River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-02
READ! RE AID, READ.

The following extracts of a re-
port of recent speech made by Wade
Hampton in Staunton, Virginia.
should be read by every voter in this
section of the country, and all should
strive to crush such dastardly senti-
ments as are proclaimed by the Dem
ocratic party:
After abiding to the fact that his
ancestry were Nirginians, and had
fought side by side with the sons of
the old State, and to his own services
during the late war. he said $50 it
is that am bound to you by bonds
which death alone can sever. So it is
that |, like so many of the confedera-
cy, am jealous of the honor and proud
of the glorious heritage bequeathed to
her by her Lee and her Stonewall
Jackson. Do not understand that l
come here to dictate policy to you,
or to advise you what you must do;
rather am ! here to consult with you
as Democrat, as man, and as a
southern soldier; us one who looks
back to the time when he shared with
YOU priyations, and suffering, and de-
feat in the army OF northern Virginia.
am here to voice the earnest hope |
feel, TO utter the feryent prayer ofmy
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. We know
her history, and we know that i'll seek
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found the way to glory. | adjme you
by all your traditions, by all that you
hold sacred, to lead Virginia, as you
have done heretofore, not always to
honor.
What is Virginia's duty now! You
hardly realize, my friends, how much
depends on the action of your State.
With united South casting l38 cleo
toral votes, we need only New York
and Indiana, and l believe we shall
have them. Will Virginia, when we
have success within our very grasp,
sacrifice the Democratic party viii
she sacrifice the South VIII she sac
riiice possession of the national gov
eminent by aiding, indirectly though
it be, to elect Republican President!
| will not believe it. | stood four
years by the side of Virginians, and /
know the stuff Of which they are made.
In those four years | never saw them
falter. At this crisis | cannot, and will
not, think that you will prove false to
your traditions-that you can prove
recreant to the exalted teaching, the
enobling inspirations Of your glorious
past. Put by everything that can dis
great object. Look only to that, fight
for it, and win the fight. | have
nothing to say to you about your local
differences; we have them in our own
State, but we have resolutely put
them behind us. Realize if you can
a Republican triumph in November.
You have seen what strides that party
has made toward Capitalization; you
have seen your Judge stricken down
by the mailed hands of the national
government; you have seen the Re-
publican party mass troops at the polls
to over-awe your free suffrage; you
have seen their deputy marshalls,
their supervisors, their returning
boards,-the instrument of an over
throw of the stvestige of state rights.
| tell you, my countrymen, the fate of
the South will be harder than ever if
the Republican party is successful in
this campaign. We shall behold no
more free elections, no more untram-
meled expression of political senti-
ment, and no one of us now living
will ever again see a restoration of
the Democratic rule and principles.
If we elect the Democratic nOmi-
| nees the Republican party will go to
pieces like rope of sand. Their mis-
sion is ended, if they ever had a mis-
sion. There is nothing that holds
them together to-day save the cohe-
sive power of the public plumber.
Consider what Lee and Jackson would
do were they alive. These are the
same principles for which they fought
for four years. Remember the men
who poured forth their life-blood on
Virginias soil, and do not abandon
| them now. Remember that upon
| your vote depends the success of the
/ Democratic ticket