Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-27
WADE HAMpToN's SPEECH.
The Magic Of Personal 1ndorssme n. {"
New York Tribune. AUGUST Ieth.l

dHy lndOrSed % the
Editor IF the Herald,
iugtst 10TH.
Friends of Virginia l
ave responded to your
all TO be with youto-day.
Tot only for the reason
hat my heart is eniis ei
n the cause which YOU
ldvsnce, but also because
claim some light to
peak here and 10 Viz.
sinians. A hundred years
80 my ancestor, = VIZ
left this State 10
fight the Indians in South
Carolina, ana fell there.
Nearly a century later
Utmost every male de-
icendant Of his who could
hen buckle sword came
lither u fight and die for
and Virginiars.
Do not understand that I
'ome here TO dictate a pol
cy to YOU or u a,.vise
fou what you must do.
Rather am | here 20 con-
'ult with You as a Demo.
rat, as \ man, and as \
southern soldier-as one
Who looks back 70 the
ime when he shared with
'ou privatiOns and suffer
ny and defeat IN ths
Army Of Northern Viz
yinia- | AM here TO voice
he earnest hope that 1
eel, to utter the fervent
prayer of my heart, that
Virginia, the mother %
states and statesmen, OF
heroes and patnots-the
state that gave the brain
hat conceived and the
hand that penned the
Declaration Of Indepeu-
ience-the State that
yave the sword that made
hat independence a fact
not prove recreant
20 all her high traditions.
What is virginia's duty
You hardly realize.
ny friends, how much de
pends on the action of
Iour State. You do not
bring home 10 yocT
thought what = respousi-
hi!ity you carry in this
contest. We Of the South,
who, having been SO lopg
plunged into outer dark
ness, have at last emerged
from the blackuess OF de-
spair and carried forward
our States to where the7
belong in the splendid
sisterhood, come TO You
to-day and tell you that
we mean victory. We in
tend to subordinate every
selfish personal considera-
ton we intend 70 rUt
away every side issue ; VIC
intend TO lock solely and
only to the Democratic
platform and the Demo
cratic standard bearers,
and with Gods help ws
intend TO win this fight foz
that platform and for
those standard bearers.
Win Virginia, when We
have success in our very
grasp; will the men who
were bern free. men wiio
were reared Under the
doctrines of Jefferson and
of Madison will the rnen
who followed ee and
Jackson-will YOU sacn-
flee the Democratic party 2
will you sacrifice the
South 2 will you sacrifice
the National Government
by aiding, indirectly
though it be, to elect "A
Republican President : l
cannot believe it. Real
ize, if you can. what viii
follow a Republican tri-
umph in November. You
have all seen what strides
that party has made to-
ward Capitalization I; you
have seen your Judges
stricken d wn by the
mailed hand Of the Ma
tional Government I; you
have seen the Republican
party mass troops at your
polls to Oyerawe your free
suffrage ; you have seen
their deputy manshals,
their supervisors, their
returning boards, the in
strumonts TO an over
throw of the last vestige
Of State righ 5. Itch you,
my eountrym Ell, the fate
uf the South will be hart
er than ever if the Repub-
lican party is successful
N this campaign. We
shall behold no more free
elections, no more un-
trammeled expression Of
political sentiment, and
no one of us now living
viii ever again see a se-
storation to Pemotra;ic
rule and principle.
If we elect the Demo-
cratic nominees the Re.
publican party will go 10
pieces like a rope of sand.
Their mission is ended, il
they ever had a mission.
There is nothing that
holds them together to-
Jay save "the cohesive
power of public plunder." "
The Republican party is
the party of hate, the
party of rank and rabii
sectionalism. The Dem
ocratic party is the party
Of peace and Of union that
would blot out ali sec
iional differences forever,
and it has proven this ia
yhe nomination OF Gener-
Il Hancock at Cincinnati.
There was but one feeling
here among the Southern
delegates. That feeling
vas expressed when VIC
y id to our Northern DEM
,cratic brethren, =" Give
Is a Northern Democrat
Who can be elected. We
you l3S votes, and
We ask You to bring us 80
nore." They gave us the
nan ; his name is Han
,ock. That name took
ike wildfire at Cincinnati,
Is il has taken like wild
ire from one end OF the
Union to the other. Since
hat nomination WAS
made, every man who was
n that Convention has
,ome to the conclusion
hat we could not possibly
nave made a wiser or n
better. When Hancock
vas nominated Bsyard
wrote TO me that he was
perfectly satisfied-that
Hancock was the only
nan who had no oppo-
lents in the party, and
furthermore, that he WAS
me against whom the
bloody shirt could not be
waved. We have put it
n the power Of the people
o elect this ticket. They
an elect it il they will.
fou will hear to-day from
me who can speak better
han any other man alive
or North Carolina-nav,
or the whole South.
iovernor Vance will con-
irm my words, and tell
'ou that we can carry cur
itates, that VIC can carry
he South, il you will only
AIRY Virginia. He has
ONE, ike me, to appeal
o you not TO forsake us
n the hour Of our need.
appeal TO you in the
anne OF The great men of
'irginis. / know that
9th sides are sincere In
his local fight. | know
here are honest men snd
rue in both your fac.
Ions, but whether you bo
or Frnder.
you be Green
iacker or hard nopny
nan, l adiurs you, ia
Sods name, remember
has yon ara EirLIniaca