Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-16

tions. turn to the City of Washington and
there l see John Sherman, the immaculate
protector of the public credit, and Ruther.
ford B. Hayes, the fraudulent President.
1cheers.1 see them lending their aid to
elect Malone and them claiming that they
are the party par excellence of public faith.
I saw that this is the party Of insincerty. 1t
is not to be trusted. No man, whose objects
are those of the good citizen, no matter what
may be his condition, has any claim to sup
port this party. Whether our hands be har.
dened by daily labor, or our brows he wrin-
kled by toll at the midnight desk, we have
the same interest in having government that
will make US respect ourselves and secure our
liberties to us and our children.
But there is another danger, my friends.
The Republican party is
A SECTIONAL PARTY.
1t would create that division of the house
against itself which is sure to cause its down.
fall. To-day, washed by the waters of the
St. Lawrence on the north and the Gulf of
Mexico on the south, two oceans pouring
their tribute on both shores, the United States
presents most magnificent example OF free
trade. There is no customhouse between
the States. Any man who wants anything
produced by nature or born OF mans labor or
Ingenuity can get it simply by adding the
cost of freight and transportation, and that is
very cheap at the present day. | saw the
other day a most interesting statement OF
that-that it required but one days labor of
an operative in mandatory on the Allan
tic coast to transfer all the meat and -four
that she can use in single day from the gran
aries and meat depots Of the West. For one
dollar and quarter mechanic in New York
or Boston can have barrel of -four or meat
transported from Chicago. Then, now, this
beneGcent rule prevails that whatever can
be produced on our soil and in our climate is
open to the people of that soil and climate to
make favorable exchange. This is the
bene6cence, the
that it gives to each man the superhuities
and the results of other mems labor in ex-
change fol",the superAuities Of his own labor.
What sin and what crime is it then that
those who have the power in their hands
should set up barrier between themselves
and their fellow countrymen. How can men
in one Christian church that l know kneel
in prayer to their Father in Heaven and then
maintain their hate and animosity towards
their fellow countrymen. False money is
bad thing, hypocrisy and deceit are bad
things but surely this spirit Of hate that
comes into country like ours and seeks to.
array brother against their own kin is worse.
l confess, that all the thoughts of argument
and illustration fade away before this broad
sense of humanity. am making the appeal
here to you, the same appeal I make to the
people in the little State where I was born,
the same that would make to vaster audi
ences or elsewhere, but coming back to what
is the result of this sectionalism, to-day ar
raign the Republican organization as the
great obstruction Of American prosperity. l
say to day that they are indulging their ami.
mostly at the cost of the personal welfare Of
every individual of the land. l will not say
every individual perhaps, because l know
that in the rear of every army there are
CAMP FOLLOWERS AND CARBON CROWS
that feed on the public distresses and make
merry over the sufferings of mankind. But
they are not worthy to be spoken of, they
are exceptions to humanity that will be borne
down by the tide and flood of execration. But
l speak to those who love their homes. and
children and love their fellowmen, and l ask
how can such men support such party? So
that if there was no other fault to find with
their fellow. .countrymen apart, that alone
would be enough for me to decline to favor it.,
and that is the question, too, all over this
land of ours. Go where you please and you
will find
Why, who is safe from it? What will they
not do to invoke it2 If there be on the face
of the great earth man who would not tell
a lie to save himself or his friends, that is
Wade Hampton. [Cheers.] Wade Hamp
ton is not man to hide his thoughts or fears,
to look man in the eye and tell him what
he thinks. You know him. He has been
since he went to the Senate free, candid,
outspoken, conscientious representative Of his
people and of the Constitution. He has had
nothing to hide There was no thought in
his heart that would not bear Gods sunlight,
and yet when he made speech the other
day in Virginia and WAS talking with those
people whom he had fought for and whom
he loved, he advised them to stand upon the
public faith and not to tamper with their
public reputation, and he said that if Lee
and Jackson were here would you not do as
they would do in such case as this? Can
you doubt, said he, where Lee and jackson
would have stood had they been spared to
live under condition such as this. And
what did those partisan spirits do with his
speech2 They declared that the man whose
honor is unsullied as the sun intended to
reinvoke the spirit of military resistance to
the government. And they knew that was
a lie. [Cheers.] They knew that when Hamp.
ton sheathed his sword and signed the terms
of submission and when he went into the SER
vice of the Government Of the United States
he did it with clear conscience and an in.
tent to keep his word, and he has always kept
it. Cheers But it is useless to defend
him here where you all know him. But all
over the North they have tried to spread false
hood and injure the man among people who
delight to honor him and love him. And
how shall we meet it? There is an old say
ing that lie will travel league while
Truth is putting on his boots, and 80 l sus-
pect we are content to be silent, except to
make the denunciation that I make to-day,
and such as I would make anywhere where
that falsehood met my ear But this shows
the desperate efforts of that party who would
| SOW
THE SEEDS OF DIsCORD
and arrest the tide of prosperity in our midst.
| think that these efforts will be in vain.
think there is divine purpose that does not