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PERRY'S REPLY ro CHAMBERLAIN'S
SLANDEROUS ADDRESS.
The Kx-l’aurper ('onrlrted Ont or hi* Own Month—
Puritanical Civilisation In Danger.
Hon. D. II. Chamberlain:
Sir^ Your farewell address “to
the Republicans of South Carolina’’
calls for the execration of every hon«
erable man in the State. It is une
qualed in audacity, falsehood and hy«
pocrisy. When forced by the indig
nation of the people, and a sense of
justice on the part of the President
to abandon your fraudulent usurpation
of power in South Carolina, you seek,
by the most insidious teachings, to
stir up the deepest malignant hostility
and revenge between the races. It
would seem froni the language of
your address that your fell purpose is
to urge the ignorant and credulous
pcopWwhom you have so long duped
to riots, insurrections and massacres!
You .are, indeed, sir, an enigma in
morals and politics. After libelling
President Hayes by charging him
with a cowardly abandonment and
betrayal of his friends, and with be
ing false to the Constitution which he
had sworn to Support, you conclude
your hypocritical address by saying
liis “ motives and purposes are un
questionably honorable and juitriot-
ic” Was there ever such glaring
inconsistency before in so short an
article?
Moreover, after slandering the peo
ple of South Carolina with the most
atrocio .s falsehoods, and living to
soiv amongst them the seeds of hatred
and revenge, which are to ripen into
mufder and a blaze of incendiarism
all over the State, you have the dar
ing hypocrisy to say that you “ dc
voutly pray that peace, justice, free
dom and prosperity may hereafter be
the portion of every citizen of South
Carolina!” Dc you suppose, sir, that
any one who reads your address will
be fool enough to be deceived by you
canting hypocrisy? You Have the
reputation, with all your meanness
and treachery, of being a man of tal
ents and culture, and it is amazing
that yotfr fiendish feelings should have
betrayed you into such inconsistency!
But your actions have been in the
past, as inconsistent as your words.
It is well known that you Were
elected Governor of the State two or
three years agd, by the tttost cftfriipt
wing of your party, and in opposition
to the wishes and exertions of all the
respectable men of both parties. In
the conrse of a few short months you
denounced these corrupt partisans in
unmeasured terms; you declared
yourself a Reformer, and said that
your former friends and supporters
were too corrupt to hold public offi
ces. You spoke of the imminent dan
ger to the civilization of the Hugue
not and Puritan, the Round Head
and Cavalier.
Many good men were decivcd by
y :ur artful hypocrisy ; you declared
that you would not accept a nomina
tion lor re-election by this corrupt
wing of the Radical party. But as
soon as t-he Democratic party had
made their nomination for Governor,
you said to Judge Cocke, as he testi
fied before the Congressional Coin.-
mittee, that you would s;-e to it,
that Corbin’s diabolical sclieme of
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having thirty or forty negroes killed
to s'op the enthusiasm in favor of
Hampton, should be carried out!
Such an expression of fiendish treach
ery would have done credit to the
darkest days of the Spanish inquisi
tion, or the liloodiest leaders of Saint
Bartholomew’s massacre! You then
appealed to the corrupt leaders of
your party, whom you had so scorn
fully denounced, for their support,
and was renominated by them.
You commenced your address by
the utterance of a truth, a disgrace
ful truth to the people of South Caro
lina, and the only truth which it con
tains—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 fill, is a most
notorious falsehood, known to be
finch by every one, so declared by
the Supreme Conrt of the State and
every Circuit Judge on the bench.
The President of the United States
by
r all the
and his entire Cabinet have tacitly
admitted it to be false, and the whole
press and American people believ
to be false. The votes retu
the managers of election
frauds and repeating of ytfur voters
show that Governor Hampton was
elected by a majorita/™ ten or twelve
hundred v^ptes, t<siii\&-M6erithou
sand of the most/-respectable of your
own party doling for him. And yet,
you have the-andacity to say, in the
face of all these facts, that you were
re elected, and when driven from the
office by the scorn and contempt of
the people and the decree of the
Courts, you still sign your name
“D. H. Chamberlain,-Governor of
South Carolina!”
In the language of the arraignment
of a murder and traitor, none but
one “ devoid of all social duty and
with a heart fatally bent on mis
chief,” could have uttered such
atrocious falsehoods as you have
done in the following sentences:
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“ From authentic evidence, it is
shown that r ot less than one hundred
of your number were murdered be*-
cause they were faithful to their
principles and exercised rights sol
emnly guaranteed to them by the
nation! You were driven from your
homes, denied employment, robbed
of the earnings of yoflr honest indus
try, hunted for your lives like wild
beasts, your families outraged and
scattered, for no offence, except your
peaceful and firm determination to
exercise your politic.’! rights.”
These monstrous falsehoods you
have published in the face of the
concurrent testimony of the military
authorities of the United States in
South Carolina and all honest, truth
ful men of both parties, that^ the
election was orderly, quiet, and’peace
ful. There was no violence or out
break at any poll in the State. Nor
was their the slightest disturbance
after the election. It is true, that in
pursuance of your wicked and dam
nable designs disclosed to Judge
Cooke, there were riots and blood
shed before the election at Hamburg,
Aiken, Chombahee, Charleston and
Cain Hov, in which your own parti
sans were t1ie aggressors in every in
stance.-- Instead of attempting to
suppre& these riots you ran off and
left the 8tAWe. * 15ift- in oVdef to an
fitrl tlie bld&ly shirt, ori the . eve of
the Presidential election, and give
notoriety to these riots, yon ordered
several hundred of the most resDCetn-
ble gentlemen in the State to be ar
rested. When they came forward
and demanded a trial in open conrt
it was refused l»y your minions, and
in all probability never will be ac
corded to them. In the Cain Iloy
massacre, where the negroes sudden
ly fell upon the white people and
killed eight or ten of them, you never
had one of them arrested !
The gravemen of your insidnous
complaint against the President is
that he will not keep a large portion
of the United States army in South
Carolina to maintain you in your
usurpation of the Executive authority
of the State, and save harmless the
rogueish carpet-baggers and scalla-
wags, in plundering and robbing the
people, oppressing and tyranizing
over them.” You know well enough
the President has no power to de
cide who is the Governor of a sover
eign State, or interfere with its Leg
islature. This power might belong
to a military despot, in the govern
ment of his Provinces, but cannot be
exercised in a Federal Republic
where all power is vested in the peos
pie.
You deny, sir, the right of a Dem
ocratic House of Representatives in
Congress, to withhold appropriations
for the army, when they see that
army kept up for the purpose of
trampling oil the rights of the States,
and crushing out all the Republican
principles of our government. The
House of Representatives would be
the assassins of liberty if they made
an appropriation for such a pur
pose.
I will not notice further your most
extraordinary address, which em
bodies the basest and most malig
nant feeling of your nature, and proves
you to be a bad hearted and danger
ous man. In Rome yon might have
n a Cataline, in France yon could
e figured in the last century as
Robespiere, but in South Carolina
you may yet be conspicuous in the
penitentiary, if all that is said of y on
by your former associates and parti
sans be true.
Yours, &c.
F. B. Perry.
Rock Bottom
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I WORKING ON A CASH
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Laying for Him.
It having come to the ears of the
United States officials at this point
that Big English, a boct-black, had a
handful of lead nickels in bis posses
sion, the boy was yesterday inter
viewed on the subject*—
“Yes;, JNje got (nineteen bad
nickels in my trousers pocket,” was
Iiis prompt reply.
“ And what are you doing with
them ?”
“ Holding right to ’em. You
needn’t think you’ve got a case again
me, for you haven’t.”
“ How did you get those bad
pieces ?”
“ Rich man, who shall be nameless
—black his boots every morning—
hands me out a lead nickel—thinks
he’s got soft thing on me, but I’in
layin’ for him!”
“ How ?”
“ Why lie’s got a daughter ’bout
my age. I’ll be thinking of marry,
ing in two or three years more, and
I’ll shoulder a bag of his nickels,
walk into the parlor, and gently say:
* Mister man, I love thy fair daughter,
and I demand her hand in marriage.
Behold the proof? of your vile perfi
dy, and come up to the rack or go to
the jug!’ You just beep still and let
him shower out his bogus coins. I
ain’t.handsome, but I’m a terror to
plan!”—Detroit Free Press.
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Notes for Ladies.
Gray cloth dolmans will be the fash
ionable wrap for spring.
Cut-steel ornaments will be greatly
used on spring dresses.
White bonnets, either of felt or
plus! , are among tbo latest importa
tions. <
The Cloisonne enamel, so fought
after in articles of virtue, is now used
forjewffify.* 1 ’ 5 1 f ! ;
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The newest princess dresses are
made with square trains arid entirely
without drapery.
The newest percales are in Indian
designs and dark colors, like those
seen in cashmere shawls.
Glasses are now made of frosted
glass, in antique forms and patterns,
the monogram being in color.
Bangle-rings, made of five or six
narrow rings held by one clasp, are
the novelty for finger-rings.
Lace scarf are used as strings for
opera hats, attached in such a manner
as to form a cape at the back of the
bonnet.
Honey-combed toweling is made
up in handsome quilts, by being
worked in diamond patterns of floral
designs in pink, blue or amber
wools.
Dried flowers and fern, arranged
on fiue silk or cardboard, and cover
ed with prepared muslin, to keep
them from breaking off, make hand
some ornaments for lamp-shades.
A new style of napkins and doylies
come in white watered surface. In
the center is woven, in red threads a
lobster, a crab, fish, or coral. On
flowered surfaces are woven red
cherries and other fruit.
There are some delicate impulses
that a good woman can not resist.
She cannot help putting three hair
pins and a spare shoe-lace into the
first 8having-inug she sees. Women
are better than men in this respect.
A. citizen of Iudiana having occasion
to go home rather unexpectedly a few
nights since, caught a gentleman ac
quaintance in the act of kissing his
wife. On relating the circumstauce
to a friend he was asked if he punished
the guilty couple, aud replied: “ No,
not exactly, but they must have seen
from the way I slammed the door
that I was not satisfied.”
Be kind to everything. Better
throw a bone to a strange dog than a
paving stun.
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GRAIN, MEAT AND
IFLOTJR DEPOT.!
Competition Invited From all Quarters.
Regular Bulldozers Against Higli Prices,
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Cash Against Xime!
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PCAfOTfCrfS’ HOTEL,
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Rates Reduced to $3 per Bay.
HAYING LEASED THIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL, I enter
upou its management by Reducing Rates, and asking of the Travel
ing Public, especially my friends of Carolina and Georgia, a continu
ance of that liberal support they have always given it.
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FORMERLY OF CHARLESTON, PROPRIETOR.
wins
GREAT REDUCi
Ht'HtlCES,
Hiving Secured the S®
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JOB printeI
We are enabled to .tnrr outaj
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We cali the attention of all oral
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Price’ lists
4B111 Heads, per Tlioi
Assorted, $5.
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Canary Colored Enrelc
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"Furnished to*Merchants aid|
5 ri iT<*
Business Men, with their
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At $3 PER THOESil
LETTER HEW
$4 50 to $5 Per Tliousan
—FOR—
STANDARD FERTILIZERS!
THE EARTH MADE T0_GIVE FORTH ITS RICHES
Experiments have demonstrated that of the ten Mineral Elements which constitute the ashes
of plants, the presence of each and every one is essential to their perfect growth and develop
ment ; and, as crops extract them annually, no land can be permanently fertile
UNLESS TREY 1>E RESTORED TO THE SOIL.
This
ket. 1
Agency ,
spect and price before haying elsewhere:
OLD CAROLINA STONO SOLUBLE GUANO,
SAM ANA GUANO, CHESAPEAKE GUANO,
PALMETTO ACID, STONO ACID PHOSPHATE,
CHESAPEAKE AMMONIATED ALKALINE PHOSPHATES.
COTTON OPTION FIFTEEN CENTS.
febis-sm Q. M, EEvuiter. A^ent.
REMQVTAT.T
THE ATHENS OFFICE FOR THE SAT.T-. OF
Singer Sewing Machine
Removed February 1st, 1877, to
Lester’s Building, (Upstairs) Over Talmadge, H. & Co.,
TMM &£nWsi¥gg
2,000,000 in Use—Sales in Excess of all Others.
THE 8IXGKR MAXCFACTURIXG CW.PAXI, 0. H. HOPE, AGENT, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Ask your neighbors which Machine is the best; then buy the Singer
J. B. Toomer, Agent for Singer Sewing Machines,
j.iy 4 ly ^ Bu,ldi,, S' ( U P>W»,) Athens, Georgia.
Common 75c per Hundi
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$4 50 to $5 per Tliousai
Fancy Work Proportionately Higher.
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