The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-19

bitterness of war by dcnunciation, false
hood audappeaIs to slumbering prejudlces.
The great battle of November was TO be
foug hit on the line reaching from Now
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 inau-
gurate their candidates. This determine
tion was expressed by even the calme6t
Northern men-by men who, while voting
with the Republican party-heretotore,
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 African in the South, or to rccog-
nize the idea that the white man of the
North shall be set aside by the large ne.
gro maiorities of the South, upheld and
maintained by the bayonet. The nfiu-
ence of these negro governments upon tho
finances of the country, upon its prosper
ity and future career, wero beginning to
operate upon the minds Of the most dis
tinguished men, who realized in the sue
cess of Radical measures. the destructives
at the North, by combining with the ne
groes of the South, will have it in their
power to rule or rum the best interests OF
that section. In this view he Thoughts it
advisable to adopt q resolution which
would strengthen the Northern feeling,
and hence hoped that the Convention
would not strike out the resolutions in
question.
REMARKS OF GENERAL WADE HAMPTON.
/ concur in very much that my friend
from Marion has said, and there are por-
tions Of that resolution which it is very
important that this Convention shall
adopt 1t may properly 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 op-
portunity to say few words concerning
myself If these misrepresentation of
language which [ have uttered: if theper
versions of facts which have stated re-
flected only upon me, should not only
bear the infiction with patience, but treat
it with the contempt it deserves. When,
however, am tcld that these falschoods
are q source Of injury to our cause, and
that they weaken the Democratic party
that party upon which our life and sal
vation dcpend-I am glad to have an OPP
portunity to denounce them and their au-
thors,
have said more to the people of New
York than to any Southern audience.
told them that we believed we were right,
but that we were willing to accord to
others what we claimed for ourselves,
viz: perfect sincerity in our convictions
and nnquestioned devotion to principle.
l told the Northern people that we spoke
with no double tongue, that we were
earnest and truthful in our desire to sup
port the Union and the constitution, and
in that spirit we accepted the hand SO
freely extended to us by the great De-
mocracy Of the North.
told them we wanted the constitution
restored; that we looked for no remedies
in our platform; that we did not propose
to incorporate into that instrument any
thing in the shape of a remedy, and we
simply asked that this platform should
declare these Reconstruction acts to be
unconstitutional. Indeed, had the honor
to offer in that body a resolution providing
for the arbtramcnt of this question by the
Supreme Court, and hud such decision
been rendered, there is not u man in the
South who would not have cheerfully
obeyed the law We were all prepared
to abide by it. Docs this look like revo-
luton?
l declared that we wanted peace, but
instead of receiving peace, we have not
only been charged with being revolution
ary, but there seems to have been per-
sistent effort to dragus into some outrage
or outbreak which would afford them
political capital at our expense.
have recently seen what purports to
be quotation from q speech made in
Charleston, not to an ordinary meeting
but in acknowleel gment of compliment
IA serenade given to me by my old sol
dcrs. / am told that in the New York
Herald it is published that l said Z" 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" l need not tell you that this
statement is in every respect false. On
the contrary, when spoke of the flag OF
the Confedcracy, Remarked that it now
WAS turlod forever. to be buried in the
grave of our lost cause. L did make
an allusion to another flag which had
been followed by many of the men stand
ing around me. 1t was flag that had
been worked by the descendants of Rovo
lutionary patriots, and presented TO us by
tho noble women of South Carolina,
through the hands Of our then chief mag
istratc; flag which had fioated amid the
smoke of many II desperate battlefield;
which had been borne by my own hero
son, and which enshroudcd him when he
was carried to tho tomb told them
that flag was resting with mo; for / knew