The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-21
John Quincy Adams and the South Caro-
lima Democracy.

John Quincy Adams and the South Caro-
lima Democracy.
The State Central Executive Committee
of South Carolina, Wade Hampton Chair
man, addressed to John Quincy Adams of
Massachusetts, an invitation 70 visit Colum-
bia, s. c., and address the people, Mr..
Adams is the grandson of the Ex-P President
John Quincy Adams, the son of Hon. Chas.
Francis Adams, late United States Minister
at the Court of st. James; and the Demo-
cratic candidate for Gubernatorial honOrs in
the old Bay State. He is invited to "talk
of Union and fraternal relation on the soil of
South Carolina, and this for the purpose of
and discomfting Radicals.
The Committee very pathetically says:
"Would it not be as if the past were speak
ing to the present9 Would it not seem as
if the grave had given up her dead and they
were holding counsel of the future" Again:
'It seems to us that your visit here, received
as it would be by your people, would send
an electric thrill from one end of the country
to the other" After writing this the Com
mittee should have joined in singing the
hymn "Hark from the tombs doleful sound"
They assure Mr.. Adams that within three
days they can ''have ten thousand people
present to hear the words of peace addressed
by Boston to Columbia"
There is more false pretense and downright
hypocrisy in this letter than we have seen
for a long time.
Reverence for the name of John Quincy
adams by such men as Wade Hampton.
Out upon such arrant hypocrisy 1t is
enough to make the dry bones of the "oM
man eloquent" rattle in their coffin, and cry
out in indignant protest. Such men as these,
with Northern pro-slavery Democrats, were
the most malignant foes of the old John
Quincy Adams. They detained, and attempt
ed to drive him in disgrace from his seat in
Congress, and also to assassinate him. They
counted the very name of John Quincy
Adams an abomination. Why Because
and only because, he was the champion of
liberty and the Union; because he was ever
striving to open the eyes of the country to
the traitorous principles and designs of the
pro-slavery Democracy; and now they at
tempt to'speak in respects tesms Of the old
hero protesting to believe in :his patriotic
liberty-loving advocacy of Republican prin-
ciples This is the pretence Of the letter.
They desire to see and hear the Grandson
that they may take counsel with the Grand
father, e. hear the Grandson for the Grand
fathers sake. Probably they would like to
make the Republicans of South Carolina be-
ieve that the old John Quincy Adams was
truly a copperhead and anxious to have
them vote with and for the friends of seces-
sion and slavery.
This Wade Hampton Committee profess
great respect for the words of "Boston" by
which they mean Massachusetts,. Now such
men as these have committed the greatest
indignities upon Massachusetts and gloated
in the villainy Citizens of Boston while
employed on the decks of Massachusetts yes
sells on entering Charleston harbor have been
for no crime, seized and imprisoned and
kept in confinement as prisoners SO long as
the vessels remained in port.
A venerable Judge, one of the best and
most distinguished men of Massachusetts,
was by a mob, raised and countenanced by
leading men of South Carolina, chased from
the State. Judge Hoar went there not as &
political agitator, not even for pleasure or any
personal purpose, but as an agent of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts to test IL
the United States Court the constitutionality
OF certain law, which was rigidly enforced
to the prejudice and injury of Massachusetts
citizens. No public man of South Carolin,
interposed for his defence-the laws wer'
silent as death. This was an indignity, de
liberately and maliciously committed agains
the State of Massachusetts. 1t was ruttfianl.
denial of aplain State right. Ex-Presiden
John Quincy Adams never ceased to de
nounce the atrocity as an exemplifcation o
the barbarism of slavery-the Democrat,
party North and South defended this barba
rism and attempted to create odium agains
Judge Hoar by calling him as an abolition
ist.
Again. A distinguished Senator of Mas
sachusetts peerless as an orator, Statesman
and philanthropist, was cowardly assaulted
and stricken down in the United State
Senate chamber, and nearly slain by repre-
sentative and son of South Carolina Th
ataatstardly coward was applauded and fetet
by South Carolinians of the Wade Hampton
stripe. sc
The assailants of Adams and Hoar ant
Summer, were plotting the death of tn
Union they were exasperated because thei
plots were exposed and properly character
lied.
Wade Hampton endorses Blairs letter
secures its introduction into the Democratic
platform. That letter and that platform ar
plan for the destruction of the Union
Therefore. we say that Wade Hampton be
longs to the McDuffie and Brooks clan.
Respect for the words of Boston Fo
more than two years past Democratic orator
and Democratic presses have indulged in tn
most foulmouthed abuse of Massachusetts
and her citizens. Wade Hampton has joinet