The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22


against every probability. They worked
out political miracle greater than any
ever achieved by people, and they ac-
complished this because they were true
to themselves and to their principles.
HAMpToN's SKETCH OF HAYES.
What is our position now? The Chief
Executive of the country is one who,
however much we may differ from him
politically, we yet recognize as gentle
man, and one who deserves our respect
and gratitude for having, in defiance of
the passionate appeals of partisans, re-
stored local selfgovernment TO Louisiana
and South Carolina. By his act the
military was subordinated to the civil
authority; the armed soldiers Of the
United States who had for months
bivouacked within the walls of our capi-
tol, were withdrawn, thus showing his
condemnation of that greatest crime
ever perpetrated against liberty on this
continent. By giving to US our rights
plane of equality with her sister States,
where she may move forward and fulfil
the glorious destiny before her. 7'J
THE DANGER oF FALSE SECURITY.
You know how desperate was the strug-
gle before the last fight. / do not come
now to lull you into false security. !
do not say to you that you have every
thing your own way, and have but to
nominate your candidates. say that |
believe this campaign is fraught with
almost equal danger as the last. We
had then an open fight to make. We
had an organized and disciplined foe to
encounter in the field. We knew just
what we had to expect, and every man
worked az though the destiny of the
State depended upon bis own individual
resources. All this is changed. Ny
opinion is that the Republican Conyen-
tion did not nominate State ticket last
week because they knew that if they did
we would have every man in the State
rallying to our standard, and we would
gain victory grander than the last.
THE RADICAL CONVENTION. :
Not having the manliness to endorse
the administration of the last two years
though many of them had been sent to
Columbia with instructions to do so, and
though many had told me they desired
to do so-they have endeavored to make
political capital for the Northern Radi-
Gals by enunciating platform as false as
false can be-. They charge that they
have not put ticket in the field because
they could not do that without personal
danger, and they passed that resolution
in the capitol OF South Carolina, within
hearing of the Executive of the State,
and when they had entire control of the
State House, placed in their hands BY
the Democracy of South Carolina for the
purposes of making such nominations.
They did not place ticket in the field
because they knew it would meet with
certain defeat; and I warn you now that
this course has been pursued las l warn
ed members of the Legislature months
ago that it would be pursued) for the
purpose of devoting their every energy
to controlling the ensuing Legislature.
They have not put ticket in the field,
but + tell you that in every county where
they think they have a shadow of
chance of success they will make de.
termined fight for the Legislature.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.
If there is q man in South Carolina,
in one single district, who is base enough
TO forsake his party at this time and head
an independent ticket, the Radicals will
rally to his support, and you will be
stricken down in the house of your
friends.
You have no easy work before you
The people of this State must again rally
to their standard as they did before, and
must devote every energy, might, means
and work and their prayers to this great
cause; for, if we lose the Legislature,
we lose all that we have fought for-all
that we have so hardly won.
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
It is matter of very little moment
as I told the people of Anderson-who
may be your Governor, but it is matter
of life and death to this old land Of ours
that we have a Legislature representing
the manhood, civilization, intelligence
and virtue of South Carolina. That is
your objective point; and if my words
could reach every man in South Carolina,
if could but incite each one to renewed
efforts, to even greater efforts than in the
campaign of '76, I would say to him in all
truth and solemnity, that be must work
now, and Until the 9th of November, as
if the destiny of the State depended on
his work alone. / have warned you of
your danger. If, being warned, you are
true to yourselves-I knoao the people
of Edgefeld will be true. Cheers. I
speak to the whole State )-if the Demo
cratic party of the State will be true to
itself, / predict that you will win an over.
whelming victory.
You may remember that when two
years ago I stood upon this spot and de.
clared then that we would win, there
were then in the minds of many of my
hearers grave doubts as to our success !;
but neyer-from the.15th of August,
when I accepted the nomination-never
from that day until the 7th of November
did have one doubt chat the Democratic
party would win. knew we would win.
I knew we had Right and Truth and
Justice on our side, and that the God of
our fathers would help US II we helped
ourselves.
WE CAN WIN AGAIN.
And you can win again, and victory
noO means more than you may think. It
means giving you the Legislature-di-
rectiDg the laws of this county shaping
them for the common good. 1t means
all that we have cherished in the past
and all we hope for in the future. 1t
means more, if possible, than that.
Victory in 1878 means victory in 1880,
and victory in 1880 for the National
Democratic party, means peace for the
whole country-restoration of harmony
and fraternity, and the observance of the
Constitution of the county as it was
framed by our fathers. That is our high
est aim and object, and We must look to