cepted the five appointments in the low country as they stand upon the list already published. We cannot deviate from the order in which our appointments have been made in the other counties; but we see no reason why you cannot commence the joint meetings at Yorkville on the 13th instant, and continuing thence at Chester on the 14th, Winnsboro, in Fairfield, on the 16th, Lexington on the 17th, and Edgefield on the 18th. These will constitute the five up-country meetings. The meetings in the low country will be in Beaufort, at Early Branch, on the 23d, in Colleton, at Walterboro, on the 27th, in Charleston on the 30th, in Georgetown on November 1st, and in Orangeburg on November 3d. The counties of Aiken and Barnwell are precluded by Governor Chamberlain's Proclamation. The number of speakers we propose will be four, subject to change by agreement. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. C. HASKELL, Chairman Democratic Executive Committee. COLUMBIA, October 9, 1876. Colonel A. C. Haskell, Chairman State Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.: SIR-I am instructed by my colleagues of the State Executive Committee of the Union Republican Party to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date, and to express our gratification at its general purport. We shall be glad to proceed, as soon as practical, to arrange such details as may be necessary in conne tion with the proposed joint discussions, and to this end we would like to be informed whether your Committee prefer to agree upon the requisite details through the agency of correspondence or by personal interviews between committees from each party. If the latter mode be agreeable to you, Messrs. F. L. Cardozo, T. C. Dunn, and R. B. Elliott, representing our Committee, will be pleased to meet any similar Committee which you may designate, in the Library of the Supreme Court to-morrow, at such hour as may be found most convenient to them. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ROBERT B. ELLIOTT, President State Executive Committee Union Republican Party. Memorandum of agreement entered into this 11th day of October, A.D. 1876, between Colonel A. C. Haskell, Chairman State Executive Committee of the Democratic party of South Carolina, of the first part, and R. B. Elliott, President State Executive Committee of the Union Republican party of South Carolina, of the other part, witnesseth: That it is herein and hereby stipulated and agreed between the parties aforesaid, for and in the behalf of the political parties represented by them : First. That joint discussions of the political issues involved in the present campaign in this State shall be held between representatives of the two parties at ten different places in the State, five of these to be in the upper, and five in the low country, to wit: Second. That at the times and places above mentioned Governor D. H. Chamberlain and General Wade Hampton, and two others from each side, shall participate in the discussions contemplated by the memorandum: Provided, That if, from any cause, one or more of the speakers on either side shall be unable to be present, their places may be filled by an equal number of speakers to be substituted for them by the political parties to which the absentees may belong. Third. That notice of each of the several meetings above enumerated shall be given to the voters of each political party by their proper representatives, in such manner as they may deem proper-said meetings, in all cases, to commence at 12 M. Fourth. Each of the meetings shall be presided over by a chairman from each political party, who shall each, for his party, introduce its speakers. Fifth. That the order of speaking, with reference to the representatives of each party, shall be alternated at successive meetings, and each speaker, on each side, shall be entitled to one hour of time; provided that it shall be optional with the speakers of that party which opens the discussion either to consume, individually, all of their time, or to reserve a portion of it for the purposes of reply; their opponents in all cases, however, to confine themselves to one uninterrupted space of time. In no case shall any speaker be allowed to transfer any portion of his time to another. Sixth. That at all the meetings provided for in this memorandum the space on and around the speakers' stand shall be equally divided between the two political parties from the commencement to the closing of such meetings. Seventh. That at all meetings the speakers shall treat their opponents with decorum and courtesy, and the representatives of each party shall stand pledged for the maintenance of peace and good order by their constituents, respectively, as well during the assembling and dispersing of the audiences as during the progress of the discussion. COLUMBIA, October 12, 1876. Colonel A. C. Haskell, Chairman State Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. : SIR-I have recited to my colleagues of the Executive Committee of the Union Republican Party the matters discussed in the interview which I had the honor to hold with you yesterday in reference to the details of the proposed joint discussions, and they reluctantly conclude that our negotiations for that purpose cannot be conducted further upon a basis that involves additional concessions on our part. You will remember that our original proposition was to hold ten meetings-five in the up and five in the low country. At the latter we consented to meet all your appointments of places and days, with the understanding that you were to conform to ours, in these particulars, at the up-country meetings. Upon finding that you would be inconvenienced by a strict adherence to this part of the programme, we consented to regard your appointment for Columbia as embraced in the up-country list, and subsequently went further and agreed to reduce the number of the meetings to eight, reserving the right to name the two places, in the up country, not previously agreed upon, but conceding to you the designation of the days upon which these two meetings should be held. So, in brief, we have yielded to the reduction of the number of the joint discussions from ten to eight; to your designation of six out of the eight places at which they should be held, and to the selection of such days, in every instance, as would subserve your convenience. Now, upon conference, we find that we can concede nothing more without infringing gravely upon the programme agreed upon for our own appointments, previous to our negotiations for joint discussions, and consequently prejudicing our canvass by the change of our appointments at this late day, and the confusion which might incidentally follow such a course. We present these facts in the hope that your Committee may find it convenient to recede from the position which I understood you to take, in the course of my interview with you yesterday, and, by consenting to the places to be suggested by us for the two up-country meetings, enable us to consummate our arrangements without further delay. Requesting an early reply, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, President State Executive Committee Union Republican Party. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 16, 1876. SIR-Your communication of the 12th instant received. The committee assembled to-day, and considered your propositions. We cannot go further than in our previous letters. We desire joint discussion, and we offer now, as we did from the first, to arrange on your terms for joint discussion at the places named in the list of Democratic appointments. These appointments were made long prior to the opening of this negotiation, and, as I early told you, cannot be departed from. spectfully, your obedient servant, A. C. HASKELL, Very re Chairman State Democratic Executive Committee. COLUMBIA, October 17, 1876. Colonel A. C. Haskell, Chairman State Executive Committee Democratic Party, Columbia, S. C.: SIR-Your communication of the 16th instant has been submitted to my colleagues of the Executive Committee, who concur with me in the propriety of ceasing all further efforts to consummate arrangements for the joint discussions contemplated by our correspondence with your Committee. We reach this conclusion with unaffected reluctance, because we have always been anxious to agree upon such preliminaries as would enable us to meet you before the people of the State in a fair and full discussion of the issues of the day. Finding now that despite all the concessions which we have made to bring about this result, and which are summarized in my note of the 12th instant, it is no longer possible to secure at your hands such a corresponding relinquishment of previous engagements as would place us on equal terms in the canvass, we are reduced to the necessity of closing negotiations for that purpose. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, President State Executive Committee Union Republican Party. ROOMS STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SIR :-The Executive Committee submits another proposition in the hope that it may bring about joint discussion: General Hampton, personally, cannot depart from his line of previous appoint ments, but he agrees to send a substitute to meet Mr. Chamberlain at any points he may designate in the up country; provided Mr. Chamberlain comes to the low-country appointments and meets General Hampton in discussion there. If you will accept this proposition, and send a list of your speakers at each meeting, I will return to you the names of those who will speak on our side. Reply at your earliest convenience is respectfully requested. We mean that General Hampton will meet Mr. Chamberlain at any of our regular appointments, and will have Mr. Chamberlain or any of his speakers met at any appointments that they may make. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Chairman State Democratic Executive Committee. To R. B. ELLIOTT, ESQ., President Union Republican Executive Committee. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 18, 1876. SIR.-Your note of the 17th instant is received, proposing that Governor Chamberlain shall meet Mr. Hampton in the low country and that Mr. Hampton shall send a substitute to meet Governor Chamberlain in the up country. In the absence of General Elliott, and as acting President of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in their behalf, I have to say in reply, that such a proposition is wholly inadmissible. It departs entirely from the prime purpose of joint discussions, as contemplated by our previous negotiations. While substitutes were allowed under the terms of our first proposition, they were only to be allowed in exceptional cases, when the principals, for some special cause, could not be present. Your present proposition contemplates at the outset, and as the basis of your offer, the absence of Mr. Hampton from one half of the joint discussions. It will require no further assignment of reasons to justify the Republican State Executive Committee in declining your proposition. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, F. L. CARDOZO, Acting President Republican State Executive Committee. To A. C. HASKELL, ESQ., Chairman State Democratic Executive Committee. Record of the Campaign Continued-Graphic Letter of a South Carolina Democrat to the New York Tribune-An Open Letter Addressed to Governor Chamberlain by William Lloyd Garrison-The Governor Applies to the President for Aid to Suppress the Continuing Public Disorder-Proclamation of President Grant -Instructions of the Secretary of War-The Governor's Statement, in a Telegraphic Letter to the New York Tribune, of the Circumstances Which Made his Call for Aid Necessary-Official Reports of Officers of the Army-Harper's Weekly on Shotgun Reform-Letter of Hon. B. Odell Duncan to Governor Chamberlain-Charleston Democrats Apply for Protection of the United States Forces-Governor Chamberlain's Letter in Response to the Application-The Governor's Telegraphic Letter to the New York Tribune Exposing the Errors of Statements by United States Senator T. F. Randolph of New Jersey-Hon. Carl Schurz Comments on the Situation in South Carolina-Proclamation by Governor Chamberlain Regarding the Election. TH HE campaign from this time forth was a series of conflicts and disturbances, the responsibility for which no attempt will here be made to fix or apportion. The published documents. of the time will be allowed to tell their own tale and to have such credit as they may appear to deserve in view of the character of their authors and their own character, and the conditions of the contest already so fully presented. In October, the New York Tribune published a series of letters descriptive of the campaign which attracted much attention. They were written by a native and resident of the State. Extracts from the first of these letters are here given as affording a graphic and intelligent review of the situation. It was printed in the Tribune, on October 14, 1876, as a letter "from a white native of the State who is not a Republican '-a description known to be correct in both particulars. Governor Chamberlain's Administration for a year and a half was the golden era of South Carolina politics. The negroes were free, enfranchised, and undisturbed in their rights, and yet the whites were conscientiously protected from plunder and high taxes. But Governor Chamberlain had not been in power a year when the XLIVth |