayes by letter approve; the platform and accepts the posi tion. He may be perfectly honest but what will that avail hi,n in thi hands of a party that bends the iron will of Grant to its purposes Simply a ball of putty to be mould ed to their wishes. But Gov. Hayei approves the platform. What doe that mean but a continuance dur ing his administration of the sam policy the party has pursued fo the past eight years ? The Demc cratic party will be known hence forth as the great reform party C America. Its platform says reforr from begi.nning to end. Reform C what?i Reform of the abuses an: corruptions of the Republican pai ty. It has put into the field as it standard-bearer, Samuel J. Tilder the champion reformer of America Words are but leaves, but deed are fruits. Mr. Tilden, my cour trymen, is a man of deeds. In 187 he struck corruption in his ow party and, s.ided by O'Conor, tI best lega mind ini this country an I possibly in the world, he crushe< f the most giant ring in this countr; -and put Wm. Tweed,who had stolei ten millions of dollars, in the State' prison. This gave him the Demo cratic nomination in 1874 for Gov I ernor of the State of New York He was elected over the incumbent Gen. Dix, the strongest man th< Republican party had, by a majori ty of 53,000 votes. He was inau gurated in January, 1875, and ii one year he reduced the taxes o the people of that State from $16, 000,000 to $8,000,000-just one half. This, with numberless acti of reform, put him prominently be fore the entire country. The Dem ocratic party have put him befor< the People as their standard bearer and urges them to elevate him t( the Presidential chair, that he ma3 do for the whole country what h( has done for the great State oJ New York. Do you not feel the ab solute need of these reforms ? Be hold the impoverished condition o: the country because of the enor. mous taxation imposed upon us. Samuel J. Tilden is the man to ef feet them. I come now to the standard bear. ers in this State. Gen. Wad( Hampton bears aloft the banner oJ the Democratic party. He has i spotless name and matchless puritj of life, and in his veins flows th( hero'- blood of three generation in this State-there has not been E great enterprise or war in thii country for 125 years but Hamp ton's name has been amongst th< foremost in deeds-in the hallowei soil of the State the manes of hif sires for generations repose. Suct is the standard bearer of the Dem ocratic party in this State. I livei near General Hampton before th< war and so.na0h, ayz,unrymen do I value his word that I will sa: to you if he violates it I am willing to be shot. I will say that for n( other living man. Daniel H. Chamberlain is th4 standard bearer of the Republicax party. What is his record i Eigh years ago he came to the Stat< without a record; since that tim< he has made for himself one o shame and infamy. There has nol been a great fraud perpetratet against the State during that tim< lbut his name is mingled in it. Tak< the conversion bond fraud in whici the State was swindled out of nea: six million dollars in 1871, ani Daniel H. Chamberlain's name ii on the financial board. Take the land commission swindle in whici the Stai,e has been largely defraud ed- out of seven hundred thousani 1 dollars, and Chamberiain's name il -on the advisory board. Now, m: lfriends, after the credit of the Stat< was destroyed by an over issue o bonds, and no more money could be had in that way, what do w< find?i The State had a large amoun of property in various stocks an< town lots in different parts of thi >State. An act was passed by tb< - General Assembly appointing Commissioner to sell this propert; . not in actual use and apply th proceeds to the debts of the State and to make an annual report o their doings. Everything belong ing to the State that they coul Sput their hands on has been sold 1but not one word or line of a repor has ever been made by the Com Smissioner, although six years hay passed away and the legislatur has called for it. baniel H. ChamE berlain's name is on the commif sion. Not only that, but he wa the law-officer of the State during all this time. Why, if he was no an active partner in these crime 3 against the State, did he not prof .ecute the - guilty parties ? Th a State Government has been de r ared a disgrace to the civilizatio of the age. No man in the Stat .is so much responsible for it a i Daniel H. Chamberlain. 2 In 1870, when Judge R. B. Cai penter, to stay the tide of corrul tion, led the reform columns in thi State, he was met by Chambea s lain at Chester, who, in his speec t, there, said : "I am here to defen i. the policy and acts of Governc s Scott and his administration in tbn i- management of the funds and credi 1 of the State. I am aware this athe vital point of our cause-thn e rock on which we split, if at a] d If any ne fraudulent act. one ii I stance of mismanagement or mis F appropriation of public funds under i the present administration is proved 3 let your swift condemnation fall on - our heads; drive us from office, aye, - drive us from the State. When ever there is made good one single charge or one single fraud in our history for the past two years, let - us descend to merited infamy." At - this very time it now turns out that some of these frauds had been F committed; and Chamberlain stands self-condemned. I will now speak to you of the "Hamburg Horror," where one white man and six black men were killed-the white man first. It is a philosophical truth that he who siarik6s the blow is not responsible for the deed, but he who caused it to be struck. Let us see if we can not find the party who caused this awful deed. A large number of white men were 'charged with the crime and arrested. When they applied for bail the following affi davit was filed: John Lee (col.), a brother of Samuel J. Lee, former Speaker of the House of Represen tatives and a resident of Hamburg, swore, that Doc Adams, the Cap tain of the Company, said to him, "We are forming the Compan3 to kill the white people; that Govern or Chamberlain had promii;ed to farnish the arms and ammunition." Adams also stated that Goverr or Chamberlain had said it was neces sary to do this to carry the next election and to keep the State un der the control of the Republican party. Is it not clear that the forming of the Company and the purpose wai based upon Governor Chamberlain's furnishing the arms and ammunition? If the Company had not been formed the deed would not have beii perA ted'; hence, Daniel H. Chamberlain is the responsible cause. Nor is this all. The white men charged with this crime appeared at the regular term of the Court at Aiken in Sep ttember last and demanded their Strial. It was refused and the Court adjourned. A Republican Gover nor, a Republican Jpgdge and a Re publican Attorney-General refused Sthem a trial. Why was it refused ? IIt was because they did not want the truth brought to light. "Fif teen or twenty niggers killed," said Governor Ames, of Mississippi, "will help the Republican party in ithe North." Chamberlain is run i ning the same schedule. SNot long after the "Hamburg Horror" a box marked Agricultu -ral Implements was shipped sur reptitiously from Columbia to this Splace. Thbe Citv Fathbers bere were notified of the fact. When Sthe box was called for they ar rested the consignee and seized the box. On opening it, instead Sof Agricultural implements sixteen b improved rifles and 675 ball car Stridges were found-the property 3 of the State. Governor Chamber a lain was immediately notified and ~requested to have the matter .in I' vestigated ; but he has failed to 3 do it. For what, my colored ,friends, were these guns shipped I here ? Could sixteen guns protezt - your race ? No.; but in the hands I of bad men they might have caused the death of sixteen or more of t your people, which is just what - Governor Chamberlain and his a conspirators want; but we are de a termined they shall not have it if we can help it. Foiled and de tected in these diabolical scLsemes Sto continue in power, he conspires Sthe ruin and desolation of the tState, by invoking the military s power of the General Government and threatening martial law. s Rome had her Cataline who, fresh Sfrom his midnight conclave, where 1 he had conspired the firing of the 8 city of his nativity in one hun s dred places and the massacre in cold blood of innocent women and 7children, dared to appear in the - Roman Senate and even rose to s speak ; but Rome had her Sena -tors of virtue and courage, and b. they bid him depart the city; and a. for it they have been applauded r by the good in every age. South e Carolir.a has within her borders t a viler conspirator than Cataline; s she has IDaniel H. Chamberlain, e who, to still hold the reins of L power, not only schemed the L- slanghter of his friends and sup. ADVERTISINC RATES. 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I find 'it in the New York Herald, a news paper that is read wherever civi lization exists. Hear it: "Select for all the offices, State and local, not colored men-not even North ern men-but prominent, influen Lial, intelligent men of the old white residents, the natives of the State, and vote for these." _+I will add to this advice of Senator Boutwell by asking you to vote Lbe whole Democratic ticket from Samuel 5, Tilden down to the cor )ner; and I pro mise yo u, if they are elected, that peace, plenty, prospority and happiness -will iq)ain reign supreme throughout all, the land. You ask me when