The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-20
WADE HAUPTON.

WADE HAMPTON.
Alter the war when all but a few OF
the rankest fire eaters of the South
were supposed to have accepted the
situation in good faith, Wade Hanp.
ton was brought out, in 1865, in New
York City, to make a speech raifying
the nomination of Seymour and Blair.
In the course of that speech, he re-
marked with peculiar emphasis:
81 want you the Democracy to reg.
lister an oath, that if there is majori.
ty of tDlite ootes, you will place Sey-
mour and Blair in the White House, in
spite of all the bayonets that can be
brought against them"
This was practically denouncing the
amendments to the Constitution re.
cognizing the citizenship of the coIored
man and confering upon him tile right
of suffrage. No matter what the result,
if Seymour and Blair received a ma
jority of the ,ohite cote, they were to
be placed in the White House. This
was what Hampton then wanted the
Democracy to make oath they would
do. And The purpose was as plain as
the purpose of the rebeGion-to
achieve through the Democracy what
they had lost in their own effort. At
another time, when speaking before
the Virginia Military Institute. Hamp-
ton was thus reported in the Richmond
papers:
"Alluding most touchingly to our
martyred dead, he said that our grief
should be tempered, as We remember
that they fell when they thought that
thy would not fall in vain--that they fell
in the bright hone that success would
crown their efforts. But lie did not
beliece that they had fallen in cain
the cause for which Jackson and Stew
art fell, cannot be in cain, but, IN
SOME FORM, WOULD YET TRIUMPH.
He proposed
''Ihe Lost CauSe-for which our
soldiers fell"
"This was drunk silently and solemn
ly by all; and in walking around, We
observed that nearly all present were
Confederate soldiers.
''In some form the Lost Cause would
yet triupmh.' Recognizing at last the
hopelessness of triumphing in a contest
at arms, the South is now seeking to
gain control of the various State Gov
ernments, and through them and the
Democracy gain control of the various
departments of the general Govern
ment. As the Democratic circular
issued from the East says to them, ''the
State played for its possession of the
government, and therefore ''the eiec
tion must be carried at all hazards"
in the South, SO that the ''Solid South"
may present an unbroken front in the
Presidential contest. In that event,
and in the event of the election of Til
den and Hendricks, it having given
the largest proportion of electoral
votes for them, would receive the lar
gest proportion of appointments-even
to the control of the Presidency itself.
To this end Wade Hampton is now
working. He is the Confederate can
didate for Governor of South Carolina,
and upon the stump endeavors to mis-
lead the colored people as to the real
object of the Southern leaders by such
speeches as the following.
do here, what did in the conven-
ton, pledged myself solemnly, in the
presence of the people of South Caro-
lima, and in the presence of my God,
that if the Democratic ticket is elect
ed, 1 shall knot0 no party nor race in
the administration OF the law. So
sure as the law pronounces a man
guilty, so sure shall that man be pun
ished. l shall know nothing but the
law, and the Constitution of South
Carolina and of the United States.
Immense applausel We recognize the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
of the Constitution of
the United States, and accept them in
good Faith. The colored people know
that it is under those amendments that |
they enjoy the rights they now have. |
We stand upon that platform, and not |
one single right enjoyed by the color
ed people 10 day shall be taken from
them. They shall be the equals under
the law, of any man in South Carroll |
na,
In about such language as this, the
Brigadiers who now con-
troll the legislation of the House, ad-
dressed the people whose suffrages
they desired, and yet no sooner had
they obtained control than they intro
duced such bills as this, by III. f. Rid
die of Tennessee, on the 2Sth of Feb
ruary 1876:
A BILL
Directing compensation to be allowed
for the use and occupation of prop
erty by the United States Army dur
ing the late war.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled.
That the Secretary of War be, and he
is hereby, authorized to dlLoa0 reaSona-
Ole condensation to ALL CITIZENS
of the United States FOR THE USE AND
OCCUPATION OF THEIR PROPERTY BY
THE UNITED STATKs ARMY, or any
part thereof, during the late civil war.
In the same manner and under the
same regulations as compensation is
now allowed for quartermaster stores
used by said Army: Prootded, hou
eoeT, That the affidavit of the claim
ant, supported by the competent tes
lImony of any reputable citizen,
SHALL BE SUFFICIENT PROOF
TO ESTABLISH THE FACT OF THE
USE AND OCCUPATION OF SUCH PROP
ERTY BY SAID ARMY. But it is not the
Intention of this act to limit the par
les 10 the amount of proof herein
specified; but other and additional
testimony may be taken to establish
The fact of the use and occupation, and
he rental value of the property occu-
pied.
''Do men pluck grapes off thorns or