The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-03-26

| S"ho olN DciloClhts, WaS Selt w euS
Legislature, on whi, ,h was Judge Wal,
lace and his body servant, John
Wallace, the latter boing q Republi,
can. Judge Wallace and Major
B. II. Rice, deceased, Of Union, were
the first Democrats elected to the
house from any county whore there
was Il large Republican majority.
In that house there WAS not more
than 20 or 25 Democrats. In going
to tho Legislature Judge Wallace
was influenced by the hope not to
effect much IN Legislative work, but
to come in contact with Democrats
whom he might meet in Columbia
and urge them to make an effort to
become members of the Legislature,
giving them practical illustration
and lesson in his own conduct. The
plan Of compromise effected in
Union county was about ss follows;
Tho Democrats and Independent
Republican conventions met stimuli
taneously in Union, and the Demo
crats would nominate certain mon of
tho county Legislative ticket and
leave blanks to hs filled by the Inde-
pendent Republicans, which was
done, and the ticket then made up
was voted for The same plan
was followed in 1874, and Judge
Wallace was again elected to the leg
lslature. In 1875, Union, with the
balance Of the State, made straight
out Legislative nominations, and
Judge Wallace was again elected and
the legislature was Democratic. Upon
the assembling of the Legislature the
Democratic members from Laurens
and Edgetield were refused admit
tance into the hail, and the other
| Democratic meml3arB would not 90
in unless compelled by law, or the
entire democratic representation was
admitted, and they assembled in
Carolina hall, and having a full con.
stitutional quorum, organized the
South Carolina house of representa-
tives, by making Judge Wallace
speaker, and John II. Sloan, clerk
Judge Wallace was elected circuit
Judge on Dec. 7, 1877.
When the people of South Caro-
lima, in 1876, determined to over
throw, at any cost, the radical gov
ernment of strangers and negroes
outcaets and thieves which had been
imposed upon them by the recon
struction measures and which had
acquired for the proud old common.
wealth the name and style Of
the "prostrate State" the leaders
| they needed were men possessing
first of all, courage; for the odds and
dangers to be faced were formidable
and terrible. One shudders yet to
think of the fearful outcome which
was risked. But courage fortunately
was not only a common quality
among the people, but it was one
which had already been exhibited
and illustrated upon an hundred
battletields, and in possession of az
unquestioned reputation for which
every leader was secure. He who
had led Carolinians on the fields of
Virginia needed not now give as
suranee of his fearleesness was
assumed and quietly counted upon.
Fortunately for South Carolina there
still sat at almost every tireside a
veteran and hero who knew what
fighting was and while honestly
dreading it for his dear ones, had
not forgot how to conduct himself if
again it was forced upon HIM. But
there was another class-the young
men who had grown up since the
war ready to avenge the wrongs
which had been heaped upon the
people, and to show that they had
submitted 80 long from the want Of a
coulnge as great as that which their
fathers and brothers had already
proved. To these the presence and
control of the old war leaders of the
greatest consequence. To them,
however, as we'll as to the old sold
iers, Wade Hampton was still hero
and one command as of right.
There could be no disgrace in obey
ing the requests which had all the
force to them of orders of Hampton