The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-01-11
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In its issue Of Wednesday, the New
York Times published a .let,ter from q
correspondent in South Carolina, sub.
stantially, and,at great length, charging,
General Wade Hampton with dishonesty
ia settling with his creditors after the
war. That General Hampton, like very,
many Southern planters, was forced into
bankruptcy BY the total loss Of all his
slaves, the terrible depreciation Of: prop,
erty and the damages incident to, war, 10
undoubtedly trueIotherwiye- the, state.
meats in the Times letter are: a mere It's
sue of falsehoods. General Hanpton's
largest CREDITOR. who appears as such in
the schedule of his liabilities as printed
in the Times, happens to be now in this
city, and yesterday denounced the letter
as atrociously false and libelous. Gen
eral HamptOn's settlement with us,"
said he, "was strictly and in every re-!
spect honorable. Thes7En.es statement
that the creditors have never received 8
cent in satisfaction of their claims:i :ia no
less untrue than the whole tenor Of the
letter. He gave up every. dollar of his
property TO bis creditors, and received
q considerable proportion Of my claim.
It does not ueed," he added, 'that Gen
eral Hampton's creditors should oppose
their dsnials to these libel6us: assertions
in the Tines, for no man who knows his
singularly scrupulous and high,minded
sense of honor but would pronounce any
assertion to the contrary as false; = bdt in
the face Of: such publication as this, T
cannot refrain from protesting against u
as utterly base and unfounded. 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 7snses' charges, it may be well2to
state-a, fact we'll known to all his friends
that, having surrendered all. his once
large fortune to his creditors, he lived for
some timeafter the warSin circumstances
|. Of actual poverty, being forced tosellesen
| the ,furniturea from his sroorns and the
carpets from his floors to support his fam:
lily. In; this heHshared the common lot
kof very many neighborssa and Of pla0ters
generally throughout the South who were
utterly impoverished by, the war, ,,;;;;.o.,,
II" the Tines. publicatipn, General
Hampton's schedule Of liabilities foot up
over 81, ,000, 900. while his assets, as re-.
turned, fall very, greatly abort Of that
.amount. This discrepancy il easily ex.
Iplatned.:. The, larger part of his debts
was for money borrowed upon cottou and
for the working Of his plantation. Du-
ring the war. he had over 5000 bales of
cotton destroyed by fire, which at a low
estimate were certainly worth over $1,000.
1000. In slave property General Hamp:.
ton before the war Was worth fully $500, !:
900, while his landed estate, was very
large and very valuable. II way upon
this property, which the war reduced to
comparatively insignificant value, that
the moneys were loaned: His ease il
the same az though New York mer.
! chant had borrowed a,large amount of
money upon property which was consid'
cred by both borrower aud lender as
worth, far more than the: amount of the
loans, and. as if that property had after
ward been destroyed by auses'cf which
neither borrower nor lender had any
thought, and for which neither had con-
sidered provision necessary :at::.t'; :,
The charge in the Times that General
Hampton, in making ~ settlement with
his credit6rs, so arranged it that ., debt
to his wife had precedence of I'll claims,
tx pronounced by a gentleman; in this
city. whrris thoroughly conyersant With
General Hampton,s affairs, as both. false
and malignant. Mrs. Hampton's prop
erty, which, she had inherited in her own
right, had been turned over TO her bus
band; and was swallowed UP. in, hit own
losses BY the war. That she. did not
have precedence over. other creditors is
sufficiently proved by the circumstances,
already alluded to, in which her huss;
band, herself aud theiE-ehildren were
forced to live after the war. a. t....,;..-r..
One other. statement--that General
Hampton, il .not,a citizen of South Caro-.
lima, but of Mississippi-isaIsu Isu denounced
an utterly false General Hampton has
never been a citizen of, Mississippi. and
has never ceased to be citizen of South
! Caro!na.-Ne,c York World.
Rome Sentinel: eve had terribly
cold weather last week. A ynnllgs, Man
from Madison street, who took his darling
ont riding, thoughtlesslly put his arm On
the Back of the cutter seat, to fix the robe.
and shnwls around her and the cold at
fected his arm to such an extent that ne
was unable to Withdraw it for over tw'
hours. 1t is quite LAME yet, bHt anoti,el
damsel SAYS that the back Of a sofa MDd q
ghod paFi5f fire VIII draw the pain h},i on y
q abd 'he has arranged to try the remedy