Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

| = house was not ''hotel," and he rode off accompanied by other men to me unknown. It is well understood that I keep corn for sale; but none of these men asked for or proposed to buy any.
 Jos. DWELL.
 Sworn to and subscribed before mo, this 29th July, 1868.
 JAS. F. HUMPHREYS, J. P.
 Wade Hampton and the Confed-
 crate Flag.
 At the close of the proceedings in the South Carolina Convention on the 9th inst, Wade Hampton referred to his recently reported uttcranccs res- pecting the Confederate flag, as fol- lows:
 MR. PREsIDENT.-I concur with my friend from Marion and think that great good can be accomplished by the expression of tho opinion that we in- tend only to act by peaceable means, and with that view have prepared some resolutions, which, when the proper time comes, ! will offer as a substitute for the resolution under dis cussion. Allow me, however, Mir. President, to say Now that I am glad of the opportunity which has been af- forded me by the alrhsfons of my friend from Marion to defend myself from, tbo f,Iea accucat;ous of o,v ona- mics. If only myself were injured by these pervcrsions and studious mis- representations l would eTaeavor to bear them with patience, and treat them with tine contempt which feel for them. But when am told that they arc injuring the Democratic par ty, that party on which our only hope of salvation depends, am glad to have the opportunity to denouncc them as false. Why, Mir. President, I said more to the people of New York wAcn I was there than l ever said since any where at the South. l told them that 1 believed that in thc late war we were right as they believed that they were right. l told them that ! did not speak to them with double tongue {; l told them that l was honest and sim cero, and that l believed that the Southera people were honest aad sim eerc when they said that they were anxious for peace. I told them that all we wanted was the government of the Constitution restored, and l did not believe there was any other reme- dy for the direful ills under which not only tho South but the whole country was suffering. The Radicals charge me with being a revolutionist. Now, when l was in New York l offered rcsolution ia the Convention, looking to decision of the Supreme Court, and expressing our willingness to abide by that decision. Does that look like revelation? I have seen copied in the Northern papers, and strongly what purports to be a quotation from speech which 1 made in Charleston, not to any public as sembly, but on the occasion of scrc- made given to me by some of my old friends and fellow-soldiers. They say that l declared that I had preserved the flag of the Confederacy, and that 1 would soon call my followers to rally around it again. There is not one word of truth in it. When did speak of the Confederate flag, said that the cause which it represented was lost, and that it would be folded away among the sacred relics of the past, never to be again uafolded. But, MT. spoke on that occasion of another flag-of a flag which had been presented to my regiment by the fair women of South Carolina, a flag around which the most hallowcd recollcctions were entwined. Many of those around me had followed that flag on every of the war, aud in the dead Hest battle of all that flag was borne by my own hero son, and, when he fell, that flag covered his remains. I said that flag rested here with mo now. But because l mentioned that flag on account of the personal ties connected with it, on account of the associations which it called up to those who had it--that flag, the flag of single regiment-am l, therefore, to be as traitor and revolution ist, exciting my country to civil war and insurrection Mir. President, l repeat that I should not have denoun- ced these falsehoods if it had not been asserted that they were injuring the great party of peace and order on whose success the only hope of the of Constitutional govern ment in this country depends. But, sir, am glad of the opportunity of here what l said in New York, and what l have said every where in tho South that I have spoken, that q am fighting as earnestly now in the interests of peace as ever fought in war"
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