The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-07
HAMPTON IN NEW YORK.
The Senator's Speech at tho Great Han
y cock Rally.

night, Senator Hampton was introduced
by Mr.. Hurlbert, editor of the World,
in the following words:
s"Twenty years ago this Union square
was nearly as full as lit is tonight. 1t
has seen no such meeting since till now.
The meeting of that day marked the out
break ola great civil war. The meeting
Of this night foreruns great civil peace.
As a pledge of this coming peace and
true Union, you will now hear the voice
,of enc of the bravest soldiers of the
Confederate army, become to-day ore OF
the most loyal and honorable senators
of the American Union. I ask your
attention to speech from Senator Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina" Pro-
longed cheering. Senator Hampton
said:
SENATOR HAMPToN's SPEECH.
.In accepting the invitation to join in
this grand demonstration my chief
object was that might before entering
! the canvass in my own State, meet the
Democracy of this our great metropolis; !;
that might congratulate them on their
patriotic action in subordinating all
personal differences, all local jealousies,
all private aspirations, to the great cause
in which We were all engaged, and that
: 7 might carry back to my own people the
assurance given by the united Democ-
racy of New York that victory was
already in our grasp. do not come to
counsel you, TO. your patriotism
has already, by securing harmony and
united action in your. ranks, ayerted all
danger of defeat. I do not come to dis
cuss the great and varied National ques-
tions involved in the present contest.
1t would bo presumption in me to at
tempt to dose here after your great
fellow citisen-Horatio Seymour-the
patriot who seeks only his country's
y good-the statesman whose enlarged
vision not only looks over the past, but.
sees far iato the futurc-had raised his
prophetic voice to warn his countrymen
( Of the dangers threatening them. Besides
this reason for not addressing you at
length tonight, it gives me now such
severe physical pain to speak in public
that my friends must pardon me if my
remarks on this occasion are desuitory
and brief. Indeed, / was at q loss for
a topic until my eve fell upon a para.
graph in that great paper, which is not
\ only q most influential director Of public,
opinion, but tits one of the maryels of
our ape-the New York Herald. In
late editorisl- land these are always sug-
gestive, though sometimes erratlc- was
suggested that / should come North and
tell the people something about the Solid
South. The text is q good one and shall
sneak on it. Lett be borne In mind, how
ever, that r speak only Of the South. 1 dc,
notpresume tospeak for her. Has never
occurred to you, my, friends Of the North,
that there is a miraculous falsehood inn
piled if not expressed in that phrase-the
Solid South? It is ever used BY Repub-
.lican speakers or organs without an
effort to suggest that the South IS solid
in antagonism to the North? 1t Is not
I always used in orderto array the North
against the South7 No one who has
observed the bitter sectional character
which the Republicans have deliberately
and studiously given to this contest can
nesfrate as to the answer to be made to
these questions. The Solid South, with
the Iliad woes it brings, is the one argu-.,
mentss With which the Republicans.
answer allicharges against their party. !
hayes said that there is falsehood
implied. in this party catchword: In
what sense is the South solid2 Is it so
against the North? The Democracy OF
Maine have answered in language not to
be misunderstood-N and the patriotic
Democracy of the whole North will soon
re.echo that noble response. is it,solid
against the Constitution? Reckless as
: are our political opponents, there will
scarcely be found one 80 reckless as to
dare to make such charge. Is it solid
against the Union? Every act OF every
Southern State since the war repels
such IN unjust imputation. Is it solid d. IN
any proper seuse OF the word The
larpe Republican vote cast in the South.
ern States proves that it is not. What
Justice, then, is there inlthis cry, the sole
object of which is. to array one portion OF
I our common country against another. to
arouse passions evoked by unhappy civil
strifa and to re.awaken animosities which
every patriot desires to see buried
forever? What would be said if the
South should raise. her voice IN angry
protest because the New England States
bayo been so solidly Republican until
Maine has broken the ranks? With as
mnch Justice might we of the South
comnlain of the former solidity Of the
Pacific slope, or that of the great North.
west az that we should be denounced
because we cling to the faith OF our
fathers and support the Democratic
nominees. But admitting, for the sake
of argument, that the South is solid, and
that this is an abnormal and unfortunate
coalition of affairs, why did not our
Republican friends, who affect to see now
such danger in this solidity, pointsout
and protest against the danger when the
sonth was absolutely solid for the Re-
nublican party? If the danger to the
Country. and the only danger that
threatens it, lies in the solidity of that
narticnlar portion OF it, We surely must
have been in great peril when. under the
Reconstruction acts, administered oy
carpet.bag adventures, the South pre-
sented q solid phalanx of Radical bum.
mers and thieves as her contribution to
the wisdom, craftsmanship and the
patriotismof:the country. No Kepuoil'
can orator among those who are now
telling the people that the solidity Of the
South means war, pestilence and famine,
the overflow of our institutions, the abro-
cation of the Constitution, and, worse than
aIl other evils, the defeat of Garfield,
then warned his unsuspicious country
5 men of the imminent danger threatening
item: no Stalwart organ called then
nnon The loyal North to avert this peril
by becoming solidly Democratic, OcGause Ca.
the South was solidly Republican. Ihen
everything was serene in the Republican
camp. and all went merry as q marriage
bell. Every ofIiceholder was Republi
can. and the country was necessarily not
only safe, but prosperous: Gigantic
moaopolies appropriated the public