Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-10-19
WADE HAmPTON's CANVASS.
A Campaign of Terror in south Caro-
lima
Extract from correspondence n. Y. Times.

Extract from Correspondence n. Y. Times.
COLUMBIA, Monday, Oct. 8, 1876.
The majority of the Republican party
in South Carolina is at least 25 900 votes.
This fact is admitted by every one in the
State. The most violent Democratic
leaders do not dispute it. In spite of this
majority, however, the Democrats, with
Gen. Wade Hampton at their head, have
declared "by the eternal God''-I use the
Generals own wOrds-that they will elect
their ticket and carry the State for Tilden
and Hendricks in November next. They
make no secret of their determination to
do this; indeed, they boast of it loudly
and upon every possible occasion. Three
days ago Gen. Gary, one of their most eff
fective orators, and a gentleman of high
position and influence, said in a public
speech, FESouth Carolina is a white mans
State, and in spite of nigger majorities
the Democrats are going to rule it. This
we swear to you by heaven and in the
face of God.'' Reading this, the good
citizens of the North and West may ask
in surprise, EEBut how are they going to
rule it if the Republicans have an un-
doubted majority of at least %, 900? Gen.
Gary, the same Democratic orator to
whom have referred above, answered
| this question at a Hampton ratification
meeting held in Aiken a few days since.
He said, ''The Edgefield policy, that is
the shotgun policy, won in the State
| Convention, and will win IN the present
campaign. That policy is to plainly tell
the negroes that the whites are again in
command of the State. We Democrats
do not want their votes, but they will
vote against us at their peril. We must
warn the leaders that tall pOppies will
| fall first I for one would shoot first,
| Chamberlain, Elliot, Patterson, and such
carpet-baggers second, the miserable
white native scallawags, and lastly, the
| black leaders generally" In another
part of his speech Gen. Gary said: s'Go
armed to the ballot box, and meet force
with force. If any one tries to prevent
! you from carrying the State for Tilden
| and Hampton, the person or persons who
| so try must be removed out of the way by
the use of sufficient force, and if it be-
| comes necessary to shoot them in order to
remove them, then we must be prepared
to shoot rather than be prevented from
| redeeming the State from Radical rule"
| A Portland, Maine, ROmance..,Ehe En- q
of Four Years Of Waiting.
About the time Camp Berry was estab-
! lished, says the Portland Press, q young
lady of this city, and soldier who was
stationed there, became acquainted. The
couple met quite often after the acquaint-
ance was formed, and q strong attach
ment, ending in an engagement, follow
ed. The young man presented his be-
! trothed with all elegant ring. Soon after
the engagement, the regiment to which
the soldier was attached was ordered to
the front at once. The news of the in
tended departure was hard blow to the
young people. But both were patriotic
| and they parted as hundreds of others
did during the rebellion. After the de-
parture, the billet d0alr were received and
sent i'll rapid succession. This state of
10f1a Ito
when, alas it came to a sudden termina-
ton. One day the young lady received a
very cool letter from her lover, so much
unlike all other letters she had received
that she at once wrote to him, saying she
wished to be released from her engage
ment, but giving no reason for the change
in her affections. When the letter was
received by the soldier in camp he was
utterly confounded. lie had never writ
ten anything but words of kindness and
affection to her, and why she should treat
him so cruelty was more than he could
tell. He grieyed for some months over
his disappointment and at last left the
army and went to California to Trough
it," and, if possible forget his sorrow. =
There he remained until Il few months
ago, when lie unexpectedly received a
letter from an unknown source It was
the dying confession of an old eomrade
who had caused all the trouble and on
his death bed mad confessed that he had
got hold of the letters and DESTROYED
them, sending others of his own manu-
facture to the lady in this city. He had
palmed off his writing by copying the
original. He being an exc client pen
man, this was not difficult matter.
4 When the confession was fully authen.
ticated, the man at once started for this
city to find his first and only love. By a
few inquiries, after reaching this city, he
learned her residence, and better still
that she, like himself, had remained un.
married. He made haste to call upon
her, and, to his surprise, discovered the
ring OH her finger where he had placed
it fourteen years before. A few words q
explanation made them as near and deal
to each other as ever, and. to cut Ions
story short, it was arranged that they
should be married at once, and the we'd
ding is to take place the present week al
one of our city churches. The happy
couple will start at once for the Centen
nj al.-BoStOn Globe.