The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-06-10
Total vote cast. ..13S

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Gen. Manigault was accordingly de.
clared duly nominated for tbs Office of
adjutant and inspector general. On
motion of Mr. w. M. Muckenfuss, OF
Charleston, the nomination was then
made unanimous.
Mr.. Earle, of Sumter, then nominated
Mr.. J. Peter Richardson for the position
of State treasurer. Mr.. Gilland, of
Williamsburg, seconded the nomination,
and there being no opposition, Mr..
Richardson received the nomination
unanimously by acclamation.
Til closed the nominations. Gen.
Gary and Messers. Allen and Callison, of
the Edge6eld delegation, refused to vote
for any of the nominees of the Conven-
ton.
Mr.. J. G. Sheppard offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
Resolyed, That the thanks Of this Con-
vention are due, and are hereby cordi.
ally rendered, to the president of this
Convention, Col. J. S. Cothran, for the
able, effective and impartial manner in
which he has discharged the duties of his
position, and that the thanks of the Con-
vention are also rendered to the worthy
secretaries, Messrs. D. P. Duncan and j.
Ancrum Simons, for the satisfactory and
| efficient discharge of the duties of their
office.
On motion of Mr.. Alfred Aldrich
committee of three was then appointed
TO notify the nominees of the action of
the Convention. The committee con-
sisted of AIessrs. Alfred Aldrich, ]. d.
l3landing and George D. Bryan.
After short interval the committee
returned accompanied by Gems. Hagood
and Kennedy, who were received with
continued applause. After brief and
appropriate introduction by the chair
man, Gen. Hagood said:
GEN. HAGooD's ADDRESS.
1t is with feelings of profound graft
tude for the personal honor conferred,
and with a deep sense of the responsibility
imposed, that I accept, gentlemen of the
Convention, the nomination you have been
pleased to make.
Your selection might we'll have fallen
upon one worthier of your choice, for the
time has come again when no son of the
State could look to higher position than
that in connection with which you have
ramed me. 1t was only in the dark days
of our history, when the alien and the
dregs of our own population rioted in
power, that shame was ever suffered to
approach South Carolina's Executive.
4. long list of illustrious names adorned
il in the better days Of the past, and
Hampton and Simpson have filled it in
the present. However / may fail, if
your nomination becomes an election, in
the ability with which, as compared with
these, the trust be discharged, I conf
dently pledge you that the banner you
place in my hands will not be lowered,
aad that no shadows of dishonor or taint
or personal ends shall dim its folds.
You have not, gentlemen, called me to
lead holiday pageant. The destinies
of our people for veal or for woe are in.
volved in the success of the political
struggle in which we are about to embark.
The redemption of the State from the
rule of Radicalism was worked out in
1876 by efforts made in the white heat of
revolutionary fervor. 1t was maintain
ed in 1878 by triumph won over an
opposition not yet recovered from the
Generalization of defeat. 1t must in
this year be secured by conclusive vic
tory, if the efforts of the past are not to
go for naught. But your opponents are
nerved by the knowledge that they are
now fighting for their life, and they may
be backedup by powerful extraneous aid.
One more crushing defeat and Radical
ism as party, such as we have known
it, will cease to exist in South Carolina.
But it may be that in this Presiden.
tial year one of the great National
parties will find its lease Of power depen-
dent upon the restoration to rule in our
State Of the hybrid concern, which here
assumes and disgraces its name, and that
party may seek its purposes regardless
of the local ruin it will inAict. 1t is