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Favored tho Seating or Whittcmorc IN IN,
United StatcS Sonnto IDBtead Of Gonsrn]
Dutier.
From tho Abbcv1ilc Mediurn.l
COLUMDIA, $. c.. Junuary 22, 1880.
10 the EditVr 3f tho AGbcviNc he
HiMm:
SIR: IInvc seen today for the first
time copy ofyour paper ofslate Junu-
nry Uh containing IN interview be-
tween General NJ. ". Gnry. which il
entitled "Gcmcrul Gary Agnin-IIc
Sticks to Ills Statements aud Gives the
Evidcncr." Now his statements are
rcpoIiIions Of tho chargrs made to Il
New York UcrnM correspondent that
"Gcncral Hampton in 1876 advocated
the withdrawal OF the Tillcn and Hem
dricks electors, and that he was not
true IN his support Of their ticket )"
lie goes further and says tlmt by the
rule that silence is admission General
Hampton stands convicted, not having
denied his second repetition of the
cllnrgc.
Now IL newspaper interview il nl-
ways IN unsatisfactory matter to deal
with, as General Gary may rcpudintc,
cxplnih away or cvndc in any other
way such p"rt Of IInmpdcm's interview
as I'c plrnscs: but even with that diff
Guilty In my way, hope | can make
my points clear.
LIST. As TO Gen. Gary's claim, Ms rep
resented by the interviewer, that Gen.
Hampton by his silence has admitted
the charge, would say thai Gen.
Hampton pronounced his charge to be
"uttrrly aud absolutely false" and that
his answer applies as well to the Sec
oId, third and every other repetition
ns 1t did to the original. But that
tnctD may be no question will say
thai, Gen. Gary will, over his own
signature, repent what he has said in
tho published interview or simply say
tlinL II IL true. nnmely, "thnL Governor
Hampton advocated the withdrawal OF
tho ridden und Hendricks electors"
viii, by the very gentlemen whose
| names he gives us his witnesses, prove
his statement imlsc. will Use no 9TH
rr testimony. Out OF the mouth Of his
own witnesses will convict him of
lnl.ch0od.
will go further. will undertake
to prove TINT Gen. Gary did tho ny
thing with which he has falsely clurg-
ct Gen. Hampton. That when Settle
md Denny. cmissnrics of President
Grant, offered, if Gen. IIa,npton's
pnrt ~ would agree to admit TINT the
State hnd gono for Hayes and Wheel
or, the Hampton government should be
rccogniZcd, Gen. Hampton refused the
oiirr, while Gen. Gary urged That il
should be accepted.
Gen. Gary has IN tho interview turth-
or stntc!; TINT Gen. Hampton sent
Judge Mnckcy to Hayes in Ohio, and
gives Judge Mnclicy rs his authority.
Now, If Gen. Gary will repeat this over
his own signature, will repeat my
offer to prove by his own witnesses
that Il Is tnlsc.
Further in the Interview he SAYS.
"But Hampton met with tho misiur-
tune OF breaking his Icy, and Of course
could not strike him when no was
down." Let him repeat this, and |
viii prove that IL, too, is false, aud
that Gen. Gary made the most indecent
assault on Gen. Hampton at the rcyy
time ho was thought to be dying. Tic
shall not now lny clnim to u inagna-
mntv which he did not show.
| think | have made my points clear.
and, unless Gon. Gary "admits them
by silcncc," ! shall prove each and
every ono Of them.
might we'll stop here, hut I shall
nd,l few words on Gen. Gary him
self. lilo utterly misundcrsands his
own position or he msstatcs it as
grossly rs ho does that Of others. IIe
Is entirely mistaken in holding that
any one has stood between him and
the people, and kept him from his
rights. The people always hnvc. and
always will, choose for themselves
who shall servo thcm. The whole
trouble hns been TINT they would not
take Con. Gary ut his own valuation.
They have not thought him worth the
price. Whenever they want him they
wilt undoubtedly take him, but not be-
fore.
! frankly admit that do not think
Ten. Gary Is Ill for tho high places to
which he has aspircd, and win give as
some of the reasons for my opinion tho
following facts, which, ifGcn. Cary
Will dony, will prove to be true:
lst. In 1877 Con. Gary did agree for
pay "to use his best efforts 10 gct the
TnNpaycrs' Convention to endorse the
whole bonded debt Of the State" both
mo honest and tho fraudulent. "Pic-
turc II; think oft"
2d. That ho did about tho samo timc
engngo with tho advocates Of tho Blue
Ridge Railroad "to MD in securing"
INC approval Of the snmo convention to
INC REIMBURSEMENT by tho State of lis
lirst mort%nge on the Blue Ridge Rail
road |" private parties. 1t Is true that
whcn Major Marley denounced tho
schrmc III tho convention, aud General
Gary was called on to redeem his
I In pnH, Il H. Il.