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


Georgia State Fair on the 17th instant.
was decidedly one of his most splendid
efforts. Its tone Of high patriotism and
of true realization of the destiny and
duty Of fthe Southern people commend it
to every heart. His views of labor and
the colored people, are practical and
wise. He thinks that the colored man
from his constitution and situation is the
most efficient laborer for the South
that is, that he can be made the most
valuable and elective laborcr that we
can get. But in order to render him
such both the land aud the colored
man himself have much to do.
"We," he says .smust 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 products Insure high ,eages for HIM.
Let us be scrupulously just in our deal
ings with him, let us assist him in his
aspirations for knowledge, and aid him
IN ats acquisition. Try to elevate him
in Ahe scale of true manhood, of civiliza-
tion and humanity, so that he may be
atted for the high duties that devolve
upon him in bis new position"
3 On this subject the gifted speaker said
chat he spoke from experience. His old
slaves are working on his plantations
aud 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-
His 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, by request Of hundreds of
negroes, besides my o,on 1aJorers, to ad-
wise them what course to pursue in the
coming election there"
This is grand. 'Tis no accepting the
situation, tbs no conservatism, It's no
third party, 'tis no compromise of prin-
=ciples" 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
of thoughts, would ridiculo or deplorc
the coming doom of the colored race
at the South, The philanthropist, the
patriot, the representative of christian
people would utter the sentiments of
t,ts.i.
We would that these sentiments could
reach every man through the broad land,
and that every heart would acknowledge
their, truth.
ut matters less what is said shan who
says it" is 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 us, when the
colorcd men, convinced by his deeds and
his course that his old master is his best
friend, shall send for him and rally around
him, and ask his advice as to their duty
and their ballots, and when her own sons,
elected with the aid and consent of the
colored 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 colorcd people. Let us perform our
high duty, as civilized and Christian
peopleto them, thus recently invested
with the sacred rights OF freemen and
citizens, SO new and strange to them, and
they will respond to our efforts.
IT'S the only way-the only way that
our State can be restored to us, our labor
placed upon asure and mutually profta-
BILE basis, and our present political and
agricultural difficulties removed.
This is the only way. Hampton says