The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-08
HAMPTON AT DARLINGTON.

The following ls.an outline OF the Gov
ernors speech at the Darlington County
Fair last week:
Ladies and msy FslloD- Citizens Of Dar-
l;ngton-I would be wanting in proper
feeling did fail to appreciate the warmth
of your greeting to-day. A little more
than a year ago I came among you to
plead for a cause dearer to my heart than
fife-the cause of South Carolina. It
was not for myself. did not represent
any party. It was only my good fortune
to be chosen as your standard bearer, and
have never yet gone into fight that I
did not expect to win. We knew that
for years the State had been plundered
by those strangers to her soil no, by the
help of the army, had gained possession
of her Offices of trust and power, and the
people rose as one man, and by the peace
full agency of the ballot drove them out,
and to-day we can say with pride that
Carolina is once more governed by Caro-
linians.
But, my friends, you must not expect
too much. The misrule of ten years
cannot be done away with in day.
Some are now saying that the taxes are
too high. You must remember that we
have the honor of the State in our hands,
and her just debts must be paid. We
mean to put the credit of the State a0here it
aoas before the aoar. The building up of
her waste places must be the duty of
every citizen on her soil. My advice to
you is to let politics alone We have no
great national elections on hand now, and
we must devote every energy to the pros
perity of the State. When I spoke to
you during the canvass last year I said
that every citizen of the State, no matter
whether born on her soil or not, no mat
ter. of what race, was entitled to all the
protection of her laws, and that if I was
elected Governor they should have that
protection. Since the establishment of
the present State Government they have
had that protection. and are now in the
enjoyment of every right and privilege
secured Go them by the Constitution and
laws. I want the colored people to be-
come landowners, for then they will be-
come conservative. I want to see the
people of both races living in peace to-
gethler, and on friendly terms with each
other. If one is in prosperity the other
will be also, and neither can 60 down
without dragging the other with it.
These have been my sentiments ever
since the war. In 1868 I canvassed the
State in behalf of candidates for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor, and if you
remember I then said exactly what /. am
saving now. / have always believed
that if we would put forward men of our
own State and make the issue against
misrule we would win.
At last our people, driven almost to
| madness, rose up and said that the State
was ours, and that we would have it.
| And not alone to the men of South Car
olina is due the great work, as nobly as
they endured the terrible trial; but to
our women, who, by their prayers and
example, encouraged the faint-hearted.
and frowned upon him who would be
traitor to 30 sacred cause. And now
today, as T stand here, the representa-
tive Of the people of South Carolina, l
thank them in the name of the State.
(Just then a rose, thrown by young
lady in front of the stand, was caught by
the Governor, who bowed his acknowl.
edgments.) My friends, we have gained
a great victory, but there is much still
for US to do. We have our waste places
to rebuild, and we have the terrible ex-
perience of the last sixteen years to warn
us. We who are now here may not see
it, but our children's children will reap
the benefit of all that we now do to make
the people of our dear old State once
more prosperous and happy.
The Governor here retired, amid
shower of bouquets and rounds of ap.
plause from all present.