The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-24
The Press and Banner,
Wednesday Dec. "a, 1879.

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Gary Against Hampton The Old, Old
Story.
This is q season. sacred to peace ana
goodwill. It is with regret therefore
that we lay before our readers this morn
ing anything that savors Of strife ; yetln
accordance with our duty to give oef
readers information on both sides Of the
question, we publish the second Nc"
York Herald interview with Gen. Gary.
Last week we published interview inc
first, along with the emphatic reply o'
Senator Hampton and the editorial COM
,nents of the Herald. If Gary had peen
DESTROYS of consulting only public inter-
ests the words of Hampton ana t'e fic'.
v1d would have been wise and wei'-''"eu
Int as it would appear by his W con-
fession that he is seeking notoriety at inc
risk of public interests, we regre' !h"'
,ha first interview was notignored entire
iv, at least by Hampton. ournoplest ha-
t,r,s are most credulous, and Senator
ramnton did not sec the net spread lor
him bv the wary General Gary. lamp
ton did lust what Gary wished-he repli-
cd. and, Of course. Gary has q second IN
terview. The mode of the reply was OF
small consequence to Carlyle compla.
Gently accepts Hampton's direct denial OF
his CHARGES and says there is no issue OF
veracitv between them. 1t would appear
that it was not veracity he was AFTER u
publicity by which to create 1or hlmseii
popularity at the expense OF f1anptoh'
But if Hampton's mistake was great la
rvs was vastly greater Gen. Gary nus
committed some serious plumbers as a
public man but this is the great dun
dor Of his life. He chose the right me-
d;nm-the Ne,p York Herald-by which
tn create a sensation ; but he chose the
/, wrong man when he attacked Hampton
for the purpose of creating popularity.
The first interview recites the DID, OLD
story of Gary's wrongs suffered at the
hands of Hampton, which may Dc news
to the northern readers OF the He'ata'
the people CT South Carolina have 1t oy
heart,
Since rs it has appeared at different
times. in different journals, UNDER. differ-
enhances, but still the same old story
protean in name but not in shape. With
most of it the people have nothing to do;
all but one portion of it is weary, stale
and fiat to them, and events have shown
ithas not been profitable to General ia
nv. The people take no interest IN the
"Rickett's Battery" business, Hampton's
"pet, major, the many Sights which, ac-
cording to Gary, his patient merit Of the
unworthy took during the war and the
campaign of rs; and they only knowing
ly smile when Gary complacently says
. of his opposition to Hampton's policy
In the State Senate that The awoke, like
Byron, and found himself famous
throughout the South" These are mere
" personal concerns between Hampton
and Gary, and the people attach as little
Importance to them as Hampton does.
In all the various attacks made OH him
by Gary or in Gary's interest, Hampton
has been silent except in this one instance
when his acts as our Chief Magistrate
were called in question.
With similar Indifference, slightly
mingled with amused surprise, however,
the people regard the wonderful things
said by Gen. Gary in the first interview
about Southern sympathy with the decla-
ration of an Empire under Emperor
Ulysses and about Tilden as being the
choice of the people of tho whole South
for next President. These and other
statements arc so passing strange that we
should have had difficulty in believing
the interview" was genuine and should
have looked uponi it as Herald sensation
and q grim joke on South Carolina, but
for the u~nmistakable language used
which like the speech of the Galileans
"bewrayeth" General Gary. He has sew
eral remarkable traits Of character, this
among them-he expresses all the various
tones in the gamut of feeling by the use
of oaths. And the profane expressions
frequently introduced in the first inter-
view to convey sentiments Of pity, indig-
nation or emphasis, furnish sufficient
proof Of its genuineness. The first in
teryiew is we'll spiced with oaths and su-
per-strong expressions that it would be
unjust to Gary to interpret in any other
than a Garian sense. For instance, when
he saws ''The whole South would vote for
Tilden. Whoever tells you it won't, tells
a lie." Of course Gary didn't mean that.
We like to hear a man call a spade spade,
but it is necessary that there be a spade in
existence to be so called. General Gary
always speaks in unnecessarily strong
Saxon, although no man knows better
than he that words full Of sound and fury
generally signify nothing.
The second interview contains no pro-
family and few violent remarks. 1t Is
simply q continuation of the last part of
the first interview, wherein he made a bit
ter attack on Senator Hampton's conduct
in rs, charging him with having "sold
OUT Tilden to Hayes. This unwise and
unpatriotic attack was evidently tho end
sought in both interviews. Indeed Gary
I, says, .'Oh, I know it will raise the devil,
but it might as we'll come out" Shrewd
men might ask if lit" was brought out
just ito raise the devil?" Did Gary de-
sire to enjoy another Byronic awakening?
The assertion that Hampton wa treach-
erous to Tilden didn't raise the devil'
three years ago when in similar terms it
was made by "a Tilden Democrat in
the augusta Chronicle and Sentinel; and
if there was any danger of his being
raised now, he has been effectually laid
by Senator Hampton's reply to the first
interview, which our readers read last
week and which renders 1t unnecessary
for us to vindicate Hampton. In the Sec
ond interview the charge is repeated with
some changes. For a triumphant refuta-
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