The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-11-27
Glen. Wade Hampton's Speech at,
Macon.

ueoIgla otate ratr on tne liCh insteut.
was decidedly one of his most splendid
eHorts. Its tone OF nigh patriotism and
of true realization Of the destiny and
duty Of the Southern people commend it
70 every heart Ills views of labor and
the celsrsd psoPiiy, are practical and
wise. He thinks that the colorcd man
from his constitution aud situation is the
most Efficient 1aborer for the South !;
chat y, that he can be made the most
valuable md effective laborcr that we
can get. But in order to render him
such both the Landowner aud the colored
man himself have much to do.
"We," he says amust exercise great
forbearance, constant prudence and
steady Kindness. We must make him
feel that his interests are indissolubly
bound up with ours; that high prices for
ogr E,,5adsiets insure high uages for hs;m.
Let us; be scrupulously just in our deal
insss wsth Him, let us assist him in his
aspirations for knowledge, and aid him
IN its acquisition. Try to elevate him
IN the scale of true manhood, of ciyiliza-
tion and humanity, so that he may be
Etted for the high duties that devolve
upon him in his new position"
On this subject the gifted speaker said
chat he spoke from experience. His old
slaves are working on his plantations
and their labor has increased in its value
each year since emancipation. He is
about to put up a school-house and
church for them and to help pay their
teachers
Ills kind treatment and high sense of
duty to them in their new relation has
ben noticed and appreciated by them,
for says he. II am now on my way to
Mississippi, dy request Of hundreds Of
negroes, besides my o,on laJorers, to ad-
wise them what course to pursue in the
coming election there"
This is grand. IT'S no accepting the
sitaation, It's no Conservatism, tits no
third party, ,tis no compromise of prin-
eiples for it is Hampton.
This is the tone of this great speech,
and we regret that space forbids our
quoting more largely from it. This is
the grand high duty of the white people
at the South. The loud demagogue who
would faWn upon and cater to old habits
"a.
Of thoughts, would rilicule or deplore
fhe comisg doom of the colored race
at the South; The ph;lanthropist, She
patriot, the representative of q christian
people MOULD utter The sentiments of
We would that these sentiments could
reach every man through the broad land,
and that every heart would acknowledge
their. truth.
6 1t matters less what is said shan who
says it, lis the adage based upon expe-
rience. Hampton, than whose name,
none stands higher in influence among
Southern men says these things. Will
it not be a. great day for u.s. when the
colored men, convinced by his deeds and
his course that his old master is his best
friend, shallse for him and rally around
iiiia, and ask his advice as to their duty
andtheif ballots, and when her own sons,
elected with the aid and consent of the
cclored men shall rule and represent our
country.
Such result is brightly promised by
this course and these high words of
Hampton.
The game ofthe present regime of the
South, is too plain, too bald, to be long
Unseen by the colored people. Their
own aggrandizement is their policy.
The realization of this and its reaction
in their own minds is beginning to ex-
hibit itself in the words and actions of
our colcred people. Let us perform our
high duty, as civilized and Christian
peopleito them, thus recently invested
with the sacred rights OF freemen and
citizens qso'new and strange TO them, and
they will respond to our efforts.
IT'S the only way--tfe only way that
our State can be restored to us, our labor
placed upon a sure and mutually profta-
BILE basis, and our present political and
agricultural difficulties removed.
This Is the only way. Hampton says
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