The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-14

ShArsS In COuncAR-&7rea2 0poech
OF senator BayaFd aH Columbia on
Tuesday the sth OF sePtember.
My Friends, my FsIgOso- Oou,at,rt,,e,,
Citizens Of South Carolina: This is the
first time that l have entered upon the
soil of your State and taken part in your
political counsels, and while am reioiced
to see this great gathering Of men, aye of
the women Of the State of South Carolina,
because it shows me that they appreciate
the great Importance of their duties un-
der Republican form of government,
for without earnest devotion and unselfsh
and disinterested attention by honest men
and honest women in public affairs, we
have little chance of making this the safe
government of free people; yet must
beg OF you silent attention, for am here,
need say to you, as the friend of every
man and woman upon the soil of this
State. Immense applause.
Standing here, surrounded by banners
that bear such inscriptions as meet nv
eye, the names of Marion, of Sumter and
of Laurens, why they bring back to me
the struggles in which my own people
had their part in common with you.-
They recall these ancient traditions of
American valor and of American patri-
otism, all of which developed themselves
for the common cause of American free
dom and independence. 1t is, believe,
| but matter of thirty miles from the
place where we stand to-day to the
BATTLE FIELD OF CAMDEN,
where on that day, side by side with your
own people, regiment from Delaware,
led by Baron DeKalb, laid down their
lives almost to man for the great cause
of the freedom and independence of this
country. | would like indeed to visit
that field of battle l would like to pluck
from that sacred spot some poor blade of
| grass, some pretty twIg or leaf to carry
back to my children to show them that
the American feeling is not bounded by
lines or hemmcd in by sections, and that
common ties will call us to common
defence whenever 1T will be necessary.
Applause.
Fellow-citizens, the topics upon which
| desire to treat to-day are not local. l
do not address you simply as South Car
olinians. The issues to which desire to
address your intelligent attention are
national. They belong to the whole
country. You here to-day, in my mind
and in my eye, are but a part of that
great army of thoughtful and intelligent
men enrolled under the banners of the
national Democracy who are fighting
| the same
BATTLE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
everywhere all over the Union. In 1876
this great national Democracy, which is
organized in every State, in every county,
in every city, in every township, in every
State from Oregon to Maine, from Min
nesota to Florida, from Texas to Massa-
chusetts, all are moved by the same i'm
pulses that moved you to-day, and all are
marching on to accomplish the same
great end to which your organization is
dedicated. Immense cheering.
Fellow-citizens, while thank you for
every expression of your approval, still |
had rather have your careful attention
than your enthusiastic reception. The
matters have to speak Of are not trifing
and are not to be settled by cheers, but
by the strongest intellectual endeavor
that each one Of US can exert, and we
should give to a discussion of these ques-
tions that gravity which so great and
holy cause demands / say that in 1876
this great party, of which you are mem
bers, polled in the Union four and half
millions of votes. There was a popular
majority of one-quarter of million that
was meant to prevail, and would have
prevailed had no
SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION
and of despotism possessed those In charge
of our national government, and by a
mixture of fraud and force perverted the
honest results of great election by the
people. Cheers. That majority is not
to be decreased. The four and quar-
ter millions of votes polled for Tilden
and Hendricks in 1870 will grow to five
millions in 1880 for Winfield Scott Han
cock and William II. Euglish. do not
say this in an idle boast. / don't mean
this as an excited utterance from the
stump, say that which / believe, that
the current of an honest public sentiment
what l may term the instinct of self
preservation, will cause such an express
sion at the polls in November next, that
no one will be so wicked, so daring or SO
dishonest as to attempt to defeat the
voice of the great American people as
will then be SO positively expressed. PRO
s. o. !
As said, / address you as part of a
great whole, as a national and not sec
tional party. The time has never been
in my life when was q member Of
sectional party. The time has never been
when have asked any man to accept the
unjust domination of another. | have
been all my life not for the Solid South or
| for the Solid North, but for
THE SOLID UNION
of the North and South on terms Of
peaceful and just equality. What task 90
easy as for me to speak here to-dayY
There is nothing that / have to conceal.
No portion Of my heart is or ever has
been unfaithful to any part Of this conn
try. and what have to say in this pine
grove to-day would say with equal free
dom upon the steps of the New York
| Chamber of Commerce or in Fsneuil Hall
| in Boston. We have no objects that need
| TO be hidden from any portion Of our
conutrymen. We design neither the
decrsdation or the insult Of any man who
| lives under the flag Of our country. We
apeak 10 the same voice everywhere,
evervwhere the same principles, In the
runshine and IN the darkness, always the
same. [Cheers. 'i hF4
ur.r aOtyrH AND THE UNION.