nt Legislature. It is not for
me, here, to recall this disgraceful history in all its details.
You have borne with it till patience has ceased to be a virtue,
and from one end of this American Union to another, regardless of
section or party the press--that mighty engine and exponent of
popular sentiment--is now ringing with the denunciation of the
last wrong inflicted upon you, and with commendation of the true
and faithful man who, with a heroism surpassing that of the
battlefield, which is wielding such weapons as the executive army
can furnish in your temporary defence. This thing has gone far
enough: This crowded hall--these earnest faces over which a light
flickers that carries me back to a time since when my head and
heart have alike grown gray, tell me so. Every instinct of
self-preservation tells me that the time has come when all in
South Carolina who are fit to live outside of her penitentiary,
or expect to within her borders an inheritance for their
children, must enlist in this struggle. It will be a contest in
which no half-hearted recruit is wanted. It is a fight for life
and property, in which you will have to do all that a citizen may
do--and, if need be, all that may become a man." (Applause.)

Mr. Alfred Aldrich rose and said: A short time ago, in this
house, I said among other things to the taxpayers, that I had
"implicit confidence in the people of Barnwell County, but none
in Governor Chamberlain." In the light of recent events, I desire
to make the Amende honorable to Governor Chamberlain, and here,
with equal unreserve as when I made the declaration alluded to, I
wish to submit the charge in my opinion embodied in the following
resolutions:

Resolved that Governor Chamberlain, from his first ... to his
last veto, has carried ... knowledge to the platform on which
... if he does not receive the support of the leading men of his
own party, is entitled to the confidence and will receive the
cordial sympathy and merited aid of the honest and good men in
South Carolina.

Resolved, that in rising above party to vindicate the
civilization and ancient good name of the States over which he
presides, by his rebuke to the Legislature for the election of
corrupt and incompetent judges, as he has shown large
statesmans