The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-13

espouse your cause, and you may properly exert
all lie Ultimate influence to promote their sue
cess, but you ought not to shut the door to aid
from any source. I have already deprecated
unreasonable and undistinguishing hostili-
ty to the Republican party. I would now
warn you against an absolute and exclusive
devotion to any party. If the Democrats
succeed in electing their candidates you
will be subjected to temptations as trying
as the demand upon your sufferance may prove
in case General Grant is chosen. Hasty, i'll
considered, passionate or violent action, "A the
event of Democratic success, would be almost
sure in the end to turn to your discontinue,
and render your last estate worse than the first.
And vet it will require good deal OF self COM
mand to control the reaction from this depres-
sion. But the country, even in that event, will be
so evenly divided and so greatly excited, that
q small thing may induce terrible catas-
trophe. On the other hand, in case of Gener-
al Grants election, you will be called on to ex-
ercise while longer your patience and for
bearance. / am sure it will be rewarded in the
end. do not believe that General Grant is
your enemy. I feel sure he means kindly to
YOU, and will try to do his best for you, and
show mercy in his course to you. A large mass
of Republicans will help you If you will do
your best to help yourselves. A great moiety OF
all the North only wait to be sure it is safe to
take you cordially by the hand once more.
Bide, then, your time. In either event pos
sess your souls in patience. Call to your aid
that grandest of human qualities-self-con-
trol-and all will yet be welt This nation has
had too much of violence and headlong haste.
You in particular have had terrible warning
against heat and passion. Keep cool, and
watch your chance, come whence 1t will. Above
all things do nothing to render it more diff
cult than it now is for either party to return to
g. constitutional system. If you favor haste
and passion in the Democratic party, or by i'm
patience strengthen the hands Of the extreme
men in the Republican party, You equally re-
tard the coming Of your only sure relef-a
re-establishment upon safe and lasting foun-
dations of the temple of constitutional liberty
which our fathers reared. Keep your eyes
steadily upon this as the pole star OF your poll
tical course, by stopping your ears to the blan-
dishments of the temptation Of immediate re-
lief on the one hand, or that seduction OF gra-
tilted passion on the other. Summon all your
self-resolution and manhood, and you shall
sail safe between the Scylla and Charybdis
which perplex your way.
NV friends, I have almost done, and will
detain you but moment longer, to suggest
some thoughts which, as citizon OF A1assachu
sets and native of New England, have lon 3
occupied my mind, and seem to me appropriate
to this meeting, on the soil Of South Carolina.
Separated as our States have been for many
wears in sentiment, their substantial interests
ore very similar. Their national wants and
products are correlative; their political inter-
ests are likely to be identical, and their popu-
lar characteristics are counterparts. do not
mean bv counterpart that they are alike, but
that one is the supplement of the other. The
one cold, cautious and thoughtful; the other
warm, impulsive and impetuous. Combine
these qualities and you double their power by
regulating and recognizing their force. Nor
need we look far to fosesee their political affi
liation. In the future, if all goes we'll the policy
of the seaboard States in reference to the great
questions ofind ,strill. financial and commercial
interests mus vitably replace the incidents
left by the war AS soon as they are disposed
of We can hardly fail to be nearly related. The
noxt great political division promises to b. ono
of watersheds rather than Of sections. The
great interior basin can and will, if she lik 8
repair to the microscopes of the mountains
and they will need good understanding amo:g
themselves and pretty cordial cooperation
Of measures, too, and good strong constitu
ton to retain and uphold their present place
in the general policy. Look, too, Tor mo-
ment at their industry and products. We, o
New England, are naturally, and hope W.
shall always be, bodybuilding, sea-soing
commercial people, carrying, and fishing, ant
tolung everywhere upon the face Of the waters
You produce the cotton and rice and timber
and turpentine which we carry and consum
We arc deeply interested in the manufacture:
which you desire. whio we work up your raw
materials with our largo spindles. 1 clnno
dwell upon details; but il am at all right IL
nv ideas. we can be mutually useful to eact
other. But whether this be 80 or not, thort
has long been enmlty between us. Letit be 81
no longer. We have cherished our dislike. mag
nified our causes of complaint, and brooded over
our wrongs. Let US forgive and forget. WITT
slavery, its cause. let all lll-teelings cease. LIE
us be friends and brothers, and move as oul
forefathers in the grand old days of the revou
tion were before US. In tho name Of that com
mon heroic ancestry-by the memories o
every battlefield OF the war Of Independent
deuce-let our dssenslons cease; let good VII
and brotherly love cast out the old bitterness
and let us oil hasten the day when Massachu
setts and South Carolina may stand once more
hand warmly grasped in hand, under the oil
ancestral roof, and beneath the old flag.
NV fellow-citizens Of South Carolina, l thanl
YOU for the attentive audience you have glver
to me, although I fear have been tedious
and perhaps some Of my views are distastefu
to YOU. I have carefully avoided any attempt
to stir your feelings or arouse your minds. Ii
did not seem to me On occasion for eloquence
if T had it, or for humor, il 1 felt it. am
deeply and seriously impressed with the dlfh-
entities under which you labor, and the dangers
which threaten our system Of government; and
T hone have spoken serious, because felt
scriouslv. Whatever may come OF 1t, snail
feel amply rewarded if by any chance may
have turned one heart to calm, patient ear