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

The Senator's Speech ut tho Great Han.
cock Rally.
At the great Democratic ratification
meeting in New York, last Thursday
night, Senator Hampton was introduced
by Mr. Hurlbert, editor of the World
in the following words:
Twenty years ago this Union square
was nearly as full as it is Tonight. 1t
has seen no such meeting since till now.
The meeting of that day marked the out
break of q great civil wal. The meeting
of this night foreruns o great civil peace.
AS pledge of this coming peace and
true Union, you will now hear the voice
of one of the bravest soldiers Of the
Confederate army, become to-day ore of
t.. most loyal aud honorable senators
of the American Union. I ask your
attention to q 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
I 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 como to
counsel you, for your patriotism
has already, by securing harmony and
united action in your ranks, averted all
danger of defeat. do not come to dis
tions involved in the present contest.
tempt to do so here after your great
fellow citizen-Horatio Seymourothe
patriot who seeks only his country's
good-the statesman whose enlarged
vision not only looks over the past, but
sees far into 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 desultory
and brief. Indeed I was at loss for
topic until my eye fell upon para.
graph IL thst great paper, "h:ct :s &c.
only most influential director of public
opinion, but it is one of the marvels of
our age-the New York Herald. In q
late ed;tor;el-and theae ere always suG-
gestive, though sometimes erratic-it was
suggested that should como North and
tell the people something about the Solid
South. The text is good one and shall
speak on it. Letit be borne in mind, how
ever, that speak only Of the South. do
not presume to speak for her. Has it never
occurred to you, my friends Of the North,
that there is q miraculous falsehood i'm
piled if not expressed in that phrase-the
Solid South? 1t is ever used by Repub-
lican speakers or organs without an
effort to sdggest that the South is solid
in antagonism to the North? 1t is not
always used in order to array the North
against the South? No one who has
observed the bitter sectional character
which the Republicans have deliberately
and studiously given to this contest can
hesitate rs to the answer TO be made to
these questions. The Solid South, with
the Ilind woes it brings, is the one argu-
ments with which the Republicans
answer alllcharges against their party.
have said that there is falsehood
implied in this party catchword. In
what sense is the South solid? Is it SO
against the North? The Democracy OF
Maine have answered in language not to
be misunderstood-No, and the patriotic
Democracy of the whole North will soon
re-echo that noble response. Is it solid
are our political opponents, there will
Ixy to fort inud r.,
dare to make such charge. Is it solid
against tho Union? Every act of every
Southern State since the war repels
such IN unjust imputation. Is it solid in
any proper sense OF the word? The
large Republican vote cast in the South
ern States proves that 1t is not. What
justice, then, is there in this cry. the sole
object of which is to array one portion oi
our common country againi. another, to
arouse passions evoked by unhappy civil
strife and to re.awaken aniihosities which
every patriot desires 70 see buried
forever? What would be said if the
South should raise her voice in angry
protest because the New England States
havo been so solidly Republican until
Maine has broken the ranks? With as
much justice might VIC of the South
complain of the former solidity Of the
Pacific slope, or that of the great North
west, as that we should be sdenouuced
because we cling to the faith of ouI
fathers and support the Democratic
nominees. Bat admitting, for the sake
of argument. that the South is solid, and
that this ia an abnormal and unfortunate
condition Of nffnirs, why did not oul
Republican friends, who affect to see now
such danger in this solidity, point. oui
and protest against the danger when the
South was absolutely solid for the Re.
publican party7 If the danger to the
country, end the only danger shia;
threatens it, lies in the solidity of thai
particular port Oh OF it, we surely must
have been in great peril when, under the
Reconstruction acts, administered by
carpet-bag adventures, the South pre-
scnted solid phalanx of Radical bum
MUS aud thieves us nor contribution to
the wisdom, craftsmanship and the
patrio.isHa:ofthe country. No Republi
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 thar
all other evils, the defeat of Garfield
then warned his unsuspicious country
men of the imminent danger threatening
tliem no Gtalwart organ called thor
upon the loyal North TO avert this peri
by becoming se!;d!y Democratic, Gouausi
the South was solidly Republican. Their
everything was serene in the Republican