The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-28
HANCOCK AND HAMPTON.
AN English View of American Politics in
the Near Future.
From the Alnglo--imericam Time,


From the Llnglo--imcrican Time,
LONDON, October Is.
The defeat of the Democrats and
Greenbackers in Ohio may prove fatal to
the chances of Senator Thurman for the
Presidential nomination, and it is alleged
that the prospects of Mr.. Tilden are
waning, in consequence of the success
which has so fur attended Mr.. Kelly i'll
his manipulation of the Tammany vote.
Thus, the names most familiarly associ-
ated with the great political event Of
1880 drop out, or are scratched" one by
one. As they go, the name of Bayard
becomes more prominent than ever, as
the most consistent of his party OH the
views now beginning to prevail. They
say, however, that the man for the first
place must belong to the Valley of Mis-
sissippi, for all sorts of candidates have
been run from the Atlantic States, and
always to defeat. Seymour, Greely, Til
den, hailed from the Empire State; so
in the west the voters are determined to
have for the first place on the Democratic
ticket Western man. Who is the puz-
zle over which many fertile minds are at
work, though the dark horse may trot
out of his own accord in the interval
whereas for the second place there seems
to be no difficulty in the selection. AL
ready Governor Wade Hampton, ofSouth
Carolina, has been named, and he APP
pears to fill the requirements admirably.
The South demands candidate of its
own on the ticket. 1t is felt that the
place must be second, not first: and the
man, one to whom no serious objection
could be raised. Some urge q fusion;
names which would represent the pre-
vailing sentiments Of the party, and as
it alleges, of the country. They say
that the Democrats are helplessly split
on finance, therefore to take any politi-
clan is to cast away many votes. The
inhationist would be opposed by the re-
sumptionist without reference to party,
and the resumptionist by the infationist.
An Eastern man is Objectionable to the
West, and the West has scarcely states
man around whom the East would rally.
Let us cast these issues aside, and select
a distinguished Northern general for the
Presidency, and distinguished South
ern general for the Vice Presidency
combining on the same ticket the men
who opposed each other most manfully
on the field; F.; fusion ticket, to represent
reconciliation.
General Hancock, tits pretty generally
admitted, would suit for the first place,
and General Hampton for the second.
Governor Hampton's reputation in the
North is almost as good rs in the South
nor is it confined to party: for he is re-
garded as statesman, imbued, it is true,
with Southern views, yet sound, Patri-
otic, honest, and able. Several South
erners have made u reputation in Con-
gress of late, but no one has acquired n
name so high for executive ability. The
conduct Of the government of South
Carolina since the collapse of the carpet
bag regime has stamped General Wade
Hampton rs the man for the position.
1t required tact, judgment, knowledge
of character, the discrimination which
teaches how to act in these intricate cases
touching the relations between the races.
None but man born to the work could
have succeeded, while few reared on the
spot we're qualified to utilize whatever
knowledge their rearing have impaired:
For none but superior man could
rise above the prejudice, the sentiments
generated in the locality; and nowhere
stronger than in South Carolina.
Hampton WAS born TO the inheritance of
plantations and slaves. He educated
in the midst of the most arrogant of that
aristocracy. The Palmetto State prided
itself on the lead it assumed on questions
it termed domestic" 1t was typical of
the feeling that prevailed south OF
Dixie's line, as was Massachusetts on the
other side 10 the North. 1t was South
Carolina that led in the war and the
class to which Governor Hampton be-
longed were its leaders, alike in battle
and in council. And twas they who lost
most who were the chief sufferers. Yet
when it came TO healing the wounds Of
the PROSTATE State, at the moment when
race was arrayed most bitterly against
race; when the flag under which the Re-
publicans rallied throughout the North
was the "anti-shot-gun policy" of South
Carolina, to General Hampton all eyes
turned, and his was the hand that
effected. the cure. He knew how to con-
ciliate; how TO soothc the irritation of
those who looked to him as follower,
while he could command the confidence
and love of the coIored population.
Eminenlly fair in his dealings, per
sonally disintcrested, and having large
capacity for comprehending what was
submitted, he dealt out justice SO acting
as to become buffer between conflicting
factions-thosc who had been oppressed,
and those by means of whom the carpet
basgers had been unable to Cypress.
The consequence was peace where tur-
moii had prevailed; honesty of admins
tration where corruption was the rule ;
dignity and good order in Offices and
legislative halls at which the world had
been jccrng; indeed the change could
not escape the observation Of the country,
ond has done moro than ANYTHING else to