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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.