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JEVOTJD TO POLIT1C, IORALITT DUCATION AND AO THE GEN#RAL INTEREST OF TIIE COUNTRY. vOL. vi. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1877 NO. 34 * THE SENTINEL IS P19LISHED CVERY THURSDAY. B D. F. BRADLEY & Co .Werms of Hubscription. OUe Year ........... -.$1 50 5g Months .1. . . . .. .........7 Advertising Rates. Advertisements Inserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, OR Ess, for the fAit inpertion, and 60 cents for each subse quest insertion. Contracts made for THRIC, six or TWELVE Months, on favorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of Insertions mrked on them, will be published "*tit forbid and charged accordingly. 'fhese terms are so simple any child may 4usdrstand them. Nine lines is a square one inch. In every instance we charge by the opace occupied, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the spape. 'W Advertisers will p1ease state the num ba of squares they wish their advertisements to make. SWb Business men who advertise to be benefitted, will bear in mind that the MENTIN.EL has a large and increasing cir culation, and is taken by the very class of ppr.sons whose trade they desire. From the Charleston News and Courier. Governor of all Our People. The General Reception of the Citizens. A N ADDRESS TO T1E COLORED VsITORs AND iTs EFFEcrr. My FRIENDS (IF CHARLsTON. It gives me great pleasure to meet you, and particularly so, to meet so many ot the colored citizens ot Charleston on this occasion. I want you par, ticularly, nt only here, but through out the whole State, to understand precisely the condition of affairs and the policy that I represented in the last election. I know that it is very natural fI' you to suppose, hav ing been misled in so many instances, that ulthough a man who is a candi date for office may make promises you Calnut know what will be the re suilt of these pledges until 3 on cee how tlj policy has been carried olit. All that I have to say to you now, and I say it when victory has crown ed our efforts, is that I stand now pre cisely wvher'e I stood hvelve years ago. I was the first man in Ameri ca, certainuly the first mana in the South, who advocated the granting i tf the right to vote to the colored man. [A pplause.] That is on record. Onsy a few days ago I saw ink the New York Tribune a statement made by its editor, Whitelaw Reid, that in 1605 1 told him that the Northern Republicans would want to take away the right of voting from the colored people long before the * South ever would. [A voice: 'That's so."] During the late canvass I made a prediction that the colored people4 wou'd very soon find that the only .protection they had for their' elective franchise would be from the white men of the South. You will live to see it! I meant to tell you an incident which has happened since my election When I was in Washington recently, five or six or more prominent Re publicans--men high in position-ac tually consulted me as to how the vote of the colored man could best be restricted. I tell you what is true sn answer was: We don't want the vote of the colored man taken away or restricted; for, aside fromth friendship we bear' their race, their right to vote gives us thirty more votes in Congress, and wihen peace coupes we are satisfied that the best 31e01 in both races and parties will vote together for the commaton weal. we dont want to take that right away. [Great applanse.]~ s.tand precisely ip the position that I took twelve years ago. I want 4 to see the colored people educated, and I renew hero the pledges that I have hitberto made, that*we will giv'e: tihe colored pe>ple better facilities for education than they have hitherto en-I joyed. [A pplause.] I shall use all my influence to see to it that the n.eans oaf education arec ilaced withinJ reach of every citizen ot South Carom lina. [Applause.] And when I siy every citizen I do not limit or qualify the expression. I call every man a Carolinian, whether he is white or blac--whether he is born here or at the North or in Europe-who is a good citizen and has the interest of the state at heart; and be is entitled to all the protection that the laws of the State and of the United .States can give him. I am pledged to ful,. fil every promise made in the last canvass. I can only do that if the people of bouth Carolina will help me. I can do nothing ofi myself. I may indicate to the Legislature what I consider a propper course for them to pursue, but it is for them to make the laws. My duty is to execute them, and your duty is to send the best men to the Legislature, irre spect ive of race or party. Select no man for public office who is not fit to fill the position. I care not what may be his politics or his race. Make it your rule that you will place no man in office unless he is competent. If you give me good menu to make the laws, I pledge you my honor that those laws shall be framed so as Lo place every man and woman, of both races and parties, upon an aqual footing before the law. (Ap Plause.) We have just passed through an 7xcitog and bitter contest. If miy voice could reach every man in S ut ih Jarolilna; if I could impress it upon rou all as I feel it myself; if we wish :o consult tihe best interests of the State; it we want to build her up and mring peace and prosperity back to ler sunny fields, I would say to one ind to all, forget, for a while at least, ll abittut politics and devote yomrsel Fes to the miaterial interests of the Stato. Go to wol ,! Rusolltionls will Jo n:thing. Public imectings will do iothing. Every man should p)ala%c ds shoulder to the wheel. Ile must go to work resolutely, honestly, ear iestly and buldly in the discharge of uis duti ; to bring back harmony and mianiity between the races at the southu. I know, my friends, you can lo it. I tell you my col 'red fellow :itizens, that I have not one particle f feeling of ill will against a single ndis idumal of your race, and it so uappened that the first commission hat I issued as Governor of South Jarolina was issued to a colored man mnd a Republizan at that. Wheni I Nas in W ashington, a colo: ed Rlepnub ican, an ex-ofliceholder of this State -Proessor' Greener of the State [Jniversity-came to me and asked or a reccomnmendation. I told him hiat I could not understand what val le my recommendation wvon)d be to imu, but 11po0! his renewing his re puest I gave him a letter, and I told he President that I had not intended 0 give any recommendation of' the ate Admninistration in South Caroli a, but aes Greener was a colored nan, had voted for II ayes and stump 3d the State for Chamberlain, I hotugh' I could afford to miake an ex ::eptioni ini this case. W hat I say to you here I wish ever' mnan to rep)eat [ only say to you, judge the Adm in istration by its acts. I don't wvant you to become Democrate or Coniser vatives.' I ask you to forget all about politics, anmd I only want thme mpI() t of those men in Sout b Caro lina who believe that I am standing an tle Constitnion, obeying the laws aund keeping my oathm to see justice lone to every man in Sonth Caroli na. I have the right as Governor of the State to ask that. I have the right to go to th~ p)eople who have elected mne and ask them to hold up my hands as long as I am doing right. W hen I am'doing wrong let them turn their backs upon me. I white men and black men will do this, and try and forget all their ani muosit ies engendered dui ng the past st anorle-if they will remember onlv that they are CarolinIane-that we all bave to live bore together on this soil--that when we die our bones will crumble away together in the bosom of this old earth that gave us birth-if you will devote yourselves heart and hand to build up the State, I tell you that before two years have passed away there will he no parties in this State to divide the people on State politics. There may be in National politics, but there will be so strong a party of white and black men united together that, practically, we will have no domestic divisions. I have worked, and am working, for nothing else, aRid I pledge you my honor that it was the hope to bring about that state of things, and only that hope, so help me God, that in duced me to be a candidate for Gov. ernor. It it is given to me to bring peace-if it is given to me to restore the prosperity of this State-to see all our people happy and prosperous, I will feel that my work has been done, and I will then be compensat ed for every sacrifice that I have made. You and I may not live to see this era, but our children and our children's children wi!l rise up to bpless the men that worked their re deniption. (Applause.) The address was heard by the au dience with profound interest and respect, and the plain, manly words, so candidly uttered, produced a i marked effect upon his colored hear era, many of whom o)enly expressed their satisfaction. One colored man present, a very bitter Republican during the late campaign,said: "W hy he is as good a Repub'ican as I am. I fought him last time, but it that's the sort of man he is I'll give him my support all the time." Another ex-officeholder said that from the impression that the Gov ertior had made upon the colored people, and the fairness of bis vledg es, lie believed that at the next elec tion the Republicans would ruim Hampton on their ticket. Expres sions of this kind were offered onI every side, and afford pleasing evi dence of the good feeling wvhich the1 Governor has already established between himself and his foriner po litical opponents. THE HAND-SHAKINo. The Governor was then escortedb back into the Mayor's room, arid the| crowd was admitted ini squads to shake hands, after which they passed out of the door on the hall. For the space of nearly an hour an inCessant] stream of human beings, white and black, natives and foreigners, De mAcrats and Republicans, passed thror.gh the room to shake the Gov ernor' by the hand*and pay their re spects to him; and it is a singular coincidence that the first man who1 came forwerd atter the address and shook the Governor by the hand was W. J. McKinley, the registrar of mesne convev'ance. AN AMUsING INCIDE~NT. Towards the close of the reception, "Col. Samuel R. Dickerson (col'd) camne forward and extended his hand to the Governor with a good deal of that style for which he is peculiar, and said: "Governor, I have been a Republican ever since thne war closed, and I am a Republican by principle now, but I have been ashamed of some of' the menn I bave voted for. But y'ou, sir, have mesmnerised mue; and I believe, at the next election, you will get so mnany votes I bat you will have to say, 'Stop, boys, we've got enough.'" Governor Hampton said: "Yes, you mean as you riot to vote quite so often as you used to do." [Laught er'.] "Col." Dickerson went on to make a lirtle speech about his war' record; how lie had beat the long roll at Sumter and Battery Wagener, &c., and the Governor said, "Why, you seem to have been as big a rebel a I was." "Yes," said the Colonel, "but I have had my disabilities re moved." [Laughter.] THE OOLORED MILITIA. The officers of the several colored companies of this city have given notice to Gn. Moise that they are anxious to confer wit h him officially at his office in Columba, in relation to the condition of their commands. Tis is a gratifying evidence of the unanimity with which the colored companies recognize Gen. Moise as the adjutant and inspector general of the State, notwithstanding the doors of his office are cealed. A committee of colored men waited upon Gen. Moise yesterday, and of fered him one hundred men, to form into a eimpany at once. He re. 3eived them courteously and told them that it would take some little ime yet before he could tell what irrangenhents would be made, and invited theim to visit him officially at is office in Columbia, when he might e better able to answer their ques.. ions. lov. Perry's Answer to Xr. Chamber lain's Address to.the Republicans of the State. ffon D. II. Chamberlain: Sir: Your farewell address "To tle Eepublicans of South Carolina," calls or the execratioi of every honorable nan in the State. It is unequaled in tudacity, falseheod and hypocrisy. When forced by the indignation of he people aid a sense of ju3tice on he part of the President to abandon your fraudulent usurpartion of power in South Carolina, you seek, by the most insiduous teachings, to stir up tihe deepebt malignant hostilities and revenge between the races. It would een from the language of your ad dress that your fell purpose is to urge the ignorant and credulous people whom you have so long duped to riots, insurreclions and massacres? You are indeed, sir, an enigma in norails and politics. A fter libelling P~resident Hayes, by charging him ,vith a cowardly abandonment and >etrayal of his friends, and with be ng falso to the constituition which he sad sworn to support, you conclude tour hypocritical address by saying lie "motives and purposes are uin jnestionably honorable and patri >tic." Was there ever such glaring oconsistency before in so short an irticle? Moreover, after slandering the )cople ot South Carolina with the nost atrociouse faldehoods, and trying o sow amongst them the seeds of ha red and revenge, which are to ripen nto murder and a blaze of incendila ism all over the State, you have the iaring hypocrisy to say that you 'devoutly pray that peace, justice, freedomn and prosperity may hereat ter be the p'rtion of every citizen of South Carolinal" D. you suppose, sir, that any one who reads your ad dress will be fool enough to be do eeived by your canting bypocriss You have the reputation, with all your meanness and treachery, of being a man of talenit and cultore, a~nd it is amnazing that your fiendish feelings should have betrayed you into such inconcosistencey? But youra actions have h)uon in the pas as in consistent as yohr word s. It is well knownm that you were elected Governor of the State two or three years ago by the most corrupt wing of your part3, and in opposi. tion to the wishes and exert ions of all the respectable meon of bath par' ties. In the course of a few shmor't months you denomunced these corrupt partisans in unmieasumred terms. You declared yourself a reformer, and said that your former friends and supporters were too corrupt) to hole public offices. You sp)oke of' the im minent danger to the civilization o the IUnguenot and Pumritanm,the Run t( Head and Cavalhier. M-m o men were dectived by your artfal hypocrisy. You declared that you would not accept a nomination for re,election by the corrupt wing of the Radical party. But as soon as the Dewocratic party had made their nomination for Governor, you said to Judge Cook, as he testified before the Congressional Committee, that you would see to it that Oorbin's diabolical scheme of having thirty or forty negroes killed to stop the enthusiasm in favor of Hampton should be carried out! Such an ex pression of fiendish treachery would have done credit to the darkest days of the Spanish inquisition, or the lo)diest leaders of Saint Barthole mew's massacre! You then appealed to the corrupt leaders of your party, whom you had so scornfully de nounced for their support, and was renominated by theml You commence your address by the utterance of a truth, a disgrace ful truth to the people of South Cars olina, aid the only truth which it contains. You were "by the will of the Republican party made Governor of the State in 1874." The next sen tence, that you were elected to the same office again last fall, is a wes: notorious falsehood, knQwn.to be such by every one, so declared by the Su preme Court of the State and 'every Circuit Judge on the bench. The President of the Uniited States and his entire Cabinet have tacitly ad mitte I it to be falbe, and the whole pi es% and Aimerican people believe it to be false. The votes returned by the managers of election, after all the trauds and repeating of your vo ters, show that Governor Hamptor was el,cted by a majority of ten t< twelve hundred votes, ten or fifteer thousand of the nost respectable oJ your own party voting for him. And yet you have the audacity to say, in the face of all these facts, that you were re-elected, and when driven from the ollice by the scorn and con tempt of time p)eople and the decree of the courts, you still sign your name, "D. II. Chamberlain, Govern or of South Carolina." In the language of the arraign ment of a murderer and traitor, none but one "devoid of all social duty, and with a heart fatally bent on mis% chief," could have uttered such atro cious falsehmoods as you have done in time following sentences: "From au thentic evidence it is shown that not less than one hundred of your num her were murdered because they were faithmful to their p)rincip)les, anid exercised rights solemnly granted to t hem by thme nation! You were driv en from your homes6, denied employ ment, robbed of the earnings of your honest industry, hunted for your lives like wild beasts, your families out raged and scattered for no ofensee, except your peaceful and firm deter mination to exercese your political rights." Thiese monbtrous faleehmoods you have published in thme face of the concurrent testimony of the military authorities of the Unmited States in South Carolina anid all hmonest, truth ulmen of both parties that the elec tion was orderly, quiet arnd peaceful. There was no violence or outbreak at any poll in tihe State; nor was therc tihe slightest disturbanco after the election. It is trume thmat, in pursu anice of your wicked and damnnabl( designs disclosed to Judge Coake there were dai~s amid bloodshed bef ort the election at Hlammburg, Aiken Comnbabee, Charleston and Cainhoy in wnich your own p)artidams were the aggressors in every instance. In stead oh attempting to suppress thest riots, you ran off' anid lett time State But in or-der' to uintiur thme bloods sirit on time eve of' the Presidentia election, aund give notoriety to thesi I riots, yon~ ordered several hundre( I of the miost respectable genlmem ii |the State to be arrested. When the came forward and demanded a tria in open c-)urt, it was refused by yot;r minions, and in all probability never will be accorded to them. In the Cainhoy massacre, where the negrees suddenly fell upon the white people and killed eight or ten of them you never had one of them arrested. The gravomen of your insidious complaint against the President is that he will not keep a large portion of the United S'ates army in South Carolina, to maintain you in your usurpation of the executive authority of the State! and save harmless the regneish carpet baggers and scala wags in p!undering and robbing the people! oppressing and tyranizing over them! You know well enough the'President has no power to decide who is the Governor of a sovereign State, or interiere with its Legislature This power might belong to a nili tary despot in the government of his provinces, but cannot be exercised in a federal republic, where all power is vested in t lie people. You deny, sir, the right of a Dem ocratic House of Representatives in Congress to withold appropriatiois f>r the army when they see that army kept up for the purpose of trampling on the rights of a Stato and crushing out all the Republican principles of our governmentl The House of Representatives would be the assassins et liberty if they made an appropriation for such a pur pose. I will not notice further your most extraordinary address which embod ies the basest and must malignant feelings of your nature, and, proves you to be a bad-hearted and' danger ous man. In Rome you might have been a Cataline, in France you might have figured in the last centu. ry as R..bespirre, but in South Caro-. lina you may yet be conspicuous in the Penitentiary, it all that is said of you by your former associates and partizaus be true. Yours, d&c., B. F. PE~RRY. WAs1INGTON, April 10.-The good influence of Presidnt Hayes' Southern policy is penetrating and renovating the various departments of the gov ernment. In February last, tho Com missioner of Internal Revenue appeal. ed to President Grant, through Secro tary Morrill, for United States troops to aid in the operatione against illicit distillers in tho States of N orth Caro,. lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama and Tennesec. President Grant endorsed this ap peal, directing the General of the army to furnish the necessary for'ce, and it was so furnished and used until after President Hayes assumed the control of affairs, when the Commissioner of Internal Revenue became convinced that it did not comport with with the principles of a Republican government to uno the army to collect the taxes; so he issued a circular to collectors of revenue in whose districts trocps were stationed notifying them that in con sequence of Congress having appro priated $40,000 for the purposo of breaking up illicit distillation in the States above named, the United States troops would no longer be employed for this purpose, but instead, an in,. creased number of deputy collectors would be allowed for this pur pose. So the troops have been again with.. drawn. A MoDETJ GOVERNOR AT LAST.-ThO State government of South Carolina, that which Wade Hampton heads and which the President now virtually recognizes, is conducted with the as.. sistanee of one clerk. The Legisla.. ture cost about one fifteenth of the usual amount, and out of *120,000 re.. ceived as taxes, the Governor has $80,000 on hand, If Governor Hamp-. ton should lose his present situation, thero are States up North that would like to employ him.--N. Y. Tribune, A clear conscienco nee'is no con. Scouled weanons.