The daily gazette., 1876-12-30
From the World.
Too Supplementary Lies,
SOME CAMPAIGN STORIES WHICH
COME TO NAUGHT.
THEHAMPTON FALSEHOODS AND
THE ESCAMBIA!COUNTY
1DVTTp AC n

York Times published "A letter! from iti
resident correspondent in South Caroiin;
the same person who has sent all thu
recent extraordinary despatchesfrom thai
ate-substantially, and at great length
charging General Wade Hampton will
dishonesty in settling with his creditors
after the war. That General Hampton like
very many Southern planters, was forced
into bankruptcy by the total loss Of al
his slaves, the terrible depreciation OF
property and the damages incident to
war, is undoubtedly true-otherwise the
statements in the Times letter are a mere
tissue of falsehoous. General Hampton's
largest creditor, who appears as such in
the schedule OF his liabilities aS printed
in the Z mes, happens to be now in this
city, and yesterday denounced the letter
as atrociously false and lihel.or. Cen
eral Hampton's settlement with US, said
he, twas strictly aud In every respect
honorable. The Timess statement that
the creditors have never received cent
in satisfaction Of their claims is no; less
untrue than Is the Whole tenor Of thc
letter He gave up every dollar Of his
property to ll> creditors, and | received
a considerable proportion of my claim
1t does not need, he added that Gen
eral Hampton's creditors should oppose
their denials to these libellou> assertions
in the TfmtS, for no man who knows his
singularly scrupuiouS aud high-minded
sense of honor but would pronounce any
assertion to the contrary ;ts false; but in
the face of such u publication II, this.
cannot refrain from protesting against ii
as utterly base and unfoundcd Had
General Hampton occasion now to call
upon me for assistance, most certainly |
should not hesitate to give it,
In contradiction of the entire substance
OF the Times charges, it may be well to
statc-a fact well Known 10 all his friend,
that having surrendered all his once
large fortune to his creditors, he lived
Tor some time after the war in circum-
stances of actual poverty, being forced
to sell even the furniture from his rooms
and the carpets from his floor to support
his family. In this he shared the com
mon lot of very many ncighbors and of
planters generally throughout the South
who were utterly Impoverished by the
war.
IN the Yme's publications Gen. Hamp-
toms schedule OF liabilities foot up over
Of dollars, while his assets, as re-
turned, fail very greatly short of that
This discrepancy is easily ex
planned. The larger part of his debts
was for money borrowed upon cotton
and for the working of his plantation
During ihc war he had over 5000 bales
II cotton destroyed by fire which at
" estimate were certainly worth over
= 9oo,'po. In slave property, General
hampton before the war was worth fully
$500 uO0, while hi, landed estate wu.
''rN large and very valuable. 1t wa,
ipon this property, which the war re-
ulctd toa comparatively Insignificant
idlur, that The moneys were loaned HIS
'aac is the same rs though a NcW Yorl;
merchant hal borrowed q large amoant
'i money upon property which was con
'idrred iy both borrower and lender "a,
iortIi ldr more than the amount OF the |
odns anl rs II that property had affug-
,afIl- been destroyed by causes OF which |
lellhcr borrower nor lender had any
ii93lSef' ANA for whifh neilher llpl e1n- |
lIcrrd Il provision necessary.
The charge Of the Tmfa thaf General
lanpan in making aoetilem ~ wifi
. Iii, wife had - ccdenee ii aH claim.
announced by a gentlp man in this CITY,
mo Is thoroughly cOuvrr~ant with Gen.
Ianpton'S affairs, as both false aud mn
lgnant. Mrs, llanptou's property.
ynich she had Inherited IN her own
light had been turned over to her hus-
'and. and was swallowed up in hi, own
oSseS by the war, THAT she dil not lave
precedence of other creditors is suiticicn-
ly proved, already alluded to. in which
Ter husband, herself and their clildIen
we're forced to 1--WE after the war.
One other statemcnt-that Gen. lamp
on Is not citizen ot South Carolina.
'nt OF MlssiS,ippi-is also denounced rs
lever been a citizen of Mississippi, and
laS never ceased to be a citizen OF South
Carolina.