The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-11-21
rms LEeAL RIsurs ov coLossp MEN.

The Republican press, for theNpurr
bose Of arousing sectional apimoSity are
giving accounts of great alarm existing
among the colored people Of the South,
because Of the election Of Grover Cleve-
land 60 the presidency. This alarm
exists only In tho Imagination of those
who wish 70 stir up race oonHiets and
fan the aamO Of partisan fesline. There
y no man. North or South, who 10
fully understands tho actual feeling
and purposes Of the great body Of intel.
ligent people Ct that section towards
the colorsd people as Wade Hampton,
and no man expressed that feeling more
happily than Hampton did at Berklsy,
s. G., ostobsr 30th. We give the fol-
lowing extract from that speech TO show
colored people and our Republican
friends that the rights Of al will be
secure under Cleveland
81 recognized in 1865, Ian old slave
owner, 9 Rebel, q Confederate General
long before any Northern man had said
one word about conferring the right Of
suffrage upon the colorsd people, j, In
Columbia, in 1853 came out NJ = meet
ing of the white and colored citizens
and advised that South Carolina should
confer the right 10 vote on her colored
citizens. ! did il because / recognized
that . Republic csuld not make dis
elimination hetween her citizens on 40
count OF their color Applause. The
reason mention IL now 10 because /
want to try aud impress upon you that
f-sm that day TO this | have had but
one object in view, and that ID TO es-
tablish peace, good will and harmony
between tho two races in South CAroli-
na, aud / toll you now that that can
never DO until you quit following the
leaders that you have been following
heretofore. IL can never ba as long Al
you are willing TO vote for an ex-convicI
20 represent you In Congress. Why,
this man Smalls boasted in Charleston
the other day that he had never been
within = prisons walls. Well, he told
the truth as far a. he went, but not al
the truth. He might have goue on and
said that If IL had not bean for the par
don OF q Democratic Governor OF Soutl
Carolina hs would have had on . con-
vict's stripes and besn working in th'
penitentiary. He was fairly convietec
and pardoned. We did not want h
punish people who had been misled
Contrast him with the Democratic can
didAte for Congress. The Elliotts hav,
been the friends Of your race through
m6ny generation. Col. Elliott's fAthe
built church for tho colnred peopl'
and preached to them year after ysar
and that church would be standing noS
il Sherman had no. pulled it down Z
bald bridge over tho Combaheo river
But for one issue / would not car,
whether 9 Democrat or Republican va
President Of the United States, provides
both were honest. That issue is this
that it is oaly by the election Of
Democratic President that we can con.
vince you coIorsd people that the Dem
ocrats Of the South are your friends
The National Democratic party will d.
you equal and exact justies. l pledg
! mysslf to that. Applause 1 pisdg'
myself n it because | would leave thA
party IL l believed they would Attemp
70 take frsm yos single right that yo'
now enjoy. There are bad mon in botl
parties, admit, but il the beat men o
the two races will gs. together anc
T realize that the prosperity Of the Stat
means the prosperity Of all the Pbpl
of the State, aud will combine aud put
good, honest, capsble and intelligent
men in Office, ws will soon have Leac'
and prosperity in South Carolina.
have advocated everywhere the buris
Of these animosities. ! have felt tha
We can never be happy and successful
and prosperous people until va realiz'
that We must all pull together. II i
for this reason that am In this can.
vass. ! have been honored by tn
people Of Carolina by being elected Il
the highest Office in their gift, but, ,abov,
All, / have cherished most profoundly
the love aud confidence given me by
these people. / want no higher me
mortal, no better epitaph, than th
acknowledgment that l have been
benefactor TO South Carolina"