The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-05
THROWING DOWN THn .aLcYR.
a Letter that Gen. Gary Cannot Aaosd 10
ignore.

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A Letter that Gen. Gary Cannot Aanrd TO
ignore. }e
Hon. John q. Haskell, Of )Columbia.
eon.in, law Of Senator Hampton, in the
following communication TO .she Able.
vile Medium, indulges in some very
plain language in reply to certain stats.
lnents concerning Senator Hampton
made TO correspondent of that ioufnsl
by Senator Gary, of Edgefeld., The
charges we're simply reiteration iof
those heretofore made by Senator GARY,
and with which our readers are familiar:
THE CoMMUNIcATIoN.
COLUMBIA s, O., Fan. 90, 1880.
10 the Editor u the .4bbevfkie dfedium..
SrR--I have; seen to-day for tho first
time copy of yonr paper of date Jam
uary 9TH containing an interview between
your espondent" "Hnmpden" and Gen.
Al. w. Gary, which is entitled "Gen.
Gary again---He sticks to his siateinenth
and gives the evidence.n Now his state.
ments are repetitions of the charges made
TO q New York Herald correspondent tha.
"Gen. Hampton in 1876 advocated the
withdrawal Of the Tilden and Hendricks
electors, and that ne was not true in his
support of their ticket" He gees further
and says that by The rule that silence is
admission Gen. Hampton stands convict
ed, not having denied his second repeti.
ton of the charge. W r s
Nov. newspaper interview is alaaya
unsatisfactory matter 20 deal with, as
Gen. Gary may repudiate, explain away
or evade in any other way such part of
"H "Hampden'a" interview as he pIeases |;
but even with that difficulty in my way.
1 hope ] can make my points clear.
lst.. AS to Gen. Gnry's claim, as repre-!
sented by the interviewer, that General
Hampton by his ailence haa admitted the
charge, ] would say that Gen. Hampton.
pronounced his charge TO be ''utterly and
absolutely FALSE and that HE aans ysss n ~
plies as we'll TO the second, third and
every othx repetition as it did to the
original. But that there may be no ques.
ton i will say that, If Gen. Gary will
over his own signature repeat what he
has said in the published interview or
simply say that it is true, namely, that
Governor Hampton edvoca!ed the with.
drawal Ofthe TilaaE and Hendricks eicc-
tors will, By the very gentlemen whose
names he gives. rs his witnesses, prove his
statement false. Twill use no other tes-
timony. Out of the mouth of his own
witnesses will convict him of .faischood.
will go further. will undertake to
prove that Gen. Gary did the very thing
with which be has falsely charged Gen.
Hampton. That when Settle and Del-
ny, the emissaries of President Grant,
offered if Gen. Hampttn's party would
egree - admit tnat tho State had gone
for Hayes and Wheeler, the Hampton
rrn uI, ,as,l1 Z, ~
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
Mackey to Hayes, in Ohio, and gives
Judge Mackey as his authority. Now. If
Gen. Gary will repeat this over his own
signature, will repeat my offer 20 prove
by his own witnesses that 1t is false.
Further in the interview he save: s'But
Hampton met with the misfortune Of
breaking his leg, and oftcourae could
not strike him when he was down. Let
him repeat this, and will prove TINT it.
too, is false, and that Gen. Gary made
the most indecent assaul. on General
Hampton at the Very time he was thought
to be dying. He shall not now lay claim
to agnanimity which he did not chow.
think have made my points clear.
and, unless Gen. Gary "adn-;ts thei,.. by
silence" l shall prove each and eyery
one of them. 81
/ might we'll stop here, but shall add
few words on Gen. Gary himself. He
utterly misunderstands his own position
or he rnisstates it as grossly ns he does
that OF others. He is entirely mistaken
in holding that any one has stood be,
tween him and the people, and kept him
from his rights. The people always have,
and always will, choose for themselves
who shall serve them. The whole tron-
BILE has been that they would not take
Gen. Gary at mis- own valuation. They
have not thought him worth the price.
Whenever they want him they will ,,n-
doubtedly take him, but not before.
l frankly admit that ] do not think
Gen. Gary is fit for the high places to
which he has aspired and will Rive as
some of the reasons for my opinion the
following facts, which. If Gen. Gary will
deny, will prove to be GTue: -'.i
| 1st. In 1871 Gen. Gary did agree for
pay "to use his best efforts to get The I,iS-
payers Contention to endorse The qchole
| bonded ,3ebt Of TIC STATE" both the honest
and the Fraudulent. Picture it, think
Of it,
| I'd. That he did about the same time
engage with the advocates of tho Blue
Ridge Railroad ito aid in securing the
approval of the same Convention 10 the
relinquishnept BY the the Stats uif its first
mortgage on the Blue Ridge Railroad to
i pfivate parties. 1t is true that when
Major Marley denounced the scheme in
the Convention, aud Gen. Gary was called
on 10 redeem bis pledge, he refused to do
it, but he took his pay all the same.
3d. That he was the constant defender
Of McDeyitt, the Radical Treasurer of
Edgefeld, and that one of the indict-
4 ments aguinst SfcDevitt was Tor fraudiu-
lently paying 10 Gen. Gary large sum
of county money.
4th. That in 1876 after he had been
defeated for the United States Senate by
Gen. Batter no did advocate that Gen.
Butler should be withdrawn, and that
Whittemore (who had been expelled by
! the Radical Cnnsrssa Eor hrlha-.a Linel
pat in his place. Z,
l have long known these iacts, Gut nave
not cared to use them, and do so now only
to convince Gen. Gary that he cannot
with impunity indulge in abuse Of those
who have never injured him except by
too clearly seeing tho ass's eara under the
lions skin.
have addressed this communication
to your paper because it circulated the
charges. 1t is only justice that it should
carry the denial to the same audience.
That there may be no misapprehension
1 will add that General Hampton knows
nothing of this communications, General