The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-27
wade Hampton X Co.

lnlisoreet fool, south, can IN q
minute undo the leaz ny labor OF
Statesmen
This is the languaa Wade Hamp-
tou, uttered at a REG ting in Alb
berville, South Ca.ollu4, lich be was
uddrr5stug III ravor OF n nomination
of Mr.. Blyard rs the next Democratic
candidate for President. II did not oc-
Icur to hiCa that the indrscrees folly
which ne thus pru lantly rebu<ed might
come homo to roast. He, his colleague
Mr.. BntlAr, Gen. Gordon, and others o;
that stamp, e,ated By the belief that
New York was sure for the Democrats
next year, have made themselves iuj Is
diciously conspicuous of late BIZ speech
es prociaiming their candidate for
1880.
They appear to have learned 10 wis
dom RIM the costly lessons Of the extra
session. They ssem anxious to assume
command of the party, aud to Instruct
the people of the North how to vote.
One thing may be pnt down as certain.
| Anv candidate pnt forward by this fool,
ish faction, whatever his personal mer-
its may bA, is doomed in advance to
defeat. No man is strong enough to
carry that load. The mere suspicion of
the favor Of the brigadiers would have
been sufficient in itself to excite preiu-
dice. But when they throw off all re-
~straint, indecently rush to the front.
and have the efrontery to tell US who
must be nominated and supported be
cause he is their choice, this prejudice
is converted into sentiments still more
animated.
If, after the experience OF the last
ten years the have not acquired com
mon sense enough to take back seats
and to keep their mouths shut. then
the real and discreet friends of Mr..
Bayard, if he has any. should teach
them the value of a paddock, and pray
early and late to be saved from the hot
zeal of such indiscreet allies. Mr..
Bayard is a highly respectable man. of
excellent intentions and moderate ca
pacity. But be is not, in any proper
cense, q Statesman, and he has never
originated, or even proposed. any
measure of public Importance during
his whole career in the Senate.
/ As a Southern man. whose personal
and Inherited sympathies with his own
section during the. rebellion we're never
concealed for deception he's no part in
his character-Mr Bayard. as an aspi-
rant for the Presidency. has weight
enough Of his own TO carry in that race
without being Handicapped by Hamp
ton Butler, and the other brigad;ers.
The recent elections teach IL lesson
above all others--that the people who
fought for and preserved the Union do
not mean that its late enemies shall
rule over them in this generation.
They have no hostility to the South.
They fought its battles against carpet
baggery aud military domination and
Grantism. They encouraged it in adj
versity, cheered its efforts for good
Government and now rejoice in the
signs of its returning prosperity.
They desire fellowship, intimate inter
course, and the ties that a common in>
terest and the love of a reunited conn.,
try ought to inspire.
But it is we'll the South should nm
derstand, once for all. that the great
majority of the Northern people, wittls
ont distinction of party. do not believe
the btln6 MS COtuo WHCu tho ottuihfN~
~tration Of this Government should be
given over to those who sought to de-
stroy it. This feeling does not proceed
from any distrnst of the masses of the
Southern community; certainly not
from fear OF any mischief they might
do, even If they were ill-disposed as we
do not believe them to he. It is a nat
ural. a rightful. and a patriotic senti-
ment. which. had it been possible for
the South to have succeeded. would
have found expression there in q united
voice.
The only well founded hope for the
Democratic party lies in presenting a
candidate whose life and character will
command the confidence Of the whole
country; whose record of Fidelity to the
Union is indebted by any faint Of
donbt: who is free from Bourbonisn,
and who is not a partisan in the obnox-
ious sense Of the term.-N. r.. San. : /,