National Republican., 1878-08-28
HAMPTON. HAYES, AND GRANT.

The brightest laurel worn by General
GRANT is woven from the vindictive hate
and virulent opposition he enjoys at the
hands OF the Confederate political leaders
of the South. Among these leaders WADE
HAMPTON undoubtedly looms up head and
shoulders above all others rs commanding
exponent of that Southern chivalry which
is supposed to combine everything that is
intelligent and truthful. In one breath
HAMPTON gave voice in his keynote speech
of the present campaign in his State to the
most sycophantic praise of President HAYES,
and in another to the following utterance
regarding General GRANT:
| Our peoplc, broken by years of misrule and
oppression, were almost hopeless. We had as
the Chief Executive Of the United states a
man whose highest conception OF law was en-
| bodied in the findings of q court martial, and
whose disgraceful ignorance OF the Constitu-
1 ton of the country WAS only equaled by his
shameless disregard of its most sacred oOliga-
tions Brutal, ignorant, and drunken, he hesi-
tated not to crush the people of the South by
| the power of II paid soldiery. With an armed
hand upon their throats, he attempted to stitie
the breath of their liberty, aud, placing the
iron heel of military oppression upon one Of
the thirteen original States of the Union, he
reduced it to military satrapy.
To all of which we say with regret that
the comparison is not complimentary to the
present Administration. 1t has triAed,
conclliated, and hestated in its dealings
with HAMPTON and his usurped State gov
crnmcnt, until it has earned his useless and
dsgracelul friendship and his meaningless
lattery. We will not go to the extreme of
saving that it has become the dupe OF
HAMPTON, although it appears that he Is
carrying things with u high hand as regards
the protection OF his illicit distilling con-
stituents against the power Of the United
States courts, but we will say that If it had
been rs vigorous in the execution Of the
laws and in upholdng the integrity of the
Government as its predecessor, President
HAYES would not now be cursed with this
kind Of adulaton.
But while HAMPTON was uttcring thes'
infamous ISLANDERS, scene was being enacted
near the bloody ground Of Edgclield Court
House which, of itself Justified the South
ern policy pursued by General GRANT. So
; called "pcaceablc" citizens were engage,
in an nilraN Whlcn lcsullcu III INC hhIlilS .
several of their number, and was only sup
pressed when the GOD-likc' HAMrTO!
himself called out the troops But the.
, wee State troops and wore the Con
1 iederate gray, fact which robbed his armc,
interference with the affairs of his peacca
| ble " constituents of the embittcring clC
r ment of military tyranny And he callc
= them out-not GRANT, but HAMPTON th
, man who came from an intended if not
t fully accomplished citizenship in Mississippi
= to rule another State; who had gon
c through bankruptcy in Georgia only ie'
Y months before, and who had borrowed none
a on the property Of his relatives on rcpr
& sentations that he had complete contrC
k over it, and who had never relapsed one jC
T. or little of his hold upon his former ConfeC
# crate command ~ their accepted mlilar
q leader. Of course II was no disgrace it
= him to have gone through bankruptcy, II i
II had done it with due regard for Justice
L his creditors. But how was ii that, Will