People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — GOV. EVANS STIRRED UP. [ARTICLE]

GOV. EVANS STIRRED UP.

Address to the Citizens of South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., May 15.—Gov. Evans has issued a long address to citizens of South Carolina in which he deals harshly with the recent decisions in the dispensary and registration cases. He says: “The people of South Carolina have always been law-abiding and respect the constitution and the courts of the United States. But when the Judges of those courts wantonly invade and trample under foot the recognized rights of our people, guaranteed by the federal constitution, they have a right to assert themselves and maintain their sovereignty and independence. This they have ever done and will continue to do and will resist with all the means within their power usurpation and tyranny and partisan politicians in high places who disgrace the Judicial ermine.” He denounces Judge Goff in the most bitter tones, and closes as follows: “I appeal to the sovereign people of South Carolina to protect their homes and liberties. The government of the people must and shall be perpetuated, and we are ready to lead the flght under the white man’s flag.”