The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-10
CH A r Es TON.
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10. 1858.
General Hampton, the South ind Rev
0lution.


It is difficult to deal with adversaries who
believe that all is fair in political war; and
| when, IN addition, these adversaries have
it in their power to publish false statements
which they will not correct, it becomes
almost impossible to escape calumny and
avoid misrepresentation. The South ex-
pected that the utterances Of its leading
men and the expressions Of it's people would
be garbled and perverted by the Republ-
can press; but while there is Democratic
journal in the country, or an honest Demo-
crat in the North, East or West, we do hope
that the falsehoods and slanders of the Rad
ical organs will not pass unchallenged.
South Carolina has, of course, received
more than her need of attention at the
hands Of her political foes. The same men
who urged that this State be cut loose from
the continent and buried beneath the waves
of the Atlsntic; the same men who skulked
in wagon trains, or blasphemed in legisla-
tive halls, while their countrymen marched
to meet the South; the same men who plum
dered their own soldiers during the war,
and urged the organization of q war in peace,
that their proAigacy and peculation might
continue to flourish; these same men have
heaped their SANDERS upon our heads, and
have tried with might and main to persuade
their people that every man who ever wore
the gray would be to al time 90 rebel and
a traitor" They admitted the repentance
of such men as the forger Bowen and the
flag raising MOSES, but protested that sucft
men as HAMPTON and PERRY, BoNHAM and
BUTLER, MoGowAN and BURT, PIoKENs and
CAMPBELL, would always be the enemies of
the Union and the constitution.
They have made WADE HAMPTON their
especial mark, and at him have been hurled
epithets too warm for gentle Southern ears.
We know that they are unmerited, we know
that they are false; but from one end Of the
country to the other goes the ory-the
South is disloysl, South Carolina is on the
verge of rebellion, WADE HAMPTON is en-
deavoring to inaugurate new and bloody
revolution.
1t was proper that seme notice should, be
taken of these assertions, however patent
might be their silly mendacity to the people
of the State, and General HAMPTON, there
fore, in speech delivered in the Demo-
cratic Convent. on Friday, and published
in our columns this morning, alluded to the
imputstions which had been cast upon his
soldierly honor, and denied altogether the
particular charges which had been brought
against him. General HAMPTON declared
that the people of the South were earnest
and truthful in their desire to support the
Union and the oonstitution,-t we were
ready to accept the decision of the Supreme
Court as to the constitutionality Of the Re-
construction acts, and to abide by that de-
cision,-that we wanted peaoe,-that the
flag of the late Confederacy was buried for
ever,-that he, in common with the South
ern people, was fighting as earnestly in the
interests Of peace as he had done in the
interests of wsr,-and that he urged our
people to avoid prejudice or passion, to en-
dure the misfortunes they could not control,
and to fight the great struggle with peace
full agencies alone.
This is what HAMPTON said, and it was
preceded by resolution in which the as
sembled Democracy Of South Carolina, SIT
ting in Convention, resolved "That, whilst
eve enter our protest against the Rad
'sical Reconstruction acts and the evils
ssthey are bringing upon the South, ace rely
sspith confidence upon constitutional agencies
sand peaceful instrumentalities alone to bring
Gus the relief vs seek and the reform '0e need F"
Upon constitutional agencies and peaceful
instrumentalities ALONE do we rely to bring
us the relief we seek and the reform we
need. This is the reply of WADE HAMPTON
and of South Carolina to the cry Of 'revo-
'lution" raised by the malignant Radical
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