The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-29
,rou,T %, 1873.
Entertainments
South Cardinals Secret His
tory.


airdless Of its political bias, because
+, 80 unique a specimen of fire
Ting modesty , Even Republicans
will enjoyi it from that point of view.
lis Gen. VI. G.. Gary's account Of
fine nomination of Hampton:
-. went to the Centennial cele-
ration at Charleston on the 2Sth
nF June, 1876, to nominate Gen.
EytIcr for Governor. lie had been
lformally announced in several
revspapers and desired to decline
the nomination, in order that we
might agree upon some II else. |
mi his nomination in the .JOurual
~ fovmcrce. When | started
.ome | met on the ears Gen. IIamp-
IAN Gen. Kershaw and Gen. IIa-
rood. | had a short conversation
with Gen. Hampton, IN which |
soon discovered that he was in SYM
n,tby with the movement Gen.
Butlrr and myself were trying to
inauqurate. lie told me that he
did not expect to return to Missis-
rnpi. | then said to him that |
intcrded to try and have him
UIampton) nominated for Govern
or ON the Straight-out ticket; that
with Butler and myself on his
TANKS We could win this battle as
We had won others in the war. He
replied that he was poor, had come
back to get the odds and ends of
his former estate together; that he
did not desire to run for the office,
but that he had made so many sac
riices for South Carolina, that if
he was the choice of the convention
he would run. | was delighted at
his acceptance, or believed that
he could harmonic all of the diff
fcrcnces Of the Democratic party.
The contest was between Kershaw
and Conner for fusion and Butler
and myself for the Straight-out
Democracy. Governor Hampton
had commanded Butler, Conner and
myself. We entered the war as
captains under him us colonel IN
the Hampton Legion. lie came
ont of the war Il acknowledgement
and continued to rank all of us. L
did not believe that Kershaw and
Conner and Butler and myself could
have agreed upon any one man,
but | believed that we all would raj
" under Hampton. After this con-
Frrsation, Governor Hampton and
myself joined Gen. kershaw and
zen. Hagood. | announced to them
that Gen. Hampton had consented,
# nominated, to run on the
Sraight-out ticket for Governor.
ten. Kershaw replied "Well, if
the general is nominated | will fall
INTO line and support him. | al
WAYS obey orders from headquar
trrs." At Branchville Gen. ker-
shaw and Gen. Hampton parted
with Gen. IIagood and myself, and
went on the Augusta road. After
dinner Gen. Hagood and myself
were on the same seat. He said,
"GurY y0u are an extraordinary
wgn. 1His is another IF your off,
Lrpd m0reS, or sUddeR Inspirations,
if YOU please, that has knocked up
maminute all ourplans in Charles
ton to run Chamberlain for Gov
crnor, with Il mixed ticket | re-
Piled that it was no off-hand move
IN regard to the Straightout ticket;
that Butler and myself and other
men OF Edgefield and the State, had
deliberately and maturely consid-
cred the plan to run a Stralghtout
ticket, but hat | had suddenly
concluded to run Gen. Hampton
Tor for Governor, and that we would
elect him. When | returned to
hdgeteld | related this incident to
ten. Butler and he approved of it,
and said that, in his declina ion, he
would nominate Hampton. |
thought it was just the thing, and
Ae accordingly did so.
Before any nomination was made
Ior Governor either by the Radical
party or the Democrat party, Gov
efnor Chamberlain had begun to
gSnyaSs the State. lie spoke in
'AaTleston. in Beaufort and in sew
y'aI other places. On the 18th of
-''sQst he came to Edgetield. What
was done there had been deliberate
Planned in the county executive
committee. Butler and myself,
sheppard and Abney had been s.
9g'ea as the speakers on Il side.
'Ur Instructions were to lift the
Is'I Iron the Prophet of Khorassan,
H. chamberlain, and expose his
'elCrmltcs III such a manner that
y V isnorant negro could see them.
We dId not intend to puncture
'''i a polished stilletto, but to