The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-19

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madea speech to the blacks Of Darlington
county. This is avery heavy Black coun.
ty, about two to;onej but,we' are told that
it will 20 Democratic. .aV;.iA-.
Please read what General Hampton
said in his speech there to the blacks. II
is right to the point. Speaking of the
fact that he was an early advocate o.
negro suffrage, because it would give the
South much power, he says:
"Why did I recommend that you be
permitted to vote? There are 300, ,000
colored voters in the South. They add
to the power and strength of the South
We have more voters in the Presidential
contest, and we. have more Representa-.
tives in Congress. Why should we want
to cut off one-third of our votes .Ol
course we should desire to keep, them,
We know that if the time has not come,
that it will come and must come, when
blacks and whites in the Southern States
will come together" io.I.,.! ~
That is, all vote. the Democratic; ticket,
and make aolid South. BE continues
"We would be, indeed, fools to; desire,
with 100000 colored votes and 1900, 600
white votes, to cut off one-third Of our
strength. The North saw it, and hence
the Mortons and Andrews opposed the
move to allow the colored people votes.
was the first man in the South who ad-
vocated that measure, and / have never
gone back on it. You will all have to
come together, and l have been waiting
for the time, and it is not far distant now,
when all the colored people will be ready
to fine the cavalry" [Applause and
laughter. .,......l.,
Do you see the point? He has GER
tainly made it very plain. 80
Speaking of the fact that he was the
very. first white man in South Carolina
to advocate negro suffrage, he says: - -
~ made the proposition at several pub
lie meetings in Columbia, and I took the
ground that they had been made citizens,
and that they should not be excluded
from the right to vote. And I recon-
mended then, land at that. time none but
whites had the right to yoh, ,1iT whom
your leaders tell you am a rebel, that ]
am an unreconstructed fre-eater, they
will tell you the Lord only knows what
about me, and yet / repeat that 1 wasithe
first man in South Carolina who recon-
mended that the right to vote should be
given to the colored people. Applause.
Go to Nash, Edwards and others, and ask
them if what I have told you is not true;
When I was taking that ground In: South
Carolina, Governor Morton, your. choice
for the Presidency, the man who, waving
the bloody shirt and digging into the
very graves: of our dead, made speeches
at the North, in,which he said;your peo:
pie were not fit to vote, and recommended
that the franchise should not be granted
them for twenty years. have the speech
of Governor Morton, and any of you can
see it if you wish. My speeches we're
also published, and you can see them i
you desire. Governor Andrew, also an.
other of your Republican friends, took
the same ground as Morton, and: I have
his speech also. These are, facts that
cannot be disputed. They are printed
documents and are now among the ar
chives of Massachusetts and of Congress
These are the men who profess now to be
your warmest friends--these men who
would have put their feet upon your lib
critics for all time" 1.a@ ~.
He was in favor of black suffrage, be.
cause it would give the South prepon'
derating weight in National affais.L -:
At the same time, Morton, in Indiana;
made very clear and argumentative
speech against negro suffrage, copies o'
which HAMPTON reads to his black audi
tors, and distributes among them for theil
edifcatiop. ie.' ta ,@vaa o. .t2!!jc1
It is now in order for some reformer
lwho thinks the Southais occupying toe
much space in affairs, to- start q party
having for its cardinal principle thu
graceful taking of the negro out of poll
tics BY way of a counter-acting constitu
tional amendment. But youmay be- sure
no Tilden reformer willstart such asPar
ty.I They have got too good sthing o.
it. Ifthe Democracy capture the Natior
lit will be- through the ;prependeratne
weight which negro isufrage5has giver
the solid South. They virtually =have
/ tgift lof the representation arising from
eight hundred thousand votes'ito'' begir
with. This, of itself, is fair start to
ward Washington. =, p.