Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-02-05
Throwing, Down the Glove.
A LETTER THAT GEM GARY CANNOT
AFFORD TO 1aNonE.

place to the ssubjoiued communication
which should appear to-day in the Able
villc Medium, to which paper Col. Haskell
addressed the original communication for
reasons therein given:
COLUMBIA, s. c., January 20, 1880.
70 the Editor Of the A5bev,llc Medisn,::
SIR-I have seen to-day for the first
time copy of your paper of date January
7th containing an interview between your
correspondent "Hampden" and Gen. Nj.
w. Gary, which is entitled "Gcn. Gary
again-Ie sticks to his statements and
gives the evidence" Now his statements
are rcpetitiops Of the charges made to
New York Herald correspondence That "G eh.
Hampton in 1875 advocated the with
drawal Of the Tilden and Hendricks electors
and that he was not true 10 his support of
their tioket.' He goes further and says
thas by the rule that silenco is admission,
Gen. Hampton stands convicted, not
having dcnicd the second repetition Of tho
charge.
Now newspaper interview is always
unsatisfactory matter to deal with, as Gen.
Curry muy repuGiate. explain away or evade
10 any other way such part of Hampdeu's
interview as he pIeusesj but even with that
difficulty in my way, hope can make
my, poi6ts olear. E' 8I
LIST. AS to Gen. Gary's claim, as repre-
sontcd by tho interviewer, that Gen. Hamp.
ton BY his silence has admitted the charge,
would say that Gen. Hampton pronounced
his charge to be ''uttcrly and absolutely
false," and that his answer applies as yell
to the second, third and every other repoti-
ton as it did to the Originate, But that
there may be no Question l will say that,
if Gen. Gary will over his own signature
repeat whut he has said in the published
interview or simply say that it is true,
namely, "that Governor Hampton advo--
cated tho withdrawal of the Tildeu and
Hendricks electors, will, by the very
gentlemen whose names 10 gives as his
witnesses, prove Lie statement false. I will
use no other testimony. Out of the mouth
Of his own witnesses I will convict him of
jalsshoo0.
| will 60 further. I will undertake to
prove that Gen. Gary did tho very thing
with which he has falsely charged General
Hampton. That when Settle and Denny,
emissaries of President Grant, offered if
Gen. Hampton's party would agrce to admit
that the State had eono for Hayes and
Wheeler, the Hampton Government should
be recognized, Gen. Hampton refused the
offer while Gen. Gary urged that it should
be accepted
Gen. Gary has in the interview further
stated that Gen Hampton sent Judge
Nlackey to Hayes, in Ohio, and gives Judge
Mackey as his authority. Now, if Gen.
Gary will repeat this over his own signature,
| hu 10 Al - g,
fslse.
Further in tho interview he says: "But
Hampton met with the misfortune of break
ing his leg, and Of course could not strike
him when he was down" Let him repeat
this, and will prove that it,. too, is false,
and that Gen. Gary made the most Indecent
assault on Gep. Hampton at the ve,y time
ho was thought to be dying. He s6all not
now lay claim to magnanimity which he
did not show.
think I have made my points clear,
and unless Gen. Gary "admits them by
silence" shall provo each and every one
Of them. .G.
1 might we'll stop here, but shall add
few words on Gen. Gary himself. lie
utterly misundcrstands his own position or
ne misstates it ns grossly as ho does that Of
others. Flo is entirely mistaken in holding
thst any one has stuod between him and tho
people, and kept him from Ills rights. Tho
people always have, and always will, choose
for Themselves who shall serve them. The
whole trouble has been that they would not
take Gen. Gary at his own valuation. They
have not thought him worth tho price.
Whenever they want him they will un-
C0uhtGdIu fako him onI MT hoforo