Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-11-07
Address Of GeneralsWade Hamp-
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dressof General Hampton; deliyere'
before the Frederick county, Md.
Agricultural Association.
In-this address. General Hampton
considers the want of the South
education, capital and immigration
and suggests the remedies that occu,
to his mind. The address is well
written, and is characterized by {
fpractical and patriotic spirit.
President Schley introduced Gen
eral Hampton in thsfollowing com
plimentary terms:
! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It has
been justly said that peace has its
victories no less renowned than war;
and surely not, the Z least Of her
achievements is the privilege Of pre-
senting to you, as the orator of this
occasion, one whose military renown
is known to us all. and whose gallant
bearing we have the csndor to thus
publicly acknowledge has elicted the
admiration! of his formers enemies.
Not, however, as on q former memo
rable occasion, (alluding to the charge
led by General Hampton through the
streets of Frederick in 1852, does
he present himself today, clothed
with ,panoply, of war; booted and
spurred for the hostile charge, but
with his martial weapons transformed
into implements Of useful husbandry,
and in the quiet and unpretending
garb Of civilian. He revisits us,
on this most interesting occasion, as
a member Of that peaceful army
whose bloodless weapons are the reap
er and the pruning!heok. While,
therefore, he discourses upon pro-
gressaive agriculture, md tells you
what he knows aboutsiarning, we
invoke for him the; same cordial well
come, the same generous courtesy
which was extended BY you, on a for
mer occasion, to his distinguished
predecessor on this stand, the Far
lner of Chappaqua,"I and solicit for
him an attentive and ansappreciative
audience, 1t is, therefore, with un-
feigned pleasure that II now present
to you, not the warrior;abut the far
mer, General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina. Cheers.
General Hampton then proceeded
10 discuss the wants If the South
land the means to fill these wants.
He appealed to the South in behalf
of that thorough scientific training
necessary to the development of her
resources, and contended that: with
this generous education !would come
the capital and the immigrants that
we need. He closed his address
thus:
The task with whichYou honored
me is fulfilled, all impertectly it may
be, but with. an earnest purpose to
contribute my feeble aid to the good
work in which you are engaged. 1t
has been my aim. in discharging it,
to bring to your notice the wants Of
the South, to offer few crude sug-
gestions to the best mode of meeting
those wants, to show YOU how goodly
heritage is yours, and to urge you,
for the sake Of this dear land Of ours,
to acquit yourselves like men. A
sacred duty is before you noble
reward awaits the ful6lment Of that
duty. 1t is yours, men of the South,
to build up anew the prosperity of
your country, to develop her hundred
resources, to teach the rising genera
tion the everything principles Of
truth, of justice, Of liberty, to bind
up the wounds that savage war has
inflicted, and to scatter plenty o'er
q smiling land" Are ther incen-
tives to action needed? If SO, Lad
jure you, in the name OF that pros
trate country, by the graves of your
fathers, by your duty to your chill
dren, by the love Of these noble wo-
men who share your fate, by all the
hal.owed memories of the past, by
all the sacred duties ofithe present,
by all your dearest hopes Of the fu-
ture to dedicate yourselves to the
redemption of the South. Prove to
the world that despite the storm
which had " scattered her might and
shattered her shield" she yet has
loyal and devoted sons. Yield not
to unmanly despair, but strive zeal:
ously to make the future bright and
glorious. When Pericles was bewail-
ing the heroic dead of Athens he ex-
claimed, with touching pathos: Our
youth hath fallen in battle. 1t is as
if the year were deprived Of Spring,
This is the case with many of US, and
as the dreary years drag their slow
length along, it seems as if they had
but their Spring time. But it may
be that Time in his ceaseless revolu
ton will bring to our children, if not
to us. other years rich in all the glo-
ries of a perpetual Spring. Let us
then be true to ourselves and to our
country. Let us cling with reverence
"a reverence made deeper and holier
by her, misfortunes-to our native
land, and let no promise Of wealth
or advancement tempt us to forsake
| her. c When the barbarian horde de-
.stroyed Rome, and her sons, in de-
spair, air were about to forsake the Eter-
nal Gity, we are told that the i'm
pending misfortune was averted by
a happy : omen. A centurion, moving
with his is company on the accustomed
round of relieve guard, halted near
the sad concourse, who were .delibe-
rating on theipr0possa. abandonment
Of the city; and gave the usual words
('of command @Ensign, plant your
colors; we We will remain here" The
Senators, rushing from the temple,
exclaimed "The gods have spoken,
1--WE obey" The populace caught up
the cry, and rent the skies with
shouts Of q Rome forever n'Iet lusI
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