The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-28

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The Wade hampton CONTROVERSY ana
Its Results Some More utter"hces !"
Explain.
The ISrRLLIaRScER'sd dispatches seem to
he generally accepted as setting at rest the
question whether Wade Hampton made
the remarks attributed to him in his now
famous speech at Stanton, Va
The controversy over his remarks
has set the industrious scribes at Wash
invton to looking up some other ut.
terances Of the Senator, which he will find
quite as difficult to explain away as those
lie uttered at Staunton, and quite as likely
toembarrass his championship OF the DEM
ocratic cause. 1t is discovered that In
September, 1876, while a candidate for
Governor of South Carolina, he said to
the Democrats Of Issaquina County, Mis-
sissippi: agree among yourself, and act
firmly on this agreement, that you will
not employ any one who votes the Radical
ticket. Use all the means that are placed
in your hands to control this election" In
the same speech he said: ave regard the
Reconstruction acts as unconstitutional,
but we look for their overthrow"
Upon another occasion, in an address to
Mississippi Democrats, Mr.. Hampton said:
81 yield to none in devotion to that Lost
Cause for which we fought. Never shall
/ admit that the cause itself failed, and
that the principles which gave it life were
therefore wrong"
In speech in the Senate during the dis
cussion Of the Army bill and the attempt
Of the Democrats to starve the Govern
ment, Wade Hampton said: "The war has
not changed in any way the relative pow
ors Of the States and the Union"
The people of the United States will
not DO likely soon to forget that it was a
South Carolina man-John Q. Calhoun
who said that the relative power OF the
States and the Union was that the States
have right to secede. Hampton's
declaration in the Senate could not have
had any other meaning than that he in
dorsed the Calhoun doctrine, and it was
the tremendous negative made to that doc
trine by Abraham Lincoln which sent a
million men TO the field.
1t was in that same speech that Wade
Hampton, referring to the deliberate
threats OF revolution made by the Demo-
Gratis unless the President should consent
to surrender his constitutional power and
veto the Army bill, said: at is better to
have turbulence in one or ten great cities
than to have military despotism in the
whole country"
Here is an extract from Senator Win
dom's speech last session in regard to
q part OF Hampton's record not generally
known:
"rhe Democratic National Convention
OF 1868 declared:
1--WE regard the reconstruction acts ESQ.
called Of Congress IS usurpation, and un-
constitutional and void"
These words were inserted in the plat
form by the honorable Senator from South
Carolina (Mr. Hampton who in subse-
uuent speech was reported to have said:
"That was my plank in the platform. I
wanted nothing else, for when the great
Democratic party had pledged themselves
TO that, when they had declared that these
acts were unconstitutional, revolutionary,
and void, / was willing to wait in patience
until that party would be triumphant and
apply the remedy in their own good time.
The meaning OF these words, which
committed the party to all the gentleman
wanted, and the "remedy" for which he
waited, had been indicated by himself
month OF two before the Convention,
when, at an annual supper, he is reported |
10 have given the following toast:
"Our fallen heroes. do not believe
they have fallen in vain. The cause for
which Jackson and Stuart fell cannot BIO
in vain, but in some form will yet triumph.
] propose the Lost Cause for which our
heroes FELL"
When the gentleman declared that "the
great Democratic party pledged them
selves" so fully to his policy that he
''wanted nothing else" he evidently
meant that they had pledged themselves
10 the restoration Of tue cause for which
Jackson and Stuart fell" and the triumph
for which he waited was the triumph OF
estate rights" He did not misconstrue
the purpose Of his party. ltstands pledged
to-day TO the same thing, and this struggle
is an effort TO redeem its pledge.
The following is a fuller extract from
the speech TO which Senator Window re-
fers:
GLost Cause for which we fought Never
ahall admit that the cause itself failed,
and that the principals which gave i life
were therefore wrong. Never shall
brand the men who upheld 1t so nobly as
irebelsp or TRAITORS" Is there
one true man in the South who would not
prefer to meet defeat on the Democranc
platform rather than TO secure success by
placing himself on the platform OF the
Speaking Of the Democratic resolutions, /
General Hampton, who was member OF