The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-02-02
Hampton and Forrest.

| AuoSuSA Va tho BicaV loaucTS Ol tue
South has spoken. Forrest, the
dauntless Murat Of the West, Joins
his illustrious compeer in fame
Hampton, i'll tho interests of peace
and an abandonment of sectional pre-.
judiccs. Who will gainsay the right
Of our Incompatible cavalry chief
tains to counsel their -citizcns,
and to speak in behalf of the people
whose name they have made illustri-
GUS for all time? Surely not those
improbable politicians who were
peace men in war, and are now ardent
war men in peace.
Hampton's oration at Macon is win
ming golden opinions throughout the
country, and as we predicted a few
days since attracts most favorable
comment at the North. 1t was in
deed noble appeal in behalf of tho
policy of enlightened humanity aud
progressive ideas. The broad cosmo
politan spirit of tho following pas
sage has been especially commended :
"The one great need of the South
at this moment is large accession to
her white population, and sthe sturdy
Englishman, the canny Scotch, the
gallant Iri.hman, the gay Frenchman,
tho thrifty German, can all find here
congenial skies and congenial occupa-
! tion.' At the same time q warm well
come is extended to the capitalist, the
| engineer and the farmer of the
! North"
The sentiment avowcd by General
| Forrest at recent celebration of the
Chattanooga and Alabama railroad
arc equally deserving of praise. Said
Forrest
"l think I perceive lighting up
for the future, a bright prospect for
creator prosperity. I see Northern
men with Northern capital coming
forward to aid in building up our
country-to aid you and yours in de-
veloping and improving what is left
from the wreck of the past. Friends
and comrades, second their efforts,
help thom to help you, and thereby
bind closer the bonds of lasting
friendship and national unity. We
are now one people we have but one
Government; we live under and
claim the protection Of one flag.
, Come forward, then, and contributegto
; tho growth "Md prosperity of Il,hn-
rTa and her s,etcr States, tnrc> b wi h
those friends who have come So far 10
help you. | sxhort you, my fellow
citizons, fellow-comradcs of other days,
to como forward and follow now where
lead, as bruvely as you have done in
other fields. Henec, to-day, burying
and forgetting the past, I gladly meet
thoee Northern gentlemen, your
guests, laboring for your good, as
brothers. With you I accept their
efforts to develop our section, and
uniting mino with theirs, exhort you
to the same COURSE, to DO followed and
crowned WITH prosperity, peace and
unity"
Almost simultaneously these two
men, the greatest cavalry leaders pro-
duced by tho late war, avow senti.
ments, which practically carried out
would in two years relieve every
Southern State of tho blighting sway
of Woe and ignorance. Neither Of
these men ever lost battle. Hamp-
ton fairly routed the sol disant ".av-
airy Leader" Sheridan IN the only real
cavalry battle which the latter ever
fought, with one-half the Federal
force, and to-day ho LAS no peer in
the Federal army Isa conmandep of
horse. Forests career was equally
brilliant. lie had every requisite Of
distinction; skill, valor, GOODNESS in
action, and above all, success in all
hiscampaigns. Are such mon to be
rated by the South as less worthy to
counsel hcr than mere vaporing poll
t,ciaus.- Wilmington Star.
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A New BANK FOR CONTAMINATION
some time pasr new bank has been
talked of, and now it is almost an
accomplished fact. The merchants of
Columbia have long been inconveni-
enecd by the limited banking capital
employed here, and those Of Kepubli-
can stripe have experienced great
difficulty in getting any accommoda-
tion whatever. While the business
OF the city Is as large II not larger
than before the war, there is burt o
small proportion Of capital now in
uso.
Thc new project has for its movcra
the same parties who have purchased
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
The corporate name Of the bank is to
DO tho South Carolina loan and Tru
Company. The cliurter, which has
already been obtained from the Gene
rnl Assembly, i%a very liberal one,
and is identical to that granted the
South Carolina Improvement and
Trust Company, aud just amended SC
as to give them all tho power confer.
red on banking institutions generally
The capital stock is $2OO,O00, and i.
now all taken--a large portion by
capitalists in New York and Psnnsyl.
vania.