Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-02
VOTERS. OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT

In his Speech dU IIlO UldSS Illeet-
ing, at Aiken, last week, Col. Thompson, the
a letter in which F. B. C.. Cash, the Green
back Radical candidate for Congress in the
Fifth Congressional District, had written most
abusively Of the great leader Of the Democra-
cy. Wade Hampton. Gen. Hampton himself,
in recent speech in Chesterfield county where
Cash lives, said that he had passed by, with
silent contempt, the occasional personal at
tacks upon him, and left his vindication with
the people of South Carolina. Vindicate him
they WILL if they but know the offence and
the offender. That these shall be known, it
is necessary to publish the letter of which Col.
Thompson spoke, and which, perhaps, Gen.
Hampton had in mind. 1t was first published
in the Darlington !S0hherner, and is as fol-
lows
Mr.. Editor, have seen Senator Hampton's
letter in the NcacS and Courier, and must ad-
NIT it is decidedly cool for those who placed
him in his present position. There are to-day
not less than 80, 900 men in the State who are
disgusted with the State Government, and
who are at sea and belong to no party, and are
known as Independents. Senator Hampton
denOunces these people as being worse than
| Radicals, and says ''they steal the livery of
Heaven to serve the Devil in" Grand majes-
| tic gratitude for past favors
| Some people nerer kn0,c Then they hare staged
| long enough. Garfield understood business and
moved off in the zenith of his glory, with COL
ors flying and drums beating, and Hampton
should haze "handed up his checks" 'chen the
mule kicked him, and he missed a golden op-
portunity when he failed to do so. From that
date, he has been on the wane. He has been
pressed beyond his depth, finds himself sadly
over-cropped, grows fretful, and curses his
| friends because they cannot support ham Eith
bruins.
II Senator Hampton will remove the i'm
preston made upon the public mind by his
letter to Bishop Howe, in reference to the
IamptOn-Sherman correspondence, he will be
in less vulnerable position when he denounces
his old friends as thieves and hypocrites.
E. B. c. CASH.
| Cash's Depot, June %, 1882.
Doubtless Cash has written other letters in
which he has charged Gen. Hampton with vi
olating his promises and breaking faith in pub
lie life, and he certainly did not except Gen.
| Hampton when he wrote to McLane that he
would work with the Greenback party, "or
any other party to rid this State Of the There's,
tyra,,ts and cO,rdrdly naordererS who are crush
I ing out the life and liberty of our State"
Worse things than are contained in his letter
to the Darlington Sohherner, Cash may have
written in regard to Gen. Hampton, but he
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shocking in the eyes of true and generous men.
To say that it was pity that Hampton did
not die, when he met with the accident which
MANNED him for life TO say that the whole
State was offering up supplicationS for one
who was unworthy To say that the broad
intelligence which did not once lose it's bal
ance mid the myriad anXieties and exigencies
of the winter of 1S7G-77 was not equal to the
demands of the somnolent and consequential
Senate of the United States To say that he
denounces his friends and then shrinks from
the consequences of his words-Hampton
whose sabre shone on a score of battle-fields in
hand-to-hand conflict with the enemy All
this is implied or expressed in the mingled
slang and coarsenesS Of Cash's epiStle. And
Cash has not villified Hampton only. Under
his own hand, he has said of Senator Butler
things too monstrous to repeat, and has dis
tmguished by his abuse the high-minded Press
ley and the eloquent Youmans. Nor Senator,
nor Judge, nor Attorney General of the State
could hope to escape, if crossing his path in
the utterance Of opinion or the discharge OF
duty.
Col. Cash has not retracted one word that
he has said against Carolinians whom the
people honor and trust. What he said he
meant. What he felt and thought he said.
There is, therefore, no middle ground. The
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with Hampton and Butler and the Democratic
party in general. Cash does not pretend that
he is better qualified than Mr.. Hemphill, the
Democratic candidate, to Represent South
Carolina in Congress-unless it be admitted
that his attacks upon the most eminent NEIL
in the State are qualification. The platform
on which he stands has but asingle plank, and
that plank is general denunciation and per-
sonal slander. To vote for him, then, is not
only to vote against the Democratic party, but
is to express, in the most public manner. an
approval of what he, in his bitterness, has said
against Wade Hampton, who looks to the peo-
pie for vndication, and against Butler, Press
ley and Youmans, whom, likewise, he has as
sailed.
Men of Darlington, of Union, of Lancaster,
of Kershaw, of Chesterfield and of York, the
whole State looks to you to rebuke him who
denounces the leaders of the white people Of
South Carolina as a "crowd of corruptionists,
promise breakers and monopoly minions, "and
who revels in abuse of those whom the State
holds in especial reverence. Only the voters
of the Fifth Congressional District have the
right, the privilege, and the duty of saying, by
their votes, whether Cash or the Democratic
party, Cash or Wade Hampton, represents,
and is in sympathy with, the white people Of
the State.-NetcS and Courier. ...