The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-09-27

made to be in competition with it.
Ny friends having heard enough of me,
I will crafty you, ! am sure, by intro
ducing to you the Secretary of the
United States, William NJ. Evarts of
New York, Prolonged applause j..
E,.,f s;.y5:Gov.11AMPTON's SPEECH. ~" . I
! President Hays followed with brief
speech introducing Gov Hampton, Of
South, Carolina, who was greeted with
prolonged applause. He said .,...: ,..a
sincerely feel that am not authoriz-
ed to detain you one moment when those
of you out there are standing in the rain,
but I will at least have the comfort of
knowing if do so that my speach will
not be dry to you my friends, Having
met the. president Of the United: States
when lie first came upon Southern soil
the authorities in Louisville did me the
honor to invite me to join him there, and
that gentleman himself added to that hon
or by expressing the wish that 1 should
come. | went there expecting to remain
few hours to greet him on Southern
soil as Southern man, and recognize
in him a man higher than party man,
as he rose to be patriot Applause.
And it has been my additional good for
tune to. accompany him as he journeyed
southwark. l think we may say to-day
that he has struck the solid South. He
is here in Chattanooga, standing here up
on: your battle-scarred plains looking ut
and seeing every hillside crowned with
the evidences OF war, remembering that
your soil has been stained by priceless
blood, poured out by brave men who were
fighting honestly for their convictions on
each side. Remembering all that, am
glad to come here with him and see the
motto that you have written there of peace
and harmony once more restored in our
beloved country; and, my friends, in the
few remarks that I have had the hon
or Of making. as I have been
in this triumphant procession of the pres
ident, have studiously avoided any al
fusion to politics and tried to subordinate
them entirely to a feeling of patriotism,
and urge upon you, men of the south, as
far as possible to forget the past differ
ences between our people and to devote
yourselves to developing and opening up
the best resources of the country. l want
to urge upon you this thing and you will
have power and peace and happiness
once more. 1have not spoken of politics.
1t was my misfortune perhaps to differ
in politics with the President of the
United States, but Democrat as I am,
Democrat as have been, there is no man
in America to whom I more cheerfully
do honor than Ito the Republican Pres
ident Of the United States. I do that,
my friends, because he is showing that
he is president of the whole United States
do that because he has in the very first
act of his administration lifted tnat great
pressure which was upon the neck OF my
own people. Many then failed, he but
did his duty. Many of them had never
smelt powder. Show me the man who
will do his duty without fear, and
| who will not do more than his duty, and
clasp hands with him and will stand
upon the SAME platform. Applause.
He has brought back peace to our people.
He has shown that men who fought each
other can meet in peace and fraternity
without any loss of respect. We could
not do it when the State was pinned down
by the bayonet and my RIGHT arm
should have dropped from my
shoulder before would have given
my hand in peace while my
State was pinned down by bayonets. ZAP
plause.] When we felt that every State
was equal, every man in every State was
equal, white and black, when the great
Republican party, the dominant party,
the representative of men whom we fought.
came forward and said we respect you as
men who fought for your convictions, as
men who fought bravely and as long as
they could fight; when they came for
ward and said that to us of the South and
extended to us the hand of peace
and said, we were only fighting to
restore the union, come back into the
household of states, come back to the
hearthstone of your fathers, I felt that
better things would be accomplished. I
felt as Southern soldier as a rebel if you
choose, I could come back. Applause.
I told the men in Illinois that I had
fought them as long and as hard as I
could and would have been fighting them
now if I had been ordered to do so. They
honored and respected me for it and
that's the way for us to meet you, as
brave men should meet, if not forgetting
the past, and least drawing a curtain over
it, looking not at the bloody past which
is full of sorrow to all of us, but looking
forward to brighter and higher future
when all of us can march on bravcly,
honestly, truthfully, each one doing his
duty to the whole country, leaving the
consequences to God. Long and con-
tinued applause.]