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SMITH, HENRY B. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



and Character of John Hall, D. D." (1854), 

 ''The Importance of a Scriptural Ministry," 

 " The Puritan Churches," " Christian Steward- 

 ship," " Addresses at Inauguration, Hanover, 

 N. H., 1863," " Beneficence our Life Work, 

 a Baccalaureate Discourse, 1865," and " Death 

 Abolished," etc. He also wrote many articles 

 for the American Theological Review and Bib- 

 lical Repository. 



SMITH, HENBY BOYNTON, an American 

 clergyman, was born in Portland, Maine, No- 

 vember 21, 1815, and died in New York City, 

 February 7th. He graduated at Bowdoin Col- 

 lege in 1834, and was a tutor there in 1836-'37, 

 and in 1840-'41, and studied theology at An- 

 dover and Bangor, and subsequently at Halle 

 and Berlin. He was pastor of the Congregation- 

 al Church in West Amesbury, Mass., from 1842 

 to 1846, when he became Professor of Mental 

 and Moral Philosophy in Arnherst College. In 

 1850 he became Professor of Church History 

 in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 

 and in 1855 of Systematic Theology, which chair 

 he resigned in 1873. He was elected in 1863 

 Moderator of the New School General Assem- 

 bly of the Presbyterian Church, and at the 

 next General Assembly in Dayton, Ohio, in 

 1864, delivered a discourse which was pub- 

 lished under the title " Christian Union and 

 Ecclesiastical Reunion." He was subsequently 

 a member of the General Assembly's Com- 

 mittee on Reunion with the Old School Gen- 

 eral Assembly, and presented a report on a 

 doctrinal basis of union (" The Reunion of the 

 Presbyterian Churches," 1867). In 1867 he 

 was a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance in 

 Amsterdam, where he read a "Report on the 

 State of Religion in the United States." He 

 was a founder of the American Theological 

 Review, and its editor from 1859 to 1862, when 

 it was consolidated with the Presbyterian Re- 

 view, which he edited till 1871. His principal 

 works are: "The Relations of Faith and Phi- 

 losophy" (1849), "The Nature and Worth 

 of the Science of Church History " (1851), 

 " The Problem of the Philosophy of History " 

 (1853), "The Idea of Christian Theology as 

 a System" (1857), "An Argument for Chris- 

 tian Colleges" (1857), " History of the Church 

 of Christ., in Chronological Tables " (1859) ; 

 a new edition of the Edinburgh translation of 

 Gieseler's "Church History "(5 vols., 1859-'63), 

 of which vols. iv. and v. were chiefly trans- 

 lated by Prof. Smith ; a revised edition of the 

 Edinburgh translation of Hagenbach's "His- 

 tory of Christian Doctrine" (2 vols., 1861-'62) ; 

 with James Strong, a new edition of the Edin- 

 burgh translation of Stier's " Words of the 

 Lord Jesus" (in parts, 1864, et seq.) ; and with 

 R. D. Hitchcock, " The Life, Character, and 

 Writings of Edward Robinson " (1864). 



SOUTH CAROLINA. After the Federal 

 troops had been withdrawn from South Caro- 

 lina, by order of President Hayes, as stated in 

 the AXNTTAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1876, the Attor- 

 ney-General and the other State officers at the 



head of the various departments, under Gov 

 ernor Chamberlain, having held among them- 

 selves a consultation on the situation of affairs, 

 addressed to him a joint letter, dated April 

 10th, in which, after asserting his and their 

 right to continue in office, they point at the 

 probable consequences of the apprehended con- 

 flict between the masses belonging to the op- 

 posite parties in the State, and advise him to 

 yield to the imperative force of circumstances, 

 saying, in conclusion : " We cannot afford to 

 contribute, however indirectly, to such a catas- 

 trophe, even in the advocacy of what we know 

 to be our right. We are agreed, therefore, in 

 counseling you to discontinue the struggle for 

 the occupancy of the gubernatorial chair, con- 

 vinced as we are that, in view of the disastrous 

 odds to which- its maintenance has been sub- 

 jected by the action of the Federal Adminis- 

 tration, your retirement will involve no sur- 

 render of principle, nor its motive be misap- 

 prehended by the great body of that political 

 party to which, in common with ourselves, 

 you are attached." 



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Mr. Chamberlain appears to have heeded 

 this advice, and acted on it. Under the same 

 date of April 10th, he published an address 

 "To the Republicans of South Carolina," 

 wherein he sets forth the certainty and validity 

 of his reelection to the office of Governor, and 

 his right to continue in the discharge of its 

 duties for a second term ; but says that, owing 

 to the unaccountable action of the Federal Ad- 

 ministration in suddenly taking away its moral 

 as well as material support from him and them, 

 he is resolved to retire from the contest ; con- 

 cluding with these words: "I now announce 

 to you, and to the people of South Carolina, 

 that I will no longer actively assert my right to 

 the office of Governor of South Carolina." 



A written communication from Mr. Hamp- 

 ton, dated April 10th, was answered by Mr. 

 Chamberlain, the same day, appointing the 

 hour of 12 meridian, on the llth, when the 

 Executive Chamber, then in his possession, 

 with the records and papers belonging to it, 



