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HAMPTON AND TlLDEN. L.
THE ATTACK OF "A TILDEN
DEMOCRAT"
AUTHORITATIVE REPLY FROM
COL. HASKELL.
GEN. MCGOWAN TO THE RESCUE.
SANDERS MISREPRESENTATION Exposed.
The annexed communication signed
s'A Tilden Democrat" appeared in the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel on the
10th instant:
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
1 have observed that the Northern
Democratic press do not seem to know
what. to make of Judge T. ]. Mackey's
recent visit to the Republican candidate
for the Presidency, and of the extraor-
dinary communication which he bore
from the legally elected Governor of
South Carolina. / have observed, also,
that Southern journalists seem to be
equally as much befogged on this sub.
iect as their brethren of the North, and
that even South Carolina editors either
do not know, or, else, have declined to
give. the~strue solution of q mystery
more apparent than real. Northern and
Southern newspapers have, been swift to
condemn the yembassageN the -ambassa-
dor and the document which he bore; as
a mistake upon the part Of Governor
HamptonE Mort and Southern mem
bers Of Congress, and Democratic poll
ticians generally, have dep!ored the act
as. one calculated to injure the Demo
cratic party and to weaken the chances
lof the inauguration of Tilden. They
have said that it seemed an admission
by prominent Southern Democratic
leader-one who had just fought and
won a desperate battle in q State long
considered hopelessly Republican-that
the National Democratic ticket had oeen
defeated and that the. Republican can
didate was the legally elected President
of the United States, and as such came
at a most imopportune time and had done
much mischief. The eLouisville Courier
Journal, one of the leading DemocrSsic
papers of the West, whose editor is gen.
orally supposed to be high in the conf
dence of Governor Tilden, declares that
the letter "felt like wet blanket on the
Democrats in Washington City," 1t
says General Hampton's Southern
friends and admirers are deeply morti-
fed at the step he has taken. The
opinion, of. the best obseryers,is ,that5the
situatioR is rendered deeply critical by
these utterances, and so far from the
prospect of collision being lessened by
letters like these, tits greatly increased:
The Republicans are justly encouraged
BY these demonstrations" etc. The New
York World has been equally outspoken
and has denlored a mistake that was so
injurious in its effects. The New York
Herald said the letter "added to the
edemoralization of the Democrats and
that if Hampton could obtain the recog-
milton of the State government he would
not object to the inauguration of Hayes
as the price Of such recognition: Sena-
tor Robertson, in the published report
of his interview with a reporter of the
New York Herald, went quite as far as
this, if not farther. 1.-THE Democrats in
South Carolina" he said, would have
preferred the election Of Tilden, but
were not unwilling to consent to the
election of Hayes, provided they could
get an honest Democratic government IN
theirsownlS State" And again: sIn his
campaign speeches Hampton told all TO
vote for Hayes and Wheeler who wanted
to. He. puf,the question Of who should
be President away behind the question
of the administration of State affairs"
AS the report of; this interview was pub
ylislied in the New York Herald, of De
cember Both, and has not been contra
dicted, 1T is but fair to assume that Sen
ator Robertson spoke the truth. | make
these predatory statements for the pur-
pose of showing that the Mackey en-
bassage has done harm to the Demo
cratic q cause; and that Northern and
Southern journals have not attempted to
give any explanation of an act from
which have resulted such unfortunate
consequences. q The generally received
opinion seems to be that it was an. error
of Judgment, that General Hampton was
deceived by the wiles of Mackey and let
his, solicitude for his State betray him in
to an act which he would not otherwise,
have committed. Even in this view of
the case it is considered an egregious mis-
take, because most men are confident
that. as soon as Tiiden is inaugurated the
bayonets will be withdrawn from Louis
lana and South Carolina aud the bogus
governments of those States will fall to
the ground beneath the weight of their
own corruption; that if Hayes be de-
clared elected President Chamberlain
and Packard will be declared legal Gov
ernors and kept by Federal power in the
positions which they have usurped. It
has also been said that Mackey exceeded
his instructions and made representa-
tions which he had no authority for
making. But as General Hampton has
not repudiated any act or deed of his en-
voy, though requested to do so, this po-
sition seems scarcely tenable. From in.
formation given to me recently, and
which / have reason to believe is entire
ly trustworthy, it seems that General
Hampton knew exactly. what he was do
ing when he dispatched Mackey to Co.
lumbus, and that the latter did and said
nothing not warranted by his principal:
I do not mean to be understood as saying
that General Hampton is Indifferent to
the success of the National Democracy /;
but if what hear be true he was by no
means an enthusiastic supporter of Til
den and is not unwilling to concede the
election of Hayes provided the latter
will recognize the Conservative State
government of South Carolina.
THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
II is necessary to 60 back little and
to say something of events which trans
pired, prior to General ,Hampton's cleo
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