The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-08-11

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abomination.
Radicalism is abroad in the land
It is stealthily and insidiously watch
ing its opportunity. It will seize you
by the throat when you least expect
it. So keep your lines dressed, your
sentinels out, and heed the alarm in
time to save your civilization, for
can assur you more than Democratic
supremacy is at stake. It is not a
political organization along that we
have to combat; it is not asAsiutel!ec'
tual contest that we have wage
with people Of our own race, equally
capable with us Of the exercisaof those
powers and faculties necessary fol-
good government and equally anxious
with us for its blessings, but 4 contest
with trained villains directing the
dark masses Of ignorance, operating
upon their worst passions and stimu-
latipg them to the most dangerous
acts of violence and intolerance which
constantly menace the peace of our
society and the safety Of our property.
Sometimes this evil manifests itself in
the form of Independentism, some
times as a Greenbacker, sometimes it
raises the familiar crest of 1nadulter-
ated Radicalism. In any aspect it is
dangerous to the best interests Of our
people and must be put down.
If any man doubts that he has
profted by Democratic rule let him
take out his tax receipts anaeompare
them, or let him look at the school
houses, or at the faces of the darkeys,
and see how much slicker and greasier
they are now than they were under
Radical rule. Let him look, too, at
the c~ountenances Of our people and
see how much better satisfied and
happy they are. Some people think
that a Governor ought to BE q stump
speaker, and that because Governor
Simpson hadn't run aroundand made
a great deal of fuss that be isn't much.
But his administration he5Geen. one
of justice, honesty and mddesty. He
(tbe speaker) didn't have as much re-
spect for stump speakers now as he
used to have, for he had come to the
conclusion that to be a good stump
speaker it was only necessary to have
a loud voice, plenty of brass and no
brains. 1t was the duty o fevery one
to go forward and elect our ticket by
a tremendous majority. Applause.
The Radicals are Greenbackers, and
they would depend on Radical votes
Applause.
Music by the band.
Captain Leaphart then introduced
General Hagood as the next speaker.
[Cheers.
General Hagood said he was not
here TO make q political speech; that
pleasure be promised himself at a To-
ter day when the clans Of Carolina
had gathered together to meet the
Radical hosts. He had prepared
notes to be used on this occasion.
thinking it due to his audience that
be should do so, and he would use
them freely, inasmuch as he was not
one of those stump speakers so hu'
morously described by General But
Ter. In the days of the war be had
the honor to command the brigade to
which the citizen soldiers Of Licking
ton belonged. In that command he
was preceded by one of Lexington's
own citizens, who was stu among
them-General Paul %$lebaum'
[Applause. At subsequfat periods
of the war he had beent associated
with the soldiers whom Lexington
had sent to the front, and he had
found them the peers Of any who
fought beneath the red cross of the
South in that contest which was one
to challenge the classic pages of his
tory, and upon that page the soldiers
Of Lexington had indelibly inscribed
their names.
And among the women of the
South, though there arose none tc
emulate those heroines OF ancient
times, who unsexed themselves in be-
coming such heroines as they were
yet the women of the South by theil
exertions almost entirely clothed the
Southern army, and they tenderly
nursed and cared for its sick and