Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-09-29

General WADE HAMPTON, in response to
request for his opinion on the subject Of South
ern representation in the next National Demo-
cratic Convention, takes earnest grounds
aganstit. He thinks that the presence OF South
ern delegates in The Convention would be
hindrance rather than help, and that it would
be made use of by the Radical opposition TO
prejudice the action and to defeat the candi-
dates of the Democratic party. lie holds, fur
ther, that the burthen of the Sight in the next
Presidential campaign must OF necessity, fall
on the Northern Democracy, and that such be-
ing the case, it is but right that they should
choose the standard bearers. He is convinced,
he says, that il is the true policy OF the South
TO abstain altogether from all participation in
| the National Convention, not because OF the
want of any earnest sympathy with the North
ern Democracy, but OF the strength of that sym
pathy in view of the intense gravity Of the
| issues involved, and of the beneficial influence
which the triumph of the Democratic party
would exert upon the political fortunes and
future destiny Of the South.
Such is, in substance, the tenor of Gen.
| HAMPToN's letter. He Desires however, " that
the conduct and motives of the South should
| be fully understood by our Northern friends"
| His sole thought is to aid them, BY leaving them
free to act as the best interest of the party may
demand.
But when the platform is announced and
| the candidates chosen it will become the duty
of the South to ratify the action Of the Convex
ton, and use every possible exerion to pro-
mote the success Of the party, for, on that
| success, as he firmly believes, depends the ex-
| istence of the Southern States. If this advice
| should not meet with general concurrence, he
| exhorts the South, 10 any event, 90 TO act in
perfect accord, and with entire harmony"
This fear Of tanning anew the hatred engen-
| dered by struggle which was brougt to close
| seven years ago. is one of the saddest things
in the recent history of the South. The men
most worthy TO govern the Southern States,
| and most able to control lawless outbreaks,
are the very men who are still denied the pow
er of doing either. They plead clamy for
peace, and peace is denied them. Although
recognized as citizens, and entitled to be cloth
ed with all privileges and immunities of citi-
z0uship, nearly all Of the most influential of
those 10 whom they have been accustomed TO
look for counsel and advice, feel constrained to
say, with General HAMPTON, our only trust is
in the Northern Democracy, and our only hope
of political redemption depends upon the tri-
umph of the Democratic party. OF ourselves
we can do nothing. Negroes and carpet-bag-
gers, and scalawags, are our rulers; and if we
move hand or foot for our deliyerance, even
though the means be lawful and the right we
exercise unquestionable, the old war-cries, po-
tent for evil will be revived again, and every
thing that malignity can invent will be forged
into weapon for our hurt, and will be used,
not against US only, but against those from
whom alone must come, If it come at all, our
final rescue from the pains and penalties, the
plunderng, and the harassment, to which we
are now and have so long been subjected
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