The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-25
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CHARLESTON, April IL. - At twenty
| minutes after II o'clock yesterday
morning Governor Hampton drove up
to the City Hall in an open carriage.
| Mayor Cunningham met him Mt the
head OF the steps, and extended him a
warm greeting. and invited him into his
private office, which he turned over TO
him TO receive company.
The large assemblage Of white and
oolored persons. who were waiting anx-
iously several hours on the streets,
rushed up tho steps and were carried
| into Council Chamber, where tho Mayor
next invited Governor Hampton, and
| introduced him to the assembly. The
Council Chamber was erammed to It's
utmost capacity, and tho door and On.
try without likewise.
Coy. Hampton then extended a kind
greeting TO the many colored people
present, and said that he was gratified
to meet the oolored people of Charles
ton, that he wanted the eolored people
to understand that the pledges he had
made them when he became q candi.
date for Governor were to BIO carried out
by him in every instance. That it
might be said that it Is easy for @ man,
when he becomes q candidate, to make
pledges. but that he intended, and they
would see that they would BIO carried
out rs far as 1t lay in his power. He re-.
minded them that he was perhaps the
first one, twelve years ago, in this coun-
try, to advocate the right OF free suf-
frage to the colored man that he was
surely the first Southern man to do SO.
That he had prophesied at the opening
OF the campaign that the Northern Re-
publicans would be the first to attempt
to deprive the colored man Of his vote.
That recently five or six OF the most
prominent Northern Republicans had
come to him and inquired how
the votes OF the eolored men could be
reduced. That he answered that the
South did not want the votes Of the col
ored men interfered with as 1t gave
them some thirty representatives in
Congress. In regard to educating the
colored man in this State he said that 1t
was his intention to see that every facil-
ity was afforded them under his admin
istration. He longed to SEQ the colored
man educated and his standard elevated
In this country. Again he renewed to
the colered people the pledges he made
TO them during tho campaign, and said
that it was necessary that they should
aid him in carrying them out. That
the way they could aid him would be to
send to the Legislature men of In.
tegrity and good standing. no matter
what their politics may be. Ii they
of men, he would pledge them
his sacred word OF honor that his
pledges would be carried out to the full
est extent, 80 IS to give every man-no
matter what his color or condition may
be-~the same rights and privileges, and
put them all on the same footing. Next
he reminded them that they had just
emerged from a bitter contest, and
urged them to lay aside prejudices and
politics and look to the prosperity OF the
State; to go to work, every man In his
own sphere, and prosperity would crown
their efforts, and good feeling and har-
reason why he had accepted the MONT
nation for the position to which he has
been elected, was In order to bring
about good feeling and prosperity to the
State, and to the colored man In par
ticular.
He then reminded them that the first
commission he had issued on taking his
seat was to colored man, and he Re-
publican. And that while be was In
Washington a colored man bad called
upon him, and begged MIN to recon-
luGUu Hlui W LslS L EcSIuouL /. l6 tClu 0lUl
that his recommendation would have no
weight, but the colored man insisted
and he did SO; that he told President
Hayes that he could recommend that
colored man, that he had voted for him
for President and had stumped the State
for Che, mberlaiH, and that therefore he
could afford to speak in his favor. He
again urged upon the colored people
the necessity OF them striving to
bring about good feeling, and to
driv Q away bitter animosities; they
were all Carolinians, no matter
where a man came from, IL from
th G North or from a foreign land, IL he
is. black or white, or what his politics
may be. III he comes here to do good
and advance the interests OF old Caro-
, lima, he Is welcomed as Carolinian
that If they would but remember that
| when they died their bones all alike
would be placed in the same soil, that
would have the effect of showing the
| folly Of our ways. He never expected
| to live to enjoy the fruits of what Is
now being brought about by the reseue
Of our State, but he would be satisfied
that our children should enjoy them.
After giving them again a hearty greet
ing, the Governor concluded.
He was listened to with marked at
tention by the crowd. and Interrupted
frequently by applause, principally
from the colored men.
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