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WADE HAMPTON TELLS THE DEMOCRATIC riR-
GIyIANs THAT THEn: PRINCIPLES NOW
ArE THE SANE As THEY ForGHT FOR IN
TIE REBELLION

WADE HAMPTON TELLS THE DEMOCRATIC NiR-
GIyIASs THAT THEIR PRINCIPLES NOW
ARE THE SAME As THEY FOUGHT FOR IN
TIE REBELLION.
From the Staunton VALLEY NlrgiIiian, July -J.I
The largest political meeting evei held in
Staunton was that of Monday last, The
opera house was crowded with an audience
varously estimated at from |, 500 TO 1000
people Some 300 or 400 were ladies, and
about an equal number Of boys, while the
men comprised voters Of every political creed
and color. Capt. John II. Crawford was
called to the chair, and Major Elder offered
the resolutions which were unanimously
adopted. Capt. Bumgardner, in his usually
happy manner, then introduced Senator
Wade Hampton of South Carolina Gen.
Hampton is man of fine physique and
splendid appearance, and as he stepped for
ward to the stage round after round of APP
plause greeted him.
After abiding to the fact that his ancestry
were Nirginans, and had fought side by side
with the sons of the old State, and to his own
services during the late war, he said: 80 it
is that am bound TO you by bonds which
death alone can sever SO it is that |. like
so many of tho veterans of the Confedcracy,
am Jealous OF tfic iIOiOi ana pIouu vi tiic
glorious heritage bequeathed TO her by her Lee
and her Stoncwall jackson. Do not under
stand that come here to dictate policy to
you, or to advise you what you must do ;
rather am here TO consult with you as n
Democrat as a man, and as a Southern SOL
der; as one who looks back to the time
when he shared with you privations and suf-
fering and defeat in the army of Northern
Virginia am here to voice the earnest
hope that feel, to utter the tervent 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 ever found the way to glory. adjure
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 hard
" realize, my friends, how much depends
on the action of your State. With united
South casting 1873 electoral votes, We need
only New York and Indiana, and | believe
we shall have them. Will Virginia, when
We have success within our very grasp, sac
rificc the Democratic party VIII she
sacrifice the South VIII she sacrifice
the National Government by aiding,
indirectly though it be, to elect II
Republican President; ? will not believe it.
stood tou'. gears By the side Of |nyinians,
and kaoc tie stut Of 'chich they are made
In those four gears / necer sac them tatter.
1T tbs crisis / cannot, acW not think that
~ ri, a. frOf},fiDn s-fIDf
you can J.l0re recreant to the GRATED teachings,
Tie eano6Eng Inspirations Of your glorious
pat. Put by everything that can distract
YOUR attention from our one 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 resolutely
nut them behind US. Realize if you can
what will follow Republican triumph in
November. You have all seen what strides
that party has made toward Capitalization
YOU have seen your judge stricken down by
the mailed hands of the National Govern
ment; You have seen the Republican party
mass troops at the polls 10 overawe your free
suffrage; you have seen their deputy mar
shals, their supervisors, their returning
boards the instruments of an overthrow OF
the last vestige 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 be
hold no more free elections, no more untram-
meled expressions of political sentiment and
no one Of us now living will ever again see
n restoration of Democratic rule and prin-
ciples.
If We elect the Democratic nominees the
Republican party will go to pieces like rope
of sand Their mission is ended, if they ever
had mission There is nothing that holds
them together to-day save the cohesive power
of public plumber 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 Southern delegates.
That feeling was expressed when we said to
our Northern Democratic brethren, Give
us any available man. They gave us that
man, and we have put it in the power of the
people to elect the ticket. They can elect II
they will. You will hear from one, to-day,
who can speak for North Carolina. Gov.
Vance will confirm my words that We can
carry the South if you will only carry llr-
ginia. lie has come, like me, TO appeal to
you not to forsake us in the hour of need.
! CONSIDER WHAT LEE AND JACKSON WOULD DO
WERE 1uEy ALIVE. THESE AEE THE SAME
PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT FOR
FOUR YEArs. REMEMBER TIE MEN WHO
roUEED FORTH THEIR LIFE BLOOD On NiR-
| GlNiA's soil AND DO NOT ABANDON THEM
now REMEMBER THAT UPON YOUR VOTE
prrsSb- lur SUCCESS OF TIE DLMooRA1iC
IGcKET.