Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-21

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no double tongue, and in no tinid tone
The trumpet that heralds his progress
will give fortR no dncsriain.sound Like
the tall white plume Of Henry of Ma
1arre, cur leaders, crest now towers at
the head Of the column. Let the De-
mOcracy of the natien welcome tho sight
with a shout, and press on till it swells !
into . glorious shout Of triumph.
The following is the speechof General
Hampton referred TIL
lGExrIkMEN (, Knowing your desire to
hear ffOn the other side of the Union, your
COMMITTEES have made. every effort TO in
duce Northern statesmen 10 come TO this
section, and we have ct last succeeded In
bringing one before ynn who bears the
great historical name Of him whom Jeffer-
son called the defender OF the Declaration
l of Independence. He came to talk to you
firmly, cilAly and CONSIDERABLY, and he
has done 90. only in Inrn desire to say
aword or two for South Carolina, or at
least for large portion of South Carolina.
i wish the gentleman to carry back with
him 10 his people the assurance that upon
the issues fthe wsrthe peopleof the South
are a INIT They are now, and always
have been, in the same perfect good
faith with which they surrendered, and
they now, and have GbUays recognized the
question of slavery and secession as settled
forever. So far as i am concerned, l assert
and claim to have been of the fret TO &C
cept the results of theewsr, and l did go
fully and cordially. l recognized the
freedom of our former slaves, and was the
first man in the State to address the col
ored people and tell them they we're free.
-Straat goa, SIR, 1iorebT, 10 tell your people
that the people Of dis State, IN a contention
held short time ago, IN Vhieh tueRty
one districts i0ere represented, declared their
willingness TO gice 10 The negro the same
Suffrage that he Was giuen in Massachusetts.
That same convention declared too, that
the people are not willing TO grant uni
Versal suffrage, but that they recognize
slavery as dead forever, and they do moi
desire, nor are they willing to permit it to
be re-established in any of its phases OF
forms. A word in relation 70 myself.
have been the victim of great, willful, and
malicious misrepresentation. The Radical
| papers and leaders have accused me Of dis
/ loyalty, and to substantiate their charges
they have taken up and garbled my al
l legged statement that the clause Recon
struction acts are revolutionary, null and
E void" in the Democratic platform, was my
plank, that l.dictated it. To this point
: refer, because our distinguished and es
: teemed guest has referred to it in his very
able address. Now here deny that mad
anv such statement did not dictate t.
, did sag that II gdS my plank in the platform
g and Il is the plank Of e5e7y SOuther
1 gentleman. / was on the committe
to frame the platform, and the Southern
n delegates on that committee felt them
!, selves as guests, only, and resolved to ex
press no preference in the nomination go
ing on, and to take no steps in the inter
II polation of any plank in the platform. w
n we're willing 10 leave the entire matter il
the hands of the great Democracy of th
d North, feeling assured that they would d.
b US at least full justice. The only TeSOlutiO
N | offered IN that Committee IDds one pledgiR
the support Of the South TO the Judiciary {
: the Uaited States, and proposing to ledpe III
v matter ofthe status Of the Southern StateBi
8 their hands for final adjustment and SettIemen
In the progress of the debate which aros
: upon this, Northern delegate espresso
n the hope that we would nc
a press the point, upon which ever!
Southern delegate Withdrew whateve
resolution he might have offered. I
y gentleman from Michigan uttered the assn
n duce that IN the eUeHt of the success Of ii
Democracy, the South irould tRd relief frOl
d her troubles that the /" Reconstruction &c
If Of Congress auould Be declared revolutionary
, null and UOid." then said "those tire
;, words were inserted in the platform,
y would be all we could ask-We would b
d satisfied. These lDOrds lUere inserted By a di,
A tinguiShed son Of that glorious little Sta
Connecticut, and uere unanimously adopted
6 That was the extent Of my revolutionar
j action in New York. / am glad the di'
a tinguished gentleman from Massachusetts
has come among us TO see for himself an
Q learn our condition and wants. / wal
o him to go back and tell his people that v
~ may be mistaken, but We are honest, ain
cere, and truthful. He will do that, l al
: sure, and in doing that he will have don
d much towards accomplishing his missile
l. of peace, Of good feeling aud harmony,
mission in which am rejoiced to be all
} engaged.