The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-27
HAMPTON IN ATLANTA.
We give below the address of Senator
Gordon in introducing Coy. Hampton to
an audience of the "Gate City" and the
Palmetto Governors speech in reply:

Gordon in introducing Gov. Hampton to
an audience of the "Gate City" and the
Palmetto Governors speech in reply:
GEN. GoRDoN's SPEECH.
Feiiom- Crtiaens, L.adies and Genflemea--
II has rarely fallen to myself TO occupy
more grateful task than the one To which
am called tonight, namely, TO present
TO my neighbors and fellow-citizcns the
man whom South Carolina claims and il
attempting TO appropriate TO herself, but
who in truth belongs 70 us, applausc,
to Georgia and TO the whole South ~
well az TO South Carolina. TO int. .oduce
Wade Hampton 20 Georgia audience is
like introducing nanar..te to French
men, or Il. +. Lee to the Army Of North
srn Virginia. Applause. There are
those here who have followed him; who
have followed him where sabrcs clasled
a voice, Correct" applause and laugh
ter, and where danger speed on the bat
ties wings. And wc ali know him we
all honor him; we all love him. And
do not know whether il is more proper
10 Introduce him as General, or rs Gov
crnor Hampton applausc, whether as
the great soldier or ~ the pure states
man for we stand up and pronounce
him in both capacities cmincntly great.
Continued applause. From 1861 to
1868 the name Of Hampton, through all
Of that bloody conflict, was the synonym
Of victory; and in that recent, but little
less important strugSlc-tbc last political
campaign -hc w:l- the man, he WAS the
political Joshua, before whose flaming
sword the Philistincs and CaiIaanitcs fled
in confusion from South Carolina. Ap.
plausc. 1t was our contest ~ well his.
We were all enlisted for Ilamrtons cause.
1t was our cause, and our Cause WAS lib
crty's cause. Continued applause.
But | will not dctan you any longer. |
present to you the gallant soldier, the
wise statesman, the courteous gentleman,
the mncompromslng and unpurchasnblc
patriot, Gen. Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina. Loud and continued ap-
pla,lsc.
GOVERNOR HAMrrO N'S SPEECH.
Glen. Hampton arose, amid dcafrnin
cheers, and spoke ~ follows
Latiics nmd Gcnficunn-ln two Of tie
partial remarks Of my distinguished
friends recognize but one claim to the
sympathy Of the people of Georgia, and
that was that the Savannah divided
South Carolina from ticorgia, that these
nrc Gcorgians, and that am South
Carolnian. know that they have bsen
lifelong ncighbors, and know, fellow
citizens that many Of you have been
lifelong friends; and that knowledge it
WIS that induced me to rem lin tonight
in your city that might extend to the
people Of Georgia my profound acknowl
edgmcnt of sympathics for the aid ex-
tended to us in our last struggle. You
gave more than sympathy. Wherever
Gcorgians could extend it they did 40 !;
and not only refer to your distinguished
Senator, who was the advocate and friend
of South Carolina during all that conflict,
who lent his eloquent tongue to our aid,
who went to Washington and upheld and
! defended our cause in our darkest trials
! lie had the Kindness to come to South
Carolina ii our most bitter struggles. Z.
Applause. And | tell you, people of
Georgia, if Georgia could spare him,
South Carolina would be glad to honor
him, and to place him where Calhoun,
and Preston, and McDuiiic have been
] before him in the Senate of the United
STATES. 10 one man in South Carolina
could beat him for the Senate. My
! friends, tho sympathy which Gcorgians
have extended towards us will never be
forgotten, and will never be repaid.
| Applause. My friend has alluded To
the late contest in South Carolina. did
not anticipate, tonight, anything Of this
nature. assure you when | was cap
tured last night, and kept over in your
city, my intention was only to make n
few Acknowledgements, to meet few old
Confcderates, but anticipated nothing
of this sort. But will take as my text
what he introduced upon that subject.
| You know, most of you, the reasons of
that contest. Yo2 know that Il was not.
in the strict sense OF the word, party or
political fight. We were not seeking for
the Offices of the State. At the last three
elections the people were willing to elect
honest and capable men. When six
yenrs ago the people presented as can
didete man that came from New York.
though not a native, and though Re-
| publican, they sustained him lung und
earnestly But he was defeated. Two
| years after we made the same experiment.
1t mattered not that they were Republic
cars. We wanted honest men-men who
would not plumber the State. But an
effort was lnnIe by the worst element of
the Republican party; they were success
full, and the p2op!c ~ere remanded to a
darker tyranny than any nation on the
face Of the earth. My fiiends ido the
proposition to place me es their leader III
tho recent conflict. / made it always q
rule, whatever might have been my own
views and feelings, to stand by my friends,
and to submit my judgment. believed
then that there was but one course for
the people to take, and that was to put
honest men to the front, to put forward
men from among Our own people; men
who were natives, whom the people be-
licved to be honest, and TO cc-umit the
question to our own people and to the
justice of the Almighty. [Applause.l |
We did that, VIC went into the contest
with majority against us. A majority,
it was claimed, ofthirty thousand colored
voters, aud i'll spite of every perversion of
| the truth, a victory was gained by the
Democratic party of South Carolina,
without the slightest intimidation, and
as honest rs any contest on the face of
the earth. | Appeared before the coored
people, and spoke to them upon the sub
jects before them. told them that we
were South Carolinians tried to con-
vince them that their interests were iton-
tical with ours, and thnt if we went down
they would sink with US. The colored
people sustained this movement. They
gave us n hearty and warm support, and
through their aid our efforts met with the
most gratifying success. Well, my
friends, after we had carried the elections
you remember what occurred. Finding
they were defeated, the returning boards,
this new device, believe, of the devil,
ilaughter, undertook to throw out whole