Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-18
HAMPTON'S EFFORT

At Staunton. Virginia Full Text Of the
One-Legged Warriors "Rebe" Re-
marks.
From the New Yerk Herald.
Resolutions endorsing the Cincinnati
platform and nominees having been
adopted, Captain James Bungardner,
Jr., introduced to the audience General
Wade Hampton, who said:
FRIENDS OF NIRGINIA-I have respond
ed To your call to be with you to-day,
not only for the reason that my heart
is enlisted in the cause which you ad-
vance, but also because | claim some
right to speak here and to Eirginians.
A hundred years ago my ancestor, a
Virginian, left this State to fight the In
dians in South Carolina and fell there.
Nearly century later almost every male
descendant of his VINO could then buckle
sword came hither to fight and die for
Virginia and Nirginians. Do not under
stand that ] come here to dictate a poll.
cy to you or TO advise you what to do.
Rather am here
To Consult with You as Democrat.
as man and as Southern soldier--as
one who looks back to the time when he
shared with you privations and suffer
ing and defeat in the Army OF Northern
Virginia. ] am here to voice the earnest
hope that | feel, to utter the fervent
prayer OF my heart, that Virginia, the
mother of States and statesmen, OF
heroes and patriots the State that gave
the brain that conceived and the hand
that penned the Declaration OF lndepen.
dence-the State that gave the sword
that made the independence fact-will
not prove recreant to all her high tradi-
tons.
What is virsinia's Duty Nows
You hardly realize, my friends. how
much depends on the action Of your
State. You do not bring home to your
thoughts what a responsibility you carry
in this contest. We OF the South, who,
having been 50 long plunged into outer
darkness, have at last emerged from the
darkness OF despair and carried onward
our States to where they belong In the
splendid sis.erhood, come to you to-day
and tell you that We mean victory. We
intend to subordinate every Sc fish per-
sonal consideration; we intend to put
away every side issue; We intend to
look
Solely and Only to the Democratic Plat
form
and the Democratic standard bearers.
and with Gods hel p we intend to win
this fight for that platform and for those
standard bearers. Will Virginia, when
we have success in our very grasp;
will men who were born free.
men who We're reared under the
doctrines of Jefferson and OF Madison (;
will men who followed Lee and Jackson
will YOU sacrifice the Democratic par
ty, will YOU sacrifice the South, will you
sacrifice the national Government by
aiding, Indirectly though it be, to elect Il
Republican President? ! cannot be.
lieve it. Realize, il you can,
What will Follow Republican Triumph
in November. You have all seen what
strides that party has made toward CEN
tralization; you have seen your Judges
stricken down by the mailed hand ot
the National Government; you have
seen the Republican party mass troops
at your polls TO overawe your free sui
frage; YOU have seen their deputy mar.
shals, their supervisors, their returning
boards, the instruments to an overthrow
of the last vestge OF State rights. | tell
YOU, nv countrymen. the late OF the
South will be harder than ever II the
Republican party is successful in this
campaign.
We Shall Behold No More Free Elec-
tions.
no more untrammelled expressions OF
political sentiment, and no one OF us
now living will ever again see restora-
ton to Democratic rule and principle.
Ii We elect the Democratic nominees the
Republican party will go to pieces like
4 rope OF sand. Their mission is ended,
il they ever had mission. There IS
nothing that holds them together TO day
save "the cohesive power OF public
plunder." The Republican party is the
party O: hate, the party OF rank and
rabid sectionalism. The Democratic
party is the
Party OF Peace and Of Union
that would blot out all sectional differ
ences forever, and it has proven this IN
the nomination OF General Hancock at
Cincinnati. There was but one feeling
there among the Southern delegates.
That feeling was expressed when we
said 10 our Northern Democratic Ureth-
rem, Give us Northern Democrat who
can be elected. We bring you l3S votes
and We ask YOU to bring us man who
can bripg US 30 more" They gave us
the man; his name is Hancock. That
name took like wildhre at Cincinnati, as
il has taken like wildfire
From One End of this Union to the Other.
Since that nomination Was made every
man who was in that Convention has
come to the conclusion that We
could not possibly have made a
wiser or a better. When Hancock was
nominated Bayard wrote to me
that he was perfectly satisfied
Hancock was the only man who had no
opponents in the party; and further
more that he was one against whom the
! bloody shirt could not be waved. We
have put it in the power OF the people
to elect this ticket.
They Can Elect it If They Will.
You will hear to-day from one who can
speak better than any other man alive
for North Carolina-nay. for the whole
South. Governor Vance will confirm
nv words and tell you that We can carry
our States, that We can carry the south,
il YOU will only carry Virginia. He has
come, like me, 10 appeal TO you not tc
forsake us in this hour OF our need.
appeal TO you in the name OF the grea,
men OF Virginia. l know that both
sides are sincere in this local fight.
know there are honest men and true 10
both your factions, but whether you 6<
readjuster or funder, whether you b
ercenbask or hard money man, ! ab)ur'
you in Gods name remember that yor
are VirYiniana