Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-25

preaching, and then deliberately deny
ing that he had done so; his
taking advantage OF the Mississippi
bankrupt law ia January, 1876.
whereby bis creditors were euchered
out of his assete, "even TO bis fowling
pieces and sporting rifes, which be
claimed as militia man" Of that
State, and his appearing at Coiumbia
as a candidate for Governor eight
months afterwards, Notwithstanding
the constitutional requirement III
South Carolina, that one shall reside
in The state twelve months preceding
an election TO enable him 10 vote Or
hold office; brands Hampton as blath-
| trskite OF no insignificant dimensions.
| If lie was citizen of Mississippi IN
| January, 1876, which he swore he was
| TO entitie him to the benefits of the
| hom estead laws of that STATE, how
! could he honCrahly and truthfully run
| for Governor In November OF
| that year. and take the oath
as Governor at Carolina Hall,
early in December folio owing? He did
not leave NJ Mississippi, nor declare his
intention to go TO South Carolina IN
til May, 1876, and, there fore, was incl
/ igible SIS candidate for Governor.
Moreover, rs the Register in Bank
ruptcy itr Mississippi will show,
Hampton was guilty of very question
able acts, such as mortgaging wolth-
| less plantations to divers parties for
| treble their value. Ii e 'ftook inn an
English gentleman, who went South
after the war TO 'gush' over fallen
rebels. 30 the tune of SO, 900, by CIV
ing him a mortgage OH WORKOUT
South Carolina plantation, which had
already been mortgaged for four timea
its value, the aforesaid gentleman TO
| this day regretting that he ever left
Britain's Isles 10 go OH any such a
foolish mission.
For the above and eundry other
reasons which [ shall give in sobse-
quent letter, can not hesitate for IA
moment to believe that what Gary
Gays is true, and that Wade Hampton
did enter into trade with &. &.
Bowen and Judge T. J. Mackey,
whereby be managed to count himself
ia regardless Of the interests Of the
Sage Of Cipher alley, in New York.
Persons who have read General Sher-
mans Memoirs are ready 10 believe
almost any charge against Hamp-
ton, for the General, IN speaking of
the burning of Columbia, uses the fol-
lowing characteristic language:
awe were all surprised after leaving
Columbia TO learn that Hampton &C.
cused Us Of burning that city. He
knows that he ordered it burnt, aud
he lies, If he says he did not After
setting fire 10 the cotton piled in
the principal street, he ipg'o-
riously fed, after having boosted
that he ''could defend his
native city st the expense of his life"
General Gary, the Carolinian, who
thus daIes 10 expose Hampton's du.
piicity, is a fearless and honest Bour-
bon. He will not lie, nor will he per-
nit Hampton TO DO SO without ex-
posing him. He springs from the
humber walks of Carolina life, and by
his daring in the late war won Major
Generals stare. AS between Gary
and Hampton, the masses Of the peo-
pie will side with the former, thereby
making the caDva an animated one.
Meanwhile the Republicans of that
State should organize at every election
ward and precinct, and be prepared to
recover the BOurbOn-ridden old COM
monwealth in November, 1880. The
Democratic division is unbeatable,
because men like Gary are not
willing for Hampton and his
aristocratic cOnfreres to rule over
them. 1t is an open secret that
since Hampton and his tissue ballot
friends have been ruling South Caro-
lima, the material interests OF that
State have suffered deplorably. Hun
i I'll
throughout the State. Business is at a
standstill, and the action Of the Legis.
lature, in repudiatiDg nearly all the
bonded obligations OF the State, has
had the tendency to drive out North
ern enterprise and capital which had
gone there during Republican regime,
In fact a mighty pail seems TO hang
over the Democratic ridden State, and
even Democratic business men long
| for the advantages which would GER
tainly follow Republican sway. 1t is
true many dishonest Republicans
came to the surface in South Carolina
during Moses administration, but
their acts did not begin TO equal the
anormities since perpetrated there in
| the name of Democracy.
A gentleman just from South Car
olina tells me that the new registrar
ton law will be devised to stifie the
voice of the Republican majority.
Said he 1.-The registers will hold the
pens of ali white men and write their
names for them in room with closed
doors, while the negroes will be re-
quired to write their own names. AS
| the Older coIored men can't write, it is
expected by the Democratic managers
| thot OF Ioest 20 non PnpubIioana Wi
h f disouaiified as yotersT There
Is great God who reigns, and in His
own good time He will mete out to
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