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VUltiai i ? .
Admirals Porter, Davis an 1 Howan
left by rail on Wednesday morning for
Washington after having inspected thi
harbors of Port ltoyal, Tybee and 11 runswick.
They will report to cougrt-ss when
it convenes.
4^#
Associate Justice Willard in the case
of the State Board of Canvassers said
* 'This court is clothed with majesty. Y\\
do not speak with the voice of men. \\ t
speak in judgement, and judgement is
the voice of God."
Since the foregoing was said we have
formed a higher opinion of the Supreme
Court but our faith in the Almighty is a
little shaken.
*
V ?<?>?
The Baltimore American in commenting
on the proceedings in South Carolina
points out clearly the shifting demands o
the democrat?. 4'You must not exercis
judicial functions," say these gentlemen
in effect, 4 4while;the returns from Lige
field, Aikea and Laurens are }x?fore you
but wheD Beaufort is called, then you !<
cotae judges and must deeide as we di
' xect," and because the board refuses t<;
play Bo-peep with the order of the su
preme court its action is denounced as
"infamous."
The Unim- Herald is to be takei before
the Supreme Court to purge itseli
of contempt.
" you may break, you may shatter tho vase if you
will,
But the iceat of the ros?s will bang ro* n l it still.'
Thi Commission appointed by tin
Secretary of Navy to select a suitable site
for a naval station arrived here ou Sun da;,
and immediately left iu the Tallaposa for
Tybee aod Brunswick. After inspecting
the various points named they returned
to Beaufort on Wednesday,
We understand that the Commission
are very much pleased with our harbor
nnd it adaptability to all the purposes
of the Navy. The depth of water, and
capacity of our harbor and the 'number*)*
suitable locations obtaiuab'e ; and the |
exceeding' good health enjoyed by the o2i
eer? and men of the fleet since they have
been here, the absence of yellow fever
from Beaufort, and the ea>y facilities for
communicating by rail with all parts o.
the county, and the geographtical loca.
.tion of Port Royal when considered by the
"board, will no doubt cause a report in favor'of
Port Royal Harbor as a naval station.
Says the N. Y. Herald; "This is not
* ? r> I * it_
a time to be playing witn are; dui n un
Democratic leaders mean to do so, we
"warn them that they will get their own
finger3 turned. T!ie people of this country
have not forgotten 18G1, and they dr
not mean to be dragged iuto another wai
by a set of men, the burden of whose
blunders and wicked ambitions we artis
bearing."
4-OK*
Gen'l Wade Hamp'on has been put
forward for U.. S. Senator and next
President by some of his admirers.
Abbeville Mt linm speaking of the large
number of office seekers in that county
says. This itch for office is universal ami
is doing the country harm. Our people
hate hard work?they admit that we
have a fine country tna< produces well
and that we need skilled labor to cultivate
the farms aud improve agriculture; but
rather take hold of the plow theu'selvethey
busy themselves with petitions fb:
appointments and are more willing to accept.
petty clerkship at a few hundred a
year than to go to work like men am.
earn their bread by the sweat of theirbrow.
The New York Evening Post says :
"There seems to have been but one qucs
lion before the supreme court. Is" the
boaid of canvassers merely a ministerial
body, or is it also, judicial body ? Instead
of deciding th'> question, the eouri
i?J . i. ....i.Ti- tlv? and
oruereu uie youiu w v..v . ~?
report the result to the court?an uu
ieari of prooe*%dioB?and reserved it;<
judgement uatii it knew what the return.^
were. S- me republicans say that the ob
ject of this order was to secure a ceitain
result . We do not say that this was the
object, but what would have been said ii
this thing had been done by one Kelloggs
creatures ? "
Gov. Chamberlain has been equal to
the emergency, he is master of the situation.
His pluck and talent has beat a
conibiiiatiou of violence a id fraud, and
vindicated right
? o ?
The Supreme Court instead of deciding
the question whether the board of
State Canvassers had judicial powers or
not, attempted to form itself into a political
judicial reluming hoard. Had ;h
Supreme Court ordere I the State Can
yas>crs to make ao aggregation of votes
fs?v i i
? v~ .tsj
fVom ill" rif'iiii-- mi i:\, -:t. 1 report the
same with Mich eviucn-.-e ui ti u 1 and il- :
Ic^a! voting on both 'nles \v.i< in their
poise.^ion; then it v?\>u! 1 have seemed |,
riiat thev wetfe endeavoring to a-'Crt iin !,
which party had received a majority ofh
the h-viest .and legal vciv of th- people, j
*?T>*
Tnr. correspondent of the Charleston j
"? ? ly, . . t . * Mil , I
Ai"c< ditif ' s:y- " 11on i iiampion :
has is-ui.i telegrams in every direction j
counseling ni<?,l.*;-.uion ami peace.
Is" the democratic pasty was (lie party j
oflaw and order such telegrams would i,
not be necessary.
4> ? ? ? The
frequent ypj cnls of (Jen. Wade j
iiampti.r. to his :?>! lovers to keep the |
peace, in lieates that they are '* s|x?iling j
for a fight " and that if some tiling is j
aot done soon the pa- ty will die of k'spou
taucous combustion ?*
Tiir report iliat the poll was opened
at Sheldon in thi*. count}' is ahsuidh
false. J he box a . 1 [Managers were locaud
at Gardners Corner where elections
have always been he! 1.
?<<>?
The I?euioc.atie newspapers are gradually
hiding away all those game cocks
ud ro.-tors they exhibited with so uiuch
exultation last week. They might as
well put them away for another twenty
years.
Now that Hampton and Tiidenarc de
feated wc expect to see Judges Mackey
and C ofce whining at the republican
door trying to get into the fold again.
it was just sueh f.audsas .Mackey and
Cooke that disgraced the party in thb
State, au l good care will be taken to sec
that they remain where they belong.
? ?. i5? ? ?
Some of the democrats about town
imagined ri;*t with the election of Tilden
wonid como lost foriuncs> ; and the rctnarksofs<?uio
of tiie-e old fossils arc
truly umasiug. They see ui to forget, or
not to know, that the democratic party
accepts the results of the war as final, and
.hat hundreds and thousands oi deiuo
crats fought in the war and would fight
again rather thau any of its results should
be set aside.
Tiie visiting republicans in New Or
leans have got decidedly the better of their
democratic brethren in the correspondence
on the powers of the returning boards.
They have compelled the democrats to
concede the whole present ground of the
controversy. The democrats admit that
full force and effect must be given to thv
law of Louisiana; that the returning
hoard cannot be required to confine itself
to the ministerial function of counting
the votes. Here is that concession in a
nutshell: "In our judgment the exjire^sion
votes actually cas' of necessity designates
votes legally cast' and as a conse
quence of such votes only did wc desire
to secure a fair and impartial canvass."
That is the whole of the case. So in
spite of all their telegraphing and blu tersng
the democrats have to settle down
to the fact that not only has the board j
the power, to count the returns, but they i
have the power, and it is made their au/r
by law to ascertain ^whether the re
turns are correct or fraudulent. That is
what we ehiim for our board. Any other
view of their duty is absurd*
V
Xrw Oaf fans is not a good field for
non-partisan journalism. The Bulletin, j
a very able papa1* which made the experii
ni^nr. has iast suspended publication,
and the editors say in their valedict ory: |
"We accept as conclusive proof (hat in
endeavoring to stem the torrent of political
bitterness with which Louisiana has
been so long accursed, wc should be prosecuting
an utterly and extravagently
hopeless task. The Bulletin has uot a
single quality demanded of newspapers at |
this juncture of affairs ; it does not mag- [
nify the errors of its opponent, or pal- I
liate those of its friends ; and it has n<> j
place, therefore, in the sympathy or con
Sdence of the community. We regret
while recognizing this fact, and wc act
ep.?n the lesson of it without hesitation
au J yet we shall always carry with us.
whatever may befall, the consciousnes.that
we have never once by assertion or
insinuation, dirivtiy or indirectly, contributed
to the dark total passion, bitter"
ness and uiisun lerst inding under which
Louisiana languish s to da/. The gentlemen
who have been w iting fir this
paper, shaping it* policy and setting its
tone, are natives of the South, and have
proved their love and loyalty by better
tests than the trick of fanning prejudice
! and deepening acrimony in a troubtous
! time. "
4 <?>*
j Gen. Hampton refuses the donation of
! n house from the ladies of South Carolina
<>
Orders fro in l*i Grant.
Washington, NOV. 1870.
j General Thomas li. Ruokh or Colonel
! II. M. Pi.ack. Columbia, S. C.
; The following has been received from
I the President:
Kxrnivk Mansion Nov. 2?? 1^7f>.
' Hon. J. P. Ca.ulhon, Secretary of
| War :
Shi?P. II. Chamberlain is now Governor
of the State of South Carolina beyond
any controversy, and remains so until
a new Governor shall be duly and locally
inaugurated under the constitution.
! The government has been called upon to
j aid with ihe military and naval forces of
i the U. 8. to maintain republican gov
j ere men t in the State against resistance
' too forpiidabh? to be overcome by the
| State authorities. You are directed
therefore to sustain Governor Chambcr|
ia'U in hi> authority a.airst domestic vio
rjRn as s - - p.^aamapg
!..l;iv I'.llili ili- ;"A'i.->0 <iii-.*?* ?
I . l .
In obeying tie." iiisi; u'tyou wll !
ndvi.-e with tlic Governor and dispose;
j*our troo{>s in such a manner a- u;:iy bo ;
ibTilled l<o-t in order to rnr.y out tl;c :
spirit of the above order of the President. j
\ LnnirVrbe roiTiiir.
" 1 ;
d. I). Ca.ukron,
Secretary of War.
< ^4.
What was ftmio ami v.ha- Prcren'od.
7 he hoard of slate canvassers adjourn- j
ed sine die yesterday. The statute drfin !
ing t]ic*r powers a in 1 duties limits their
sitting; to ten days. This period hey an ;
at 12 o'clock M., Friday, the l'fih. and j
omitting Sundays, expired yesterday at j
12 M. Kef ore adjourning the board certified
their determination. according to
the statute, that the rcpublean electors
were duly elected, an 1 certificates were
accordingly issued. They then proceeded
to pcitoim the same duty as to the
state officers, who avcordimr ts the report
made'to the court, they had found to receive
the highest number of votes. 'J he
membetsof congress elected?three republicans
and two democrats were given
certificates. The same duty was performed
as to the various county officers and
solicitors.
Thev refused to make any determination
or issue any certificates of election to
members of the legislature and county officers
in Edgefield and Laurens counties,
because of manifest frauds, violence and
irregularities.
The statement of the Register this
morning that ' they proceeded to issue
certificates of election to the radical candidates
in those two counties" is utterly
false. No certificates was issued to any
person whose election in any manner resulted
from the refusal to count the vote
of Edgefield or Laurens. The only effect
of refusing to grant certificates to the
members from these two counties is to
transfer an investigation of their claims
to scats to the house of representatives
and the senate.
This hillabaloo of the Register abou*
"contempt and disobedience of the spirit
and of the order of the supreme ceurt" is
intended to please the ear of the groundlings.
The board was not served with thr
order until ten hours after the hoard had
adjourned sine die. But if the order had
been served upon the members the action
of the board would have been no different
from that taken without it. Xo certificate
was issv/d except in accordance with t/u
determination of Ihc res id: as announced
to the court in the court in the report of the
board.
It is of a piece with the audacity and
impudence of the democratic managers,
manifested througout the entire proceedings
before the court that they should
now'jienounoe the action of the board as
trickery. We will not today, attempt to
characterize the remarkable proceedings,
but we call attention to the fact tii.it the
court yes erday granted a rule for the
board to show cause on Friday when the
board would have been functus officio be
fore the day fixed.
We have been of the opinion for sev
oral days that the design of the domocratic
managers was to prevent, b; proceeding
in court, the completion of any canvass
and the bsuam-c ot any certificates
until the time in which the legal y act
had expired. Then General Conner ami
his associates in this state, and Tilden
conspirators in New York could have
claimed that no certificates could be issit'
d to any electors, and that South Carolina
should have no place i:i the electoi
o *
ral college.
Y\'e have watched the dilatory proceedings
before the court and could make out
tni. ft,., /Ii.l-iv I hi> infvn
iJU luawil A\'l UIV VlV>?v?j V.kw I'V
t!on of the the democrats to harass the
board into neglecfing to do its duty and
then to spring upon it tho assertion that
it was too late to do it.
The mandamus granted an hour after
the board had adjourned, sine die could
just as well have been issued the first
hour of the proceedings. The law of the
case was in no wise a flee ted by the figures
asked for. It certainly was not necessary
for the comt to know which party
would have a majority in the house
before being able to determine upon the
powers of the board of canvassers.
Why then was the court prevented
from issuing the order at once. In our
opinion the democratic lawyers never
cared anything about that qucsti* n
They are today asserting a perfect c-mfi
donee in their abililty to control tithouse
of representatives. even if there
were a dozen more rcpublicansin it.
They are as ready to bet that there wilj
he a democratic speaker of the house a?
they were a week ago. They are just aconfident
that the Edgefield and Lautvn>
democrats will be voted into their seat?
and that Hampton will be declared elected
and inaugurated as they ever were.
They care nothing about that part of the
ba dness. Their anger is that by proiu]it
action of the board ycsteiday the attempt
tested a state fioui Hayes has been
frustrated.? I n ion-J It r<ihl.
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SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
i Tkn T??of at li? o'clock and was
| A iu. rv. 11 >1 w ?
called to order by the lieutenant-governor
Hon S. A. Swail.s was elected prcsidebt
pro tern.
All the democratic senators: took their
seats including Mossr- Cary and Todd of
Edgefield and Laurens counties.
The old officers were elected. The body
is now engaged in forming the regular
committees,
The senate informed the house that it
! was ready to proceed to business.
HOUSE OF F Ll'Il ES E X TAT J V ES.
The house of representatives was
called to order to-day at 12 o'clock by
i (ho clerk of the last house of represent aj
tives, Mr. A. (). Jones. The clerk
i culled the roll tixty-eight members an
j NWercd to there names.
/
>*?. m .tl vU?v.%V '- ' *
i >;o liiMjso then \wiii into to nn election J|
lor speaker. Air. Iv W. M Mackoy and i c.
Mr. N. I?. Mycrrf. of iieawfort. were put '
in nomination tor that office. Each inein-. jj
her voted as hi - name was called. At \\
the conclusion it was declared that Mr. i
Mack, y had received :>0 votes and Mr. j c
Myers 2. Mr. Yvaiiace dcclinin- to vote. j jrilie
clotk duly announced Mr. Mackey j i
to have Lccii elected speaker of the h rose t
of representatives. J lie new speaker was j
i.i- ? 1. I. 1... At_ \! ?
con-iuorc<j ?o fit?? iir-h >\ .mi. .u.u-i.-. ? !< ,
administered the oaih of office. 3:r. ! t
.Mackoy delivered a brief, speech .thank* j (
ing the house for the honor conferred ! f
upon hint, .and assuring the body that he ' i
would perform the duties of the office j j
impartially, without regard to race or (
party. 11
The names of .the members were tlicn }
called l>y eonnti.'s and the numbers ad- I
vanced to tlie bar and were sworn in by , t
the clerk. *
The counties of Anderson, Abbeville, i
Aiken, Darnwell, Chcstci field, Clarendon Colleton,
Edgefield, Greenville, Horry, ,
Lancaster. Lexington, Marion, Marlboro,
Oconee, Dickens, Spartanburg, Union <
and York were not represented. ]
Mr. Jones was then put in nomination ;
for the office ofclcrk of the house. Whole j
number of votes east, 59; nec:s?ary to a <
choice 50 of which Mr. Jones received 56 i
31r. Stewart 3. 31 r. Jones was declared
duly elected and was at once sworn in.
The house then went into an election
for scrgeant-at-arms. Henry Daniels and
Win. Simonds, of Richland, and 3Ir.
Spencer, of Abbeville, were put in nomination
for the office. 3Ir. Daniels having
( received 52 votes was declared duly elected
scrgeant-at-arius. 3Ir. Dauiels was
duly swo;n in.
Mr. Marshall, of Edgefield, and Mr.
Spencer, of Abbeville, were proposed for
the office of reading clerk. 31r. Marshal
having received 49 votes, was declared
elected and sworn in,
A message was sent to the senate informing
that body that the house was organized
and ready for business.
3Ir, Straker, of Orangeburg, said; now
hat the house had been organized, he
was desirous to know upon what authority
it was so organized.
The speaker informed the members
that the authority was found in section
I f. article 2, of the state constitution,
which made the house tiic judge of the
qualification of its own members. The
number of members legally elected was
116, a majority of which was 59 and he
r_ .ii.. a .1..
pei itv'iu ??tut mv VIWI >v< ???.?.> i
c-arcd that a quorum was present. The
case was so decided in the national house
of representatives by Mr. Yaiandighani.
Mr. Hamilton is now discussing tin
question of the representation of the
counties of Edgefield and Laurens.
A DEMOCRATIC" HOUSE.
The democratic members elect of the
house, upon the r^'usal of the clerk to
rea l tin1 nauie ol .EdtreSoid ami Laurenr
delegations, who had no certificates from
the board of canvassers, entered a protest
and retired io Kichlatid rifle club hall.
| THE A(TH?X OF nn:.:iJo;RD OP
b'VViE ( ANVAST:;KS.
A fair statement of a'l the facts in the
ca>e is the b< st and suhmicnt justification
of the action of the board of state canvassers
io all matters connected with the
recent election in this sta'e.
At the outset lot it be remembered :
First, That the cen.-us of 1S75 show,
a total colored population of574,3'.F?, and
a total 'white population of do0,75-h
These 5gu?pi> have nowhere been alleged
to be too small ; the democratic papers
have gene'aliy denounced them as being
too la-go but their comparative' correctness,
xo far as the proportion of races is
concerned, lias not Lenti called jn question.
Assuming the voting population
? - - * ? A tsl^AHT O tAfll
; as OUC 10 Sii, uicjm; iipuu.' onu>? ? ivuii
I colored vote et 9"?,732, and a total white |
vote of o8.4">9.
Second. That the immense propon j
dernuce of colored voters over white vot"
ers' and the uoehar,gable disposition of
the colored voleis to vote the republican
ticket have been the Luidcn of demoera
tic complaints in this state ever since reconstruction.
So uiuch so, indeed, that
af ter the defeat of Greene, the indepen*
deut republican candidate, two years ago
the democratic papers and democratic
leaders generally declared that the running
of a separate ticket, whether democrat
is independent, in opposition to the
regular republican ticket, was a waste of
j time and effort, which it would be folly
I to indulge in thereafter.
Third. Thai the colored leaders have
I not been as unanimous in support of the
j republican ticket at any time during the
I last six years as at the recent election.
| At all previous elections during those six
years, and notably at the election in 1874
I mnnv of the most influential colored lead
1 .1.. l
LVS wcc arraveu mviiidh uiu n*muur jt- ,
J I
! publican t:esct. In Sumter for instance
where. in 1872. the regular republican ;
! vote was 3.204 agaiu-t the independent i
i republican vole of 1,! 83. At the e;ect:.)ii
I . . # I
in 1S74, the vote i'or Chamberlain, the j
regular republican candidate, was only
| 758 against 4,091 ^r Greene, indepen\
j dent republican?almost the entire col
ore! vote being given to Gieenc. So,
also, in Clarendon, where, in 187-?, the j
regular republican vote was 3,420 against1
the independent republican vote of 207. :
*j At the e'ection in 1874 the vote for |
; Chamberlain v;:s only 737 against 1,89");
foeG reene. And so throughout all the j
: rest oi Greene's judicial circuit; for,
j throughout his circuit, Greene was not;
' only tegarded greatly as a man, but was j
also regarded by republicans as a good
republican. At the recent election there
was no such disaff lion of colored leaders
against the republicans ticket. Although
many of them had been disaffected towavd
Chamberlain, and opposed his re j
nomination, yet from he moment his rej
nomination was effected, they all joined j
?tscsanKj jam > scram. awesssv&s
i his support for their own and republian
party's sake. They knew the dan-j a
ers that n straight-out dewnr-atic ticket ' e
|
iad f<>r them. Mid they sou.lit safety in s
mion " within the lines of the party. " I
Fourth. That the union among the t
olored leaders was followed by a corres- n
londing union the colored voters iu sup- t
ort of the republican ticket. AUhontrh
he democratic ; papers were constantly | a
noelaniing the conversion of colored vot- 1
.. ... i..?: .i.? i
,i iw utiiiuciiK \ uuiiii^ i ii?j call ta>d >lt j v
here was no evidence nfsuch conversion j ?
utsidc of such proclamations; and the f
hlsitv of the proclamations, and the
mion among the colored voters in sup* I <iort
of the republican ticket, are cvi- t
Icnccd in tiie fact, that notwithstanding ; 1
ill the violence and intimidation exercised ' t
)y tlic rifle clubs where there wore no I '
United States troops?that is, at more i 1
han nine-tenths of the precincts in the '
state?the role for republican electors :
cached as high as 91-S70, being less than [(
1.000 short of the whole estimated colarcd
vote.
Fifth. That General Hampton declared
early in the canvass, and before
be had traversed half the state, and before
he had any possible means of know
ing whether the republican majority of
over 30.000 would or could be overcome
that lie would be elected governor, and '
by the etc. nal God, he would have the 1
ofnee; and early in the evening of the day
of election, and before lie had the return
from a single county, he telegraphed to
N. Y. that lie was elected by 10,000
majority.
The underlying fact is, the democrats
thought they had things ^ted. They
had one intelligent democrat in every pre.
einct board of managers and in every
board of county canvassers: and in every
precinct and in every county they con1
lived to manage the returns to their own
advantage. Take Georgetown, for in>tance.
In one precinct the managers
returned 31S votes for T. C. Dunn, the
republican candidate for comptroller general.
The democratic county canvassers
contended that the first initial letter was
F. The clerk of the precinct managers
made an affidavit that the votes were cast
for T. C. Dunn, and that he had written
the name in the return accordingly?the
first initial being T. But the democratic
county canvasser insisted that the initial
looked like an F. ; that it should b6 so
written in the county canvassers statement
and if there w s any error
the State Board could correct it.
And yet. as the omission ofthose
31H vote* fur T. C. Dunn, would
leave him a minority of all the votes ca<t
f>r corn pi roller-general, the democratic
lawyers and democratic 'papers demand
that those 318 shall not be counted for
T. C. Dunn, and claim that his com pet;
tor is elected !
The democrats, as we have said,
thought they had things fixed. Dy vio"
lencc, iutiniidation. repeating, and whatever
else was necessary to keep down the
republican vote and increase their own,
they had. as they believed, such returns
from precinct managers generally, and
stit h statements from county convassers
particularly, as would show the election
of the democratic candidates; and so secure
thi<. whatever the return- and statements
from republican counties showed
larger republican majorities than they
had counted on, they increased the majorities
in democratic counties to meet
fhe emergency. Take Edgefield, for instance.
It is a republican county by all
its votes since reconstruction, and area
ding to the census of 1ST5. At the recent
election, the democratic majority
was declared to be 2.300; but as the ma,
jorities for some of the republican counties
were found to be larger that) the
democrats had count d on, the demo
can tic majority in Fdgefiield was increaed
to 2,500, then to 3.000. and finally to 3,12-h
Their majority this year is larger
than their whole vote in iS74. The census
for 1S75 gives that county a total
population of 35 039. Counting one to
six the total voting population would bo
5,<S40; whereas the total vote at the recei t
election was 9.381, being an overplus or
fraudulent vote of 3,541, and all on the
.-ide of the democrats ! The democratic
papers have tried to break the fort-o of
this damaging fact by showing that the
vote of KdgefieM w:f 8,251 in 1870; but
they studiously ignore the fact, that,
since 1S70, a large part of the county, including
the city of Aiken, has been cut
off and added to parts of other counties
to make the new county of Aiken.
The democrats, as we have twice said,
thought they had things fixed?at least
on the face of the statements of the county
canvassers?and accordingly on the
14th inst. they applied to the supreme
court for writs of man lam us and prohihition
against the boar 1 of state cauvasscrs.
That board has power under the
statute, to determine and declare what
persons have been, by the greatest number
of votes, duly electe 1 to office, and also
"to decide ail ca.-es under protest or
c mtest lha' may arise when the power to
do so does not, by tUc constitution reside
iu some other bodv." While the democrats
weie satisfied the statements ot the
county canvassers would give them the
election, they feared the correction of
those statements by the returns of the
precinct managers would change the result
materially, and tbev knew that if the
board of state canvassers should pioceed
to decide ali cases under protest or cont st
there would be such an amount of evidence
of violence, indimidation and fraud
developed as would totally vitiate tlie
election in some of the democratic counties.
1 heir application to the supreme
court, therefore, was for two purposes;
one to compel the board of state canvassers
to determine and declare the election
from the statements of the county canvassers,
the other to prevent the board of
state canvassers from deciding any eases
un lor protest or contest.
After various proceedings and argu
.
iK'tits, the on r!i^ 17thin?, granted
n order that t.he board of state canvass- '
xs ierihwith proceed to aggregate the'
tatenicnt? forwarded to them by the I
-oards of county canvassers, and ascertain i
he persons who had received the highest;
lumber of- votes, and certify the same to
he court.
The board of state canvassers immedi*,
itelv met, attended by the democratic j
awyers and an equal number of demo-1
ratic and republican lookers-on. At the i
utset, Gen. Connor, the leading counsel ]
or the democrats, insisted that the board
houM aggregate the statements of the
ounty canvassers without reference to
he returns of the precinct managers; and
he board alter look in ir at the returns of
be precinct managers in six counties but
without making any use of thetn, finally
esolved to accept Gen. Connor's construction
of the order as the proper one,
ind aggregated the statements of the
lounty canvassers, ascertained who had
received the highest number of votes and
reported the same to the court on the 21st
in?t., making special reference, however>
to various errors iu the statements o
county canvassers as well as to the evidences
of fraud which had been filed with
the board.
It appeared by this report that the
den ocrats would have two of the rep:esentatives
in congress and a majority of
the representatives in the general assembly,
as they had calculated; but, contrary
to their calculations, they would not have
the presidential electors nor the state officers,
exclusive of the governor and lieutenant-governor.
And then came suggestions from democratic
lawyers, which, either as matters
of professional morals or as matters ot
professional practice, weie utterly without*
precedent in any court where the
English lang age is spoken. They moved
the court for two orders?one that the
ho ird of state canvassers should certify to
the election of the members of congress
and of the general assembly shown by
their report to the court to have been
elected; the other, that the board of state
canvassers should compare the statements
of the county canvassers with the returns
of the precinct managers in regards to all
the other officers shown by .their report to
have been elected, and report all errors,
irregularities and discrepancies to the
court?thus adopting the report wherever
it suited the democrats, and refusing to
adopt it wherever it suited the republicans!
mi a t. .1 (
JLherc wis one uimcuity m me way 01
Immediately granting both these orders,
and, perhaps, >only one difficulty; and
that was, that the original application in
mandamus was for the same relief as to
the six classes of officers, whereas it wa>
now proposed to order different relief in
different cases?which would be in viola
tion. not only of well-defined practice, but
of an express provision of the code. Thchief
justice said the'court had. in one
case, amended proceedings in mandamus
and. although it was shown that it was in
a ca.-e before the code was adopted, th.
court ignored that foot as we'd a; the pro
vi-ion of the code, and '.-ranted serverunc?
of the ca^es preparatory to granting a*pu
rate orders of relief!
It was evident, throughout both tin
s-. ssionsol that day, that the court intended
to take upon itself the determiua
tion and declaration of the election. In
deed Judge Wiilard opcoly said: '' vVt
don't wan t to decide an abstract question
of law; we want to know the number o
\otes received by each candidate and the-,
we will apply the laic to the fact."
It is also evident that while the c?ur!
intended to hold the democratic lawyers
to a show 11 f form for the sake of precedent.
the democratic lawyers were goinj;
to get the substance of all they asked f<>r.
The next day the court having so gran
ed a severance of the cases, directed tin
democratic lawyers to prepare the form
of orders for the six classes of officers sep
,1 1 a! 1 * 1 il . ,
a rarciy; ana, tins oci ng uone, me coun
ginuted the first, to wit: That the boarr
of state canvassers forthwith declare dul\
elected to the offices of senators and mem
hers of the house of representatives th<
persons who, 1 y the report made to tin
court, have received the greatest nuinbei
of votes therefor. And the court ther
adjourned to the 21th inst.
The order ot court, however, was no!
obeyed. It was not even served on th<
board of state canvassers. The hoaVd hac
first met on the 10th., and their existenci
being limited to ten days, Sundays ex
cepted. they would have no life after tin
22d. It was evident that the court h: c
no intention of acting on the election ol
presidential electors until after it had acted
on the election of members of the gen
eral assembly and members of congress,
and that if the board of state canvasser*
waited for the orders of the court no certificate
could be issued to the presidential
electors during the existence of the board.
The result would be that the vote oi
South Carolina would be lost iu the elee
torn! college. It would be lost to Hayes
and Wheeler even if every way of counting
the votes would give them the major
ity; 'and as that result, or either result,
# would secure the election of Tiiden and
Hendricks, that result or either result,
was what the democratic lawyers wanted.
Under all the circumstances, the duty
of the board of state canvassers seemed
to be plain. They had obeyed the only
order they had received from the court.
They had received no restraining order,
no writ of injunction or prohibition concerning
any other ma:ter. As the hand
of the clock neared the hour which would
close their official existence, they proceeded
to the perfortneDce of their other duties.
They.detenuined and declared the
election of the republican presidential
electors, three republicans and two derncratic
members of congress, the republican
state officer*, exclusive of governor
and lieutenant governor, and the members
of the general assembly, circuit solicitors
and county officers, who, accord
to the ?
received the J
eept that* in view of M?
violence, intimidation and M
ing the electiou in Edgelieid and
they decided to take no action upon
statements of the county canvassers or the
returns of the precinct managers in those
counties; and having so performed all ^
their duties, according to law, the board i fl
of >tatc canvassers adjourned sine die. I
The order of the court had not yet is- H
sued: Of course, it has not yet been
! served. What the court will do, under
the circumstances, only the democratic 1 I
lawyers can tell.? Union Ilceald. V
Sheriffs ?alcs. 1
SHERIFF'S SALE. " dl
DeWitt C. Bates, vs. Wm. Sprague et. al. survivors
of Hoyt Sprague and Company.
By virtne of a writ of fieri facias to me idirected
and lodgrd in my office I will sell at public outcry
at the place known aa the Dr. Jenkins place on St,
Helena Island on Wednesday the sixth day Jof DecemlxT
next 1876 during tho legal hours of sale the
following personal property to wit:
All the right title and interest ifWm. Sprague
et. al survivors of Hoyt Sprag i e and Co. in ana to
one ten horse power portable ^engine and shafting
one French Bun corn mill; two McCarthy cotton
gins one cotton whippor, three double plows; one
cart harness, two mules; one straw cutter, one cart;
one corn morker; one large ke tie; one lot of old
tools; Levied upon as the property of Wni Spvague
et. al. survivors of Hoyt Sprague and Company at
the suit of I>eVVitt C. Bates.
Terms cash
WM. WILSON.
8a B. C **
Bft S. C. Nov. 22 1876,
SHERIFF S SALE.
L. W. Youmans, administrator, Jane Sherman.
Judgement for foreclosure and sale.
By virtue of a jndgement for foreclosure and sale
'n the above stated case to me directed I will sell at
nublic outcry in front of my office in the town of
Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December next
1876 being the fifth day of said month daring the '
legal hours of sale, the following property to wit;
All that plantation or tract of land situate lying
and bciug in the oountv of Beaufort and State o
South Carolina on Briar creek, waters of Coosaw
hatcbie river, bounded north by lands of Frank
Parnelle, east by Frank Parnelle, south by Tboma
Smith, and west by Pompey Smith,containing three
hundred and sixty .two acres more or Ieae. Term
cash. Purchasers to pay for papers.
WM. WILSON
SBC
Nov. 14th 1876. . '
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Judgement For Foreclosure and Sale.
Calhoun H. Barnhill Assignee vs. Chas. E. Chevin
By virtue of a judgement for Foreclosure an<f
sale in the above stated case, to me directed, I wl
sell at public outcry in front of my office In th
Town of Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December
next 1376 being the fifth day of said mooth
duringfthe legal hours of sale the foQowiug proper
ty to wit:
All that plantation or tract of land,'situate lying
and.being in the County of Beaufort and the State
of South Carolina about nine miles below Rober
ville on the Robertville and Porysburg Road containing
thirteen hundred and twelve acres, more or
less; bounded south east by John Brabham north
ast by lands of the hiers of Middieton aad James *
Portell, asid southwest and west by lands of William
F. Roberta.
. Terms cash Purchasers to pay for papers.
WM. WILSON,
S. B. 0.
Bft. S. C. Nov. 1-tlh 187S.
SHERIFFS SA LE.
Judgement For Foreclosure add Sale.
Brighoin, Hoist and Co. vs. Jno. If. Robert!:By
virtue of a judgement for Foreclosure Irt the"
4 .dove s atcd case to me directed, I will sell at pub-"
sic outcry in front of my office in the Town of
Beaufort on the first Tuesday in December next
S7f> being the fifth day of said month during tho
I gal hours of sale 4te following property to wit:
AII that plantation or tract of land commonly
atowu as the '"Mount Hope " plantation situate
. iug and being in the County of Beaufort and
-late of Sooth Oar-Jina, ou the Savannah road,,
ibout seven miles below the Village of Robertvl" t
i undid north by lands of R. H. Tison, cast by'
.am land, south by lands of W. V. Roberts ami
lands of the Esiate of Dawson. west by lauds of R
if. Tis< n and containing twenty four handled acresmore
or less.
WM. WILSON,
S. B. C.
Nov. l lth ISTfv ^ ^
SHERIFF'S SALE.
Be Witt, C. Bats, V3. Wm. Spragtte et. aL survivors
of Hoyt Sprague and Company.
Bv virtue of a writ of fieri facias to roe directed
; and lodged iu iuy ofiice, I will sell at public outcry
in fiout of my oASc in the Town of Beauiort on the ?
tir-t Tuesday io December next 1?76 being tho
; fifth day of said month during the legal hours of
*ale the following property to wit:
All the right title and interest of Wm. Sprague'
tal survivors of IloytSpraugue and Company in
and to all that plantation tract of land situate lying
I and being on St. Helena Island in the County of
Beaufort and State of South Carolina, Bounded
north by the church raid and Frank Pritchard
' place, south by Station Creek and the Jane Pritch
' ard place, cast by Frank Pritchard place and Station
Creek, and west by the Jane Pritchard plac?
known as " Sauford," containing six hundred acres
in ;re less,
AISO.
' all that ether tract oi land known as the Pr. Jenkins
place situate lying and being on said Island io
the County and State afo esaid, Bounded north by
1 he Isaac Fripp place sooth by Station Creek and
Paul ChapliD place east by Jane Pritchard place
and Statiou Creek and west by Lonesome Hill Paul
> Chaplianet al containing six hundred and fifteen'
acres more or leas, levied upon as the property of
' Wm Spraguect al survivors of Hoyt Spcague and
? Co. at the suit of DeWitt C. Bates.
Terms cash.
WM. WILSON',
* 8. B. C.
[ Bft. S. C. Nov. 14th 1876.
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