The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-08-26
HADE HAMPTON WAVING
YHE BLOODY SHIRT.
"Tite Duty of Firglnians IN the
Great Crisis
4 speech for Union Soldiers To
Read ana Ponder.

From the Stanton Valley virginia.
of July 29th.
Gen. Hampton after abiding f.
she fact that his ancestry We're Vir
ginians, and had fought side by sid,
with the sons of the old state, and /,
his Own services daring the late war
Ae said: $50 it is that | am bound {,
YOU 10y bonds which death alone cal
sever. No it is that |, like so many O
the veterans of the cOnfederacy, an
jealous Of the honor and proud Of
the glorious heritage ~bequeathed tC
her by her lee and her SIonewal
jackson. Do not understand that
came here TO dictate a policy to you
or TO advise you what you must do.
rather am | here to consult with you
as a democrat, as man, and as a
southern soldier; as one who looks
back to the time when he shared with
privatiOnS and suffering and defeat in
the army of Northern Virginia. | am
here to voice the earnest hope that i
feel, to utter the fervent prayer of my
heart that Virginia, the mother Of
states, will not prove recreant to all
her high traditions. We have always
looked TO her to lead, and we know
that she has the right TO do SO. We
know her history, and we know that
in seeking the path of duty she
has erer found the way in glory. ]
adjme you by your traditions, by all
that you hold sacred, to lead again,
Virginia, as YOU have done heretofore
not always to victory, but always to
honor.
What is Virginia's duty now? You
hardly realize, my friends, how much
depends on the action of your state.
With a united south casting 1913 cleo
toral votes, we need only New York
aud Indiana, and | believe we shall
have them. VIII Virginia, when we
have success within our grasp, sacri-
flee the democratic party? win she
sacrifice the national government by
aiding, indirectly though it be, to elect
a republican president? | will not
believe it. I stood four years by the
side Of Yirginians, and ! know the
stuff Of which they are made, In
those four years | never saw them
falter. At this crisis l cannot, / will
not, think that you will prove false to
your traditions-that you can prove
rccreant to the exalted teachings, the
enrolling inspirations of your glori-
Gus past. Put by everything that
can distract your attention from one
great object. Look only to that,
fight forit, and win the fight. x 4
IF we elect the democratic NOM
the republican party will go to
pieces like a rope of sand. Their mis-
sion is ended, if they ever had q mis-
sion. There is nothing hat holds
them together to day save the cohe-
sive power Of public plundcr.' The
democratic party is the party of peace
and of union, that would blot out all
sectional difference forever, and it has
proved this in the nomination OF Gen.
Hancock at Cincinnati. There was
but one feeling there among the Gel
That feeling was expressed
where We said to our northern dem
)cratic brethren, Give US any avail
lble man. They gave us that man
md we have put it in the power of
.he peoelc to elect the ticket. They
elect it if they will. You will
near from one to-day who can carry
he south if you will only carry Vir-
yinia. lie has come like me, TO APP
peal to you not TO forSake US in an
hour Of need. Consider what Lee
md Jackson would do were they
These are the same principles
or which they fought for four years.
the men who poured forth
heir lIfo-blood on Virginia's soil, and
lot abandon them now. Remember
hat on your vote depends the sue
,ess Of the democratic party"