The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-29


why He is CIassed with the MUIR
derOus Notwithstanding sherman
EnEiglltens the South CarOIinian
Enjoying the Fruits of Terrorism
The RetOrt of a Bully.
Washington Cor. Chicago Inter ocean,
The publication Of the personal CORE
spondence between Secretary Sherman
and Wade Hampton this afternoon Gre
ated profound sensation. The Repub-
icans are delighted at the cool scorn
with which Mr.. Sherman answered the
insolent bragadocio of the Brigadier,
who gives the lie and names his address.
as though the Secretary would respond
according to the Southern code, and re-
sort to South Carolina methods to settle
political discussion. Democrats. have
not the patience to talk about it. Said
one of their prominent men this even
ing "This tomfoolery will cost us So
900 votes in the North. Would to the
Lord that mule had killed Wade Hamp-
ton instead of breaking his Leg" By his
course Mr.. Sherman has not only proved
his point but held his adversary UP to
the ridicule of the entire country.
Following is the correspondence in
full:
DoGGER's SPRINGS. Sept. II. 1880.
To the Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treas
ury:
SIR: saw report of your speech at the
conference held by the National Republican
Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York. and you we're quoted as having used the
following language ''And now YOU are asked
to surrender all you have done into the hands
of Wade Hampton and the Kuklux, and the
little segment in the North that is called the
Democratic party" May ask you if you used
these words and, if you cid SO, did you mean
to connect me directly or indirectly With what
was known as the Kuklux Khan Requesting
an early reply, addressed to tie care of Angus
tus Schell, ESQ.,. New York, I am, very respect
fully, your obedient servant
WADE HAMPTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 81, 1880.
The Hon. Wade Hampton, care Augustus Schen,
ESQ.,, New York:
SIN: Your note of the 18th inst. is receiyed.
in which you inquire whether. at the conference
held by the National Republican Committee. at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, used Ian
guage attributed to me as follows .And now
you are asked to surrender all you have done
into the hands Of Wade Hampton and the Ku-
klux, and the little segment In the North that
is called the Democratic party"
In reply, have to advise you that. while
do not remember the precise language, [ pre-
sumo the reporter correctly stated, in con-
densed way, the idea of what / said | no
doubt spoke of you as the leading representa-
tive of the Democratic party in the South and
referred to the Kuklux Khan as the representa-
tive of barbarous agencies by which Democrats
have subyerted the civil and political rights of
the Republicans of the South. I do not con-
meet You personally with the Kuklux Klan in
deed, l knew that you had, in one or two in
stances, resisted and defeated its worst i'm
pulses appreciate the sense and honor which
makes you shrink from being named in con-
nection with it. Still, you and your associates,
leading men in the South now enjoy the bene-
fits of political power derived from the atroci-
ties of the Kuklux Khan, in which phrase l in
clude all the numerous aliases by which it has
from time to time heen known in the Soutll.
Your power in the Southern States rests upon
actual crimes of every grade in the code of
crimes, from murder TO the meanest form of
ballot-box stufing, committed by the Kuklux
Khan and its kindred associates, and, as you
know, some of the worst of them committed
since 1877, when you and they gave the most
solemn assurances of protection to the freed
men of the South. These crimes are all aimed
at the civil and political rights of Republicans
IN the South, and, as | believe, but for these
agencies, the very State you represent, as well
as many other States in the South, would be
represented both in the Senate and House BY
Republicans. But for these crimes the boast
attributed to you that the 1873 solid Southern
votes would be cast for the Democratic ticket
would be but idle vaporing but now we feel