The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15
Wade HamptOn's Programme.

From the N. 2. Times.
General Wade Hampton is one of many who
have allowed their hostility to the reconstruc-
tion policy to overcome the wiser promptings
of their Judgment. He very early urged the
acceptance of the results of emancipation by
Oonceding the principle of impartial suffrage.
He professed a recognition of the fact that the
old doctrine of white supremacy is untenable,
whence he argued that it Is eXpedient to base
any plan of negro disfranohiSement upon a
principle which, equitably applied, would
operate against all unftness, whether in whites
or blacks. He was, indeed, an early advocate
OF policy of concession and conciliatiOn the
adoption of which by the South would pro-
badly have prevented nearly all that is un-
palatable in the present plan. And for this
course he was for months put forward as an
exemplar of the wisdom that would restrain
the extreme tendencies of Southern polit-
clans, and furnish a solid ground of compro-
mise between the races when the States regain
control of their affairs.
But Wade Hampton, having fallen once
more among the Democracy, has dropped his
first and pacific propositions, and gone over
bodily to the extremists. prominent man
in the Convention which nominated Seymour
and Blair, he has gone further than his fellows
in interpreting the platform as declaration of
war against the equality OF citizenship, which
is the cornerstone OF the Congressional scheme.
AS speaker at the Union-square meeting, he
took up the strain of Blair's letter, and pre-
dicted contest of force if the Southern whites
be not allowed their own way. With this view
he demanded from his audience pledge, the
terms of which sufficiently show the present
temper of the South Carolina Democracy
1--WE can have no relief unless this great De.
moera1c party will come ouJ and pledge
itself that we shall have fair eection-tuat
the while people Oft South snail vote, and
want you all TO register an oath that when
they do vote that these votes shall be counted,
iN ma it.Til ~ s.f w IA 10
you will place Sey mOnr aud Blair in the White
House, IN spite OF all the bayOnelS tnat shall be
brought against Them / only want TO see the
eleclion talr, and IL they do that, even with the
incubus OF black rule we can carry the South
ern States" tApplause)
The statement that "eyen with the incubus
OF black rule" the Democracy "can carry the
Southern States" disposes of the plea on
which the Wade Hampton class seek Northern
sympathy. They represent themselves ordi-
harlly as helpless under negro rule, while at
other times they boast of their ability to carry
the Democratic ticket. Perhaps the latter de-
claration is predicaLed on repetition of the
violence, the coercion, and the frauds NV which
the new Constitution is understood 10 nave
been defeated in Mississippi. Be this az n
may, it is plain, from Mr.. Wade Hampton's
own showing, that the Southern whites are
not slaves after all. If they now control the
ballot-boxes, we do not see why they are hor-
rified by negro suffrage. Why complain if it
is ready to do their bidding
The oath which the Northern Democracy
are asked to register means more than appears
on the surface. II is an assertion of the right
OF the Southern whites to vote at the Presi-
Dental election, whether the States in which
they reside have or have not been restored to