The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-10

made. If asked once, he had been asked one
hundred times during his Northern trip, to tell
his people to use no language that could possi-
bly, be distorted by those who have no regard for
truth. The only hope ofsuccess of the Repabi-
can party was in keeping alive the bitterness Of
war by denunciation, falsehood and appeals to
slumbering iprejudices. The great battle OF
November was to be fought on the line reaching
from New York to the West. If the electoral
vote of the Northern States should be cast for
Seymour and Blair, he felt satisfied that the
freemen Of the North meant to inaugurate their
candidates. This determination was expressed
BY even the calmest Northern men-by men
who, while voting with the Republican party
heretofore, did not recognize, in the extension
OF the doctrine of universal suffrage, the right
of the negro to rule these States. They were
not prepared to validate the action of the Afi-
can in the South, or to recognize the idea that
the white man Of the North shall be set aside
by the large negro majorities Of the South, up
held and maintained by the bayonet. The in
fuence of these negro governments upon the
finances Of the country, upon its prosperity and
future career, were beginning to operate upon
the minds of the most distinguished men, who
realized that in the success Of Radical meas
ures, the destruclives at the North, by combin-
ing with the negroes OF the South, will have it
in their power to rule or ruin the best interests
of that section. In this view he thought it ad-
visable to adopt a resolution which would
strengthen the Northern feeling, and hence
hoped that the Convention would not strike out
the resolutions in question.
General Hampton then spoke as follows:
REMARKS OF GENERAL WADE HAMPTON.
I concur in very much thatm friend from
Marion has said, and there are portions Of
that resolution which it is very important that
this Convention shall adopt. 1t may proper
" be amended or qualified, and shall move,
before taking my seat, that it be recommitted
for the purpose.
am glad that the reference made by the
gentleman from Marion affords me an oppor-
tunity to say few words concerning myself.
If these Misrepresentation Of language which
1 have. uttered, if the perversions Of facts
which Ihave stated reflected only upon me,
should not only bear the infiction with pa
tience, but treat it with the contempt it de-
serves. When, however, am told that these
falsehoods are source Of injury to our cause,
and that they weaken the Democratic party
that party upon which our life and salvation
depend-I am glad to have an opportunity to
denounce them and their authors as infamous.
have said more to the people Of New York
Than to any Southern audience. I told them
that we believed we we're right, but that we
we're wiling to accord to others what we
claimed for ourselves, viz: perfect sincerity in
our convictions and unquestioned devotion to
principle. told the Northern people that we
spoke with no double tongue, that We were
earnest and truthful in our desire to support
the Union and the constitution, and in that
spirit we accepted the hand so freely extended
to us by the great Democracy Of the North.
told them we wanted the constitution re-
stored; that we looked for no remedies in our
platform; that we did not nsopose to incorpo-
rate into that instrument anything in the shape
Of . remedy, and simply asked that this
platform should declare these Reconstruction
acts to be unconstitutional. Indeed, had the
honor to offer in that body resolution pro-
viding for the arbitrament Of this question by
the Supreme Court, and had such decision
been rendered, there is not man in the South
who would not have cheerfully obeyed the law.
We were all prepared to abide byit. Does this
look like revolution?
declared that we wanted peace; but instead
of receiving peace, we have not only been
charged with being revolutionary, but there
seems to have been persistent effort to drag
us into some outrage or outbreak which would
afford them political capital at our expense.
I have recently seen what purports to be
quotation from a speech made in Charleston,
not to IN ordinary meeting, but in acknowledg-
ment of compliment-a serenade given to me
by my old soldiers. am told that in the New
York Herald it is published that said "the
flag had been preserved, and should one day
unfold it and call around me the men who used
to follow that banner on the field" need not
tell you that this statement is in every respect
false. On the contrary, when I spoke Of the
flag Of the Confederacy, I remarked that it now
was furled forever, to be buried in the grave
of our lost cause. dld make an allusion to.
another flag, which he'd been followed by many
of the men standing around me. It was flag
that had been worked by the descendants Of
Revolutionary patriots, and presented to us by
the noble women Of South Carolina, through
the hands of orr then chief magistrate; flag
which had Hoated amid the smoke of many
desperate battlefield; which had been borne
by my own hero son, and which enshrouded
him when he was carried to the tomb. l told
them that flag was resting with me; for knew
that they would be glad to hear tidings of
banner that had long been familiar to their
eyes, and whose ample folds did not contain
space enough on which to write the names of
all the engagements in which it had loated in
the front of battle. Because told my old
comrades that that flag of single regiment
had not been burned in the wreck of Columbia,
these Radicals of the North basely perve. ted
both language and sense for the purpose OF
producing political effect. Had they taken the
pains to do so, they would have seen that
said that even that flag was turled forever, to
be buried in the grave Of our LOST cause.
I should not have noticed these gross mis-
had they not been brought to
my notice in q direct manner by my friend