Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-10-28
COMMENTS OFTIE PRESS on THE IA MpTON
SHERMAN CORRESPONDENTS

COMMENTS OFTHE PRESS on TIE HAMPTON
SHERMAN CORRESPONDENCE
Elsewhere appears correspondence be,
tween Senator Wade Hampton and Secre
tary Sherman which will not elevate either of
these persons in the esteem OF sensible men.
Mr.. Sherman replied to Senator Hamp
toms first note of inquiry with a quite
needless and we will add disgraceful bit
tcrness. Compare the spirit of his letter
with the sensible and patriotic words Of the
candidate whom he is supporting for the
Presidency, and Mr.. SEerman's letter to
Hampton seems no better than gross aud
inexcusablo brutality, as well as an utter
ance of the most unpatrotic kind. General
Garfield said:
$50 far as | have studied the current Of
public thought and Of political feeling in
this country no feeling has shown itself
more strongly than the tendency of public
mind 10 the last few mouths The man
who attempts to get up an excitement in
this country on the old sectional issues will
find himself without party and without
support. The man who wants to serve his
country must put himself in the line of its
leading thought, and that is the restoration
of business; trade, commerce, industry,
sound political economy, hard money and
honest payment Of all obligations; and tho
man who can add anything in the dircc-
ton Of the accomplishment Of any of these
purposes is public bcncfacsor."
But Senator Hampton ought to have
seen that Sherman used the opportunity
that he gave him only like genuine dem..
agogue, to excite the passions of the fanat-
les of his own party. Shcrman's letter was
not worth reply, md Hampton ought
least of all to have made reply 80 un-
worthy of himself as his last note, and the
words in his speech which Mr.. Sherman
adrotly quotes. lie makes himself ridic
ulous by note which appears to challenge
Mr.. Sherman to duel.
Well, we may all rejoice that the po-
litical cheated term" did not set in this
year uutii in the latter end of October.
And Mr.. Sherman is probably shrcwd
enough to be glad that he had in this case
an antagonist whose folly will help the
public to mcasurably overlook his own
unpntriotio brutality ~. Y. Herald
We feel sure that no thoughtful person
having the political future Of the Southern
people at heart can read Mr. Wade Hamp.
tons correspondence with Secretary
Sherman with any other than feelings of
the most profound regret, whilc upon all
hands it muet be conceded to be pccul-
iarly silly and unfortunate piece Of bust.
ness. 1t would bo silly and ridiculous
even if there wero no election pending,
but, under the circumstances, it is both
silly and unfortunate.
1t is silly because 10 no event could
Mr.. Hampton hope to vndioatc himself
before the audiences which John Sherman
is 10 tho habit Of addressing 1t could
make no possible difference to him, either
personally or politically, whether John
Sherman considered him to be the head Of
the ku klux or leader in the loyal league;
but even if it were otherwise, it does seem
that rcasonblo amount of intelligence
would teach Mr.. Hampton that such a
letter us no has written could be used with
tremendous effect against the people and
tho organization in which, if his attitude